How it started / how it’s going.

There are Greenland sharks swimming out there who have 150 years on this country

Happy UFO day, America www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

These captcha's are getting harder

I found North Korean (DPRK) malware hiding in my tailwind.config.js

This whole thing is worth reading, but this is the bit that really drove home the insanity of these numbers for me

every job i see these days is like: LEAD CONTENT ANALYST, Puppy Killing Factory (remote). $350,000 - $500,000. You will edit our internal newsletter (circulation 500). Associate Editor, Nonprofits, Global Good Magazine (in office, NYC). $27,000 - $28,000. Lead ALL of our fundraising efforts!

Two people in a Volkswagen Beetle died after the massive battery-powered truck struck them at a highway intersection in Nevada, not far from the factory that builds it.

On sale: Metaverse book. Never read.

🚨 We analyzed the Supreme Court’s decisions over the past 20 years and found that for the first time, the court issued more consequential rulings on its “shadow docket” (unsigned orders often decided without arguments) than the traditional merits docket. www.propublica.org/article/supr...

Trump borrowed more than $50 million from Charles Schwab Bank last year. But what we don't know— 💰️ why he needed the funds 💰️ how he used the funds 💰️ what assets he pledged as collateral 💰️ the exact amount he borrowed 💰️ when it's due ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @danalexander21.bsky.social for Forbes

Sources: Meta is developing plans for a cloud infrastructure business that will sell access to AI computing power and models, to compete with AWS and Azure (Bloomberg) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Nightmare Fourth Amendment scenario just dropped

There’s a story like this approximately every other day now. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

transcendent stuff here

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social

Wow! Significant win for Americans' privacy. For years, law enforcement agencies regularly skirted the 4th Amendment by buying sensitive location data from data brokers, freeing them from the process of having to go before a judge and get a warrant. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Backers of the massive data center campus say at full buildout it will consume 9GW of electricity, more than double the entire state of Utah’s current energy use. They say they intend to burn fossil fuels on site to make all that electricity. Box Elder County will vote on the proposal Monday.

Lucky to have some amazing nature in our yard this year. Beautiful bobcat and a barred owl

Hyperscaler free cash flow coming down www.apollo.com/content/dam/...

Since the start of President Trump’s second term, The New York Times has been documenting examples of moves by members of Mr. Trump’s family or the families of top aides to profit off of Trump administration policy actions. Today we take another look.

For your weekend reading ☕️

Venezuela does not have a national early warning system of its own, but people with Android phones received alerts from Google’s Earthquake Alerts system seconds before back-to-back quakes struck on Wednesday. trib.al/KI8ICSy

“Loitering is not permitted in this area. Please proceed to a designated location. Thank you for your cooperation,” a surveillance machine tells a small cluster of National Guard members as they patrol the fenced off Reflecting Pool in the rain.

This war only happens when the US stock market is closed! How weird!

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol rolls out in "limited release" — which was requested by the Trump administration. Also releasing Terra and Luna which are smaller, cheaper models. openai.com/index/previe...

I missed this from a few months back. Trump started gluing his gold challenge coins all over the Oval Office. I noticed these over the fireplace which recently appeared. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (My story from last year on the increasing amount of gold: sherwood.news/power/the-ov...)

GREAT SCOOP from @michaelscherer.bsky.social: National Park Service projects are now being defunded to cover President Trump’s Washington renovation spree. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The same people who railed against Biden-era safety testing and disclosure requirements have now implemented an opaque licensing regime for the release of new AI models that has no known decision criteria or legal basis

Asphalt roads soften and lose structural integrity at 50°C to 60°C (122°F to 140°F). At this stage, heavy vehicles cause ruts and deformations.

Striking charts in this week's Briefing on AI models' values www.economist.com/briefing/202...

As all of these prices go up on consumer electronics due to the insane spike in memory prices caused by the AI boom, remember – you can bet that these companies are never going to lower them again.

When I first saw the data that ultimately fueled these charts, my mind was blown. (See the note at the bottom of our story for detailed sourcing!) projects.propublica.org/why-carbon-c...

🇺🇸 Mac Rumors forum is a lively place following Apple's price rises

Guys I drove the Slate truck! www.theverge.com/transportati...

If you can, please share in your virtual elevators as well.

It looks like a Cybertruck

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

LOL

Justice Department attempted to force national security reporters to testify before grand jury

“I have heard from our managers at ProPublica that they don’t intend to replace us with AI. And that’s great. But we’re gonna need that in writing.” This is why we’re fighting for protections against artificial intelligence:

NEW POST on @beautifulpublicdata.com: San Diego Photologs from the 1970s - A collection of beautiful, high-resolution photolog scans reveals a colorful world of pastel-colored cars and whimsical signage. beautifulpublicdata.com/san-diego-ph...

In a new privacy policy, Anthropic says Claude will soon require you to upload your driver's license or passport for a variety of reasons. The ID checker is Persona, a firm funded by Trump ally Peter Thiel. As a U.S. company, Persona is also subject to gov't demands for people's verification data. 👀

The superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District resigned amid an FBI investigation into a chatbot contract that he promoted. cal.news/4vqaKKx 📷️ Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images

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this is so insane

I love y’all, but “news outlet X is owned by Y, therefore it univocally wants Z outcome and consciously directs its editorial decisions toward that end” is not very good media analysis.

The sheer number of people who have had authority over the UK’s nuclear arsenal is astounding

Both totally unnecessary and extremely funny that the Guardian has an interactive graphic for you to change the color of the US flag's blue to the color of the Reflecting Pool from 8 to 19 June and counting