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• Another triumph for the Gay Agenda: Researchers get viable mice by editing DNA from two sperm

• Better an Absence of Men Than Imperfect Men

  Pol Pot grew up relatively well off and learned about Marxism and socialism as a student in France. Despite his family's relatively prosperous origins, in an interview in 1977, Pol Pot claimed that he was born into a "poor, peasant family". You still see this among affluent socialists today, who cosplay poverty in an attempt to manipulate actual poor people into supporting their twisted ideology. Later, after the communist takeover in Cambodia, Pol Pot and his boys would line suspected class enemies up against a wall and speak French to them. If they reacted (indicating they understood and were therefore rich/educated) he’d have them shot. No one hates elites more than elites (or aspirational elites).

  It’s important to remember here that Pol Pot didn’t rise to power by promising to be evil. He promised goodness. He promised dignity. Fairness. Equality. A better world. He said he wanted to help the poor. That’s always how it starts. Neither Pol Pot nor the people who helped him were mustache-twirling villains. They were educated, articulate, and convinced they were on the right side of history. Evil usually doesn’t look like evil. This is the part that’s hard for some people to accept. Many of the worst atrocities of the 20th century weren’t driven by hatred or greed. The communists in Cambodia turned an entire nation into a prison camp, then a graveyard. And they did this in the name of equality, fairness, dignity, and justice.

• Who Are the Top Landowners in the US?

Horseshit

• More pets being put down due to rising vet bills, BBC told

• The History of Advice Columns Is a History of Eavesdropping and Judging

• A Phone (That's Not a Phone) to Help You Stop Using Your Phone

• London's Largest Ancient Roman Fresco Is "Most Difficult Jigsaw Puzzle"

• From Killer Drones to Robotaxis, Sci-Fi Dreams Are Coming to Life

• The treasure trove of platinum on the moon

celebrity gossip

• The No Space for Bezos movement: 'One man rents a city for three days? '

  • Bezos vs. Venice: Will billionaire's wedding sink in the Italian city of love?

  • Bezos 'forced to move Venice wedding party'

• What Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates talked about in their first meeting

Obit

• ’60s teen idol Bobby Sherman dead at 81

Musk

• Tesla Launches Robotaxi in Austin

• Tesla robotaxi incidents caught on camera in Austin draw regulators' attention

• Elon Musk's Lawyers Claim He 'Does Not Use a Computer'

• Tesla's robotaxi is live: here are some of the first reactions

• Musk doesn't want you to know Tesla's response to the NHTSA's Robotaxi questions

• France says Tesla lied about FSD and more, 4 months to comply or be fined

Electric / Self Driving cars

• How The EV Boom Is Repeating Fossil Fuel’s Worst Mistakes

• Uber and Waymo's commercial robotaxi service is open for business in Atlanta

  • Waymo's robotaxis are now available on the Uber app in Atlanta

• Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing

• U.S. Electric Code Will Soon Ban DIY EV Charger Installs: Making it illegal for homeowners to install their own EV chargers could actually undermine safety rather than improve it.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Harvard hired researcher to uncover slavery ties, fires him for finding slaves

• How many PhDs does the world need?

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Fedora 44 Looks to Drop I686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-Bit Packages

  • Fedora 43 proposal: Drop i686 support

  • Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages – bad news for Steam gamers

• Reddit is the front page of the dead internet

• 'South Park' Creators Say Skydance Is Blocking $2.5B Deal

• New Firefox Add-On Policies

• The '16B password breach' story is a farce

• Google brings historical Street View imagery to Google Earth

• Nvidia's RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM

• Microsoft's Xbox layoffs next week, with managers expecting substantial cuts

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

  They quickly figured out that the trick was to format the RAM disk, and type the special text into the format dialog. As far as I have been able to determine, this particular secret was undiscovered until now. People definitely knew the image was there in the ROM, but nobody had figured out how to actually activate it. This is probably one of the last easter eggs that existed in the Mac prior to Steve Jobs reportedly banning them in 1997 when he returned to Apple. I wonder if he ever knew about this one?

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• OpenAI's first AI device with Jony Ive won't be a wearable

  • Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device

• Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings

• Why AI hardware needs to be open

• Hinge CEO Justin McCleod says dating AI chatbots is "playing with fire".

• Anthropic bags fair use win but faces trial for using pirated works

  • Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuit

  • Judge sides with Anthropic over training AI on books without authors' permission

  • Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI

  • Anthropic Scores a Landmark AI Copyright Win–But Will Face Trial over Piracy

• At Amazon's Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I

• Sam Altman open to ads on ChatGPT, calls Instagram ads 'kinda cool'

• The Résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun

• AI doesn't have to reason to take your job

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• What Caused Japanese Moon Lander's Crash? Engineers Trace Problem to Laser Tool

• After successfully entering Earth's atmosphere, a European spacecraft is lost

  A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward this week with a test flight that saw its "Mission Possible" vehicle power up and fly successfully in orbit before making a controlled reentry into Earth's atmosphere. However, after encountering an "issue," the Exploration Company lost contact with its spacecraft a few minutes before touchdown in the ocean. In an update on LinkedIn Tuesday morning, the company characterized the test flight as a partial success—and a partial failure.

• Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

• Crunch time—we’ll soon find out if Amazon’s launch providers are up to the job: ULA has been waiting on Amazon’s satellites for years, but Amazon will soon be waiting on rockets.

Economicon / Business / Finance

• FICO to incorporate buy-now-pay-later loans into credit scores

• Millions of Résumés Never Make It Past the Bots. Why?

• Novo Nordisk ends compounded semaglutide partnership, Him&Hers stock plummets

• Compass sues Zillow as fight over privately marketed listings heats up

• Fed officials are starting to break rank and join Trump.

  “It is time to consider adjusting the policy rate,” Bowman said. “Should inflation pressures remain contained, I would support lowering the policy rate as soon as our next meeting in order to bring it closer to its neutral setting and to sustain a healthy labor market.” Bowman is the second Fed official to join Trump in calling for lower borrowing costs. On Friday, Fed Governor Christopher Waller said tariffs will likely only result in a “one-off” increase in inflation. Both Bowman and Waller are Trump appointees. Other Fed officials aren’t quite joining Trump in calling for lower rates, but are signaling they’re warming up to the idea of it.

• Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth

• Deloitte's US employees can now buy $1k of Lego on the company's dime

• U.S. stocks near their record as oil prices tumble and stocks rally worldwide

• Amazon aims to reach 'millions' more small town customers

  Amazon announced in April that it’s investing over $4 billion to triple the size of its delivery network by the end of 2026, with a focus on small towns and rural communities. It’s also transforming its rural delivery infrastructure to serve multiple functions, such as preparing packages for final delivery and storing inventory on site to enable faster delivery. The company said the investment will create more than 100,000 new jobs, at delivery stations themselves and through driving opportunities.

• Amazon Tells Employees to Relocate or Resign

  Amazon is giving some employees a choice: relocate or resign. Bloomberg reports that Amazon is ordering thousands of workers on several U.S. teams to move to main hubs in Seattle, Washington; Arlington, Virginia; and Washington, D.C. Amazon has 1.56 million full-time and part-time employees spread across its global business, including 350,000 corporate workers. The effort to get some employees to relocate has been taking place "for more than a year now," as "some teams have been working to bring their teammates closer together to help them be as effective as possible," an Amazon spokesperson told Bloomberg.

• Uranium Miner's Russian Routes Unnerve Potential Bond Investors

• Berkshire Hathaway Now Pays 5% of All Corporate Income Taxes in America

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. House tells staffers not to use Meta's WhatsApp

• The NO FAKES act has changed, and it's worse

• No, the Constitution does the granting, the court just recognizes it: Appeals court grants Donald Trump broad powers to deploy troops to US cities

• Supreme Court Hands Trump Huge Win On Deporting 'Worst Of The Worst' Illegals | ZeroHedge

• Senate referee rules out public land sales in megabill

• Patel, Bongino say prior FBI leaders hid evidence of Chinese interference in 2020 election | Just The News

  “Based on our continued review and production of FBI documents related to the CCP’s plot to interfere in the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, previous FBI leadership chose to play politics and withhold key information from the American people – exposing the weaponization of law enforcement for political purposes during the height of the 2020 election season," Patel and Bongibo said in statement given to Just the News.

Trump

• Donald Trump Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Withdrawn

• Trump Drops F-Bomb on Iran AND Israel for Ignoring Ceasefire

  Trump didn’t hold back. “Israel, as soon as we made the deal, they came out and they dropped a load of bombs, the likes of which I'd never seen before. The biggest load that we've seen. I'm not happy with Israel. You know, when, when I say, 'Okay, now you have 12 hours,' you don't go out in the first hour and just drop everything you have on 'em. So I'm not happy with them. I'm not happy with Iran, either. But I'm really unhappy if Israel's going out this morning because of one rocket that didn't land, that was shot, perhaps by mistake, that didn't land.” Trump summed up his exasperation with a blunt assessment: “You know what we have? We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f—k they're doing. Do you understand that?”

Democrats

• AOC floats impeaching Trump over Iran strike without Congressional approval | Fox News

  "The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers," the four-term congresswoman from New York wrote on social media Saturday night, soon after the president announced the attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. Ocasio-Cortez charged that Trump "has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment."

Left Angst

• U.S. Chemical Safety Board Could be Eliminated

• Stakes could not be higher in this global aid crisis

• Trump Administration to End Protections for 58M Acres of National Forests

• Coalitions with populists fail: Study finds instability due to political style

• Stephen Miller's Sketchy Ties to Palantir Exposed in New Report

  White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller owns a massive stake in Palantir, which stands to make millions off of Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown, according to the Project on Government Oversight. Miller’s public financial disclosure report said that the ghoulish Homeland Security adviser owns between $100,001 and $250,000 in assets at the defense company. Miller reportedly acquired the stock after Trump exited the White House in 2021, but sometime before he enacted his sprawling plan to bolster immigration enforcement. The data had been revised as recently as June 4.

• Toxic Michigan site a "cautionary tale" as environmental funding is under threat

• Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme

• 'Big Balls' No Longer Works for the US Government

• U.S. plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

• Health secretary wants every American to be sporting a wearable within 4 years

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• NATO members agree to increase defense spending to 5%.

World

• Google faces UK clampdown as watchdog floats market power rules

  • Google could be forced to change UK search as watchdog takes steps

  • Google may be forced to make changes to UK online search, says watchdog

  • UK may compel Google to change search rankings, offer alternatives

  • UK may require Google give alternative search options-rank results more fairly

• Apple locked in last-minute App Store negotiations to avoid Brussels fines

• EU plans crackdown on Signal and Telegram

• It's not too late to save Canadian media from big tech

• European bathing water quality in 2024

• Quebec provides universal childcare for less than $7 a day

• The German automotive industry wants to develop open-source software together

• Spain Regulator to Get More Powers to Oversee Electricity System

• Why Paris's Centre Pompidou, not even 50 years old, must close for five years

Iran / Houthi

• Netanyahu decided on Iran war last year, then sought to recruit Trump

• Trump: "THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!"  | ZeroHedge

  Update(0320ET): As the US- and Qatar-brokered ceasefire deadline closed in, Israel and Iran exchanged lethal blows overnight, with Israel hitting various targets in Iran, killing nine people in northern Iran and reportedly assassinating yet another nuclear scientist, while Iran killed at least five Israelis in a devastating hit on an apartment tower.

• Israel says it agreed to bilateral ceasefire with Iran, will 'respond forcefully' to any violation | The Times of Israel

• Trump says both Iran and Israel violated a ceasefire

• Trump Tried to End the War. Iran Would Rather Murder Jews. – PJ Media

• Trump successfully pressures Israel to scale back retaliation strike in Iran

• Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites

• Strike Set Back Iran's Nuclear Program by Only a Few Months, U.S. Report Says

• US strikes did not destroy Iran nuclear facilities: Pentagon assessment

China

• Chinese government promotes 'zero-mileage' used car exports, inflating sales

• It's not just Labubu dolls. Chinese brands are booming

Health / Medicine

• ProPublica's Investigation of the FDA's Gamble on Generic Drugs

• Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work

• Newborns have elevated levels of a biomarker for Alzheimer's

• The United States has lower life expectancy than most similarly wealthy nations

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Microplastics shed by food packaging are contaminating our food, study finds

• Killer whales using tools to exfoliate each other's skin, new study shows

• ESA Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forest

• I've Heard Receipts Are Toxic. Is It Safe to Touch Them?

• India Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Down to the Building Level

• When there was a lot less blacktop around it: Central Park hits temp record last seen in 1888

• How do declining fertility and climate change interact?

  Once the possibility of large-scale net-negative emissions is accounted for, even the sign of the population-temperature link becomes ambiguous. Humans cause greenhouse gas emissions, but human depopulation, starting in a few decades, will not meet today’s climate challenges.

• This month, four Finnish cities are offering six euros per litre for dead Spanish slugs.

• Strong, unexpected link between Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels

• "Summer" is a good name: It's time to name heat waves like we do hurricanes

• Climate expert on tipping points, doomerism and using wealth as a shield