Why do we live in such a childish, stupid country? A country that wastes its money on useless billion dollar aircraft carriers, when it could be spending those tax dollars to actually help its citizens like sane countries.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Morning all. Absolutely glorious! Enjoy the Day🌞

Who Makes Money From Social Media? Investigate platforms' revenue redistribution schemes.

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➡️ Head to www.monetization.wtf to start exploring. If you publish anything, make sure to cite the WHAT TO FIX Meta Monetization Archive, and let us know about it so we can amplify your findings.

Our ability to comprehend daily events has been corrupted by a toxic info environment where political & attentional dynamics distort & manipulate our “collective sensemaking” processes. Our “official” sources are now products of that same environment. Reality fractures, along with the social fabric.

Mark is right, although I confess I am a hypocrite here, for I wholly support the "remigration" of Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. They have failed to assimilate to our cultural norms and instead have tried to impose their foreign backwards ways upon us, and so must be removed to protect our heritage.

left end of a rainbow with each color vibrant arches down from a grey sky in front of a hillside covered with trees and disappears into the water of a lake in the foreground

Love a well defined rainbow

We have an air purifier thats set to run whenever it detects lower air quality including from things like cooking, smoke, etc. But occasionally I'll just walk past it & it immediately powers up full blast, & i don't think a machine should be allowed to roast you in your own home like that.

Blake Masters & ‹ @bgmasters •1d 90 million, maybe 100 million, foreigners in the USA today. That's about 87 to 97 million too many. (Some tourists and a few extraordinary abilities are OK) Illegal immigration is the worst, but "legal immigration" has gotten way out of hand too, by orders of magnitude. 190 t7 945 • 6.7K Ihl 275K 贝

Something tells me that this former GOP Senate candidate from Arizona and Peter Thiel protege is NOT referring to “foreigners” like Thiel, Elon Musk, David Sacks, Melania Trump, Usha Vance’s parents, and Bernie Moreno.

‘It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic and sensual,’ according to Meta’s ‘GenAI: Content Risk Standards.’”

Sharing this story again, because it is both monstrous what Meta’s AI is doing and important to read.

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"None Of These Books Are Obscene": Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida's Book Ban Bill In a major win for intellectual freedom, a judge rules against Florida law that led to removing hundreds of books from school libraries.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.

Was binge watching a Japanese series when my partner got me some fruits.

Me: Arigatou Gozaimasu
She: (without a blink) Okinawa
Me: 😳

sigh, just say "Im running late" with a flamenco dancer emoji or something, why

(and before people come for me about neurodivergence, Im autistic, stop it)

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

behold the "HTML bomb"

It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to

when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper

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Chris Cuomo call out AOC and she points out he's getting mad at an AI fake video

I would be embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed embarrassed

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

This is illegal. Funding for this specific mission has already been appropriated.

ലവൻ കൊള്ളാലോ! 😂

ജീവിക്കാൻ എന്തെല്ലാം ചെയ്യണം, പാവങ്ങൾ

Since @mckenziefunk.com & I published yesterday, we've already received new reports of more arrests like this. Some families just find the car left in the road, with no sign of their loved one

Please reach out if you have more info on immigration arrests

Signals: nicolefoy.27 or 212-379-5757 (Mac)

A sign on a metal bookshelf that says "Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs"

little library gallows humor for ya :'D

Smuggling Tea and Handkerchiefs? — Deepthi Murali A snippet from aboard the British East India Company ship in 1712.

Getting back into the habit of blogging about research. Here’s a rather random account of tea and handkerchief smuggling on board an East Indiaman. Doors were broken. www.deepthimurali.com/thieves-in-t... #history #eastindiacompany #tea

Swedish pension fund AP7 blacklists Tesla, has sold entire stake "AP7 has decided to blacklist Tesla due to verified violations of labor rights in the United States," the pension fund said in a statement.

some important tesla news you may have missed on a very busy news day www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/s... swedish pension fund ap7 blacklists tesla & has sold entire stake

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Fireflies and heart lamps Translation, more visibly than other practices dispels the cult of the solitary genius, as it foregrounds the inherently collaborative nature of art

In a week awash with Cannefluencers, watching #BanuMushtaq and #DeepaBhasthi hug as they won the International Booker for #HeartLamp was beautiful. It was an embrace saturated with so many worlds. (Also, the book is beautiful). This week's #ParonormalActivity
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A manual coffee grinder and a packet of coffee beens on a half wall with a farm in the background

A new morning routine, grinding coffee manually and then enjoying the brew, the greenery and the sun with my partner #bliss #life

Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media

Wow. “Almost half of young people would prefer a world without internet, UK study finds *** Half of 16- to 21-year-olds support ‘digital curfew’ and nearly 70% feel worse after using social media” 5/19/25 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

not that facts really matter, but it's worth saying that if you say you like podcasts but you don't like listening to them or reading the transcripts or in any way consuming the actual podcasts, then you don't like podcasts; you like something peripheral to and derivative of podcasts.

We have very judgemental neighbours!

Man with two dogs walking at night with headlight through a tree plantation

When midnight walks becomes treasure hunts for the dogs… they dragged me through bushes, trees and plantations, all in search of… poop! 😂