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Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.

Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years | David Boles, Blogs
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades insi…

Raiders’ Ashton Jeanty Shares True Feelings on Mike Washington Jr. During Minicamp https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/ashton-jeanty-mike-washington-feelings-minicamp/

Interest in a gasoline tax holiday is growing on Capitol Hill following President Donald Trump’s endorsement earlier Monday
— but the proposal is also facing pushback from some key Republicans balking at cutting a major source of federal funding.
High energy prices stemming from the ongoing conflict in the Middle East prompted Trump to suggest pausing fuel tax collections
“till it’s appropriate.”
He said, “It’s a small percentage, but it’s still money.”
Sen. Jos…

The IPO of SpaceX including xAI is scary, because it is clear pure evil, in the form of extreme rightwing and racist Elon Musk is becoming more powerful then ever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/busines

How SpaceX’s IPO Compares With Saudi Aramco, Uber and Others
The previous record was set over six years ago. But SpaceX, whose stock begins trading on Friday, is on track to raise tens of billions of dollars more.

SEC filing: Cerebras upsizes its IPO to 30M shares at $150-$160 each, up from 28M shares at $115-$125, aiming to raise up to $4.8B at an up to $34.4B valuation (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

75 years ago #OTD the #interstellar #hydrogen line at 21 cm was detected for the first time in Europe (https://sci-hub.vg/10.1038/168357a0), following the first-ever detection - in the U.S. - in March 1951 (https://sci-hub.vg/10.1038/168356a0): see https://www.astron.nl/may-11-75-years-of-the-hydrogen-line-in-the-netherlands-from-kootwijk-to-westerbork-and-ska/ for what followed.

"In this video, Pierogi from Scammer Payback (https://www.scammerpayback.org) breaks down real posts from Reddit’s r/Scams to expose the tactics behind modern fraud. Drawing on his background in cybersecurity, he explains how today’s scams are evolving — and why so many people are falling for them
Sc…

Scammer Payback
Scammers are ruthless, and that is why I am here. My channels are all about bringing awareness to this critical problem with humor and fun. We will learn a lot of things along the way and if I help one person through this, it will be worth it.

Some thoughts from Claude about military use of AI in targeting.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYIHIM6ihVJ/?igsh=cmM1ZmdjaDl3bzJ5

In a post on X on May 18,
Elbridge Colby, the under secretary of defence for policy at the Pentagon,
announced that the United States would pause its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD)
to “reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense.”
The under secretary pointed to Canada failing to make credible progress on its defence commitments as well as to Canadian rhetoric,
a jab at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davo…

Canada and America Are Drifting Apart. The Pentagon Just Made It Official | The Walrus
A surprise defence decision reveals the depth of the political rupture

“Once upon a time, there were six blind men, who had never disagreed with one another.
One day, they were presented with an elephant, which they had never perceived or known about in their lives.
One by one, they approached and felt this strange creature, coincidentally feeling a different part of the beast.
From this, they each likened this ‘elephant’ to a different object, creating their first disagreement, and forever driving apart these six men,
for each believed …