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• World’s Largest Gas Station Is a New Buc-ee’s With 120 Pumps

  near Sevierville, Tennessee. Located along Interstate 40 outside of Knoxville, the rest stop chain's newest location is the largest refilling spot in the world, featuring 120 fuel pumps, and almost two acres of interior space, ... known for its clean restrooms, relatively high employee pay, and its ban on 18-wheelers, which it says makes its locations safer for passenger cars and pedestrians. Many of its locations also offer ethanol-free gasoline,

• Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed

Horseshit

• Douglas Hofstadter changes his mind on Deep Learning and AI risk | Hacker News

• How force-feeding ourselves hot dogs became a 'sacred American ritual'

Musk

• Elon Musk Broke Twitter This Time

• Twitter Twitches - by Zvi Mowshowitz

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• UK COVID Inquiry Reveals Just How Vast International Communist Conspiracy May Be ⋆ Brownstone Institute

• Link between coronavirus vaccines and Long Covid–like illness gaining acceptance

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• NY Times Runs Yet Another Suspiciously-Timed Hit Piece on Hasidic Yeshivas, Casts Them as “Lawbreakers”.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Meta to release a Twitter competitor named Threads

• Gfycat is shutting down on September first

• Bluesky Sees “Record” Web Traffic After Elon's Latest Dumb Twitter Decision

• Terraria's devs have been trying to stop developing Terraria for years

TechSuck

• Notes on float and multi-byte delta compression

• SlowDownAndWasteMemory() | Hacker News

  Source: I’m pretty sure I wrote most of this code.

• The disappointingly ongoing success of WvDial (2009) | Hacker News

• LLMZip: Lossless Text Compression Using Large Language Models | Hacker News

• Sourcegraph is no longer open source | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Walgreens expects to close 150 US stores, CFO says – KNWA FOX24

• Inflation Causes Fourth Of July Cookout Items To Hit Record High: Report.

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Price of US stamp rises to 66 cents, the 5th increase since 2019

• Substance found in White House library tests positive for cocaine

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• China Travel Advisory

Health / Medicine

• Polio eradication: the CIA and their unintended victims