AI being put in charge of the US' nuclear arsenal was a real program under the Strategic Defense Initiative in the 1980's.
The Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility produced this movie to stop it.
This terrifying episode of the Cold War had been forgotten.
archive.org/details/Reli...
Someone bought 3000 oil contracts yesterday at market close for $275m. Today we hit 3 Iranian oil tankers and Iran has hit 11 ships.
This is mind blowing levels of criminal corruption. When the markets open on Monday, that individual will have made hundreds of millions on a rigged bet.
This speed reading method triples your pace, from 300 words per minute to 900, by cutting subvocalization and reading in word groups instead of one at a time.
NEW: An "unprecedented" number of people have received Apple's latest notifications alerting them they were targeted with mercenary spyware, according to security researchers.
A soldier fighting in Ukraine told us he knows of other soldiers getting them. Lots of posts on social media too.
Somewhere in a sweltering desert, cockroaches scurry around the cell of Carlitos Ricardo Parias. He holds up a plastic bottle, gazing at the worm-like creatures swimming in his water. His other arm is turning purple from a gunshot wound for which he says he hasn’t received proper medical care.
A BMW-sponsored team at Clemson University just built a car that *gathers more energy than it uses*.
Energy is one of the most plentiful substances in the universe. Only the greed of fossil fuel companies locking us into more oil and gas makes energy expensive.
news.clemson.edu/clemson-univ...
A little good news to start your week off!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new once-daily pill that dramatically lowers LDL – or “bad” - cholesterol, reaching levels that statins alone often cannot.
Article: zurl.co/AeTrM
Stoat, the open-source group chat app previously known as Revolt, has finally introduced video chat and screen sharing! The update also brings GIF search, push notifications, new sounds, and a slow mode across desktop, web, and mobile.
alternativeto.net/news/2026/7...
Trump: "I thought Lindsey was gonna be living forever. I said, 'Lindsey, you're gonna live forever.' And he was gonna have a big victory. He was scheduled to win by a lot. He was scheduled."
Free open-source YouTube client that skips ads, plays in background, streams live, supports 4K and dark mode, with no account required. Available on the Google Play Store and APK download
State of the Russian army. Footage shows a Russian mobile fire group training exercise ending in a mishap while using a YakB-12.7 rotary machine gun. #Russia
Texas, the model State for Project 2025, a return to The Confederacy, Jim Crow 2.0 and The Handmaid’s tale, white Christian nationalism, fascism…
And strangely, 8 million Texans that are eligible don’t vote!
Open-source PowerShell toolkit to debloat and customize Windows 11, disable Windows Recall, minimize telemetry, install apps, harden networking, and automate system settings
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani announces click-to-cancel rule for NYC.
This rule is aimed at guaranteeing New Yorkers can cancel subscriptions as easily as they sign up — and stopping corporations from trapping customers.
This will save New Yorkers up to $162.5 million per year.
401K plans often route you on the DL to high-cost, low-return funds that are good mainly for the firms pushing them.
So ya know what we're gonna go: Expose 'em.
And we're gonna do it *with you.*
Join along:
www.propublica.org/getinvolved/...
New: Russian hackers were behind a cyberattack last year that crippled Jaguar Land Rover that cost billions in damages and harmed the British economy, investigators have concluded. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/w...
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/27/z...#Pluralistic
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Speaking of thin-skinned, paranoid, wildly corrupt buffoons who stop at nothing to silence their enemies, how about that Mark Zuckerberg, huh? Sure, all the headlines these days are about Zuck's intention to transform Facebook into a sports betting site:
www.businessinsider.com/metas-zucker...
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More than 16,500 patients, including amputees who require corrective surgeries that cannot be performed anywhere in Gaza, remain on waiting lists for treatment abroad. Israel only allows a handful to leave through the Rafah crossing each day. 1,500 patients on the WHO-approved list have died...
I saw this site which measures if you are "in the weights" (via @shiplives.bsky.social).
At first I thought it measured how much of your work was used to train something, but that's not the case. In this case, it's how much an AI "knows" about you.
I scored very high
intheweights.com
This is the fundraising page for the 15 people indicted on "Antifa" charges for allegedly participating in rapid response networks and protests against the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
chuffed.org/project/1865...
All funds raised will go directly to supporting the defendants through trial.
The people who were indicted on "Antifa" charges in Minnesota today are accused of participating in community rapid response networks like hundreds of thousands of other people around the country.
Everyone up to @maddow.bsky.social has promoted these tactics.
This concerns all of us.
Resist.
Explore peer-reviewed research on cellular processes, tissue properties, and organismal function in the Biomechanics collection from @pnasnexus.org.
Explore the collection and submit your own research today: oxford.ly/4fgZvPt
A Ukrainian strike drone hit a Russian fuel tanker on the Nova Kakhovka-Melitopol highway. The fuel tank immediately caught fire, so did the driver. #Ukraine