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• United flight collides with truck and light pole as it lands at Newark airport

  • United flight strikes truck on New Jersey Turnpike before landing at Newark

  An investigation is underway after a United Airlines plane struck a light pole and a truck on the New Jersey Turnpike as it was coming in for a landing at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday afternoon, officials said.

  "Upon its final approach into Newark International Airport, United flight 169 came into contact with a light pole. The aircraft landed safely, taxied to the gate normally and no passengers or crew were injured. Our maintenance team is evaluating damage to the aircraft and we will investigate how this occurred," the airline said, in part, in a statement. The Port Authority said the plane was on its way to Runway 29 when it hit the pole, causing damage to the pole and the tractor-trailer traveling south on the turnpike.

  • United flight strikes light pole, damages truck while landing in Newark

Horseshit

• (Video) Golden Tempo was literally dead last in the final turn and then outkicked everyone to win the Kentucky Derby

  • Golden Tempo wins 152nd Kentucky Derby, making history for its trainer Cherie DeVaux

  • What happened to every horse in the 2026 Kentucky Derby field

• Over 8M Thermos jars and bottles recalled after 3 people lost vision

  According to an April 30 recall notice from the company and posted on the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission website, "If perishable food or beverages are stored in the container for an extended period of time, the stopper can forcefully eject when opened, which can result in serious impact injury and laceration hazards to the consumer." The malfunction is due to multiple models of containers missing a pressure relief function in the center of the stopper. The recall includes roughly 5.8 million Stainless King Food Jars and 2.3 million Sportsman Food & Beverage Bottles.

• The Rise of Emotional Surveillance

• The 2026 World Cup scam economy is already running before the first whistle

• Poverty on the rise as RI families struggle to meet basic living expenses

• Newton's law of gravity passes its biggest test

• Some children are drawing on fake moustaches to bypass online age checks

• Formula 1 plans to return to V8 engines by 2030

• Young Men Are Going to Extremes to Feel Like They Measure Up

• Were Neanderthals Able to Hunt Elephants? The Proof Is in an Ancient Bone

• Americans Will Do Anything to Get Indian Mangoes

• Longevity Science Is Overhyped. But This Research Could Change Humanity

• Toyota built a $10B private utopia–what's going on in there?

celebrity gossip

• Rudy Giuliani hospitalized in critical but stable condition

  • Rudy Giuliani Hospitalized in Florida in ‘Critical Condition’ - The New York Times

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The SPLC is going down

  Over the past few decades the SPLC leveraged itself into a unique position in the financial services area by providing a trusted list of extremist organizations. It has in fact got into a position where it and the US Treasury’s OFAC are used in similar ways by financial institutions in making decisions about accepting new customers, transferring money and so on. That is not in itself evil, not even when it also denigrates financial services organizations that do not use it as a screening element, but it sets the stage.

  • The Southern Poverty Law Center Indictment

  Trump won. Many people will say the indictment is the result. That may well be true but that doesn’t make the indictment legally weak.

• Study shows how Nazi-era propaganda influences present-day attitudes

• 'Staggering' number of people believe unproven health claims

Musk

• Tesla is facing up to $14.5B in lawsuits and it's only getting worse

• Leaked documents reveal that the EU wants to force a merger of Bluesky and Twitter.

• Is SpaceX Coming to Acadiana?

  Over the last few weeks I’ve fielded dozens of phone calls from clients, friends, and fellow sportsmen asking the same question: did SpaceX really buy 136,000 acres in Pecan Island and Freshwater City? I’ve called everyone I could think of who might know — government officials, longtime Pecan Island locals, energy insiders, hunting-lease holders. No one is denying it. A few are quietly confirming it. But not a single official document has surfaced.

• All German left of center parties are leaving X

• OpenAI's Brockman to Testify After Musk's Text About Settlement

  • Musk texted OpenAI's Brockman about settlement two days before trial began

  • Musk wanted to settle with OpenAI just days before their courtroom showdown

• What's Next in the Elon Musk Megatrial Against OpenAI and Sam Altman

Electric / Self Driving cars

• Alaska House advances bill regulating autonomous vehicles

Robot uprising / Humanioid Helpers

• The creator of Roomba is back with a furry robot companion

  • The Roomba Guy's Second Act: A Robot You'll Want to Snuggle

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• Hiring Hot Spots Where College Grads Are Landing Good Jobs

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop

  Apple has apparently stopped work on the Vision Pro and the Vision Pro team has been redistributed to other teams within Apple.

• Ask.com, home of search butler Jeeves closes as conversational search comes back

• Allegedly Nintendo Stopped Selling to Amazon After Being Asked to Break the Law

  “Amazon was looking to get bigger into the video game space,” said Fils-Aimé. “Amazon’s mentality back then is they wanted to have the lowest price out in the marketplace, even lower than Walmart… Essentially what Amazon wanted (was an) obscene amount of support, financial support, so they could have the lowest price and beat Walmart. I literally said to the executive, “You know that’s illegal, right? I can’t do that.””

• Microsoft now recommends 32GB of RAM as a practical minimum for running games.

• Micron's CEO says that the memory situation is going to improve.

• Roblox Loses 12M Daily Users After Age ID Check Rollout

• Meta Solved Problem with Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers

• New Mexico seeks restrictions on Meta apps and algorithms in trial's 2nd phase

  • Meta's historic loss in court could cost more than $375M

• Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

• 'Kitten Space Agency' Is the Spiritual Successor to 'Kerbal Space Program'

• Google is discontinuing its free web search index for developers

• The Steam Controller sold out in 30 minutes

• Highlander returns to theaters in glorious 4K, for 40th anniversary.

TechSuck / Geek Bait

• The shape of a guitar pick

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The A.I. Industry Is Booming. When Will It Make Money?

• Why do so many people use AI to cheat at fun?

• Chinese hospitals are selling de-identified patient data to fuel the AI boom

• The AI Revolution Hollywood Feared Is Happening – In India

• Ex-DeepMind David Silver Raises $1.1B for AI Startup Ineffable

• ChatGPT Wrestles with Its Most Chilling Conversation: How Do I Plan an Attack?

• Five Eyes spook shops warn rapid rollouts of agentic AI are too risky

• A.I.-Themed High School Is Put on Hold After Parental Backlash

• Rural America is resisting the surge in data center construction

• The Surprising Heart of the Data-Center Boom

• Anthropic Unveils $1.5B Joint Venture with Wall Street Firms

• OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools

• OpenAI Finalizes $10B Joint Venture with PE Firms to Deploy AI

• Can an A.I. Company Ever Be Good?

• I Let AI Look at My Breasts–and I'm Glad I Did

• White House Considers Vetting A.I. Models Before They Are Released

• The AI rush is hitting a bottleneck

• Sam Altman is "the face of evil" for not reporting school shooter, says lawyer

• 'Nature' Retracts Paper on the Benefits of ChatGPT in Education

• Peter Thiel backs $1B ocean data centre startup powered by waves

• The A.I. Industry Is Booming. When Will It Make Money?

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• The wild life and brutal death of a crypto hustler

• Why Almost Everyone Loses on Prediction Markets

• Warren Buffett Warns That Prediction Markets Are 'Gambling,' Not Investing

Economicon / Business / Finance

• GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 per Share

  • GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay

  • GameStop's CEO gave the most awkward interview about how it would pay for eBay

• Spirit Airlines shuts down; says it can't keep up with higher oil prices

• Amazon takes $45M hit, abandons planned West Auckland data centre

• Amazon opens up its logistics network to other businesses

  • Amazon Supply Chain Services: Amazon's logistics network open to every business

• SoftBank plans to list new AI and robotics company in the US

• Heat pump sales jump as consumers recoil at high fossil fuel prices

• Banks seek to offload risk to avoid 'choking' on data centre debt

• McDonald's is quietly ending the era of self-serve soda fountains nationwide

• US economy expected to grow above 2% despite recent shocks

• Entrepreneurs Flocked to Colorado. Now Red Tape Is Driving Some Away

• Big Tech cut 80k jobs, blamed AI; experts say firms are overstaffed 25%-75%

• 'Everyone's a Line on a Spreadsheet:' Inside Oracle's Mass Layoffs

• Jensen says Nvidia now has '0%' share in China, US export policy 'has backfired'

• AI Worries Have Returned to Wall Street. Now Come Earnings

• You're Not Imagining It: Cookie-Cutter Offices Are Making You Less Productive

• Trillions in Retirement Dollars Flow into Opaque Trusts

• Retail Investors Keep Getting Burned in the Stock Market.They're Piling in Again

• Cayman reinsurance growth raises oversight concerns

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Reclassification of marijuana opens doors for much‑needed medical research into the benefits and risks of the drug.

Democrats

• Mayor Mamdani's new scam: Charge NYC taxpayers to hire his rent-a-mobs

  New Yorkers, you’ve been slacking — so the mayor wants to organize you. Mayor Zohran Mamdani isn’t happy that only 400 people showed up to last year’s Rent Guidelines Board hearings. In response, last Wednesday, he launched Organize NYC, a supposed volunteer effort to have New Yorkers participate in local government. Taken straight from the Democratic Socialists of America’s community-organizing playbook, Mamdani is calling it “a long-term initiative to bring mass public participation into the work of governing.”

Left Angst

• California braces for uncertainty as last tanker of Persian Gulf Oil arrives

  • Doomsday for California as last barrel of oil from the Middle East arrives in Long Beach.

• Trump administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms

• Abortion pill ruling could limit access nationwide, including California

  • US Supreme Court temporarily restores access to mail-order abortion pills

• Midterms' new big players pushing agendas that voters don't support

  New results from The POLITICO Poll find broad public skepticism about crypto and AI, creating a possible conflict for candidates benefitting from an influx of contributions from the two industries. These groups are pouring millions of dollars into competitive 2026 races to elevate politicians who they believe will support their agendas in Washington.

• US healthcare marketplaces shared citizenship and race data with ad tech giants

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Patel says FBI has cut bureaucracy, moved 1,000 agents to field offices in ‘generational’ overhaul.

• Major Arson Suspect Obsessed Over Luigi Mangione And Wanted To Kill The Rich, Prosecutors Say

  Federal prosecutors said in a trial memorandum that 30-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht demonstrated an obsession with Mangione in the days before he started the Lachman and Palisades Fires on January 1, 2025. Mangione has developed a cult following among the Left after he was arrested for gunning down Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

• 1 hurt in shooting near National Mall involving Secret Service

  One person was shot by an officer Monday afternoon at 15th Street NW and Independence Avenue, the Secret Service said. A second person suffered a graze wound to his lower body. That person was described by law enforcement sources as an unintended target. He walked over to an ambulance, where he was being treated by paramedics as of about 4:30 p.m. The circumstances surrounding the shooting are not yet known. It's unclear at this point if any shots were fired by anyone other than police. Witnesses reported hearing at least five gunshots. The scene is close to the Washington Monument.

  "U.S. Secret Service personnel are on the scene of an officer-involved shooting at 15th Street and Independence Avenue in Washington, D.C. One individual was shot by law enforcement; their condition is currently unknown. Please avoid the area as emergency crews are responding,” the Secret Service said in a statement about 4:10 p.m. Other law enforcement officers said that person was taken to a hospital in stable condition.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US

World

• Amsterdam bans public adverts for meat and fossil fuels

• What Happens When Europeans Find Out How Poor They Are?

• Guilty until proven innocent: shoppers falsely identified by facial recognition system struggle to clear their names

• Samsung family pays off record $8B inheritance tax bill

• Denmark faces data center reckoning as power grid overwhelmed

• Tokyo considering more trash cans following litter increase in touristed area

• Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster

  Both Elections Alberta and the RCMP have launched separate investigations to determine how the private information of millions of citizens from Alberta’s official List of Electors ended up posted online by a separatist group called the Centurion Project. It allegedly accessed the database provided to the Republican Party of Alberta. “For organized crime, that kind of information is gold,” said Neil LeMay, a former RCMP major crimes investigator who now runs a private investigation and security consulting company. “Our data is in the wind, and that is a terrifying prospect,” said Patrick Lennox, former manager of criminal intelligence for the RCMP’s federal policing programs in Alberta. Lennox said Russia, China and even the United States may have already scooped up the information. “I think any authoritarian regime that is looking to undermine liberal democracies would be very interested in this type of data, because it enables them to communicate directly with citizens in a province that is about to have a separatist referendum,” he said.

  • In America, this is public information, available at request.

  • Canadian election databases use "canary traps"–and they work

• Germany's far-left war on infrastructure

• African economies are more resilient than ever

• Austria expels three Russian embassy staff after 'forest of antennae' discovered

Iran / Houthi

• Trump: U.S. Navy will "guide" ships out of Strait of Hormuz from Monday

• Iran is "contemplating suicide dolphins"

• UAE says it's under attack from Iranian missiles and drones despite ceasefire

  • Iran Attacks UAE

• Trump's threats are giving Iran a reason for wanting a nuclear weapon

Israel

• Israel national security minister served gold death penalty noose birthday cake

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• How Russia Is Luring Africans to Ukraine

China

• Pilots Shut Off Both Engines Before China Eastern 737 Crash

  • Flight data bolsters claim China Eastern plane was deliberately crashed in 2022

  • Beijing 'covered up passenger plane suicide crash that killed all 132 on board'

• China's Rare Defiance of US Sanctions Sparks Showdown over Banks

Health / Medicine

• The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Reveal.

• Coffee appears to rewire the gut-brain connection

• FDA Announces Major Steps to Implement Real-Time Clinical Trials

• 'Longevity drug' rapamycin may have a surprising impact on exercise

• What Addiction Does to the Brain

• Sperm production from testicular tissue frozen as a child in breakthrough trial

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

• Apparent hantavirus outbreak kills 3 on cruise ship, sickens at least 3 more

  • Evacuations planned as suspected hantavirus outbreak traps 150 on cruise ship

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• More than double the gas stuck in Hormuz is wasted each year, IEA says

• New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

• The 'Gates to Hell' Are Dimming. That May Not Be a Good Thing

• How Everest has changed since Into Thin Air

• Hunters who believe shooting big game can save Africa's wildlife