2026-06-28
Horseshit
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How a Star Wars Lego Dispute Triggered an Armed Police Raid in Utah
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The White House's post-quantum executive order is an important milestone
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A New Fossil Discovery Just Rewrote 150 Years of Evolutionary Theory
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World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US
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A California community is offering up to $500 rewards to citizens to report people selling illegal fireworks ahead of the Fourth of July. San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office and the county's crime stoppers partnered together to offer citizens rewards to 'help prevent the possession, sale, and use of illegal fireworks' leading up to America's 250th birthday next weekend.
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San Francisco bar patron refused service after use of face-scanning tech
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People leaving the West behind in search of the Russian dream
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Quora and mass AI poisoning: An organized crime AI spam ring
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Outright bullshit: The $546,000 Door
Outfitting a 40-unit building with standard imported door sets runs about $67,000. The only American-made equivalent is a hospital-grade product built to keep germs off surfaces in an operating room, and it is priced like one: $546,000. More than eight times the cost, to open and close the same doors.
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Digital Storage Detection Dogs: A Promising New Niche
a solution is gradually developing in the field, namely the training and use of dogs to detect electronic media: known across the Atlantic by the acronym ESD K-9 for “Electronic Storage Detection K-9 “ (K-9 is the phonetic abbreviation for canine in English), TDD dogs (for ”Technological Detection Dogs”) in Australia, “Digital Storage Device Dogs” in the Netherlands, ICT dogs for “Information & Communications technology” in Belgium, or “e-dogs” or cyber dogs in France (3), they are able to sniff out the chemical components present in most digital storage media.
- And many other plastics. The dogs are not the issue, trusting the handlers to interpret for them is.
Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering
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"Facebook whistle blower" is a dog whistle for the press... Last time they even did a puff piece article on the logistics and funding of the PR campaign.
Musk
Electric / Self Driving cars
Robot uprising / Humanoid Helpers
Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts
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Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible
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I went to uni to learn. What I discovered has made me angry and terrified
What alarms me is the flagrant, unregulated way that I’m seeing my generation of uni students use artificial intelligence to do the work for them. Students aren’t using AI to think better; they’re using it to avoid thinking at all. Universities say they are discouraging this kind of behaviour, while structuring student assessments in ways that promote it. It’s no wonder academics like Kylie Moore-Gilbert and Marvin Starominski-Uehara are questioning the value of a degree.
Info Rental / ShowBiz / Advertising
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Apple asks Trump admin to approve Chinese RAM after product price increases
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Apple seeks to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company
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Apple is seeking access to RAM from China's CXMT, previously blacklisted over dumping allegations.
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Apple seeks approval to buy chips from blacklisted Chinese company, FT reports
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Apple seeks to buy memory chips from blacklisted Chinese company
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Apple wants permission to buy memory from a blacklisted Chinese supplier
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Sony's State of Play Showed That Every Publisher Is Terrified of GTA 6
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Meta asks California lawmakers for shield from child harm penalties
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Commodore Callback flip phone will use recycled memory chips
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Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California
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Corgi says it didn't steal from open source, issues cease and desist
there were reasons why people believed the initial allegation, which was made by Papermark co-founder Marc Seitz on X, concerning Corgi’s newly released product called Dataroom. Seitz’s post blew up because he shared screenshots showing Corgi’s product using the same language for the same features as Papermark’s, word for word. Deal room software is essentially secure document sharing. It is famously used by startups to pitch VCs and send them supporting materials for due diligence.
Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO
AI Will (Save | Destroy) The World
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How a New York race became the first front in the AI industry's midterm war
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Ford execs say they made a mistake when they replaced human engineers with AI
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AI glasses help students cheat in exams – test-obsessed Asia is ground zero
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Threats to US payment rails helped trigger Bessent's AI worries
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Enterprise AI customers pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic as costs mount
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AI Anxiety Is Fueling Burnout Across Silicon Valley's Tech Workers
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India: Factory workers told to film themselves for AI/robot training
Neo Gambling / Crypto con games
Economicon / Business / Finance
Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making
Democrats
- The Glorious Revolution is here again! Democrats Are Done with Caution
Left Angst
Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security
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Even the Secret Service won't use company-issued phones
The US Secret Service’s extremely lax mobile phone security practices - including using unsecured personal devices during mission operations - put America’s leaders’ and agents’ lives at risk, according to a government-issued report.
External Security / Militaria / Diplomania
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US Army gives chaplains 90 days to remove rank insignia
Though chaplains retain their rank, the new guidance implements Hegseth’s March directive that a military chaplain “is first and foremost a chaplain and an officer second.”
World
Iran / Houthi
Russia Bad / Ukraine War
China
Health / Medicine
Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp
Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda
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Where Will Europe's Heatwave Be Most Deadly?
Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their private properties under climate laws, despite rising temperatures. Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con units over fears they produce too much carbon dioxide, stating they should only be used as a “last resort”. The net zero clampdown is part of building regulations that state “active cooling” should only ever be allowed when all other means of “passive cooling”, such as opening windows or using fans, have been exhausted.
Staff working at the Berlaymont building received a text at midday, reading: “BERL — URGENT — Due to extreme weather conditions, forced shut down of air cooling system from floor 1 to 7 for the rest of the day.” The 13-story building is home to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, her 26 commissioners and about 3,000 staff. Von der Leyen works on the 13th floor, and most of her commissioners’ offices are housed on floors eight or above.
“So if you have a conservatory, it is important to keep windows open during day time and ideally isolate it from the rest of the house to reduce thermal gain to the rest of the building due to the ‘green house’ effect. “It is important keep the curtains closed during the day to reduce solar gain inside the house.” On whether or not you should keep windows open, Al-Habaibeh says it depends on the type of house and the outside temperatures. “In short, open windows when the temperature inside the house becomes greater than the external temperature, otherwise keep the windows closed,” he explains. “Generally, when it is really hot outside it is a good idea to keep windows closed during the daytime, as you don’t want the hot external air to come into the house warming it up. However, after the sun goes down, the outside air will start to cool down,” Browning explains.
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Two humpback whales set records swimming between Australia and Brazil
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‘Zombie’ squirrels with oozing warts are found in several states in peoples’ backyards.