You could get mad about dead senator discourse *or* you could enjoy this video of sea lions who have retaken an island with a decommissioned lighthouse off the coast of Oregon and now use the staircase as a giant slide.

I have one: I am afflicted by freaking lunatics who falsely claim that Covid vaccines are harmful.

Me: food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, food poisoning, FUCKING BLACK DEATH I mean I know the other ones are much, much more common and probably kill more people in the modern world I just have a real bad reaction to Yersinia pestis

While you're visiting, try the Flamin' Hot Freedom Jerky Stix, now just $4.99!

every so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline

Interesting bit from the new AP-NORC poll: Favorability among Jewish Americans: D. Trump: -41 J. Shapiro: +20 Z. Mamdani: +5 B. Netanyahu: -27 apnorc.org/projects/dem...

Oh, Canada - you little scamp.

BREAKING: Eleventh Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, upholds injunction blocking Florida from enforcing its 2022 Stop WOKE Act in the university context. The majority opinion is from Judge Britt Grant, a Trump appointee: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I think half the attendees at the Great American State Fair are journalists doing stunt essays.

"We construct mountains from a molehill, Our weed stores should be called “Da Tokeville.” For Alex D., who knew us best, Proclaimed our genius: restlessness." Twenty-five stanzas for America's 250th, enjoy. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/poem-for-t...

Greenwater Stage Design, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Greenwater Services, is having a bad day.

Great event last night at @greenapplebooks.bsky.social in S.F.: @qhardy.bsky.social interviewed @jsweber.bsky.social about Weber's new book, "City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco." Got to meet @kvox.bsky.social, too! cityontheedgebook.com

Not to state the obvious, but Matthew 25:35 - "For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink."

Here, we have a president who, by his own account, personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene in an ongoing election — and the story has barely registered. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/trum...

What if this bubble is a reversion to the mean, and the market does nothing for a decade or two? Unintentionally, it would be the end of one of the last supports of journalism, our 40-year obsession with companies and markets. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/how-a-mark...

"Today, on a very special edition of STORAGE WAR$..."

Fun fact: Jupiter didn’t have any moons until Galileo invented the telescope.

A new granite walkway. Refinishing the wall to glue those hideous gold accents. Trump claimed he was paying for all of it. He lied. They’ve been looting the National Parks.

Candace is the expert on kids and social media that politicians and the media pretend Jonathan Haidt is. And here she is debunking his whole schtick.

Is it possible we will see peak carbon in the next 10 years

I laughed

I attended a Savoy Brown concert that got a bigger (and far more enthusiastic) crowd.

these lying convicted criminals lie with such impunity and delusion

The EU's transparency watchdog has opened an investigation into whether Euro Commission President Ursula von der Leyen broke disclosure rules by refusing to release a secret chat with Zelensky, Macron, Merz, Meloni, and Starmer. It must be pretty bad (presumably about Trump).

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Tulsi Gabbard dumped a pile of docs & claimed they were evidence of a vast plot by Fauci to manipulate intelligence, cover up the lab leak, & conceal his role in creating Covid. They weren’t. In reality, Gabbard’s documents undermine her. Here’s what they say… www.lawfaremedia.org/article/tuls...

Suing Iran is the next chess move.

'Raise Doubts'??? C'mon, @nytimes.com How about: - 'Show Otherwise' - 'Counter His Claim' - 'Tell Different Story' - 'Prove Claim False' - 'Don't Match Claims' - 'Show Another Lie' [ok, too far.] Etc. Headline gives him 100% underserved benefit of the doubt.

We have found our Reflecting Pool vandal.

Literally broke the law to write his name on public buildings

Apparently the job of the Washington Press Corps is to take notes on this stuff.

FACT FOCUS: Trump says Obama and Biden spent ‘hundreds of millions’ on reflecting pool. They did not.

The journey of tech from an edgy Internet to the center of an AI-driven culture is a familiar American story: Money Changes Everything. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/death-of-t...

He understands on some level that anyone willing to work with him is essentially worthless

Spielberg's "Disclosure Day," about the release of scores of previously secret government films of alien crashes on Earth, raises many deep questions. First among them: Why are aliens so crap at flying their spaceships?

The vast majority of people building AI are in their early 20s. In other words, the years when most people learn social skills were their years of COVID.

Over at The White House, "Own Goal June" keeps on giving: newrepublic.com/post/212096/...

In Vegas for the ultimate irony: Which place has no casinos, free parking, a (relatively) reasonably-priced restaurant, and employee benefits including healthcare?

They’re so happy about it. Destroying Black political power is all they ever wanted.

Inside jokes and puzzles about AI, hidden in centuries-old paintings. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/the-philos...

Xi told Trump that China was the emerging dominant power when he raised the Thucydides Trap. No one in the Trump White House understood his message.

We also found that if Xinjiang were a country, it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1,944 per 100,000 people. China has an incarceration rate of 119 per 100,000 people.

AI is not taking away our humanity. Instead, the way we are creating and treating AI, and our online software generally, is threatening humanity itself. As always, it's the choices we make. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/the-lost-h...

Novelists lie in service of truth. So what do you make of a novelist who's obsessed with the past, and agrees to a biographer who will surely debunk his own myths? thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/here-lies-...

Today in Anti-Americanism, Senator Tuberville.

The earbud is killing the earworm, and clearing the way for something newer and far stranger. RIP, unwanted "Summer of '69." Welcome, constant AI companion in your skull. thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/earworms-a...