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• Meteor fireball triggered loud boom across New England

  • A meteor exploded off the coast of Boston with the force of 300 tons of TNT

Horseshit

• Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turns Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure.

• United Airlines 767 Returns to Newark After Bluetooth Name Sparks Alert

  • Flight turned around over Atlantic as a boy named his Bluetooth device "bomb"

  • United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name

• The white picket fence: Desire for privacy is slowly killing this symbol of the American Dream

• Gen Z but Two Centuries Ago

• Are 'mind children' the future of reproduction?

• Millennials spend $252 on an average date, BMO finds

• California Academy of Sciences is a world class museum. Here’s how it dies

• Why so many Americans moved to the middle of nowhere

• Gen Z are 'zebra striping' to avoid hangovers, scientists say it works

Epstein

• Bill Gates Spent Years Crafting His Image. Now It's Cracking

• Bondi Says DOJ Produced ‘Everything Required’ in Epstein Files Release

celebrity gossip

• Peter Thiel's Move to Argentina Reflects Billionaire Trend

  • A saner Argentina take

  The larger significance is structural. One of the most politically influential figures in U.S. technology and conservative politics is building fiscal, geographic, ideological, and survival options outside the country whose politics he continues to shape. The story is not only that Thiel bought property abroad. It is that elite exit planning is becoming visible, deliberate, and politically connected.

  • Thiel's move signals billionaires seeking a 'plan B' abroad

• Clint Eastwood Turns 96 as Son Kyle Says the Legendary Director Has "Retired"

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• There is no reconciliation without truth - The Globe and Mail

  Two things can be true, at the same time. Five years after the startling announcement that there were hundreds of possible unmarked graves near a residential school in Kamloops, B.C., there has been no public confirmation of the discovery of any human remains. That is reality, one reality. Another is this: 3,200 Indigenous children, at least, died at residential schools, according to the 2015 report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. That there have been no human remains found at Kamloops does not mean children did not die there.

  • (2023) Canada’s Mass Graves Narrative That Sparked Church Burnings Crumbles Amid Dearth Of Evidence | The Daily Wire

  • Yet again, the "conspiracy theory" proves out and the official narrative is shown to have been bullshit.

Musk

• The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Robotaxis Are Spreading Across the U.S.–and So Is the Backlash

• Xavier Becerra has doubts about California's EV ambitions

• E-Scooter Rider and Cyclist Are Killed in Head-On Crash on NYC Bridge

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Classrooms lean into analog learning in the AI era

• America's tech-filled classrooms face backlash against school-assigned devices

• Why Science Is Becoming Less Innovative

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• 'Your devices could be at risk': how McAfee antivirus scams trade on fear

• Sellers circumvent Lenovo's retro handheld ban with cheap wholesale storefronts

• How Long Can You Expect Your Blu-ray and DVD Collection to Last?

• New one-meter-cubed 3D printer pumps out large-scale prints at 3kg an hour: starting at $35,000

• Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs

• Social media companies to pay $27M to settle Kentucky school district's lawsuit

• Meta legal action forces Meta whistleblower to stay silent at Hay book festival

• 'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut

• Steam Deck sells out in North America within 24 hours of price hike

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Blue Origin and Amazon Had Momentum. Then Came the Fireball

• Blue Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk

• How to Destroy a Literary Reputation in One Move

  The world’s most respected sports magazine gave up on Hemingway and Faulkner, and started publishing AI slop. The editors clearly wanted to hide this—they pretended that the articles were written by actual human beings. They even created fake bios with photos for the non-existent authors. When a journalist from Futurism asked them about this, they quickly deleted everything.

• Why AI can't be trusted to write scientific reviews

• Netflix Wiz creates app to slash AI bills by pruning agent instructions

• America Has a Pangram Problem

  Basically every recent, high-profile accusation of someone passing off AI-generated writing as their own has started in the same way: with a tool called Pangram.

• People Getting Falsely Accused of Using AI to Write

• The Feeling of Control Slipping Away

• The Despair of the Professor in the Age of A.I

• AI Agents Plunged the Tech World into Chaos

• Data center frenzy is spurring a jobs boomlet for blue-collar workers

• Why open-weight models without guardrails are a AI safety risk

• Our tech overlords are planning for conscious AI to conquer the cosmos

• The people who actually want AI to replace humanity

• AI bots ignore evidence. Can we trust them with science?

• AI is causing a crisis of agency

• Teachers' Union Urges Schools to Curb A.I. Chatbots and Screen Time

• AI guardrails stripped from Meta and Google models in minutes

• The math world is losing its mind over the new AI solution to an Erdős problem

• At the Epicenter of A.I., Pope Leo's Warnings Are Dismissed

• There's Something Else We Should Be Worrying About

• San Francisco home accepts OpenAI, Anthropic stock as payment for $2.9M sale

Economicon / Business / Finance

• New car sales are dropping

• Demographics may be breaking traditional labor market signals

• The Home-Insurance Coin Flip: Nearly Half of Claims Result in Zero Payout

• The global oil market is running out of options

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• California passes bill criminalizing bypass of 3D printer gun-blocking software

Democrats

• Platner Maintained Sexually-Suggestive Profile on ‘Predator’s Paradise’ App Known For Child Exploitation

Left Angst

• Delaney Hall demonstrations enter ninth day as New Jersey State Police assume security operations

  • These people are basically Antifa’s support staff

  They were given goggles, latex gloves, and most notably, 3M P100 respirators with MULTIPLE spare cartridges — all new in the box. The respirator + spare cartridges cost $75 each. And they were doling them out like candy. These are NOT organic riots. They’re well organized and well-funded. These groups need to be broken up into a million pieces.

• Is Music Industry’s Blacklist Worse than Hollywood’s Version?

  The gala promised a grand day of music on the National Mall July 4. Yet some of the artists teased to appear quickly backtracked once the list went public. A few claimed the event was too political and divisive, citing vague statements to allegedly back up the claim. Others, like Bret Michaels, said violent threats made them quit the tour.

• National Science Foundation Suspends New Research Grants to Top Universities

• Could Trump's Iran 'excursion' be a bigger global turning point than Vietnam?

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Why Did the Murders Stop in Baltimore?

• NYC bus driver who couldn't speak English charged in horror Virginia crash that killed 5

  Virginia State Police announced Saturday that 48-year-old Jing S. Dong faces two counts of involuntary manslaughter, with additional charges likely in the wreck — in which the victims included a family headed to a wedding. US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy stated that Dong does not speak English, sparking an NTSB investigation into the driver’s language proficiency.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• The dangerous delusion of modern warfare

• The U.S. Has Found a Way to Down a Drone Without Spending $1M

• Australia to buy three second-hand United States submarines under AUKUS shake-up

• US strike on an alleged drug boat kills 3

• The US and allies take action to protect seabed cables

World

• Luxury cars reportedly drenched in slurry by farmer after parking dispute

• EU frets as China builds an industrial base in Morocco

• Japan's 2025 census reflects steepest fall in population on record, data shows

• Hundreds Arrested as Riots and Looting Break Out After Paris Saint-Germain Victory in Champions League Final

• China and EU on brink of trade war

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russia Revives WWI Dazzle Camouflage to Evade Ukrainian AI Drones–Does It Work?

• Robots are redefining the war in Ukraine – and forcing Russia onto the back foot

• Russians make mass cash withdrawals amid internet shutdowns

• In northern Ukraine, it was boy vs. Russian drone. The boy won

China

• Chinese DRAM Giant CXMT's IPO Accelerates Memory Market Challenge

• China's AI Heist

• Police in China Sure Love Smart Glasses

Health / Medicine

• Ozempic may be reshaping the brain, scientists say

• Daily pill can double survival time for deadliest cancer, trial shows

  • Experimental pill promises new hope for pancreatic cancer

• Pig liver and kidneys transplanted into a person, could ease organ shortages

• Poor Sleep Linked to Rising Cancer Risk in Under-50s

• US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Ebola fears spark probe into infected monkey bite at Montana research lab

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Video shows an evolved bird nest design that leaves snakes with almost no way in

• Climate tech companies are going public. What's next?

• The household battery revolution that could change energy bills and the world

• Google planning to release 32M mosquitoes across Florida and California

• Arctic food chain hit as tipping point passed

• "Save Our Bacon" provision substantial setback for animal rights

• New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine

• Fish Sleep a Lot Like Us.