paraguay should get almiron back for their next game if this kind of thing is going to happen www.espn.com/soccer/story...

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

A little more than one year after I first revealed on @techcrunch.com that there was a secretive startup backed by Jeff Bezos aiming at making a $25,000 pickup truck, Slate Auto has finally confirmed its EV will start at that price: techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/s...

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

Chef's kiss, salute, tears, all of it

Space factories for drugs are getting closer to reality.

me in every editorial meeting

The appropriations process is totally broken, it's a quiet coup, and almost nobody knows about it. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Alan Greenspan dies aged 100 ft.trib.al/g8Ktk4N

BBC News went live to Cabo Verde and then Cabo Verde scored a goal. Absolute scenes.

tired of the "#1 dad" nonsense. if you're a dad, stop treating it like a joke and post your actual national dad ranking. i'm # 492,018, which is actually really high up there, but more importantly it lets me enter ranked dad lobbies where i can get matched up for fistfights with dads of my caliber

SCOOP: A priest who is close to Trump successfully lobbied him to grant clemency to the fraudster David Gentile. Gentile privately indicated Father Frank Mann was paid for his help. EDNY prosecutors opened an investigation into the commutation. But it was closed by Trump political appointees.

incredible, vamos paraguay

world cup status

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

did Fox pull Lalas from the show?

Pulte shows up to his Acting DNI job a day early, surprising outgoing DNI. Wants to fire 100s. Also asks if he has TS clearance, for a security detail, for the PDB at his house, and -- repeatedly -- if he has access to a gov't plane so he can travel between his homes. www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/p...

Elon Musk versus everyone else since the 1800s

Very cool website developed by Regis Barnichon priceofdistinction.org

RUSSIAN SATELLITES APPEAR TO BE STALKING A SPACECRAFT AIDING #UKRAINE - Six mysterious Russian satellites launched earlier this year have been creeping toward an #ICEYE Earth observation spacecraft since early May: www.supercluster.com/editorial/st...

our modern way of war

1. The Secretary of Defense is an idiot. 2. Disease has killed more soldiers than any enemy ever did. Scores Fall Ill at Air Force Base After Hegseth Makes Flu Vaccine Optional www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

just imagine the coverage if, say, Mamdani had used this term

NEW: Records obtained by ProPublica detail at least a dozen SpaceX investors with addresses in mainland China, Hong Kong or Russia who acquired stakes in SpaceX years ago through a middleman firm in the U.S. called Tomales Bay Capital.

“purpose but no meaning” is gonna stick with me holy shit

A lot of companies like to say they are imitating SpaceX, but few are actually doing what made SpaceX valuable: Taking abandoned government tech demos and optimizing them for commercial use...

this article starts with "guy who made the ipod seeing an ipod shuffle ad in the subway 20 years later" and ends with "vibe coding software for your rice cooker bc a tech company bricked it" and the stuff in the middle is also good techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/t...

a new robotics story from moi—XDOF, a startup from UC Berkeley grad students, has exited stealth with $70 million in hand, with plans to create the kind of data stack that allowed LLMs to flourish. techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/c...

Proposed White House regulations could kill thousands of NIH-funded clinical trials, analysis finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop... "In any case, I do expect mass grant cancellations at NIH if this new OMB rule is passed. It will be very ugly," said one expert.

Golden boot race wild: Messi (3) Mbappe (2) Haaland (2) Havertz (2) Balogun (2) Just (2)

The war on metaphor is over and we lost. defector.com/promises-mad...

the ref's got guts!

honestly I think the best metaphor for this debacle is the Russo-Japanese war: -idiot ruler with delusions of grandeur -empire wants to show a middle power whos in charge -negotiators are idiots -imperial logistics are all fucked up -empire surrenders to middle power after defeat

found this ASCII art political twitter meme in an old notebook file. A different time... (•_•) <) )╯ NO BLOCKING / \ \(•_•) ( (> NO THROTTLING / \ (•_•) <) )> NO PAID PRIORITIZATION / \

Uh, that's a new phrase for The Economist.

Awful news. Always crazy to be reminded that we've been upgrading the same fleet of B-52s since they stopped making them in 1962.

A cool bit of AI space news: NASA JPL and Loft Orbital have deployed the first reported Vision-Language Model in orbit, allowing an earth observation satellite to find areas of interest itself. techcrunch.com/2026/06/15/a...

made the kenji cantonese-style steamed salmon tonight and it hits

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

it feels like the spurs want to lose, particularly when fox has the ball

ahhhhhhhhhhhh

I hate hydration breaks

a little luck never hurts!

people who work and invest in AI frequently ask me why their work polls so badly

Each member of the crew hates Lalas for different reasons Rebecca Lowe and Thierry Henry are used to working on high quality soccer TV shows and can’t believe how boorish and stupid and boring he is. And Zlatan is just like “I simply do not respect anything about this man, I yearn to destroy him”

I recently had the rare opportunity to speak with astronaut Victor Glover, the pilot of the Artemis II moon mission. Glover, a vocal Christian, said the mission has “definitely grown” his faith, but he struggles to find the right words — and he's okay with that. religionnews.com/2026/06/12/a...

I’m sorry but I am reverting to the meme.

David Hockney died. He was one of my favorite artists, someone whose work teaches you things about other people and about paint.

A total pleasure to work on @ibogost.com’s grand profile of the disappearing Boeing 747, which used to be part of Americans’ everyday life but is now basically just a POTUS chariot. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...