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Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger,
but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world.
Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events
—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.
https://www.

Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

TIL: There’s a town in the U.P. of Michigan named “Felch.”
I have no comment on this novel (to me) fact. @… https://m.ai6yr.org/@nwstornado_bot/11

Tornado (bot) (@nwstornado_bot@m.ai6yr.org)
Attached: 1 image #NWS #tornado Tornado Warning for Dickinson, MI; Marquette, MI #MIwx At 552 PM EDT/452 PM CDT/, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located 12 miles northeast of Felch, or 22 miles south of Ishpeming, moving east at 35 mph. HAZARD...Tornado and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation. IMPACT...Flying debris will be dangerous to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed. Damage to roofs, windows, and vehicles w…

Mr Falange calls for a General Election (probably to save his Clacton face) & says, "You cannot make the ‘biggest changes’ in British politics in 40 years without a mandate from the British people."
Funny, I seem to remember them voting in a majority of Westminster reps under the vacuous slogan 'Change'
Now they'll get a bit of that, but only a bit.

Politico shuts down two AI-driven products following a November 2025 arbitration ruling that found they violated the union's collective bargaining agreement (Kathleen Floyd/Washington-Baltimore News Guild)
https://wbng.org/2026/05/22/politico-ai-arbitration-victory/…

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild
The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations between PEN Guild leadership, WBNG, and POLITICO management, the company has agreed to shut down both artificial intelligence products at the heart of last November’s landmark arbitration ruling.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of marketing its services as secure but failing to "deliver on those promises" by accessing encrypted messages (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-

Meta, WhatsApp Sued by Texas Over Secure Message Protections (1)
WhatsApp is able to access user’s encrypted messages, Texas said in a lawsuit that accuses Meta Platforms Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg of lying to the US Senate in 2018 about the company’s steps to make them inaccessible.

Good morning! I replaced the morning walk with a morning ride. 😊 I tried to push a bit harder today for training. Next time should be lighter again. But it felt really good!
#cycling #goodmorning

Michael Irvin’s Cowboys Super Bowl bet says quiet part out loud https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/michael-irvin-cowboys-super-bowl-bet-knicks-drought/fcc2407d22a4b420fe82820e

Such an amazing adaptation!
It requires a lot of work per trap but is so incredibly effective that it's worth it for the spider
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2531317-new-to-science-spider-builds-trap-that-flings-…

New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air
A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above

The IPO prospectus SpaceX dropped last night revealed how much the world’s largest public offering is underpinned by a founder firmly in control.
Elon Musk, who previously complained he didn’t have a big enough say in Tesla,
will control 85% of the vote at SpaceX through special shares
(and will get another billion shares if SpaceX puts a million-person colony on Mars).
The filing raised speculation that after SpaceX goes public, a purchase of Tesla isn’t far off.

SpaceX IPO filing lays out Musk’s interplanetary manifesto
The document also revealed how much the world’s largest public offering is underpinned by a founder firmly in control.