2026-06-07

Cool

• A total solar eclipse will occur this summer. Everything you need to know

  A total solar eclipse will create a celestial spectacle in the sky for the first time in more than two years on August 12. parts of Greenland, Iceland, northern Spain and northeastern Portugal will glimpse totality, when the skies go momentarily dark as the sun completely disappears.

Horseshit

• The Grand British Tradition of Getting Sloshed Before Takeoff Is Under Threat

• We're All One Crisis Away from Taking Unlicensed Research Peptides

• Scientists say one common mistake leads to throwing away perfectly good meat

  A change in color doesn’t necessarily mean meat is unsafe to eat. Sell-by dates for meat are typically four days after packaging, the news release said. They’re “based on when the beef will start to lose its bright pink color, rather than when it becomes unsafe to eat.” A change in color doesn’t necessarily mean meat is unsafe to eat, however. “If a consumer sees that on day three their meat is brown, and it’s around the ‘sell by’ date, they might think it’s spoiled, but in fact it’s just quality degradation,” said Isabella Gafanha, an Auburn master’s student who was involved in the research. “It’s still fine to eat.”

  • Who insisted there be a "best by date", and who gets to decide what that date is?

• People Love to Hate This Fake Private Equity Guy

• Scientist Edits Human Embryo Genes, but Questions Remain

  • Scientists Edit Human Embryo Genes with Startling Precision

• Parents Aren't Waiting to Pass Down Wealth

• Lego Reseller Bricks and Minifigs Will Return 'Stolen' Star Wars Sets

  Company CEO Ammon McNeff has confirmed that the company is ready to sit down with Bryan Mansell and his father, who have accused Bricks & Minifigs of essentially stealing a LEGO collection they valued at $200,000 through a failed consignment deal. McNeff notes it is willing to not only give back his collection, but also any LEGO Star Wars set in the store regardless of if it belongs to him or not. Additionally, the company will also drop the lawsuit against him, where he is named as a co-defendant in a defamation and harassment lawsuit against YouTuber Reckless Ben

• Two characters named Dennis the Menace were created independently the same day

• There's a 137-Inch Bugatti TV Now, and It Folds

• The world is bigger than you can imagine

  I occasionally think about those medieval peasants that were not able to go into a dark theatre at age 12 and have their minds blown by the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Substitute Star Wars if you are a decade younger, or The Matrix if you are Gen X.) I’ve spent a lot of my life immersed in films, many of which are far more engrossing than my “real life”. How should I think about that time? When most people evaluate their lives, they probably think about career success or failure and their family life. That’s fine, but is it possible that we underrate the importance of all the time we spent on hobbies like collecting stuff or watching sports or listening to our favorite music in college or using drugs or hiking in the wilderness or lots of other “trivial” pursuits? Are we actually evaluating our life, or are we evaluating the official version of the most important parts of life? In some ways, artists like Borges, Conrad, Velazquez, Cezanne, Kubrick and Dylan seem more real to me, a bigger part of my life, than many casual friends I’ve had over the years.

• Our Great War is a Spiritual War

  I often come back to the question of why this is happening. Why do people want the centralized world? Why do people want the administered reality? Why do people want to be managed? Why do people not want root? The answer is that those people prioritize convenience, safety, and comfort. But in the coming world, if these are your priorities, you will die.

  There used to be natural checks on these things. Life couldn’t be too convenient, there were jobs that needed doing. Life couldn’t be too safe, there were diseases, violence, death in childbirth, etc… Life couldn’t be too comfortable, it was cold and you were forced into interactions with other people. Technology will remove all of these barriers. Machines will do all the work, you will never leave your house, and you will never be forced into an interaction you don’t want. The people who lean into it will be 100% at the whim of whatever organizations offer it to them. A purposeless serf in a neo-feudal empire, not even valued for their labor, but valued because of a sadistic desire by their master to control others.

• Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

• No Babies? Blame Capitalism

• This 71-year-old jockey has saddled up in more than 53,000 races

celebrity gossip

• Jury finds for Star Trek legend's family in wrongful death lawsuit

  A Grant County jury found for the family of Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against the Gila Regional Medical Center, which is located in Silver City, New Mexico. The jury deliberated for only a couple of hours on Thursday, June 4, before finding GRMC negligent for Nichols’ death. Nichols’ estate was awarded a total of $13 million, ... The late Star Trek actress sadly passed away on July 30, 2022, from heart failure at the age of 89.

• Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to marry at NYC’s iconic Madison Square Garden

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Is This Hate Speech?

  this paper explores the difficulty of addressing content that is more borderline in nature and where arguments concerning humour and freedom of expression may be raised by those spreading these messages in a system providing for significant discretion on the part of online platforms. Considering developments under the Digital Services Act, and an increased focusing on the algorithmic control of content, this article will argue that even these new measures may find the countering of radicalising content conveyed through humour quite difficult.

Musk

• The SpaceX Employees Who Are About to Make an Overnight Fortune

Electric / Self Driving cars

• BYD will pay for any damage caused using it's autonomous driving technology

• Rivian Owner Spray Paints R1T and Launches "Rivian Is Junk" Website

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• The last astronomers: astrophysicists left questioning the soul of their field

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• A USB-connected speaker can infect a PC without ever being touched

  the speaker is a Sound Blaster Katana V2X sold by Singapore-based Creative Technologies. The speaker, which sells for $283, ... To Moorats’ surprise, his Bluetooth device was able to connect to the speaker, which was connected to a PC via USB, without any authentication. Not only that, but his Bluetooth device didn’t have to be paired first. Also surprising: One of the CTP commands, labeled “upload new firmware to device,” allowed him to replace the official firmware with his own custom one. The firmware reflashing didn’t use code signing or other measures to prevent the loading of unofficial code.

  • Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X hijackable over Bluetooth; vendor denies flaw

• OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision

• 'Teachers Are Going to Hate It': How Social Media Apps Hooked Teens at School

• Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

  Sometime around mid-May, Motorola's MotoSync+ app for iOS and Android went down. On iOS, the MotoSync+ app opens to the login screen, and a loading wheel just spins and spins. On Android, the app also loads to the login screen but displays a "Server License Expired" message. Because the Motorola MotoSync+ app is required to set up all new compatible WiFi routers released by Motorola, many users have been completely blocked from using their routers. Some Motorola customers may also be completely unaware of the issue, as existing router setups may continue to work — for now. However, if that user ever needs to factory reset their router, which Motorola recommends when experiencing certain problems, they must use the app to do so, according to Motorola's support documentation.

• Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs

• GOG apologizes for emailing Nazi runes to its followers

  GOG has apologized for a "Slavic adventure" newsletter sent out today that featured a number of very distinct Nazi runes in its subject line. To be clear, this is not a misunderstanding, or images that look kind of alike, or a misinterpretation of an ambiguous situation: That's a Sonnenrad, a kolovrat, and the extremely unmistakable double Siegrune of the SS—quite possibly second only to the swastika as the most distinctive emblem of the Nazi regime.

• Towards passive heart health monitoring via smartphone camera

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• NASA readies mission to reverse the Swift observatory's skyfall

• Safety officials have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• UK banks blocked from cyber AI tool Mythos get offer from rival OpenAI

• Meta weighs big equity raising after blockbuster Google deal

• Kevin O'Leary agrees to downsize Utah data center

• Meta Keeps Delaying the Release of Its New AI Model to Developers

• Chatbots May Need a Cult Deprogrammer

• Bezos Funding Hunt for Brain's 'Core Algorithm'

• Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements

• The mayor of Shelbyville, IN says only 'shitty houses' oppose data center

• 'More Harmful Than Helpful': Young People Sour on AI

• How much value is AI creating?

• OpenAI Unveils Lockdown Mode to Protect Sensitive Data from Prompt Injection

• AI is the greatest money-wasting scheme humanity has ever invented

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Bitcoin back above $61,000 after rout leads to $1.6B liquidations

  • Bitcoin cracks $60k, sinking to lowest level since October 2024

• Crypto's True Believers Demand to Be Taken Seriously

Economicon / Business / Finance

• SpaceX blocked from early US benchmark index entry as S&P reaffirms rules

  • S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic

• Nasdaq falls 4% and suffers worst day since April 2025 traders flee chip stocks

• Google is quietly laying off staff in its cloud division

• Bitcoin's star fades, as investors flock to lustre of AI and megacap IPOs

• Central Ohio Becomes Hub for Tech and Manufacturing

• Inflation is being driven up by investment in artificial intelligence

• Rise in NEETs Is a 'Retirement Crisis in Slow Motion', Pension Experts Warn

• US states prepare lawsuit to block Paramount's $110B Warner Bros deal

• Americans Are Keeping Their Cars Longer Than Ever–and Remaking the Auto Industry

• Pfizer Bets on Weight-Loss Drugs to Power Its Next Decade

• Reed Hastings officially leaves Netflix board, Jay Hoag becomes chairman

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• US attorney opens investigation into California elections-sends prosecutor to LA

  The U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles said Friday it had opened “multiple election fraud investigations” related to California’s elections and sent a prosecutor to the county’s vote-counting center. The developments came a day after President Donald Trump made baseless claims of mass fraud in California’s drawn-out vote count from Tuesday’s primary. Late-tallied Democratic-leaning mail ballots were continuing to eat into the vote totals for the president’s preferred candidates for governor and Los Angeles mayor.

• US House lawmakers release draft bill to prohibit state AI rules

• Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker to suspend tax breaks offered to data centers

Trump

• Trump Urges 'Less Shackled' Pulte to Fire Intelligence-Community Employees

• Trump Signals Interest in US Owning Stakes in Top AI Labs

  • Trump says his team will 'look into' US taking stake in AI companies

• Trump Signs Executive Order for AI Testing Prior to Frontier Model Releases

Left Angst

• Trump administration dismantles critical ocean-floor observation network

• Trump's suddenly softened new green card policy

• Forest Service says it's closing offices to cut costs. The math doesn't add up

• Dallas Housing Market Cools as H-1B Visa Indian Buyers Vanish

• Police remove UW diabetes researcher and other experts from conference

  A University of Washington professor was among several people whom police removed from a national meeting of diabetes researchers Friday, as they handed out copies of an editorial that criticizes the Trump administration’s cuts to biomedical research.

  • Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

• Leaks reveal US authorities concerned about the rise of 'anti-tech extremists'

  • It's not like they are Catholics or home school advocates; which were the groups previously focused on as dangerous...

• For Whom the Boys Troll

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say

  • Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel

• DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List

World

• A Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea

• Mystery over squares on our roads is solved

  National Grid has confirmed they are related to mobile mapping surveys being carried out to collect data as part of its Norwich to Tilbury pylon scheme. "The road markings, made using biodegradable paint which disappears in a couple of weeks, indicate reference points for the mobile mapping surveys to be completed," a spokesperson said.

• Greece to tax gains from crypto, sources say

• Waiting times for healthcare in Europe: The worst countries ranked

• German Births Fall to Lowest Since Postwar Records Began in 1946

• Australian cockroach kingpin caught with 100k illegal bugs in record bust

• NEOM issues temporary work stoppage on The Line until at least 2030

• Missing American student found dead in Japan after dayslong search

Iran / Houthi

• US Intercepts Fresh Iranian Attacks as Peace Talks Stall

Israel

• World Food Programme breach exposes data of 600k vulnerable Gazan families

• Palestinian baby shot dead by Israeli troops in occupied West Bank

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Thanks largely to robots Ukraine's now talking about winning, not just surviving

• Ukrainian Drone Strikes Target Russian Military Facilities in St. Petersburg

China

• China's delivery drivers are its most obvious underclass

• China wants to use AI to promote Xi Jinping's thinking

• Fentanyl-to-Peptide Pivot by Chinese Cartels Supplying Gray-Market Ecosystem

• China has approved the first invasive brain-computer chip

• Wasting China's solar panel surplus is madness

• The mysterious database that provides clues to China's foreign surveillance

Health / Medicine

• Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause or how to prevent it

• A Hidden Virus Found in Gut Bacteria Is Linked to Colorectal Cancer.

• Alzheimer's patient gets back speech, bladder control and memory in drug trial

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• New 'universal vaccine' technology could protect us from future virus outbreaks

• AI-designed universal coronavirus vaccine passes first human trial

• I led the U.S. CDC response to the 2014 Ebola epidemic

• Projections for the Ebola Disease Outbreak Caused by Ebola Virus, 2026

  With poor isolation levels of patients with BVD (20%) and no other interventions, the likelihood of an outbreak that exceeds 20,000 cases within 3 months is 65%. If, however a high proportion of patients were to enter isolation (70%), only a one in 20 chance is projected for an outbreak with ≥10,000 cases within 3 months. These results underscore the importance of strong public health interventions, because the current outbreak is already the largest known BVD outbreak and has the potential to quickly become one of the largest Ebola disease outbreaks ever recorded.

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak in US

• Bumblebees show advanced problem-solving skills in new experiment

• A flesh-eating screwworm is in the US. How worried should we be?