yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

China's Moonshot unveils world's largest open AI model, closing in on US rivals reut.rs/4f7IXJi

china and (hopefully) europe making room for some extra talent www.reuters.com/world/us-cha...

* EXCLUSIVE -- IRAN TELLS YEMEN'S HOUTHIS TO CLOSE BAB EL-MANDEB GATEWAY TO THE RED SEA IF U.S. HITS POWER NETWORK, SOURCES SAY @reuters.com

The Day WhatsApp Goes Dark xn--gckvb8fzb.com/the-day-what...

"A few weeks after the archive’s release was reported in German media, Die Zeit had built a searchable database that transformed millions of scanned membership cards into an accessible public resource. The project has since attracted millions of searches." www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/one-...

NEW: The SFPD was leaking real-time footage from surveillance drones, including color and thermal imaging, location metadata, and drone pilots’ names and email addresses. "There’s a certain trust given to the police to use these things correctly."

"What is remarkable is how much of it is happening in plain sight. (...) And how little it is protested within Israel, or how rarely it moves Israel’s allies in the west to express real outrage or demand real action." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“New alliances are emerging between new, extractive forms of capital and a paradoxically global network of ethnonationalists, hostile to the norms of democratic politics.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We're gonna find out that an hour ago someone placed a $100,000 Polymarket bet that Mitch McConnell would outlive Lindsey Graham

"A European cybersecurity agency. A national AI strategy. A flagship White House health report. Between May 2025 and April 2026, all three released official documents built partly on research that did not exist." www.techpolicy.press/the-next-nat...

IDF accused of ‘field execution’ of Palestinian driver bringing aid into Gaza

As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people www.404media.co/linkedin-and...

Extremely important PSA www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The complete elimination of Meta would yield unambiguous, far reaching benefits for global society.

this is fine giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads "It’s (...) likely that the true extent and reach of these secret sponsorships still eludes us. thanks to lack of enforcement, it’s possible we’ll never know how many ads we’ve been exposed to throughout all our years on social media" slate.com/technology/2...

This edit of a new and older trad wife is perfect

🚑🚨 straitjacket needed for the old sociopath

lol and vaja con leo

Most people know that richer people tend to be thinner. Less appreciated is that this divide is largely driven by women. My column: The economics of women's weight 300 free clicks: as.ft.com/r/feaaaacf-8...

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.

Behind the World Cup's real-time data and automated offside calls is a vast network of manual laborers who turn every pass and tackle into structured analytics to fuel the sports betting industry https://restofworld.org/2026/fifa-world-cup-ai-data-workers/?utm_campaign=row-social

Schism is a go - the SSPX livestream has started. They’re going through with it, even after the pope’s final warning.

🎵 yes, please www.youtube.com/watch?v=quj8...

"China's electricity system is now roughly 1.7× larger than the US and EU combined." Combined.

rest of the world: 👀

#wikipedia "Women's studies expert needed to confirm that this isn't just a new name for a well-established phenomenon." (2023) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptog...

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

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...

happy #juneteenth! ✊🏻✊🏾✊🏿 (photo First day of Memphis integration, TN, 1961) (what is juneteenth? nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...)

Penske Media Corporation (PMC) — the parent company of Rolling Stone and other publications like Billboard, Variety, and The Hollywood Reporter — has acquired Vox Media, home of Eater, The Verge, Vox Studios, and more. Details ↓

L’Italien Carlo Ginzburg, figure fondatrice de la microhistoire, est mort

⚫ Mort à 87 ans de Carlo Ginzburg, pape italien de la microhistoire L’ancien professeur s’est toujours attaché à privilégier les cas spécifiques et à laisser dans ses recherches une place au hasard ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/xL6

"19 households could buy 14% of everything produced in a given year in the US. (...) great wealth is never “virtual”" #inequality www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Has #AI Already Killed How-To Nonfiction? #books tim.blog/2026/06/12/h...

I'm attending a digital humanities event in Montreal. There was a keynote on AI and something about the talk made me wonder if it had been written by Claude. I said as much in the Q&A. As I posed the question, the speaker shifted, looking slightly uncomfortable. What he said next shocked the room +

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

I read this paragraph at least five times.

"il faut parler aujourd’hui de « national-libéralisme"

🇮🇹 "e divertiamoci prima!" felice bloomsday! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcUR...

New: A tiny snippet of user-generated text as short as 13 words is often enough to manipulate the AI agents that power tools like ChatGPT and Google’s AI search. Shows trivially easy for companies/brands to manipulate ChatGPT results by posting on Reddit, Quora, etc www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...

Export controls on Mythos and Fable 5 are a remarkable US own goal - in my @financialtimes.com op-ed I outline how export restrictions on US frontier AI raise awkward questions for the business model of American AI firms and could fuel demand for Chinese AI models giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Guardian: EU trade deficit with China reaches record €1bn a day, data shows – ‘The trade expert Rafael Jimenez Buendía, a senior fellow at the Mercator Institute for China Studies, said the trade data for May and June was likely to show that deficit growing further.’

"Online news video is now mainstream everywhere: 77% globally consume online news video each week, and a majority now watch online news video in every market covered by the report. It's now ahead of broadcast TV news in every market apart from DE, DK and the NL." www.bbc.com/news/article...

The British government acted lawfully when it banned the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization, the Court of Appeal in London has ruled.

"Habeas corpus — the centuries-old right to force the government to justify, before a judge, why it has locked a person up — is enshrined in Article I of the Constitution." gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

#BREAKING The United States and Iran have agreed to a 'Peace Deal' with signing set to take place June 19 in Geneva, mediator Pakistan announces. Trump says Strait of Hormuz to be opened and US blockade of Iran lifted immediately.