Just a Zombie in Switzerland

Tough chart: Home prices, mortgage payments and incomes since 2020 — all indexed to zero. (via JBREC)

NEW: ICE is trying to deport a mother of 4 while her husband is at Fort Benning in Army basic training. When she went to pick up the family's military IDs, Navy personnel turned her over to ICE. She's been in the US since age six. With @nancyayoussef.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

Only a single demographic group polled by the Washington Post supported live-streaming an execution: “MAGA Republican men.” A slim majority of people support a firing squad execution. But even the people who support the execution oppose live-streaming it, and do so by a 70-30 margin.

Periodic reminder that the biggest scandal in American history outside of Watergate involved a grand total of $9 million (inflation adjusted) changing hands & it resulted in resignations, convictions, jail time, and new legislation, and in the Trump administration that amount is a rounding error

Animaris Rex is an 18-metre-long walking 'beach animal' propelled by the wind, created by Theo Jansen as a fusion of art and engineering. Original post

Todays store-bought vegetables only have half the nutrients they once did. You won't be surprised at why.

Man who won’t give his employees piss breaks claims many piss breaks on the horizon

As global trade adjusts to a shifting economic and geopolitical landscape, what will a new equilibrium look like? Join @piie.com at #WTOPublicForum to explore what comes next for the global trading system. In person (Room CR) or live: https://bit.ly/4j5B4Gp

Alone in a basement bar in Switzerland, just me, and IPA and Commanders Football!

Dolly Parton decided to cover "Stairway to Heaven" as a gospel song, and asked Robert Plant for permission to write a new verse for it, and Robert Plant basically said "of course you can, you're Dolly Parton" youtu.be/YhTvxVxXJLQ

My family loved Dolly! She embodied all the best of the South, community spirit, good humor, energy, graciousness, forgiveness, charity and acceptance and offering dignity and a helping hand to all in need. Oh yeah, and great pipes, hair and makeup!

Ocean Cleanup's redesigned system just completed its first successful haul from the Pacific Garbage Patch, pulling out plastic ranging from microplastics to ghost fishing nets.

"I got it! I got it!!!!!!" Narator: They did not in fact got it

This is truly a commitment to the gag!

this has been fascinating to watch unfold this season so far. Short version: the new power units (engine + battery) have a bunch of AI stuff. This is meant to optimise power deployment duting races. except it keeps doing weird shit the drivers can't stop/control. And they are NOT happy.

give these men complimentary tickets immediately

Biologists pinpoint how common virus triggers multiple sclerosis www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Proud to say I have never stepped in the doors of a Taco Bell, and never will

The corporations also spent massive mounts of stock buybacks in 2024, totaling $32.5bn...Had all the companies spent that money to bolster worker pay, the wage of a million workers could have risen from $29,087 to $59,600—the income level needed to afford the average rent for a two-bedroom apartment

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

It is always the ones you least suspect...

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

All the retail investors who bought the stock on Robinhood now that the hedge funds got their payday:

Featured in the latest Digest: What Happens When the Flow of Immigrant Workers Suddenly Stops? www.nber.org/digest/20260...

You can do it, I walked away from way over 200,000 followers because it was exhausting seeing them get run over by bots and buttwipes all day, every day. Whatever good culture was there has diminished to a fart bubble. It makes me sad, but it's no longer worth the effort. 2/

Happy Father's Day 🖤

One of the largest data centers in the country is rising from the desert of southern New Mexico. At 1,400 acres, it could swallow New York's Central Park While there might be enough land, there isn't enough water. Locals concerned Project Jupiter will destroy the chile & pecan farming ✏️ @npr.org

Sign o something: Global central banks (India, France) are moving gold from vaults in London & New York as they become more skittish about storing bullion outside their own borders and diversifying the storage location of their reserves. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The OOI is being dismantled right now. Ships are in the water. Buoys are coming up. Congress is fighting back, but the window is closing. I put together a one-stop action page. Call, text, sign, takes five minutes. Link 👇. Do it today. ecoeconomyinsider.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/o...

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

AI and tech have come to their inevitable apex... Meet SmartFart underpants to diagnose and measure your gastric emissions. gizmodo.com/i-wore-a-sma...

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Pretty fun that Springsteen managed to organize an America 250 concert line up that people actually want to see.

Pro-tip: don’t name your Bluetooth speaker ‘Bomb’.

If you copy and paste another journalists' work it is plagiarism and a firing offense. News outlets need to say if you copy a plagiarism machine's output, that is just as bad if not worse

Hint, our government is spraying Roundup to kill natural biodiversity and make logging companies richer off public lands.

As Sonja and others have admirably shown, that just isn’t how royal portraits work — at all. Portraits aren't Polaroids. They're complex pieces of public messaging that reflect dynastic priorities & shifting alliances more than familial affinity. Let’s consider the portraiture of Elizabeth I. /2

Radio Jocks vs Groks. It went about as bad for AI as you can imagine! gizmodo.com/an-experimen...

Astounding surge in ebooks released clearly fueled by AI explosion. You can derive that AI is writing twice as many books as humans now.

RIP Project Freedom (5/4/26 — 5/5/26)

The measles outbreak in South Carolina is finally declared over. More than 1,000 kids contracted the vaccine preventable illness… many may experience lifelong disability as a result. What helped them stop the outbreak? Mass vaccinations. Because they work.

HAPPENING NOW: Tim Heidecker delivers an update on the future of InfoWars and takes calls from viewers including President Donald J. Trump.

Agree that my Commanders had an A+ pick with Sonny Styles at LB. Welcome to Washington! HTTC sports.yahoo.com/nfl/article/...

Firing your Secretary of the Navy in the middle of a naval blockade doesn’t help your narrative that everything is going great.