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• K2 Airways Cargo 737 Crashes into Arabian Sea

Horseshit

• Prehistoric cave discoveries hint at shared culture between Neanderthals humans

• Ryanair B738 cabin window shattered, passenger partly sucked out

  • Man nearly sucked out of 'detached' window on Ryanair flight

  • Ryanair passenger almost sucked out of shattered window during flight

  • Ryanair Passenger Partly Sucked Out of Jet as Window Breaks

  • Man nearly sucked out of window mid-air on Ryanair plane

  • Ryanair Passenger Sucked Toward Broken Window After Midair Engine Failure

  • Man partly sucked out of broken window on flight pulled back by passengers

• The Feel-Good Story of the World Cup Is Too Good to Be True

• The most, and least, liveable cities in 2026

• Arsonist cuts off penis -- then uses it to start a fire: cops

• Modern environment designs overstimulate the brain, causing discomfort, stress

• Rise of the Gen-Z Luddite

• No, You Shouldn’t Inject a Peptide to Get Tan.

• Arizona toddler declared dead was found alive in the morgue

celebrity gossip

• 'Music was my first desire': Anthony Hopkins releases his debut single

Obit

• Wally Funk, last of Mercury 13 and oldest woman in space, dies at 87

  Wally Funk, who in 2021 became the oldest woman to fly into space—60 years after she and 12 other women sought the same opportunity as NASA’s original astronauts—died on Wednesday at 87 years old.

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Communities will build trust for public media. Chicago is taking a leap forward

  this is the first time we’ve seen a single social platform rolled out by a public media company at this scale. Chicago Public Media was gifted the underlying chicago.com domain and will be rolling it out to neighborhoods and suburbs throughout the area. It sounds like each community will be highlighted (perhaps with its own feed), with an attached hub that covers the entire region.

Musk

• Class action suit against AI makers over deepfake child sexual abuse material expands

  New plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company, SpaceXAI, allege that the company's image-generation models were used to create child sexual abuse material and that the company failed to adequately share information about an alleged perpetrator with authorities.

• Man Dies by Suicide After Using Grok to Make 7000 Sexual Images of Stepdaughter

• SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Polestar owners left 'holding the bag' after EV brand pulls out of the US

• Waymo cars stranded on SF streets as 4th of July gridlock drains batteries

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• A new kind of robot swims the seas and soars the skies

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Public Schools Are Failing to Prepare for Fewer Kids

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Netflix Is Exploring Live TV and Bundles as It Struggles to Keep Viewers Hooked

• Netflix in Talks to Buy Letterboxd

• John Carmack reacts to layoffs at id Software

• The Id Software Cuts Will Change It Forever: 'I Don't See How They Make a Game'

• Turn off this Meta setting before someone generates AI images of you

• Publishers Are Preparing to Opt Out of Google Search

• Nvidia is a victim of the compute marketplace it created

• More Flock cameras cut down in Houston amid some privacy concerns

  • Auburn California Flock Surveillance Cameras Stolen and Dumped in a Canal

• StubHub's 'marketplace for fans' is run by a mass scalper, SEC filings reveal

• If Microsoft sold off Xbox, who would even buy it?

• Why It's So Hard to Break John Deere's Control over Farming

• Steam sales reportedly topped $11B during H1 2026 due to shifting trends

• Bluesky Names Toni Schneider CEO

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• FCC Approves Reflect Orbital's Giant Mirror Satellite That Astronomers Hate

• NASA finally releases a critical planning document for private space stations

• The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites. Critics say ‘our coasts deserve better.’

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• Microsoft's early AI lead has become a test of faith

• Open AI No. 2 Exec at OpenAI Fidji Simo is leaving the company

• China may restrict foreign access to Chinese open-source AI models

• Can AI Answer the $3T Question?

• The great AI data centre cover-up

• Italy privacy watchdog fines Character.ai owner over age-check failures

• UN digital tech agency launches initiative to improve trust in AI agents

• OpenAI and Google sell AI models to blacklisted China groups

• Florida's OpenAI lawsuit moves to federal court, gets assigned to Aileen Cannon

• OpenAI unveils long-awaited "super app" as rivalry with Anthropic intensifies

• A staggering class divide now separates how Americans experience AI

• Brown says AI make student brain no work good, teacher should help use it better

• OpenAI is shutting down its AI browser Atlas

  • OpenAI's Atlas browser doesn't make it to its first birthday

• AI Cameras on Garbage Trucks to Scan Properties for Code Violations

• Starbucks bets on AI to replace Microsoft and IBM software

• Mythos 5 offered outside the US by Anthropic

• Patreon Blocks Crawlers from Stealing Creators' Work for AI Training

• Meta Is Ushering in the Era of the K-Shaped Company

• Older adults know AI is slop. They just like it

• "Rights for robots" and the AI slavery fantasy

• Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. To Gain an Edge in Battle

• Meta AI image detector fails to identify some of its own cropped AI images

• The Work of Helping A.I. Destroy Work

• Big Tech Doubles Debt Load to $350B in AI Spending Spree

• Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it stole top-secret information

  • Apple Sues OpenAI, Accusing It of Stealing Company Secrets

  • Apple files lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets

  • Apple accuses OpenAI of using stolen trade secrets to create its AI gadgets

  • Apple Is Suing OpenAI for Allegedly Stealing Hardware Secrets

  • Apple Sues OpenAI for Stealing Trade Secrets to Build AI Hardware

  • Apple sues OpenAI, two former employees for trade secrets theft

  • The biggest bombshells from Apple's trade secret lawsuit against OpenAI

  • Apple sues OpenAI for trade secret theft

  • Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Kalshi in talks to expand never-expiring derivatives to new areas

• Fake Accounts Crying Jackpot Are Selling the iGambling Dream

• Think you can win on prediction markets? Here's why you're more likely to lose

• Polymarket Seeks License to Offer Margin Trading Legally in US

Economicon / Business / Finance

• SK Hynix raises $26.5B in US market debut

• Volkswagen to Slash Half Its Models as Sales Fall

• EasyJet agrees to rival £5.7B takeover bid

• Soaring 'McMansion' insurance prices create opening for commercial group

• Nearly half of U.S. retail spending comes from top 10% of earners

• USDA lowers beef export sales by 90% amid growing doubts over data

• More U.S. Workers Testing Positive for Marijuana. Fewer Employers Are Concerned

• New York City to become first in US to ban deceptive subscription practices

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• The House Passed the KIDS Act–The Senate Should Reject It

• If you traded like the president, you'd beat the S&P

Trump

• Iran Hatched Fresh Plot to Kill Trump, Israel Told U.S.

• 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act to become law without POTUS signing

Democrats

• Platner privately told staff he’ll formally exit Senate race Monday.

Left Angst

• Trump cut to food security survey could make measuring US hunger harder

• Trump terminates Election Assistance Commission members

• Trump Pushes Out Members of Bipartisan Election Commission Ahead of Midterms

• CIA Officers Can Sense the Threat Within

• Lawmakers Call for CDC to Track Vitamin K Shot Refusals, Cite ProPublica Report

• I spent a week using the Trump phone – it sucks

• Trump blitzed by Wall Street Journal for 'destroying US jobs and raising prices'

• MAGA's attack on science is worse than it looks

• He Wanted to Track Microplastics in the Sea. The EPA Fired Him

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

= Minnesota daycare owner pleads guilty to 2 fraud charges

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US Navy Issued RFIs to Korean Shipbuilders for Destroyers and Oilers.

• NATO Leaders Flummoxed by Turkish Python Clone Revolvers Given to Them After Ankara Summit.

  What does a world leader do with a gun and six bullets? That was the conundrum Nato leaders faced after the Turkish president offered them each a revolver after the Ankara summit. Keir Starmer was the first to mention the highly unusual gift presented by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to his guests. On the flight back from Ankara, where Nato leaders had gathered for two days, the British prime minister said he and others had received a revolver engraved with their names. Alongside the gun sitting in a red box lined in black were six live rounds and a note exempting the weapons from export controls. It was a surprising gift to say the least, several officials from the different alliance member states said, and gave rise to some “insane” scenes among the various delegations’ security teams.

World

• Meta to build C$13B Alberta data center, its first in Canada

• Pro-Palantir data has litany of errors, English hospitals admit

• Bayeux Tapestry arrives at British Museum under police escort in dead of night

  • Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum in dead of night

• Meta risks $12B EU fine over addictive Instagram and Facebook feeds

• Estonia Won the War on Fentanyl. What Came Next Was Worse

• EU tells Instagram, Facebook to change addictive features or risk fines

  • Meta found to breach EU laws with 'addictive' Instagram, Facebook designs

• Cuba sees nationwide power blackout for third time in six months

• Opinion polls see France's Le Pen winning 2027 election despite guilty verdict

• Alarm over launch of facial recognition in UK shops that instantly alerts police

Iran / Houthi

• Iran Hatched Fresh Plot to Kill Trump, Israel Told U.S.

• A Top Mamdani Official Tried to Meet With Iran

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• A man who would change Russia

• Russia bans diesel exports after Ukrainian attacks, straining global market

• Ukraine's Drones Are Now Reaching Siberia and Imperiling Russian Energy Assets

• Electric car drivers dodge Russia's hours-long fuel queues

• Russia hacks doorbell cameras to spy on NATO bases

China

• Secretive China Chip Maker Is Built to Dodge US Curbs

• China becomes second country to recover orbital booster with Long March 10B

  • China lands reusable rocket for first time, state media says

  • China tests sea-based rocket booster recovery system

  • China retrieves booster in reusable rocket breakthrough

  • China lands reusable rocket for the first time

  • China lands reusable rocket for first time, state media says.

  • Making history China lands rocket during an orbital launch for first time

  • China recaptures the first stage of a rocket to reuse it

  • China takes a page from SpaceX and recaptures first stage of rocket to reuse it

  • China recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it

• ¥2,300B wiped out from Chinese stock market in last 2 hours

• Investigation Reveals Deep Military Cooperation Between Russia and China

• Shein wins China's approval for Hong Kong IPO, in third attempt to go public

• China may struggle to fund Xi Jinping's tech dreams

Health / Medicine

• You Should Be Wary Of Eating Raw Wild Mushrooms.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Taco Bell pulls ingredients off menu as ‘explosive diarrhea’ parasite cases surge

  Locations, including some in Metro Detroit, have posted signs telling customers they are temporarily unable to serve several produce items while health officials respond to a spike in cyclosporiasis cases, WWJ reported on Tuesday. “We are currently unable to sell Lettuce, Cilantro Onion, Pico de Gallo and Guacamole due to a nationwide recall,” the notices say.

  • Michigan's explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite jumps to over 1,200 cases

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Is an air-conditioning revolution coming to Europe?

• Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development; they relocate them

• CO2 overload in blood suggests potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years

• Could We Mitigate Super El NiñOS by Artificially Changing the Climate?

• Toxic pufferfish with vicious bite and lethal flesh invade Mediterranean beaches

• Global economy could face 50% loss in GDP from climate shocks, say actuaries

• Scientists Say a Critical Ocean Current System May Be Past Point of No Return

• A Plan to Stop Solar Storms from Sending Us Back to the Stone Age

• Fighting Fires with Figures, Experts Are Trying to Stop Europe from Burning

• Dimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really

• Why do mosquitoes bite some people more than others?

• California wolves are eating much more cattle than wild prey, study finds.

• Dozens rescued in southeastern Missouri as 1-in-1k-year rainfall