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• Pilot and co-pilot killed after Air Canada jet collision at LaGuardia New York

  The pilot and co-pilot of an Air Canada Express regional jet have been killed after it collided with a fire truck while landing at New York’s LaGuardia airport, in an incident that closed the airport. The collision also caused serious injuries with nine people in hospital. It happened as a firefighting vehicle was responding to a separate incident, according to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which runs the airport. The Air Canada Express CRJ-900 plane, operated by its partner Jazz Aviation, was carrying 72 passengers and four crew members from Montreal, based on a preliminary passenger list that remained subject to confirmation. Jazz is owned by Chorus Aviation. The aircraft struck the fire vehicle while doing about 24mph, according to the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, which last recorded data at 11.37pm.

  • Plane and ground vehicle collide at New York's LaGuardia airport halting flights

  • Air Canada CRJ collides with fire fighting truck on landing in New York

  • LaGuardia Airport Closed After Runway Collision That Killed Two Pilots

Horseshit

• Archaeologists Uncover Oldest Gold Relics in a 5th Millennium BC Tomb

• Initial tests find lead in children's fast-fashion clothing

• A new kind of distracted driving is on the rise

• How the Midwest Became the Place to Move

• How the idea of human superiority over nature was invented

• Casio's new $600 calculator is a work of art

• Are Strings Still Our Best Hope for a Theory of Everything?

• Why do some people still believe that aliens shaped ancient civilizations

• Coke fires worker injured on the job, keeping him would be hard on the company

• Ancient machine gun was used by Romans to attack Pompeii

  • The Romans had some really clever mechanical weapons. "machine gun" is a stretch.

• People ‘bathe’ in nature to get respite from chaotic news cycle.

• Long fingernails vs. touchscreens: This nail polish could help

• Dusking is a trend aimed at helping people switch off at the end of the day

Epstein

• FIRST Robotics founder Dean Kamen resigns because of Epstein files

Obit

• OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43

  • Leonid Radvinsky Has Died

  • OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43

  • OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies at 43 following secret cancer battle

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Wikipedia bans eight editors, six of them anti-Israel

• 4chan's hamster-filled reminder US cos needn't comply with UK speech regulations

Musk

• Tesla faces wider probe of self-driving feature

• Running Tesla Model 3's Computer on My Desk Using Parts from Crashed Cars

• SpaceX Launches 10,000th Satellite, Photo Captures the Impact on the Night Sky

• SpaceX hits back at Amazon in orbital datacenter dispute

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Uber's Deal Blitz to Stop a Robotaxi Monopoly

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• The Death of Millennial Feminism

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?

• Attractive students no longer receive better results as classes moved online

• NYU Professors Begin Strike over Pay and Job Protections

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability

• Police raid exposes YouTube "view farm" packed with phones

• In the killer world of online gaming, no hits any more – just survivors

• Cyberattack on vehicle breathalyzer company leaves drivers stranded in the US

• America tells private firms to "hack back"

• Lawmakers don't want VPNs to stand in the way of online age verification

• Ads Are Popping Up on the Fridge and It Isn't Goong Well

• Sony Said Near $1B Home Entertainment Deal with Tcl

• Microsoft fixes broken Windows update days after vowing fewer broken updates

• Meta faces potential billions in fines in trial over children's safety practices

• The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep

• Highguard Dev Says The Shooter Is Too Sweaty For Casual Fans

  One does not simply drop into Highguard and have a great time. It’s a hero shooter where matches have multiple phases and small teams make tight-knit coordination and communication paramount. Wildlight Entertainment senior level designer Alex Graner thinks the game was too “sweaty” for casual players and that’s why so many bounced off of it on the launch day.

• Philips to drop Google TV for European-based Titan OS

• My prodigal brainchild: Neal Stephenson on the Metaverse

  In retrospect, John’s message was prescient, since it marked the moment when the Metaverse really did break free and become my alienated, prodigal brainchild. In the following weeks I had to make a few Tweets trying to convince incredulous strangers that I had no connection with what Meta was up to; that they hadn’t communicated with me in any way; that they hadn’t paid me off; and that, no, I wasn’t going to sue them. All of these things remain true. So there wouldn’t have been any upside for me if Meta’s Metaverse had succeeded. What remains to be seen is whether there’s a downside for me now that it has failed. I think I’m standing clear of the blast radius, but seeing the front page of the New York Times’s business page dominated by the inevitable Metaverse tombstone image does give one pause.

• FBI Warns of 7 Steam Games Containing Hidden Malware

• Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack iPhones

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Acoustic Drone Detection On The Cheap With ESP32

  • Under-$15 acoustic drone detector on ESP32-S3. Edge-only, no cloud, no radar

  Deploy one at a window, a fence line, or a rooftop and it will alert you the moment drone rotor harmonics are detected nearby.

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• ULA again fails to launch a satellite; military transfers mission to SpaceX

  United Launch Alliance, a 50-50 joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin, was supposed to launch the final satellite for the Space Force’s GPS Block III program this month. Space Systems Command, responsible for buying spacecraft and rockets for the military, announced Friday it has transferred the launch to a Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX, ULA’s chief rival in the market for launching US government satellites. This is only the latest example of the Space Force moving a GPS launch from ULA to SpaceX. The three most recent GPS satellites were also supposed to launch on ULA’s Vulcan rocket. Beginning in 2024, the Space Force shifted them over to SpaceX. In exchange, military officials moved three future launches from SpaceX to ULA, including the launch of the GPS III SV10 satellite. ULA’s Vulcan rocket is now grounded for the second time in less than two years, prompting the Space Force to move GPS III SV10 back to SpaceX. ULA will receive rights to launch a classified US military mission in 2028.

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• New report sounds alarm on AI chatbots driving violence against women and girls

• FedEx has started delivering AI training to over 400k workers

• Amazon's Trainium lab, the chip that's won over Anthropic, OpenAI, even Apple

• AI ends online anonymity: the ease of unmasking pseudonymous accounts

• AI is making the hard choice between consumer safety and privacy even trickier

• OpenAI to double workforce as business push intensifies

• I probably spend more than my salary on Claude

• OpenAI preps for IPO in 2026, says ChatGPT must be 'productivity tool'

• The Bay Area's animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI

• These coders want AI to take their jobs

• Man generated songs with AI then had bots stream them to make over $8M

• AI is beginning to change the business of law

• Sam Altman-backed fusion startup Helion in talks with OpenAI

• Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO

• What Happens If AI Makes Things Too Easy for Us?

• Nadella paid $650M to recruit his AI chief. After 2 years he's pushing him aside

• Tech Giants Are Paying Up to Power AI. These Utilities Will Be Big Winners

• China's open-source dominance threatens US AI lead, US advisory body warns

• OpenAl offering private-equity firms a guaranteed return of 17.5%

• OpenAI sweetens private equity pitch amid enterprise turf war with Anthropic

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Exits Helion Energy's Board

• AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock's Larry Fink

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Lawmakers to Introduce Bipartisan Bill Banning Sports Bets on Prediction Markets

• Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Airlines Are Preparing for an Oil Crisis

• Snowflake makes cuts as part of 'targeted adjustments' to the company's strategy

• Latin America Becomes an Investor Magnet

• Natural gas prices in Texas plunge deep into negative territory and producers are burning it off, while the rest of the world braces for shortages.

• BlackRock CEO Larry Fink's letter: "Growing with your country"

• Volume in stock and oil futures surged 15 min before Trump's market-turning post

  • Minutes before Trump's announcement, $800M in trades made on oil prices

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• California sheriff running for governor seizes >650k 2025 election ballots

  A California sheriff who is running as a Republican for governor has seized more than 650,000 ballots from last year’s election, escalating an ongoing conflict with state officials. Chad Bianco, Riverside county’s sheriff, says he is carrying out an investigation into allegations that ballots were unlawfully cast in last year’s election that resulted in the passage of Proposition 50. The proposition redrew congressional districts to help gerrymander the state in favor of Democrats, in response to similar measures in Republican states like Texas. Election officials and the California attorney general, Rob Bonta, have both dismissed those allegations. The discrepancy between the machine count and the final count submitted to the state is only 103 votes, according to the Riverside Record.

  Bianco’s investigators obtained the ballots after serving the registrar of voters with search warrants last month, he said on Friday at a press conference. A Riverside superior court judge appointed a special master to count the ballots, Bianco said. “This investigation is simple: physically count the ballots and compare that result with the total votes recorded,” Bianco said.

• Audit slams California school officials' ties to Chinese boarding school

  Over the course of their investigation, the auditors said, they found, among other claims, possible evidence of fraud, bribery, conflicts of interest, breaches of fiduciary duty, or violations of the Political Reform Act by various officials. “There appears to be a pattern of favors, official acts, promises, and payments leading to the [state’s] endorsement of Pegasus and VVUSD’s approval of the diploma pilot program,” the report said.

• Hundreds of nonprofits made illegal campaign contributions in NY

Left Angst

• Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers

• ICE Left Scrambling After Being Blindsided by Trump's Airport Decision

  • Your rights when an airport checkpoint is staffed by ICE agents

• Energy Department merges nuclear and particle physics programs

• NASA sets 'impossible' ground rules for relocation of 'flown space vehicle'

  NASA has issued a draft Request for Proposals to move a flown space vehicle, a step some lawmakers see as progress toward relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to Houston, Texas.

• US govt pays TotalEnergies nearly $1B to stop US offshore wind projects

  • Trump Administration to Pay $1B to Energy Giant to Cancel Wind Farms

• Mapping ICE's expanding footprint, and the communities fighting back

• Viral DOGE Deposition Videos Can Remain Online, Judge Rules

• Supreme Court declines to review press freedom case

  The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a case testing a Texas law allowing law enforcement to arrest reporters who obtain information from government employees. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the decision not to hear the case. "This case implicates one of the most basic journalistic practices of them all: asking sources within the government for information. Each day, countless journalists follow this practice, seeking comment, confirmation, or even 'scoops' from governmental sources," she wrote. "Reasonably so."

• SEC's ex-enforcement chief clashed with bosses over Trump cases before leaving

• Gabbard plans to shift coveted, CIA-backed high-tech fund In-Q-Tel to her office

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• FCC Adds Routers Produced in Foreign Countries to Covered List

  We find that the National Security Determination constitutes a specific determination of an unacceptable risk to the national security of the United States or the security or safety of United States persons pursuant to section 2 of the Secure Networks Act. 47 U.S.C. § 1601(c). Therefore, we conclude that the Commission is required to place the equipment and services in this determination on the Covered List. 47 U.S.C. § 1601(b)-(d). We update the Covered List to include: “Routers produced in a foreign country, except routers which have been granted a Conditional Approval by DoW or DHS.”

  • U.S. FCC Bans Foreign-Made Routers as a 'National Security Risk'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution

• The Drone Swarm Is Coming and NATO Can't Cope

• Pentagon Adopts New Limits for Journalists After Court Loss

World

• GB News seems to have become Reform TV–and Ofcom hasn't stopped it

  Andrew Neil says he was assured by the main investors that they had no intention of turning GB News into the British equivalent of Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News—ie a politically partisan blend of news and propaganda. “It turned out, of course, to be an entirely false prospectus,” he told me. “Actually, they really did want a kind of Fox News. They were above all rabid Brexiteers, and that still motivated them. They worshipped the ground that Nigel Farage walked on.” Ofcom seems miffed when people complain they’ve allowed this to happen.

• Germany has a shortage of workers turns to India for help

• Socialist Emmanuel Gregoire wins Paris mayoral race

• Palantir trial plugs into UK financial watchdog's data trove

• Hundreds of petrol stations across Australia run out of fuel as Labor inks supply deal with Singapore

  Hundreds of service stations across Australia have run out of fuel, with the federal government inking a deal with Singapore, one of the country’s biggest sources of refined petroleum, to keep supplies of diesel and petrol flowing. Concerns are now broadening to supplies of fertiliser and other chemicals, heaping more pressure on the Albanese government’s leveraging of overseas exports of coal and gas in a bid to handle of the crisis.

• Orbán's top opponent says Hungary's alleged Russian backchannel 'treason'

Iran / Houthi

• Random Numbers, Persian Code: A Mysterious Signal Transfixes Radio Sleuths

• A web of sensors: How the US spots missiles and drones from Iran

• Strikes on Qatar's LNG Ras Laffan plant Will Reshape the Future of Fossil Gas

• Iran foreign ministry denies Trump's 'good talks' claim

• Moral Confusion About the War in Iran

  To think clearly about this war, we need to hold two sets of ideas in our minds at the same moment: the Iranian regime is evil, and the Trump administration is dangerously amoral, corrupt, and incompetent. The Islamic Republic has tormented its own people for forty-seven years. It has hanged dissidents from cranes, crushed peaceful protests with live ammunition, tortured political prisoners, and funded jihadist proxies throughout the Middle East and beyond. When Salman Rushdie was nearly killed by a knife-wielding fanatic, after living for thirty-three years under the shadow of the Ayatollah’s imbecilic curse, this was a direct export from the theocracy in Tehran—which has grown increasingly unpopular with the Iranian people. The protests of 2025 and 2026 reminded the world, yet again, of the Iranian majority’s desperation to be free. The assassination of Ayatollah Khamenei on the first day of this war was greeted with celebrations in Tehran, Isfahan, and among the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles and New York. Whatever else one thinks about the decision to strike Iran, it is obscene to pretend that there was no moral or pragmatic argument for doing so. And yet, most critics of the war speak as though Iran was a peaceful nation attacked by foreign aggressors. Notions of “sovereignty” and “international law” are invoked as though the Islamic Republic were Sweden. Almost no prominent critic of this war has anything cogent to say about the decades of misery the mullahs have inflicted on their own citizens, the threat that Iran’s network of proxy militias poses to the entire region, or the inconceivability of establishing deterrence once a jihadist death cult acquires nuclear weapons. If your opposition to this war cannot acknowledge the evil we are facing, your opposition is not morally sane.

• A pharmacist lifestyle blogger: The 'alarming' civilian cost of war in Iran

Israel

• One of the Thousands Missing

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian authorities block paywall removal site Archive.today

China

• Laid Off in Midlife, China's Reform Generation Braces for Downward Mobility

• China battery trio gain $70B as Iran war sparks 'paradigm shift'

Health / Medicine

• The Shingles Virus May Be Aging You More Quickly

• Maternal infections during pregnancy increase risk of suicide in offspring

• Lyme Disease Vaccine Candidate Demonstrates Strong Efficacy in Phase 3 Trial

• An end to hay fever? The new wave of effective cures for seasonal allergies

• Doctors want more women lifting weights. Experts say welcoming gyms and education would help.

• Rising health costs push some middle-aged adults to skip the doc until Medicare

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• State of the Global Climate 2025

• Kimchi-derived probiotic found to promote excretion of intestinal nanoplastics

• Ski lift demolished as glacier on Germany's highest mountain melts away

• The Balance That Keeps Climate Stable Is Out of Whack, U.N. Report Finds

• The oldest known recording of a whale song reveals how oceans have changed

• UN issues new climate warning as El Niño looms

• The world just lived through the 11 hottest years on record

• Planet trapped record heat in 2025: UN

• The latest world climate report is grim, but it's not the end of the story