2025-06-26

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• Vehicle fire sinks cargo ship bound for Mexico carrying EVs and hybrids

  • Morning Midas Sinks in Pacific

• Why the Boeing 737 Flies with Its Wheels Exposed

Horseshit

• The Game Theory Hidden in the Mind of Sherlock Holmes

• The discreet charm of the infrastructureless

  • Wherein someone fails to perceive the society providing the miracles they appreciate

• How to Keep Your Home Cool in Extreme Heat

• Hack Turns Nissan Leaf Into Giant RC Car

  By jamming the 2.4 GHz spectrum, the attacker can nudge the driver to open the Bluetooth connection menu on the vehicle to see why their phone isn’t connecting. If this menu is open, pairing can be completed without further user interaction. Once the attacker gains access, they can control many vehicle functions, such as steering, braking, windshield wipers, and mirrors. It also allows remote monitoring of the vehicle through GPS and recording audio in the cabin. The vulnerabilities were all disclosed to Nissan before public release

• Why Detroit's IndyCar Street Course 'Sucks'

• Would you pay $95 for a bottle of water?

  The water sommelier Cameron Smith is going through his list of stills and sparklings. We should start with the Berg, he says. It is what is sometimes called a “fine water” and it is $95 a bottle. We will be sipping the melted remains of a 15,000-year-old iceberg, harvested off Greenland and once part of its ancient glaciers. “It’s very aromatic, for an actual water,” he says. I should be getting snow, he says. “When you swirl this water, it’s very light-bodied. You have a very mysterious, very ancient, earthly kind of quality.”

• 20-Somethings Are Taking Up Grandma's Favorite Hobbies

• A shark scientist reflects on Jaws at 50

• Feral Knowledge: A philosopher of animals gets mauled by a dog

  I wrote a book about dogs as pets. But I truly understood them only after I was bitten by a street dog.

  In the following days, I was much more guarded around the dogs roaming the streets. And they were all around me, every day. The great irony was that I thought of myself as the ultimate dog person – this trip was part of my tour for a book I had just published about dog-owner culture in the United States. I had never been scared of dogs, but I was scared of these. All the feral dogs I passed in Pristina had tagged ears, indicating they had been trapped, vaccinated, sterilised and released; at most, they posed a risk of fleas or mange. But I was too scared to make so much as eye contact with them, worried they could smell my fear and might attack me for it again.

• Why Do So Many Parents Think Kids Need Their Own Bedroom?

• San Francisco's $200 DIY apartments built inside beer vats

• Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say

  • No one foresaw the terrible potential; but it turned out to be a bigger buzz than cocaine. humanity was ruined in a decade.

• The blood-curdling Permian monsters that ruled the Earth before dinosaurs

  • It was an autonomous collective!

• We Should Be Taking a Minimum of Two Showers a Day in the Summer

• I Tried, and Failed, to Disappear from the Internet

celebrity gossip

• Arnold Schwarzenegger Says 'Twins' Payday Is Biggest of His Career

• Popular Fox Rescuer Commits Suicide After Degenerate Redditors Launch Character Assassination Campaign | ZeroHedge

• It took 45 years, but spreadsheet legend Mitch Kapor finally got his MIT degree

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• Pro-Indy accounts go dark after Israeli strikes

  On 12 June 2025, dozens of anonymous X (formerly Twitter) accounts advocating Scottish independence abruptly went silent. Many had posted hundreds of times per week, often using pro-independence slogans, anti-UK messaging, and identity cues like “NHS nurse” or “Glaswegian socialist.” Their sudden disappearance coincided with a major Israeli airstrike campaign against Iranian military and cyber infrastructure. Within days, Iran had suffered severe power outages, fuel shortages, and an internet blackout affecting 95 percent of national connectivity. What appeared at first glance to be a curious coincidence has since emerged as the most visible rupture to date in a long-running foreign influence operation.

• (Video) too many people instinctively write off ideas and arguments solely based on their source

Musk

• The 4chan-Coded Ideology Behind Elon Musk's War on Normies

• Musk's 'robotaxis' draw regulatory scrutiny already

• Tesla sedan hit by train after autonomous driving error

• Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo

• Tesla invited influencers to test its robotaxi. Here's what they had to say

• Tesla sedan hit by train after self-driving error in Berks County, stops train

Electric / Self Driving cars

• The Waymo and Tesla competition just reached a crossroads

• Residents say Waymo robotaxis are driving them mad

Religion / Tribal / Culture War and Re-Segregation

• San Francisco bookstore to stop carrying ‘Harry Potter’ series

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Columbia University Is Still Discriminating

  The same hacker responsible for leaking all of the data from New York University’s (NYU’s) admissions department in late March of this year has done it again. This time, they’ve leaked all the data for Columbia. This article will provide a broad overview of what that data shows, and what this means about Columbia’s compliance with the Supreme Court’s ruling in SFFA v. Harvard. Here’s a summary in four words: they did not comply.

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• GitHub now provides a warning about hidden Unicode text

• Microsoft is offering free updates for Windows 10 until 2026

• Apple Appeals in Epic Case

• iPhone Users Upset About Apple Promoting F1 Movie with Wallet App Notification

• Apple Hit with Class Action Lawsuit over iCloud Backups

• Few Americans pay for news when they encounter paywalls

  • Its all paid propaganda anyway; they're trying to chisel a bit more from the reader with the paywalls, after having been paid by their sponsors / editorial entities already.

• Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated

• Google Cache Is Gone, I Like This Way Better: How to View Archived Websites

• HDMI 2.2 will support 16K video at 60Hz

• Maxar launches intelligence service focused on 'persistent monitoring'

• Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• Defending Democracies With Rust

  I think you'll enjoy hearing his perspectives on Rust's suitability for the defense space, the reasons for working in defense, and more. I certainly did! To see jobs available at this and other cool rust companies...

  • The Rust advocates were "peace at any price" people a few years ago

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

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

  • Judge backs AI firm over use of copyrighted books

  • Bartz vs. Anthropic PBC: "Training Use Is Fair Use"

  • Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI

  • Anthropic Lands Victory in AI Case on Fair Use

  • Key fair use ruling clarifies when books can be used for AI training

• Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models

• Meta wins artificial intelligence copyright case in blow to authors

• Why Does Every Commercial for A.I. Think You're a Moron?

• AI 'Upgrades' Would Ruin Kung Fu Classics

• Anthropic: All major AI models will blackmail if pushed enough. Just like people

• Can AI Be a "Worthy Successor" to Humanity?

• Sam Altman takes his 'io' trademark battle public

• That Chatbot May Just Be Telling You What You Want to Hear

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Two big Asian reuse milestones, Vandenberg becomes SpaceX west

• Four astronauts launch to the ISS as NASA grapples with leak issues

  • Four Astronauts Lift Off on Axiom Mission to the ISS

• Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space

• The cryptoterrestrial hypothesis: a covert earthly explanation for UAP

• James Webb Telescope images smallest exoplanet size of Saturn at 110 lightyears

Crypto con games

• Fannie Mae Freddie Mac ordered to consider crypto an asset when buying mortgages

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Worldline Shares Halted After Report of Customer Fraud Cover-Up

• NTSB faults Boeing for lack of safety protocols in 737 MAX door plug blowout

• Employers Are Buried in A.I.-Generated Résumés

• Former CEO sentenced to prison in first-ever prosecution for stock trading plans

  Former Ontrak CEO Terren Scott Peizer has been sentenced to 42 months of prison time in a first-ever prosecution based exclusively on Rule 10b5-1 trading plans, authorities announced on Monday.

• Microsoft planning 'major' Xbox layoffs next week

• Second study finds Uber used opaque algorithm to dramatically boost profits

• Intel lays off engineers in California

  • Intel announces layoffs of engineers in chip design and automotive division

• Remote Work Is Reshaping Rural Vermont

• Shell in Early Talks to Acquire Rival BP

• Duolingo stock drops as data shows weakening growth

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Andrew Cuomo Says Zohran Mamdani "Won" NYC Democratic Primary

  • Zohran Mamdani stuns Andrew Cuomo in NYC mayor primary

  A young left-wing candidate, Zohran Mamdani, is poised to become the Democratic nominee for New York mayor after delivering a stunning political upset. The 33-year-old socialist declared victory in the city's Democratic primary on Tuesday, defeating his main rival and political veteran Andrew Cuomo who previously served as state governor. "Tonight we made history," Mamdani said in his victory speech. If elected, he would be the first Muslim and Indian American to lead the nation's largest city.

  • NYC Trades Prosperity for Socialism.

  • New York mayoral primary results: Cuomo concedes to Zohran Mamdani

  • Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won

  • Democratic Leaders Tried to Crush Zohran Mamdani, Should Have Been Taking Notes

• NSF getting kicked out of headquarters by HUD

• Capitol Police arrest people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts

Trump

• Experts Warn Betting Company with Trump Family Ties Could Pose ‘Economic National Security Risk’

  Last week, Brian Quintenz, a board member of Kalshi, Inc., faced the U.S. Senate in a confirmation hearing for the role of commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). He was nominated to the position by Trump in February, just a month after Donald Trump Jr. was announced as an advisor to Kalshi. Now, economists, attorneys, and both advocates and opponents of predatory gambling are sounding the alarm over Kalshi’s potential to radically destabilize the U.S. economy if one of its board members is placed on the commission that’s supposed to regulate the betting company. “‘Kalshi’ in Arabic means ‘everything,’ and this is a company whose goal is to grab everything. And the best way they think of doing that is through legalized gambling,” John Kindt, professor of Business and Legal Policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told The Washington Stand. “They found a brilliant way to put 24/7 gambling of all types everywhere on everybody’s cell phone and computer — and that brilliant way is to call themselves ‘events contracts,’ and this makes them part of what are called the predictions markets,” Kindt further explained.

Democrats

• Pelosi raked in millions last year — and her portfolio out-performed every large hedge fund with stunning returns.

• Bernie Sanders: If AI makes us so productive, we should get a 4-day work week

• Hunter Biden sued for over $50K in unpaid legal bills, including his Delaware gun case

Left Angst

• Fake News Fail: CNN Exposed for Bad Iran Strike Reporting | by Ward Clark – RedState

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

• How the Supreme Court paved the way for ICE's lawlessness

• Fact Check: FALSE Mads Mikkelsen was not denied entry for any memes or political reasons, it was for his admitted drug use.

• US Administration knocking down data privacy barriers for personal data

• RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years

• Trump admin cuts contracts with scientific publishing giant

  The Trump administration has terminated millions worth of funding for Springer Nature, a German-owned scientific publishing giant that has long received payments for subscriptions from National Institutes of Health and other agencies, Axios has learned. President Trump and MAGA have made a push to target academic institutions as well as research organizations perceived to be the source of so-called "woke" ideology, including DEI and gender-affirming care policies, by withholding federal funding and in some cases initiating legal action. Earlier this year, the Justice Department sent a letter to a Springer publication questioning its editorial practices and accusing the publishing house of acting as a partisan in scientific debates, as well as wrongfully advocating for positions, according to a source with knowledge of the matter.

• The Trump Phone no longer promises it's made in America

  • After a week, Trump Mobile drops claim that Trump phone is "made in the USA"

• ICE Has No Right to Anonymity

  • Then the FBI will be happy to tell us who in the crowd on Jan 6 2021 was in their employ, as well?

• Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell

• The Waste Musk Created

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Three Years Later, We Still Don’t Know Who Leaked The Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision.

• Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans

• America's Prison Population Is in Serious Decline

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Can NATO Keep It Together?

• For B-2 Pilots, a 37-Hour Nonstop Mission to Iran and Back

World

• Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Sudan Coup

• Bosch CEO warns Europe against regulating 'itself to death' on AI

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

  • UK may require Google to provide search choice and change ranking

• UK to expand nuclear deterrent with US fighter jets capable of carrying warheads

• Hackers breach Norwegian dam, open valve at full capacity

• Brit politicians question Fujitsu's continued role in public sector contracts

• UK gov website campaigning against encryption hijacked to advertise payday loans

• India forcibly sterilised 8M men: One village remembers, 50 years later

• Patient's death linked to cyber attack on NHS, hospital trust says

Iran / Houthi

• Bunker Busters probably failed to penetrate Iranian concrete

• Iranian-backed hackers go to work after US strikes

  Hackers backing Tehran have targeted U.S. banks, defense contractors and oil industry companies following American strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities — but so far have not caused widespread disruptions to critical infrastructure or the economy. But that could change if the ceasefire between Iran and Israel collapses or if independent hacking groups supporting Iran make good on promises to wage their own digital conflict against the U.S., analysts and cyber experts say. The U.S. strikes could even prompt Iran, Russia, China and North Korea to double down on investments in cyberwarfare, according to Arnie Bellini, a tech entrepreneur and investor. Two pro-Palestinian hacking groups claimed they targeted more than a dozen aviation firms, banks and oil companies following the U.S. strikes over the weekend. The hackers detailed their work in a post on the Telegram messaging service and urged other hackers to follow their lead, according to researchers at the SITE Intelligence Group, which tracks the groups’ activity.

• Satellite Images Suggest US Avoided Iran's Nuclear Reactors

• Nuclear policy specialist Dave Albright on monitoring Iran's nuclear site damage

• Iran is Losing the Fight to Turn Off Starlink Satellites

Israel

• Weaponisation of food in Gaza constitutes war crime, UN rights office says.

  The U.N. human rights office said on Tuesday that the "weaponisation" of food for civilians in Gaza constitutes a war crime, in its strongest remarks yet on a new model of aid distribution run by an Israeli-backed organisation. Over 410 people have been killed by gunshots or shells fired by the Israeli military while trying to reach distribution sites of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation since it began work in late May, U.N. human rights spokesperson Thameen Al-Kheetan told reporters at a Geneva press briefing.

  • This is Hamas shooting its "citizens" because they attempt to receive food from non-Hamas distribution centers. Apparently no one is supposed to subvert the slave masters.

• "According to Gaza’s Health Ministry." Gaza death toll exceeds 56,000 as Israeli assault persists

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Drone debris found in Ukraine indicates Russia is using new technology from Iran

• Questions about Russia's influence in the Middle East

China

• Xi Jinping's plan to overtake America in AI

• DeepSeek aids China's military and evaded export controls, US official says

• China breaks RSA encryption with a quantum computer

• Beijing turns to cautious diplomacy

• China Strikes Hard: Chinese Satellite Pulverizes Starlink speeds with a 2-Watt Laser

• China unveils tiny terrifying mosquito-sized drone to be used for spying

• China Is Tracking Down Its Rare-Earth Experts–and Taking Away Passports

Health / Medicine

• Contact lenses used to slow nearsightedness in youth have a lasting effect

• Autoimmune disease may almost double risk of mental ill health, study suggests

• RNA has a new role: Repairing serious DNA damage to maintain the genome

• Disposable E-Cigarettes More Toxic Than Traditional Cigarettes

• Obesity drugs show promise for treating a new ailment: migraine

• Heart attacks are no longer the leading cause of death in the US | New Scientist

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Manatees as Gardeners of the Amazon

• 'Yuck factor': eating insects rather than meat to help the planet is failing

• What is a heat dome? It's like 'a lid on a pot'

• Ancient Africa's Climate Was Unexpectedly Rainy, Muddying Story of Early Humans

• A California dairy tried to capture its methane, and it worked

• 'It's cheap but it's not disposable': why fast tech is a growing waste problem

• Paint 'sweats' to keep your house cool

• Tomatoes in the Galápagos are quietly de-evolving

• Do We Need Another Green Revolution?

• "Nobody Expected This": Earth's Rotation Will Speed Up in July and August

• Global climate was more dynamic and extreme than researchers had imagined