2026-06-17

Horseshit

• What one country's experiment says about attempts to boost birth rates

• Dutch children are unusually happy and healthy. Because of this walking ritual?

• The History of How School Buses Became Yellow

• The mathematical secrets hidden at the heart of Barcelona's Sagrada Família

• What Should We Tell Aliens?

• Cuddling cats might make us feel worse when under stress

• Is a transparent fish the future of brain science? This center is betting on it

• Declining Fertility Rates Across the World

• A Billionaire Explains Why American Business Now Feels Like the Mafia

• Viral "dopamine sites" let users shop without buying anything

• Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

• 'Ghost jobs' could soon be illegal in New York

• Hackers Publish Knicks and Madison Square Garden Data Online

• Mark Zuckerberg Orders Employees Have Fun After Brutal Layoffs Culled Colleagues

• The 1973 Party Where Hip-Hop Began

celebrity gossip

• 'David Bowie was a crazy workaholic': Labyrinth at 40 – an oral history

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• State actions against people for online speech — per capita

Musk

• SpaceX IPO leaves retail investors too few shares, tough hold-or-sell decision

• SpaceX IPO raised $10bn more than thought.

• Is Elon Musk's SpaceX Worth $1.75T?

• SpaceX Set to Overtake Amazon in Value as It Soars for Third Day

• SpaceX tops Amazon and Microsoft in market value

• SpaceX Surpasses Amazon, Briefly Tops Microsoft in Market Value

• How SpaceX's arrival impacts the stock market

• SpaceX to buy Cursor AI parent Anysphere for $60B

  • SpaceX Cements $60 Billion Deal to Take Over AI Startup Cursor

  • SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B

  • SpaceX is Officially Buying Cursor

  • SpaceX Acquires Cursor for $60B

  • SpaceX Is Buying Cursor

  • SpaceX Purchases Cursor, a Claude Code and OpenAI Codex Competitor

• DOJ Lawyers Argue xAI Is 'Vital' for National Security in NAACP Lawsuit

  • DOJ claims xAI's unpermitted gas turbines are a matter of national security

  • DOJ assists Musk's xAI in NAACP air pollution suit, asks court to toss case

  • DOJ Seeks to Halt Air Pollution Lawsuit Against xAI Data Center

  • Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines

• Starlink ends free dish perks ahead of new Standard and Mini kits launch

• Musk to sue German broadcaster ZDF over 'hunt for migrants'

• German broadcaster removes TV intro after Elon Musk takes legal action

  German public broadcaster ZDF has removed part of a report that claimed tech trillionaire Elon Musk had called for migrants to be hunted in Northern Ireland. ZDF conceded its wording was "misleading" while Musk said "legal action is being taken against ZDF for their outrageous lies".

Electric / Self Driving cars

• CATL: Solid-state batteries are years away from mass market

• U.S. battery industry cuts losses, shifts to new ventures amid EV bust

Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers

• I tried the Las Vegas Strip’s first AI-powered robot massage — here’s what it was like.

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• College Students Are Rapidly Losing the Ability to Read

• Bachelor’s Degrees Aren’t Cool Anymore.

• Student Writes 'Not Interested in Working for a Jew' on Handshake

Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Florida sues TikTok, claiming it violates state child safety law

  • Florida lawsuit accuses TikTok of violating state's child social media ban

• Commodore Callback 8020 Is a Linux Phone Built to Block the Web

  • The Commodore Callback 8020 Is a Digital Detox Phone That Isn’t Dumb | WIRED

  • Commodore announces Linux-based flip phone with 'no social media, no browser'

• 20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again

• Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs

• Google Chrome is closing the loopholes that let old ad blockers keep working

• Google Earth Flight Simulator Is Now Available

• Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven

  • Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 era – and do some serious legacy clean up

• Nearly a million passports and photo IDs were unprotected on the public internet

• Bug in FIFA World Cup internal system gave anyone ability to modify TV stream

• US manufacturer of military TV walls sold to China, US wants it back

• Snap unveils $2,195 AR glasses as CEO Evan Spiegel bets on post-smartphone future

• Hollywood’s Mass Exodus: Why Film and TV Production Is Fleeing L.A. and What Can Be Done About It

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

• Satellites Overwhelm Space Telescopes with "Railroad" Tracks

• Among the large new rockets Amazon was counting on, only Europe has delivered

AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World

• The White House Is Ratcheting Up Its War Against Anthropic

  • Anthropic lost the White House's trust – and then its flagship product

  • US Government warned Anthropic Fable was jailbroken, but firm 'refused' to fix

  • The fight over Claude Mythos 5

  • Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not jailbreak

  • The Fable 5 Export Controls Harm US Cyber Defense

  • The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

  • Amazon CEO's Talks with U.S. Officials Triggered Crackdown on Anthropic Models

  • Anthropic Is Still at Odds with the White House over Claude Fable 5

  • Trump officials won't allow G7 countries to access Anthropic's advanced models

  • Fable ban was never about a jailbreak

  • Apparently the Real Reason Anthropic's Models Are Offline: A Six-Year-Old Grudge

  • The Anthropic Fable saga proves: we have opened the AI Pandora's box. What now?

  • Lutnick's Letter to Anthropic Warned of Curbs on Top AI Models

  • The Battle with Anthropic Is the Start of a New Kind of Conflict

• Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion

• AI efficiency gains come at a high energy cost

• Anthropic Sued over Alleged False Advertising on Claude Max Subscription Limits

• Alibaba unveils AI models for robots, amid shift from chatbots to agents

• South Korea Politicians Wants AI Profit Sharing

• Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

• OpenAI spending hit $34B last year ahead of planned IPO

• Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub's AI-driven capacity issues

• AI Is Not Conscious, but It Is Becoming Our Unconscious

• Meet the world's top AI-Pilled Economists

• The rise of machine writing is a great opportunity for literature

• OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B

  Today, I can exclusively report, based on audited financial documents viewed by this publication that have been independently verified by the Financial Times, that OpenAI lost around $38.5 billion in 2025, as well as other crucial details about the financial condition of the company.

  • OpenAI spending hit $34B last year ahead of planned IPO, $21B losses

  • Leaked financial docs show OpenAI is losing billions of dollars a year

• Satya Nadella warns that AI could hollow out industries

• ChatGPT's market share slips below 50% for first time

• GitHub Models is no longer available to new customers

Neo Gambling / Crypto con games

• Half of Bitcoin in circulation is underwater for the first time since 2022

• Sam Bankman-Fried's Prison Experiment

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Startup supposed to revolutionize California's wine industry: 'It failed'

• IPO boom mints thousands of new millionaires and Silicon Valley angst

• Bank of Japan Lifts Rates to 1%, a 31-Year High

• Struggling Pizza Hut restaurant chain will be sold for $2.7B

• Microsoft sued by shareholders over expenses, cloud business, AI

• Robinhood to cut 10% of workforce in restructuring

• Ericsson CEO Ekholm to step down, be replaced by Per Narvinger

• Hacking group claims major hack of Novo Nordisk and attempted $25M extortion

• McDonald’s is serving fried apple pie again for America’s 250th birthday.

• Amazon Faces Billions in Penalties from Potential FTC Ad Suit

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• Wilshire subway took 46 years. Future projects should skip decades of objections

• CNN poll: Half of Americans don't consider themselves Democrats or Republicans

• Republican Gov. Mike DeWine wants Ohio to abolish the death penalty

Democrats

• Gavin Newsom Says He's Under Investigation by DOJ; Sources Say It's Related to His Wife's Taxes – RedState

  Townhall's Cameron Arcand reports that there are multiple investigations, that they started in California, not Washington, D.C., stemming from whistleblower complaints, and that they have to do with Jennifer Siebel Newsom's taxes and with Newsom's former chief of staff, Dana Williamson. According to multiple years of tax returns reviewed by RedState, Gavin and Jennifer Newsom file taxes jointly, so if the investigation has to do with taxes, it has to do with both of them.

  • Gavin Newsom: Today, my wife & I joined Donald Trump’s hit list.

  He has directed his Department of Justice to investigate us. They have not found a crime - they are simply trying to find one. He isn't coming after me because of mean tweets, but because I am considering running for President. Hetly call him out. He is simply the most corrupt President in American history. We have nothing to hide. Mr. President, come after me. I am not going anywhere. The country is watching.

  • DOJ Investigation of Newsom Began Under Biden Administration.

Left Angst

• America has lost its war with Iran

• The End of Refugee Resettlement

• Media Head For Fainting Couch Over White House UFC Fight After Shrugging At Topless Trans Twerker.

• FBI arrests 5 people in connection with drone attack plot against White House UFC Freedom 250 event.

• ‘No Kings’ Crowd Gets Wrecked by One Brutally Honest Media Column

• 'Wow, it really worked ': 70s TV show causing worldwide panic today

  When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space plot it succeeded. Today, the resulting conspiracy theory has even seen Trump’s government launch an investigation

• SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account.

• Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges

• Person of interest in Grant Park cross burning incident in custody, police say

  Chicago police and the FBI had been trying to identify the suspect for nearly a week, but the young shirtless man seen running from the burning cross had been a nameless person of interest in a Chicago police arson investigation and the subject of a possible FBI hate crime case. The burning cross is a century-old flaming symbol of racism and hatred. In his interview with NBC Chicago's Chuck Goudie, University of Illinois Chicago senior Merlin Lu said he knew the implications of a burning cross and had placed a MAGA hat atop the cross, explaining his motivation was to protest Trump administration injustice - not something racist.

• U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears

• Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel's Secretive 'Dialog' Society

  • Peter Thiel's 'Dialog' network was super-secret. A data leak changed that

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Eight Crew Members Believed Dead in B-52 Bomber Crash at California Air Base

• The Dangerous Tech Found Aboard 'Dark-Fleet' Tankers Captured by the U.S.

• US agency removes Chinese toy drones from import ban list

• Air Force faults crew in second KC-46 tanker accident that tore off boom

World

• Steel and chemicals giants demand freeze to EU's flagship climate policy

• You've Been Murdoched: Australia's Teen Ban Offers a Warning for Europe

• Asia is now buying America and nobody is talking about it

• France's spy agency replaces Palantir with local rival

  • French domestic spy agency ditches Palantir for local rival, PM says

  • France to ditch Palantir's AI data tools in favour of domestic provider

• Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything

  • Children reacted to the UK social media ban

  • UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

  • The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy

• Ireland ready to restrict social media for children even without EU agreement

• Hungary's MPs block return of Orbán, limiting rule of PM to eight years

• Starbucks Korea to shut stores for history lesson after bungled coffee promotion

• France to stop certifying products without quantum-safe encryption

• European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames

  • The EU won't pursue a mandatory game preservation law

Iran / Houthi

• "If" Trump administration considers $300B fund for Iran if deal is upheld

  • Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund

• Trump's Iran Truce Has the Hallmarks of Defeat

• Leaked Alleged Text of Trump-Iran Deal

• US moves to offer Iran sanctions relief

Israel

• Australia to probe assault claims by Gaza flotilla activists against Israel

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Arson targeting Keir Starmer properties originated in Russia

• Russian artist and Putin critic shot dead in Poland

• Russian frigate fires warning shots at British yacht in English Channel

  • Russian warship fires warning shot at a British yacht in English Channel

  • Russian Frigate Opens Fire with Warning Shots in the English Channel

China

• A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation

• DeepSeek closes over $7B funding with unusual deal structure

Health / Medicine

• Startup to trial drug to prevent cancer therapy side-effect 'cytokine storm'

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• San Andreas fault reaches highest stress level in 1k years

• 'The Antarctic is the last frontier': the quest to save Shackleton's Endurance

• Net CO2 release from permafrost soil carbon thaw predicted earlier this century

• We should vaccinate wild animals

• At first, it does sound crazy: meet the scientists trying to refreeze the Arctic

• Earth's underground fungal network would span 10% of the Milky Way

• Researchers use tiny radio backpacks to track elusive gecko species

• The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

• Soot from rocket launches is polluting Earth's upper atmosphere