ChatGPT: "Hail Satan"; South Park skewers Trump; FCC okays Paramount merger; skyrocketing electric bills; 180K GPS ankle monitors; deporting migrant children.
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ChatGPT gave instructions for murder, self-mutilation, and devil worship. OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
FCC shows that its holdup of the Paramount-Skydance merger was political all along. In a statement, FCC Chair Brendan Carr says the deal was allowed to go through only after the new owners agreed to make ideological changes to its news programming and end DEI policies.
ICE moves to shackle some 180,000 immigrants with GPS ankle monitors. A June 9 memo directed ICE field officers to significantly expand the number of immigrants under round-the-clock surveillance.
Trump administration moves to rapidly deport migrant children, asking teens if they want to leave.
Trump hangs up on CNN after Epstein questions, tells GOP to pivot to Obama: A Closer Look (Video)
Trump's 'South Park' problem. It’s the latest sign that Trump has lost control of the Epstein narrative and that the saga has broken Washington containment. (Video: NSFW!) (Video: NSFW!)
Trump’s Epstein Furor Grows As MAGA Karens MTG and Boebert Demand Answers | The Daily Show (Video)
DOJ launches ‘strike force’ to investigate Obama officials over 2016 election. The Justice Department said late Wednesday it had formed a “Strike Force” to “investigate potential next legal steps” after Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new documents about the 2016 election. The documents do little to suggest wrongdoing by the intelligence community in seeking to investigate Russia’s efforts to influence the 2016 contest
Trump’s treason claims against Obama and others prompt a rare response from the former president.
Just pointing out that, according to Wikipedia, the Supreme Court in Trump v. United States, 603 U.S. 593 (2024), determined that presidential immunity from criminal prosecution presumptively extends to all of a president's "official acts" – with absolute immunity for official acts within an exclusive presidential authority that Congress cannot regulate, such as the pardon, command of the military, execution of laws, or control of the executive branch. So if Trump can’t be prosecuted for his egregious conduct in office, neither can Obama.
The desperation of Donald Trump’s posts. Trump’s social-media habits are different when he can’t control the narrative.
Pentagon suspends participation in think tank events. Hegseth scared by the word “think”? The move comes a week after the Defense Department pulled out of the Aspen Security Forum due to “the evil of globalism.”
Elon’s Starlink hit with hours-long outage day after rollout of T-Mobile satellite service.
Even the obit writers are jumping ship at The Washington Post. “It’s just an absolute exodus…”
Living in the shadow of Bitcoin. (Bitcoin mining ruining communities.) (Video)
Fusion startup says it's figured out how to turn mercury into gold. With one enormous catch. It’s radioactive. (Didn’t these guys ever see Goldfinger?)
Fasting before bed could supercharge your brain’s memory system while you sleep. True, but there are some days I’d rather forget.
Quote of the Day:
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.
--Eric Hoffer (Wikipedia link)
(More Eric Hoffer quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Culinarians Day, Feast of Saint James, Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day, International Day for Judicial Well-being, International Day for Women and Girls of African Descent, International Red Shoe Day, National Carousel Day, National Get Gnarly Day, National Hire a Veteran Day, National Hot Fudge Sundae Day, National Talk in an Elevator Day, National Wine and Cheese Day, System Administrator Appreciation Day, Thread the Needle Day, and World Drowning Prevention Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2019 – National extreme heat records were set this day in the UK, Belgium, The Netherlands and Germany during the July 2019 European heat wave.
2010 – WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in U.S. military history.
2000 – Concorde Air France Flight 4590 crashed outside of Paris shortly after taking off at Charles de Gaulle Airport, killing 113 people. (Video)
1985 – Actor Rock Hudson’s publicist revealed he had AIDS. (Video)
1984 – Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to perform a space walk.
1983 – The film “Sleepless in Seattle” was released. (Video)
1978 – Birth of Louise Joy Brown, the first human to have been born after conception by in vitro fertilisation, or IVF.
1976 –Viking 1 photographed the famous Face on Mars photo.
1975 – The musical “A Chorus Line” opened on Broadway at the Shubert Theater, where it ran for 6,137 performances until April 28, 1990. (Video)
1970 – The Carpenters’ cover of Bacharach/David’s “(They Long To Be) Close to You” hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. (Video)
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declared the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States expected its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This was the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1966 - The Supremes release the single “You Can’t Hurry Love.” (Video)
1965 – Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. (Video)
1964 – The Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" hit #1 on the Billboard 200 and stayed there for 14 weeks. (Video)
1956 – Forty-five miles south of Nantucket Island, the Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the MS Stockholm in heavy fog and sank the next day, killing 51. (Video)
1946 – The Crossroads Baker device was the first underwater nuclear weapons test. (Video)
1946 - Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis debut at Atlantic City's 500 Club.
1925 – Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) was established.
1979 – Dancer and suspected spy Mata Hari sentenced to death.
1909 – Louis Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes. (Video)
1908 – Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovered that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock was monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
1898 – U.S. forces invaded Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War.
1897 – Jack London sailed for the Yukon gold rush, where he would write his first successful stories.
1868 – The Wyoming Territory was established.
1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph was successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1832 – First recorded railroad accident in U.S. history.
1814 – War of 1812: An American attack on Canada was repulsed.
1609 – The English ship Sea Venture, en route to Virginia, is deliberately driven ashore during a storm at Bermuda to prevent its sinking; the survivors go on to found a new colony there.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1967 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor and producer
1965 – Illeana Douglas, American actress, director, producer, and screenwriter
1955 – Iman, Somalian-English model and actress
1953 – Walter Payton, American football player and race car driver (died 1999)
1941 – Emmett Till, African-American lynching and kidnapping victim (died 1955)
1935 – Barbara Harris, American actress and singer (died 2018)
1925 – Benny Benjamin, American R&B drummer (died 1969)
1925 – Jerry Paris, American actor and director (died 1986)
1923 – Estelle Getty, American actress (died 2008)
1920 – Rosalind Franklin, English biophysicist, chemist, and academic (died 1958)
1915 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., American lieutenant and pilot (died 1944)
1908 – Jack Gilford, American actor (died 1990) (Video)
1902 – Eric Hoffer, American philosopher and author (died 1983)
1894 – Walter Brennan, American actor (died 1974)
1870 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (died 1966)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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