I have been operating under the assumption that a lot of the scheduling decisions in this tournament were made for the TV audience in other countries but like the first World Cup game audiences in Europe on this Saturday is at like 10/11 pm

Literally the only thing these world-breaking innovators can imagine is more and faster capitalism. So creative! So insightful!!

Don’t give Citibike any ideas, you’ll have to take out a mortgage for any rental that goes beyond 45 minutes

Is there a rule that all Instagram ads have to be AI generated? All slop, all the time. And the comments are full of people saying “this is slop”. Great advertising!

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

Pete Buttigieg writes that he got a visit from Child Protective Services, based on an anonymous call made by a woman who claimed that he told her he commits crimes at a conference years ago:

Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack that crippled Jaguar Land Rover and delivered an estimated $2.5 billion hit to the UK economy, investigators concluded.

What’s remarkable about all this stuff is the stolen valor. You didn’t build shit, you won a birth lottery. You are a podcaster not Emperor Vespasian. bsky.app/profile/just...

BREAKING NYT: A New York City panel just voted to freeze rents for nearly one million rent-stabilized apartments — fulfilling one of Mayor Zohran Mamdani's key campaign promises and handing the mayor a major policy win six months into his tenure.

Cinemas are a ripoff

Ah, using "AI enhancement" for engagement, with no concerns of the risks it might create for innocent people.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

This is terrifying for green card holders (which I once was). Border agents already have an incredible amount of power over you, now they can remove your permanent residency status if they feel like it?

Are New York City taxpayers footing the bill for this and for all the NYPD overtime to provide security for a billionaire's private wedding? If so, why?

I think if you have this view it's incumbent upon you to explain why the last decade or so of moderate control of the Democratic Party has been such a miserable failure. It's not a mystery why voters are choosing alternatives.

Using AI for JavaScript development usually works well but every time I switch to Swift stuff like this happens constantly

AI has made this noticeably worse at this World Cup

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...

RESULT: In the Buffalo area, state Senator Jeremy Zellner has been ousted in today's Dem primary. He lost to Jon Rivera, who is currently an Assemblymember and was endorsed by the Working Families Party. The specific reason I was watching this one, related to past Bolts coverage:

On a night of stunning upsets my local district almost looks like an outlier www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

With Mamdani right behind him

Graphic design is my passion.

Brad Lander wins the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th congressional district, @nbcnews.com projects. He defeats Rep. Dan Goldman.

Well that was certainly… a game of football

The cratering of CBS News ratings is enjoyable, but also irrelevant. They didn't put Weiss in charge for ratings. They put her in charge to appease Trump, so he'd continue to favor Ellison companies with regulatory/policy decisions worth billions. There's only one viewer who matters.

oh my god

NEW: Meta rolled out software to collect what workers were doing on their laptops to use for training AI, then left databases full of that information exposed to anyone in the company, then told WIRED they were pausing the program before telling employees. @peard33.bsky.social has the scoop!

someone teach this guy how to snap his fingers!

"An average U.S. woman, who is 5-foot-3, is likely to be knocked down by about 59 percent of vehicles today. In 2002, that number would have been 37 percent." Gift article: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Not really. Starmer pursued a strategy that made essentially every political scientist suck their teeth and go 'that's not a good idea', his administration was not centrist (looking Tony Blair when I take my glasses off does not make you centrist)....I don't think polsci will be that troubled.

Meanwhile, away from the Burnham trainspotting, getting lots of messages from London parents whose schools are closing early this week due to the heat, causing total chaos for them. If your school/workplace is affected drop me a DM or WhatsApp: wa.me/447760993558

Only half joking when I say someone should revive Seaquest DSV. As a kid that was really into space it sparked my imagination for all the exciting unknowns that exist on our own planet

The fantasy of human colonization of Mars isn't just stupid, unrealistic, or a waste of resources — it's pernicious, because it actively stokes insouciance with respect to safeguarding the only planet that at least 99.99999999% of us are ever going to live on.

WHAT KIND OF IRISH IS YOUR PREMIER?! WHAT KIND OF IRISH IS YOUR PM?!

I’m sorry, no. This is not the guy who did the reflecting pool. No. Come on. We’re just putting a hat on a hat here. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Every so often, I'm proud to be British. Can just imagine the glee in The Sun offices when they came up with this headline.

"A business tied to a longtime supporter of President Trump was given a no-bid contract to install a water-purification system" at the Reflecting Pool. "That firm’s ultimate owner is the J.J. Cafaro Investment Trust, led by John J. Cafaro, a donor to Mr. Trump and a neighbor to Mar-a-Lago."

Exclusive: Iran were hustled out of the United States so quickly that the team’s players had to be iced and bandaged on the plane back to their base in Mexico. A team medic recounts details of a chaotic, pressurised 48 hours Iran endured at the World Cup. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/w...

"Days after the completion of a $14 million renovation, the water in the Lincoln Memorial’s Reflecting Pool had more algae in it than at any recorded point in the month of June for at least five years, according to a specialized analysis of satellite data" www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

insane local tv news factoid: the last parade using actual ticker tape was to celebrate the end of Desert Storm in 1991

There is lol

Point blank in broad daylight

Happy 12th Birthday to World Cup Spot the Ball, the first project I ever pitched at @nytimes.com: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... terrifying that this much time has passed

I'm almost positive I'm a man and I just don't think any of my friends would do any of these things to me

Seeing the Peter Serafinowicz Harry Potter announcement just made me think, once again, about this excellent James Acaster bit from Off Menu.

Not included in thought process; an analysis of whether this change was a good thing or a bad thing

4Chan Christian guns-and-God conservatives plotted to bomb the MMA at the White House over the Epstein Files but were foiled when one of their moms overheard an encrypted voice chat when she delivered hot pockets to the basement where her son lives. Not kidding.