As I and many others expected, property prices may finally be bottoming out in first-tier cities in China, although we probably still have a long way to go in the rest of the country. sc.mp/e7xxs?utm_so...

"I hear you're sending me a seventh prime minister"

Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.

I've lived through over 40°C (104°F) weather before, and let me tell you, not having AC at those temps can put healthy young ppl in the ER. The decision not to invest massively in AC is a de facto mandatory euthanasia program for a portion of the old and sick.

UK trying their level best to compete with Pakistan in heads of states never finishing their terms

Again reiterating my belief that “non-binary” is eventually going to go down the same route as “socialist” due to right-wing abuse of the term. Just like a “socialist” now is someone who wants potholes filled, a nonbinary person will eventually become a dudebro at the gym who does not beat his wife.

this was their common stated belief back in the 2000s

“[M]ore studies are needed to confirm the phenomenon. But people who use AI tools should be aware that they risk losing some of their skills. There is no established solution against deskilling right now. It should be a very hot research topic in the next decade.”

Ah well, nevertheless

So much for that I guess

This article convinced me that a lot of people just assume that anything that exists at the scale of society rather than the individual is evil

This is the kind of walkable MANPADs urban design thats illegal in many cities in the US

I've spent the last two months putting together this exhaustive analysis of the New York Times coverage of trans people. It covers 3,242 articles over 12 years. In 2022, the NYT shifted towards a hostile stance towards trans people in their framing. www.thedissident.news/exclusive-ho...

The comments here are a great example of “Japan sees AI differently than the West and reactions do not match company expectations”

Vancouver is the only major urban area in the world where you get ski hills and open ocean in the same view and it’s genuinely wild if you haven’t been.

Trump: "Windmills give you cancer from the infrasound." Liberals: "That's ridiculous." Also Liberals: "Data centers give you cancer from the infrasound." Other Liberals: "WE HAVE TO STOP THEM!!!!!!"

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics.

blah blah big club whatever. why isn’t he grateful for Joe and Jill’s friendship. how come they get the “hey you’re also here” message. is he still mad about how 2024 went down

Good article on the potential and challenges of looking for pathogen DNA on ancient faunal remains, and really how without them we are only seeing a small part of the story of human disease through time. Possible it will change everything we think we know about infectious disease in the past.

💥 Another video of a barrel being blown up by an air defense missile.

Okay but this is unironically the stance of the anti war crowd and he'll get more credit for this than Biden got for pulling troops out of Afghanistan

In the 80s we were *obsessed* with the health effects of high voltage power lines.

Ok, but some people who do not live near data centers *also* have headaches. We should perhaps see how headache propensity varies over proximity to data centers.

This is just the beginning. Because we joined the EU’s SAFE pact, more Canadian businesses will have new opportunities to build defence equipment for our Allies.

well, I guess we can call Putin Meyer now.

The Federal Reserve voted unanimously to leave interest rates unchanged at Kevin Warsh's first meeting at the helm. Policymakers now expect to RAISE rates at least once this year. Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p... Full coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06... #EconSky

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

New piece! The End of Natural Population Growth Won’t End Canada's Housing Shortage Deaths may soon outnumber births, but Canada is still on track to add millions of residents and millions more homes will be needed. Read here: www.missingmiddleini...

As it turns out one of the real cases of 'overly leftie academics doing real and lasting damage' was the 'phonics is white supremacy, whole reading or bust' thing.

An Indian Billionaire Was Targeted by Trump. Then He Poured Money Into a Startup Secretly Backed by Donald Trump Jr. An obscure Texas firm secretly connected to the president’s son said it received at least $100 million from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

NEW Economist/YouGov Jun 5-8: The economy Only 29% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of how Donald Trump is handling the economy, while a record-high 63% disapprove That's a net approval of -34 for Trump on the economy, his lowest in either term yougov.com/en-us/articl...

The interception of a russian Shahed drone with small arms by the crew-member of a Ukrainian #Yak-52 trainer plane. Snoopy type fighting is effective if done right

Ending low-interest loans to multimillionaires is small, but probably one of the best pure policy victories from Eby. It annoys me that the journalists lets all the quotes in this piece talk about "low-income" seniors without ever mentioning assets.

"Strip away the Latin and the instrument is a forward sale of a standing commodity, the direct ancestor of the contract a desk would write today to go long or short a harvest a season before the harvest exists." As we confront Hormuz and El Niño, my essay on the origins of averages and derivatives:

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Don’t make me tap the sign:

1) It’s possible and legal to screen embryos for the diseases she’s talking about before implantation. 2) We have no clue which genes go into more complicated things like intelligence. 3) Why is anyone giving money for a genetics startup to someone who dropped out of college at 18?

if Ancient Romans had had screensavers, they’d have been little flying winged dongs making flapping-noises instead of little flying toasters. (someone needs to animate this idea so we can make this screensaver real).

high speed rail terminus should be at the cheesecake factory, says cheesecake factory ceo

I've noticed now that Trump's hanging out in the low-30s of approval rating the mainstream press is very slowly, gradually, in fits and starts, beginning to acknowledge that Donald Trump might not in fact be the healthiest human being who has ever lived or ever will live.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

🗓️ Three months ago today #Iran shut off access to the global internet. While connectivity has now largely returned, metrics indicate that users still face heavy filtering, similar to the interim period between the January protests and the start of the war.

The "president" of Iran has submitted his resignation to an imaginary Supreme Leader because he just noticed there was a military coup. Pretending to be president under a clerical dictator is apparently better than pretending to be president under a military dictator.

I am usually big on the housing theory of everything, but on this front, it’s not about fixing our high housing costs (though we obviously should). Housing in SF and NYC isn’t cheap either. We actually have to figure out how to get companies hiring in Canada to pay a whole damn lot more

People aren’t ready for a looming oil crisis (still held at bay by ignorance) to absolutely fucking supercharge the “just take the oil” view by October. Pundits screaming for cheap gasoline will happily gaslight themselves and others into thinking the idea is brilliant/an awful necessity.

"Backrooms" is a 5-star film that any fan of horror or just plain movie making in general will fall in love with, can't recommend it enough. Newbies who never watched the web series will not feel lost, it's nicely standalone, but web series fans like myself will feel richly rewarded.

Canada 🇨🇦 confirms move toward Saab GlobalEye AEW&C purchase. The decision moves Canada away from the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, which had been viewed as a leading Western AEW&C option and had been in contention for the Canadian program. 🧵 1/4 www.aerotime.aero/articles/can...