2026-06-22

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• Jets were 300 feet apart in Boston close call that forced Delta flight to abort

Horseshit

• Hidden Tunnels Dating Back to Henry VIII's Reign Discovered at Boarding School

• SUV buyers undeterred by warnings of risk to pedestrians

  • The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s

• The Lost Story of Alan Turing's "Delilah" Project

• The terrifying world of the 'TikTok Farlands'

• I Ate Blue Hot Dogs For You People, Are You Not Entertained?

  the Gatorade only colored the surface of the dog, and the Fierce Grape flavor was subtle. But it was there all right, though it was very faint. The meaty savoriness of the all-beef hot dog did the heavy lifting, and for something this strange-looking, it didn't taste as atrocious as it appeared.

• Rent Is So High, New Yorkers Are Living with Nuns

• I aim to break the record for the fastest mile

• Downtown S.F. tower promised a new kind of tech community

• Maple Syrup: What Happens When You Put It In An Engine?

  A Florida junkyard owner who spends his weekends finding new ways to destroy old cars has posted his most bizarre experiment yet. He empties the crankcase of a running Nissan, refills it with four quarts of brown sticky liquid from the Dollar General syrup shelf, and then claims the engine runs better afterwards. One day after its June 16 publication, the video had racked up 2.2 million views and a comment section that was split between Americans laughing along with the experiment and Canadians making politely furious objections to the claim that the liquid was really “maple syrup.”

  • I have to agree with the objections to using the phrase "maple syrup" in this context. "Runs better" is not a data point without further information on how it ran before; corn syrup is a better lubricant than "oil like chocolate milk".

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Psychological warfare was once an afterthought, its now the primary battleground

  Psychological warfare has always been a central tool of statecraft, but we have crossed a threshold from which there may be no return. Today, your attention is being harvested, your biases are being weaponized, and your sense of reality is being systematically dismantled, not by armies, but by algorithms. Oxford philosopher, neuroscientist and geostrategist Nayef Al-Rodhan argues that unless we urgently rebuild our capacity for independent thought and move beyond traditional security tactics to protect the very integrity of human judgment—or risk losing the ability to think for ourselves.

• Your brain was never designed for this much bad news

Musk

• SpaceX handed lowest possible ESG rating by MSCI

• Tesla plans to sell modular AI data center hardware called 'Megapod'

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The Parent Uprising Against Screen Time at School

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Nothing's co-founder says CMF can't build a phone 'at a price that makes sense'

• United Postal Union's DNS Security Forum 2026

• UK supermarket Tesco is suing Broadcom over their VMWare villainy.

• Masochistic YouTuber Punishes Himself by Writing a First Person Shooter in COBOL

• Kansas City's push for facial recognition on public buses sparks privacy debate

• Secure Boot certificate changes in 2026: Guidance for RHEL environments

  systems that boot successfully today will continue to boot after June 27, 2026. The certificate expiration affects the ability to sign new boot components, not the ability to boot with already trusted ones.

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Switzerland built an alternative to BGP. Nobody noticed

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Highly sensitive radio telescope array to be built in Nevada desert

  Known as the Deep Synoptic Array, the project calls for 1,650 individual radio dishes that together will study supermassive black holes, spinning dead stars known as pulsars and fast radio bursts, which are brief, intense explosions of radio waves that often originate from deep space.

  • Building a Swarm of Telescopes to Find Life

• Menstruation in space will be studied for 1st time with ‘Operation Period.’

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• NSA director: 'Mythos "broke into almost all of our classified systems in hours"

• Brands using AI-generated influencers to promote products on social media

• The 100k Whys of AI

  This is precisely what makes LLM writing distinctive: it’s not that the models’ individual mannerisms are different from ours. It’s that they resort to the same, complex set of mannerisms in response to almost any normal prompt. This is a fuzzy signal, so you shouldn’t fire your intern when they say “it’s not this — it’s that”. But in more casual settings, it’s OK to trust your gut. In fact, these instincts are becoming increasingly important because traditional models of online interactions fall apart if it takes much less effort to produce content than to engage with it.

• Student Cheating Is Becoming Impossible to Detect in an A.I. Era

• A $200 ChatGPT subscription used to the full could be costing OpenAI $14,000.

• The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

• The "conservative" protest against AI data centers has an anti-ICE NGO organizer, a DSA member, Facebook money.

  Other than that, totally grassroots. Axios ran an "exclusive" Wednesday about a "conservative group" called Humans First planning a nationwide day of protest against AI data centers on July 18. Amy Kremer is chairing it and invoking the Tea Party. Axios didn't mention that Humans First was incubated by the Center for AI Safety, an organization funded with millions from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. Or that its original staff included a Sunrise Movement organizer who sat in at Pelosi's office with AOC and a DSA member who organized for Kamala Harris. NBC News described CAIS as having founded Humans First "to be a sort of Trojan horse to make AI safety issues more palatable to a conservative political audience."

• The Role of Carbon Capture and Storage in Decarbonizing U.S. Data Centers

• AI Has Broken Hiring

• Netflix, A24 and Focus Pass on Luca Guadagnino's Movie 'Artificial'

• I'd Rather Risk Cancer Than See AI Move This Fast

• AI Is Taking Over Hospitals

• Fast-tracked power plants fuel AI boom, with little public scrutiny

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket–But None of It Was Real

  • Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' with Fake Bets

  • Polymarket reportedly paid people to post fake videos of themselves placing bets

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Morale is so bad at Meta even CTO admits: "probably the worst it's ever been"

• Warsh brings a skinny Fed approach to a complex, information-hungry world

• Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom

• Dallas Fed paper: unauthorized immigration drove ~30% of home-price growth

• PE Owners Tap a Hot Loan Market to Pay Themselves

• See How Owning a Home Is Getting More Expensive in Every Way

• Rent collections are down in New York – and no one's sure why

  More tenants living in New York City’s least expensive housing units aren’t paying their rent — a trend that risks further destabilizing the city’s affordable housing market. The uptick in rental delinquency isn’t new. It started six years ago, when the pandemic flung the city’s economy into chaos and plunged low-income New Yorkers into dire financial straits. But even as the city has rebounded, rent collection rates in affordable housing remain short of pre-pandemic levels. As costs balloon, landlords say insufficient rental income is threatening their ability to stay afloat.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• White House delays US voting-machine vulnerability report

• Billionaire Tax Officially Heads to Nov. 3 Ballot

Left Angst

• Trump says multiple people arrested for allegedly vandalizing Reflecting Pool

  • I have seen posts bragging about adding phosphates to the water to encourage growth; as "protest against Trump."

  • Olympian arrested for touching remnants of decaying Reflecting Pool: report

  Olympian David Hearn, who competed three times in the canoe slalom, stopped by the Reflecting Pool on Friday after a bike ride to see how it looks since Trump's $14 million renovations, the Post reported. The Reflecting Pool is currently plagued with murky green algae blooms, and paint is coming off after workers dumped hydrogen peroxide in it to combat the algae. According to the Post, Hearn reached into the Reflecting Pool to feel a piece of partially detached paint from the bottom, and moments later, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on the misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

• The Science That Turned Lizard Venom into GLP-1s Is Under Attack

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline

  Police data show a sharp drop in vehicle burglaries over the past year. According to the Oakland Police Department’s crime dashboard, car break-ins are down 37 percent year-to-date, comparing May 2025 to May 2026. At Low Price Auto Glass on San Leandro Street in East Oakland, owner Raj Singh said the decrease has directly impacted a once-reliable portion of his business. The shop’s five service bays, once frequently filled with vehicles needing repairs from smash-and-grab incidents, are now more often occupied by cars requiring windshield replacements due to road debris.

• Dali Chief Engineer Admits Criminal Conduct in Baltimore Bridge Allision.

• The New Yorker’s Review of JD Vance’s New Book Is a ‘Distasteful’ Blend of Illiteracy and Anti-theism

World

• France mobilises €13B for tech sovereignty funding push

• Some of the temples are supposed to have amazing hoards: Indian Households Now Hold Four Times More Gold Than U.S. Official Reserves

• Europeans should learn to love the air conditioner

  • Where will they get the electricity to tun them?

• Greece unveils restored Parthenon facade unseen in full for 2 centuries

• A viral doomsday scenario aims to shake Europe out of its AI complacency

• How the social media ban could reshape how all of us use the internet

• Europe buys the future, America builds it

• The Disappearance of Japan's Animators

• Chile Eliminates Leprosy

• Japan chipmaking equipment suppliers report 10% drop in China sales

• Futuristic Japanese Warship Is on the Market and Winning Fans

China

• China tightens indium export checks as AI demand increases

• China unveils a portable anti-drone laser that can down drones from 1,600ft away

• While the World Scrambles for Oil, China Sits on Full Tanks

Health / Medicine

• The Omnipod 5 insulin pump has been cracked by open source developers

• Slow breathing modulates brain function and risk behavior

• FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama

• Give the Baby Peanut Butter

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Australia confirms first case of H5N1 bird flu as virus reaches every continent

• A forgotten social media post may hold key clues to Covid-19's origin

  In September 2021, as the debate raged over whether the COVID-19 pandemic was sparked by infected animals at a food market in Wuhan, China, or a leak from a nearby lab, an anonymous post on the Chinese social medium WeChat floated a completely different, bizarre theory: SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, had arrived in the country on frozen lobsters from Maine that were sold at the Wuhan market. The post was quickly dismissed by scientists and some considered it part of a Chinese effort to shift blame. But a new analysis suggests the post may hold clues to the pandemic’s origin—and further evidence that China is withholding vital data on the contentious issue.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Geo-engineering to protect against solar storms

• Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges

• Earthquake gate stopping a San Andreas disaster under highest stress in 1K years

• With Every Breath You Take, Thank the Ocean

• Hundreds of Mysterious Quakes Have Been Detected Deep Under Antarctica.

• Fossil Fuels Are 40% of Freight Shipping Tonnage, but Half Its Fuel Use

• Chimpanzees mate promiscuously, but fathers still favor and care for their own young.

• The GLP-1 boom is the biggest climate story no one is pricing in