Minions and Monsters is very cute.

The US World Cup team went down to its worst defeat since the 1990s after opponents Belgium said they were fired up by a “sense of injustice” following Trump’s interference in the game. After the fourth goal, Belgium posted on social media “Overturn this”.

i'm sorry but holy fucking shit i cannot get over this look 🥰🥹😍😍😭😎

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Court filing: Meta says four US states seek $1.4T over claims it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict youth and misled the public; its market cap is ~$1.5T (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Helen of Troy, Lupita Nyongo sparkles in Christian Cowan for the London premiere of #theodysseymovie.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com ”Some of the brightest minds in business believe that artificial intelligence will spell the end of the 40-hour workweek,” Joanne Lipman writes. “The truth is, any one of these executives could have shortened the workweek years ago, long before A.I.”

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

As the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum turns 50, an expansive exhibition celebrates how art has coincided with space

Charlize Theron stuns at the ‘THE ODYSSEY’ world premiere in London. #TheOdyssey #CharlizeTheron

My hometown is doing alright. The guys at the table next to me at the coffee shop saw the anti-AI sticker on my laptop and asked where I got it, I said I made it and showed them the stack I carry around, and they asked if they could buy a set.

Zendaya photographed at the ‘THE ODYSSEY’ world premiere in London. #TheOdyssey #Zendaya

Tom Holland initially thought Christopher Nolan hated his performance in ‘THE ODYSSEY’ because he would cut filming after 3 minutes. He later found out IMAX cameras only run for 3 minutes at a time. (Source: youtu.be/9rO0FGivAvQ?...)

That’s too bad. Sounds like a cool project.

The U.S. is on the brink of surpassing last year’s total measles cases, putting the country on track to set a new record before summer’s end.

Co-creators Dan Harmon and James Siciliano talk about the upcoming Adult Swim series starring Keith David.

This is an actual screenshot from the syllabus for this class. Beyond parody

Listen here to Nimoy’s 1975 recording of Ray Bradbury’s 1950 science fiction short story (and chapter in “The Martian Chronicles”) “There Will Come Soft Rains,” which hauntingly envisioned one potential future arising from unconstrained nuclear testing and arms races. archive.org/details/brad...

Today in 1962, Leonard Nimoy and his wife Sandra sent this telegram to President John F. Kennedy urging him to end atmospheric nuclear testing to protect children and the environment, most likely in response to news reports about an imminent, high-altitude US nuclear test above the Pacific Ocean.

Philip Glass' newest symphony, an homage to Abraham Lincoln, was supposed to premiere at the Kennedy Center — until it didn't. And then, the Boston Symphony Orchestra stepped in. n.pr/4y1iOmF

Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”

What a brilliant way to express this concept… GenAI turns human knowledge into machine-made “content,” free of authorship and thus responsibility for truth or falsity, with reality and fiction often indistinguishable…

From my “not necessarily anti-AI, but solidly anti-AI-boosters” perspective, this is very well said. Part of the broader attack on truth, and on the institutions that produce knowledge. Also worth noting: propaganda works by repetition.

What your increased utility bills-- water & electricity-- are paying for: Data center development for Artificial Intelligence AI apps & systems? Systems and apps that will suck jobs, health, & opportunity OUT OF YOUR COMMUNITY?

Wikipedia, one of the few remaining places for the open internet, is in an existential fight with the right, for privileging fact over fantasy. If you've got a spare $1 a week, why not make a donation? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/b... Donation link: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...

#screenwriting #scriptsky

Google asserts that copyright "only" applies to genAI outputs -- not inputs. I.e., training is OK, but not if what genAI produces is infringing. The NYT case and others have shown that outputs are often near copies of training data. static.googleusercontent.com/media/public...

"Roughly 25 percent of people with depression have elevated levels of inflammatory proteins in their blood, and the inflammation seems to develop before the depression does." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/w...

This starts a month today! If you want to come along please book now - its so helpful for acts when you book in advance as it shows venues people want to see us! I am very excited and really proud of this show, which has been two years in the making, and the finished result is, imo the best version

Harold Macmillan said something to the effect of the purpose of education being to be able to tell when a man is talking rot and have the courage to tell him so. This is both true, and easier to achieve when you’re the heir to a large corporation.

Happy birthday to the Dalai Lama, who is 91 years old today, perhaps not for the first time.

Who could’ve possibly guessed that this would be among the outcomes of pushing people to adopt a technology that is *unproven* as to its much-hyped benefits, but *proven* in study after study and case after case as to its sycophantic power to addict and rot the brain?

"Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their ​use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning" Sometimes, good policymaking is incredibly simple. www.reuters.com/technology/n...

Further proof that AI is pushed by the greedy & implemented by the incurious.

I think the AI boom is the best thing to happen to humanities students in years because one cycle of "AI savvy" graduates as employees is all it'll take for like 90% of employers to peace out and go looking for people who have actual skills

If a woman uses AI, they are seen as incompant. But if women are wary or critical of AI based on reading, experience, or expertise, they are branded as "hysterical", anti-AI Luddites, or technologically inept. It's almost like you can't win.

😱 AI makes your writing worse, EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T USE IT??!

“.. They may have realized it was simply bad business to say that your great new product will destroy the economy.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

Being a woman rocks because if you use AI you’re stupid and if you don’t use AI you’re dumb

Ayup. Auto makers, especially. "I think the biggest risk for R2 is actually on the supply side, and there's a lot of unknowns.. Scaringe continued. "By far my biggest worry about ramping R2 isn't demand. It's, you know, can we get enough parts to build cars? " finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

A Final View from the Independence Day Weekend (no fog!). The Red, White and Blue this evening in Chicago.

Data centres are raising the cost of IT hardware and power generation for other industries/users, so even if they greatly improve productivity in isolation, there is a risk that they will slow progress in other parts of the economy and push up energy inflation for consumers and businesses.

“Tight supplies and dwindling reserves on Thursday pushed market clearing prices briefly to nearly $28,000 per ​megawatt hour for idling power plants to come ⁠online,” That’s what happens when you have an ideologically driven agenda to not achieve Net Zero at all costs.

My latest travel article: www.jpost.com/travel/artic...

The highest reaches of government are championing the idea that God favors Americans, Jim Rasenberger writes. He explores how John Adams’s warning against this belief could help the country address its predicament in 2026:

In honor of Norway's win, here's a photo I took of a travel article on Norway that I'm proud of....

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

As a notoriously fast walker, I find this very reassuring... www.npr.org/2026/07/06/n...