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Very sad that the Hanson brothers haven’t attended one of Mbappe’s games so far

"Are the systems the U.S. government uses to protect its classified documents so inferior to the systems used by other countries that Mythos can crack our systems, but not theirs?" abovethelaw.com/2026/06/an-e...

Henrico County is a major hub for data centers in Virginia. Its officials said it expects a 25% rise in electricity costs next year, and advised workers to close the blinds and turn off their computers to make up for it. www.404media.co/henrico-virg...

WHAT IN THE CRONENBERG

X-ray mMicrotomography and Machine Learning were used to read an ancient scroll. The entire site is fascinating!

"While offshoring teleoperated jobs to overseas workers hasn’t yet become routine [...] the technology is worth our attention because it might enable companies to expand on their well-established habit of outsourcing jobs to places where labor is cheaper." singularityhub.com/2026/06/25/c...

"The first successful spinal anesthesia was given in 1898 by German surgeon August Bier, who termed his method ‘cocainization of the spinal cord’, and two years later Oskar Kreis used this technique to give pain relief to six laboring women in a Swiss hospital." worksinprogress.co/issue/the-wo...

"[...] OpenAI spent 44% of their revenue on sales and marketing! The hype needed to keep the AI bubble inflated is incredibly expensive. Despite this lavish spending, business adoption has been flat." blog.dshr.org/2026/06/ais-...

"We regret that this event has been cancelled due to the red extreme heat warning issued by the UK Met Office." www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

"Elon is becoming a trillionaire because he rigged the game." beige.party/@Lana/116795...

"What the average person wants from AI, they’ve previously tried to get from horoscopes, cults, psychics and parasocial relationships with celebrities. [...] The AI doesn’t have to do the job well, it just has to do it. The bar is so low that even the current, flawed tech is easily clearing it."

"By the end of this article, you’ll understand not just that WhatsApp’s privacy model is broken — but exactly how it’s broken, layer by layer, from the cryptographic primitives all the way up to the FBI agent pulling your metadata every 15 minutes in near-real time."

"Evidence suggests that AI-driven ‘deskilling’ is starting to happen in medicine, computer science and other fields. Researchers are now discussing how to preserve important human expertise in the age of AI."

Where are all of the so-called outraged congresspeople who claimed they would read the unredacted Epstein files on camera?

The complete Dialog attendance list. github.com/nzaki-dev/di...

"The immense human Ponzi scheme that is Elon Musk will eventually collapse. But traditional Ponzi schemes only exploit investors who choose to participate. This time much of the money propping up Musk’s scam will come from ordinary Americans who have in effect been forced to buy in."

BY YOUR COMMAND. “A part of our NVIDIA GEAR lab now self-improves tirelessly overnight,” wrote Jim Fan, director of AI at NVIDIA, in a LinkedIn post. “We just read the reports in the morning.” arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/a...

"The balance of power of democ­racy is premised on the average person having leverage through creating economic value. If that’s not present, I think things become kind of scary." —a certain AI CEO matthewbutterick.com/extinction-l...

commenting “*you’re” on a post that doesn’t have any version of it in it

Idiocracy.

Sometimes I worry that someone won’t stand up at my funeral and roast everyone in the room like I would have wanted

"As long as software development teams are in charge of decision making and accountable for what they deliver, engineers still need to spend time building up a deep understanding of the system."

I love widow’s bay, a show about an island where no one has access to botox and fillers

"[t]he feature was designed to convert faces captured by the glasses into unique biometric signatures, commonly known as faceprints, and compare them against a database of faceprints stored on the user's device." www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

"This was, in miniature, the entire problem the White House had with the Epstein files: Piles of accusations were impossible to disprove and equally impossible to make go away. Every door they opened led to another room, and in every room were more claims from more women."

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Everybody's saying you should boo Trump at Madison Square Garden. I think it'd freak out so much more if everybody is dead silent when he gets announced.

Just one more thing. If it’s “Alvin and the Chipmunks,” does that mean that Alvin isn’t a chipmunk?

"Is there a way to make Utah go blue? How do we find out?"

"Increasingly, younger people – especially those under 35 – are becoming a visible part of the rare book trade. [...] growing up in the digital age has intensified the desire for analogue objects and tangible connections to the past. There is something special about holding history in your hands."

"The study also found that 120 minutes was the cut-off, as there was no further benefit seen after that." Other than being FUCKIN' SWOLE!

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"When you add it all up, and putter around with it for about 35 years, you ultimately find that interviewing, which aims to determine “can this person do this job,” is fundamentally unable to answer that question with any degree of reliability. It’s bordering on pseudoscience."

Erin Brockovich (yes, *that* Erin Brockovich) has created a web site that maps out all of the data centers in America. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

"However bad a writer you think you are, you are not worse than AI. But you still keep letting it do your writing for you, as if I won’t be able to tell. Listen: I can tell. I can always tell. You think I won’t notice, but I will. There’s no hiding from me."

If you’ve worked in or around big tech for any length of time, you’ve met the type, probably several dozen of them. They’re everywhere in AI. They care enormously about Humanity. They’d do anything for Humanity. They just can’t be bothered with actual people. www.personfamiliar.com/p/ai-humanit...

IMAGES/ I truly wish these images of corporate media beshitting itself publicly to please Donald Trump were AI-generated, but unfortunately they're all too real (while simultaneously several thousand nautical miles from "journalism," a dead subject I used to teach as a professor)

a caper movie about stealing art from the Vatican. we’re calling it JESUS HEIST.

Whatever your thoughts about The Boys' finale, it made Elon Musk mad, which the show's creator and cast think is hilarious.

"[Lewis Carroll] published serious mathematical work under his real name. The Alice books appeared under a pen name because he was embarrassed for his students to know he wrote fiction. The fiction was, in large part, the mathematics in disguise." storica.club/blog/alice-i...

I was addicted to country and western dancing My psychiatrist had to put me in a two-step program

"A fork of uBlock Origin Lite that, instead of hiding cosmetically-blocked ads, replaces them with white tiles bearing slogans from John Carpenter's 1988 film They Live: OBEY, CONSUME, WATCH TV, SLEEP, SUBMIT, CONFORM, STAY ASLEEP, BUY, WORK, NO INDEPENDENT THOUGHT, DO NOT QUESTION AUTHORITY."

"Americans must abolish gerontocracy if we are to realize a collective aspiration to social movement and progress, or achieve other important goals such as intergenerational equity and fairer political representation." harpers.org/archive/2026...

🌡️MONSTER HEAT IN AFRICA 37c OF MINIMUMS Absolutely brutal and scaring heat in the Sahel and Sahara. Mind blowing MINIMUM Temperature of ‼️36.9C at Yelimanè, MALI 34.1C Kita -Hottest night in history Max Temperatures reaching 46C in ALGERIA and 44C in LIBYA it' ll get worse.

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

They know. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

"The pictures are vivid, weird, and entirely Collodi's: a piece of wood that talks back, a fox pretending to be blind, a donkey at the bottom of the sea. You do not need a literary education to follow it. He wasn't writing for one." storica.club/blog/pinocch...