2026-06-10
Worthy
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The keyword in politics these days is ‘sovereign’. What few will admit is that it is effectively the adoption of the American strategy: Make America Great Again.
In a country like Canada, the population has not yet caught up. They blame the orange man for whatever trouble they see. And the politicians promise to do what they must: shower money to build tech sovereignty. It won’t work. They will try again. It won’t work again. The cycle makes things worse because it sustains a managerial class that is great at politics but terrible at building. Meanwhile, you can’t escape preference falsification. People will use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini. And if Elon produces robots, they’ll want them. Trump will leave office in two years… Canada and the UK will still be flat-lined economically. The USA will still surge ahead. Countries like Canada and the UK will have to realize that it is industry and know-how first. Build stuff and the wealth will follow. Stop the virtue signaling. Stop the credentialism. Build.
Horseshit
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They Have yet to Sign a Lease. But They're Furious over $3,100 Rents
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The hottest job this summer is European ambassador for ranch dressing
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Ötzi the Iceman is long dead, but some of his ancient microbes are still alive
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Hurdles to a hobby: climate change and runfluencer culture impact our daily jog
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F1 under increasing pressure to make more changes to engine rules
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Loose American flag knocks out power to thousands in Stamford, Greenwich CT
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Selling out no longer carries a stigma—if anything, fans are excited for tie-ins between their favorite bands and their favorite brands, no matter how shameless. The Chromatica Oreos reportedly flew off the shelves, earning a thumbs-up even from the Washington Post’s food critic. Some people complained about the texture and the color, or how it was simply a re-release of the much-hated “golden” Oreo, but they did not complain that it is cringe, perhaps even depraved, for a musician to collaborate with an international food conglomerate to stick her name on a million mass-produced sandwich cookies.
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What studying animals teaches us about toxic work environments
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Dino-killing asteroid may have sparked millions of years of hydrothermal life
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Stadium workers have a tentative deal, averting strike ahead of World Cup
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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$14/mo! Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism
the account owner, according to a CBC visual investigation, was posing as a Canadian and is actually a noodle merchant and content creator from Indonesia, who in some cases was just stealing content from real Albertans. When contacted by CBC, one Albertan whose content was stolen said they felt "absolutely violated." Nieta Aqila even posted about income she generates from Meta's monetization program, which rewards creators for engagement and solicits subscribers on her personal page. Nieta Aqila is among 14 overseas accounts CBC identified in four popular Alberta independence Facebook groups. The accounts have posted politically divisive content about Alberta separatism, Western annexation and other hot-button Canadian topics within the past two months.
- who is paying the CBC to "promote Alberta's continued occupation"?
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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I Saw the Future of Windows at Microsoft Build, and It's Unrecognizable
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Industrial 3-D Printers Are Getting Cheaper
- Despite years of patent squatting the consumer printers make theirs look antique and incapable. It's difficult to profiteer when the Chinese don't allow the use of IP law to prevent innovation.
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US publishers tell Common Crawl to stop scraping and delete archive
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FCC Wants to Kill Burner Phones by Forcing Telecoms to Get All Customers' IDs
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One day after discovery, Meta pulls facial recognition code from smart glasses
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Apple says it may remove some apps from the Store if they don't attract users
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Meta will use your activity on other websites to personalize your feeds
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Smart Glasses Would Legally Require a Recording Light Under Proposed Law
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Worst People Imaginable Freak Out over Racist Plantation Game
On May 12, a developer going by FzzyBzzy released the wildly racist slavery simulation game Plantation Simulator onto Steam. Ten days later, Valve is still radio silent on this game, despite the fact that it pretty clearly violates multiple Steam content guidelines. Meanwhile, the game itself has taken an unexpected turn after its creator updated it, seemingly to troll all the gleefully racist people who bought it. Plantation Simulator was, I am sorry to tell you, exactly what it sounded like when it launched. It’s a top-down sim game in which you play as a Southern plantation owner forcing a number of Black slaves to grow crops under threat of being beaten. That’s it. That was the game. For context, the game’s concurrent player peak was 109 individuals last night.
Posted later in the day yesterday, the 1.2 update changed the Black slave characters in the game to white people. A further update not long after changed the whipping animation to a string of hearts, put bikinis on the slave characters, and updated the mature content description to, “In this game, your friends wear bikinis and you can give them little kissies.”
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Path of Exile 2 player willingly deletes character to become world first martyr
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CBS News boss Bari Weiss poised to oversee CNN editorial operations: report
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Microsoft patches 0-day disclosed by researcher it feuded with
TechSuck / Geek Bait
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Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
If you do decide to have a go for yourself, you'll need to find stable Internet hosting (your own home network isn't the best choice, for reasons we'll see later in this post), and also build up a reputation.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
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Questions Remain About Tense Moment Aboard ISS
we might not hear the full story for some time, but it sure does sound like not only did the Russians want to do something that NASA didn’t think was safe, but that the whole thing was sprung on them at the last moment. To give you an idea of how serious Mission Control was taking the situation, they decided to cram five people into a Dragon capsule that only has four seats — it certainly would have made for one wild ride down to Earth if they were given the order to evacuate.
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models
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Apple Intelligence Can Change Your Passwords for You When You Get Hacked
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Siri AI for iPhones and iPads will be delayed indefinitely in the EU
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Apple Investors Give Lukewarm Reaction to New Siri, AI Platform
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Apple failed to make its AI tool to comply to EU regulations, EU Commission says
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EU Says Decision Not to Launch Siri AI in Europe Is Apple's Alone
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Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption
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Apple says its AI is still private, even when it's running on Google's servers
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Apple's New AI Models Contain 'None' of Google's Gemini Assistant
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$250M iPhone Settlement Proposed in Apple Lawsuit over Misrepresented AI
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Perplexity plans IPO in 2028 regardless of what happens to Anthropic or OpenAI
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Wall Street Is Rushing to Fund the AI Bonanza in Every Conceivable Way
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Uncle Sam considers buying a seat on the Titanic
The US government is reportedly weighing whether to take a financial stake in AI companies, which looks a bit like negotiating for a seat on the Titanic. Neither OpenAI nor Anthropic, the marquee brands in US AI, are profitable yet. While Anthropic may be nearer to that point if its accounting survives scrutiny, OpenAI's $1.4 trillion in financial commitments over the next eight years have been interpreted as a red flag for investors. This raises (at least) two questions: Should the US government be picking winners? And should the US government be picking losers?
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Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
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'Picks and shovels' companies profit from data centre scramble
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Nvidia's AI PC push banks on unproven demand beyond niche users
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Jensen Huang declines Sen. Warren's request to testify at AI hearing
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AI cracked an Erdős math problem. Now experts want guardrails
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Amazon employees ask Seattle to put the brakes on new data centers
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Microsoft AI chief on why it's 'dangerous' to call AI 'alive'
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Working-class areas resist data centers 5x more than wealthy ones
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Judge Learns Both Sides Used AI, Cancels Trial, Kicks Everyone Off the Case
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CEOs Who Think AI Replaces Their Employees Are Just Bad CEOs
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Anthropic says the world should have option to 'pause' on AI
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UN issues AI warning after new data reveals major impact on the planet
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Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
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Social Security funds could run short by 2032, program's Trustees warn
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More than 10,000 applicants vie for 15 affordable apartments in Seattle.
More than 10,000 applicants are vying for 15 rent-reduced apartments under a new Seattle affordable housing program funded by a city tax on workers who make more than $1 million a year.
Left Angst
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Kalshi and Polymarket crack down on paid influencers claiming election fraud
As vote tallies in the Los Angeles mayoral election trickled in slowly over the last week, unsubstantiated claims exploded on X that a fraudulent plot was underway to deprive the MAGA-backed former reality TV star Spencer Pratt the second-place slot to advance to the November runoff against incumbent Democrat Karen Bass. A portion of these unfounded conspiracy theories pointed to changing betting odds for the three top candidates on prediction market sites Kalshi and Polymarket to suggest something sinister is afoot with the vote count. Some influencers supercharging such fraud claims online did so in posts sponsored by the companies themselves.
In recent days, Kalshi and Polymarket have attempted to rein in some of their paid influencers. After NPR asked Kalshi about several partnership posts on Friday, the company said it told the influencers to take the posts down. Some of the posts, including Freeman's post questioning "CA cheating," have been deleted. On Monday, Polymarket told NPR it, too, is pulling back its sponsorship of some creators who were spreading election falsehoods. Joy's post is still live on X with the "paid partnership" tag, but the tag has been removed from posts by two other influencers paid by Polymarket.
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Politico’s Climate News Site Shutters A Year After Gov’t Turned Off Taxpayer Spigot
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Trump Expands Glyphosate, and Now the MAHA Moms Who Elected Him Are Done
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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Pentagon restores Alibaba, Baidu and BYD to Chinese military groups blacklist
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Somali referee Artan barred from entering US
No reason for Artan's repatriation has been issued by US immigration authorities, but Somalia is one of several countries on a travel ban list introduced by President Donald Trump's administration.
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Pentagon Says Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and Unitree Support China's Military
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Why Does It Take Years to Get a Patriot Missile from Factory to Front Line?
World
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France Slaps Nintendo with $46M Fine over Switch Joy-Con Drift
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Why cheap online shopping is about to change for Irish consumers
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Apple updates child safety inspired by Australia's under-16 ban
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Top health official had close ties with Palantir partner at time of NHS contract
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Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
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Alberta pitches cheap NatGas for data center boom, at odds with CA's green aims
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Palantir to sue Sadiq Khan over blocked £50M Met police contract
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New plans to stop children taking, sharing or viewing nude images
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I gave birth in South Korea and I'm lowkey traumatized
Korea is VERY c-section happy. The global rate for c-sections is about 15% and the c-section rate in Korea is almost 70%, many of those being elective c-sections. Korea has one of the lowest birth rates in the world. This is due in part to the way Korean men have historically treated Korean women (look into the 4B movement if you want to learn more). In response to this low birthrate and resistance to having children, South Korea has tried to make pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum as easy on the Korean woman as possible. Many believe that a c-section is easier on the mother than labor. To ensure the birth rate rises, they are quick to suggest a c-section if there are any perceived complications. Additionally, many Korean women report preferring a c-section because they don’t want to experience the pain of childbirth, they would rather recover from the c-section surgery. (There are a myriad of reasons the c-section rate is nearly 70%, these are just a couple I’ve seen arguments for.)
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Belfast Horror: African Migrant Tries To SAW OFF Victim’s Head In Street Attack
Horrifcic footage shows the attacker straddling the victim and repeatedly stabbing his head before sawing at his neck in a clear attempt to behead him. Bystanders screamed in horror as the attack unfolded. However, police have described it as nothing more than a “stabbing incident” involving “a man.” The assault happened shortly after 10:30pm on Monday on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast. the attacker hacked at his victim’s head and neck with a small box cutter style Stanley knife. Locals rushed in to drag the assailant off, batting him with blunt objects before police finally arrived. The victim is understood to be alive in hospital at the time of writing but has sustained life-altering injuries. Speculation online points to the possibility he has lost both eyes after the frenzied assault.
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Meta ordered by EU to allow rival AI chatbots back on WhatsApp for free
Iran / Houthi
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Crew Is Rescued After U.S. Helicopter Goes Down Near Strait of Hormuz
It was not immediately clear whether the Apache was shot down by Iranian fire, experienced mechanical failure or encountered some other problem, said a person briefed on the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Central Command said in a statement that the incident was under investigation.
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Tickets for Iran fans revoked, says federation
Iran's allocation of fan tickets for the group stage of the World Cup has been revoked just days before the start of the tournament, says the country's football federation.
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Trump says in ‘final throes’ of reaching Middle East peace deal
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Leading supplier of research monkeys declares bankruptcy
One of the world’s leading suppliers of monkeys and other animals for biomedical research has declared bankruptcy. In court filings last week, Inotiv, a West Lafayette, Indiana–based company, said it is nearly a half-billion dollars in debt and is seeking ways to continue operations as it financially restructures. As a result, there may be no immediate disruption in the pipeline of research animals, according to Naomi Charalambakis, director of communications and science policy at the biomedical research advocacy group Americans for Medical Progress. “The larger risk, to me, is the continued fragility of the [nonhuman primate] supply chain,” she says. “The U.S. research ecosystem remains vulnerable because it relies on a relatively small number of commercial suppliers and import channels for a resource that is already in short supply.” Inotiv was founded in 1975, and the contract research organization began to aggressively expand its operations in 2018; over the next 4 years, the company acquired more than a dozen animal suppliers, drug-testing facilities, and other research operations. It currently houses thousands of monkeys and tens of thousands of rodents, rabbits, and other research animals, which it supplies to labs in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
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Easily overlooked small wetlands are a big source of global methane
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Ivermectin Kills New World Screwworms in Both Humans and Animals.
In February 2026, the FDA granted an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for Ivomec (ivermectin) 1% injectable as an over-the-counter preventive for cattle exposed to screwworm risk — including after birth, castration, or wound detection. Why? Because 12 field studies conducted in South America — where New World screwworm outbreaks are common — found that ivermectin provided more than 97% protection against screwworm infestations in wounds under real-world conditions. Researchers found that a single injection could provide 10–21 days of protection, killing young screwworm larvae before they could burrow deeper into living tissue.
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Rollins Reinforces Federal and State Response to New World Screwworm.