New: the highly controversial AI music generator Suno was hacked. The hacker sent us Suno source code; it shows the company scraped YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius. In all, Suno scraped *decades* worth of music from the internet. Obviously didn't pay artists www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

This is a terrific illustration -- for elected officials but also for media figures -- of the incredible power of simply refusing to take a bullshit dodge for an answer. Keep asking the question, over and over again, and make the weasels squirm.

Rest in peace to one of cinema’s most outstanding artists; the legendary actor Sam Neill (1947–2026)

I have been expressing desire for an app that alerts me to the presence of pervert glasses in my vicinity. It exists and it's called Nearby Glasses! Immediate download.

Elena Wuest (Germany, b.1977) An Afternoon Tea 2026

Light a candle for Sam Neill with #FrightClub Monday at 10 PM ET. We will go In the Mouth of Madness (1994) to see him. Available on Tubi. Reality isn't what it used to be.

Riley: ‘Helen Keller couldn’t have written a book.’ Also Riley: has clearly never opened one. How does dumb keep getting paid?

Pundits: "Don't speak ill of the dead." Historians:

#Quiet, for #BlueSkyArtShow

The ongoing conflict in the Middle East has been an accelerator for the energy transition I told @npr.org. In an uncertain world, many countries found that investing in renewables and EVs give them energy security – and makes economic sense. And that's not going away. www.npr.org/2026/07/09/n...

Gov. Beshear should demand proof of life. If his state has lost a senator, its people deserve to know and deserve a replacement. The seat doesn‘t belong to the Republican Party.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

“An escalator can never break down. It can only become stairs.” - Mitch Hedberg

Saying good night to my BlueSky friends with this incredible sight. On June 31, a rare 22-degree solar halo appeared above Devils Tower in Wyoming. The ring formed as sunlight passed through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals, creating one of nature's most beautiful optical displays.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

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GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

when it zoomed out I gasped

I don't want a download code, I want a physical game on a disk

A Japanese fan broke down crying after his country's elimination, but a group of Brazilians fans went to console him and Mexican fans made him soar. You gotta love the World Cup! ❤️🌎⚽️ Video: RÉCORD

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

I know the list is endless but I genuinely think trashing the legitimate congressionally chartered org for celebrating the 250th to instead hijack our national assets and taxpayer funds for his personality cult grifter crap should, in and of itself, be fully sufficient to merit removal from office.

I wrote about Trump's neo-Lost Cause kitsch newrepublic.com/post/212426/...

When these data centers become debt traps in a few years at most, the next Dem president should offer to wipe out those debts if they're sold for a dollar back to cities for community centers, mutual aid hubs, YMCA-style temporary housing services. Try to salvage anything out of this mess.

I was raised on these streets

NEW: buried within the trove of hacked documents from Madison Square Garden, the folks @404media.co found the company was keeping files on activists that criticized their use of facial recognition. Including me. Here's @fightforthefuture.org's statement: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-06...

Storytime for Chicago library kids with LeVar Burton at the grand opening of the Obama Presidential Library 🤯✨📚 @obamafoundation.bsky.social

If your 80-year-old grandpa was insisting that the reason the backyard pool has algae in it is because terrorists are trying to make him look bad and demanding the police arrest somebody, you'd put him in a senior care facility before the end of the day.

Got a piece today from J.J. Anselmi bringing together people from all across the country to talk about what happens when the data center comes to town. newrepublic.com/article/2113...

Brutal community note

Huh! arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Someone built a full MMO — quests, loot, voice chat, chickens — for the Playdate's 2.7-inch screen. It's free.

My Haunted Little Free Library is stocked!! Just picked up a paperback copy of JAWS for summer horror readers

eating in mexico as a european has gotta be like hearing music for the first time

genuinely speechless here.

Remember this scene the next time a corporate reporter tries to insist that a rural diner full of white men in their 60s is somehow a more authentically "American" place, somehow more representative of who we are as a nation.

Buttigieg: It has been more than a decade now of feeling like Washington is punching you in the face every time you look at your phone or watch TV. Imagine if you could look at what was going on with your leaders and actually feel your blood pressure go down a little bit instead of up.

David Hockney (July 9 1937 - June 11, 2026)

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

hey quick question, am I having a stroke

A headstone in a Danish cemetery is carved for Andreas Morgenrødt, 1996–2064, and describes him as a time traveler. The future death date is already chiseled in.

"it shows a script we are going to see again in 2026: viral candidate overperforms in the feed, ordinary ballot-counting reveals a different reality, and the people who conflated engagement with votes decide that there’s something suspicious about the count."

I wrote about Trump's latest crash-outs. newrepublic.com/post/211454/...

Real strength protects the weak. Real men punch up, not down. Real masculinity doesn't need to keep a woman small to feel big. We know the difference. It's time to say so. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...