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Q&A with Grindr CEO George Arison on turning Grindr into an "AI-native company", "impos[ing]" AI on staff, facing "opposition", using AI as a CEO, and more (Jordyn Holman/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/busines…

How Grindr’s C.E.O. Adopted A.I.: ‘I Just Imposed It’
George Arison, the gay dating app’s chief executive, is aiming for all code to be eventually written by artificial intelligence, making the company “leaner.”

Molotov-COCKtail
„An Indiana man was charged with arson after cutting off part of his body and using it to set his mother's house on fire.“
https://www.instagram.com/p/DbbmuapAdie/

«Could AI be a “worthy successor” to humanity?
We need to create a new humanism before the “AI successionists” win.»
AI is also just an anti-humanistic religion of people who have too much money to behave arrogantly. The answer is always 42 either way!
👉 https://www.vox.com…

The people who actually want AI to replace humanity
Here’s how humanism should respond to transhumanism, posthumanism, and AI successionism.

"#Wakelet as a tool for archiving online debates on (academic) events" by @…
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Out of all the sins of the Trump administration
— wars, ICE raids, anti-vax lunacy and the return of measles, the empowering of Kash Patel and Stephen Miller, and so much more
— Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffydeclaring war on “DEI bike lanes” is surely a small thing.
But it’s also such a monumentally stupid act, so counterproductive, so anti-MAHA as to be completely maddening.
NPR recently reported that staff at the Federal Highway Administration have been aske…

It Doesn’t Get Much Dumber Than Trump’s War on ‘DEI Bike Lanes’
Donald Trump and Sean Duffy have waged a war against "DEI bike lanes," arguing that they take up room that could be used for cars.

#ThursDeath this week is Argentina's NAJASH and their wild new LP 'De Bšratros Ustorios'.
https://najash.bandcamp.com/album/de-b-ratros-ustorios
This is blackened de…

Supreme Court to weigh Arizona's proof-of-citizenship voting law (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-weigh-arizonas-proof-citizenship-voting-law-rcna351239
http://www.memeorandum.com/260629/p48#a260629p48

She faced a life-threatening miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ abortion ban, even calls to the governor’s office didn’t help. - Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/31/800047361/health/she-faced-a-life-threatening-miscarriage-under-arkansas-abortion-ban-even-calls-to-the-governors-office-didnt-help/

WEHCO sells Chattanooga Times Free Press to family with interests in logistics media. Circ is down to 12,000. Population of the area is 595,000.
#media #newspapers

SoCal has had ‘so many heat waves,’ but this next one is a doozy:
The weekend is expected to bring dangerous heat starting Friday,
with forecasters warning of elevated risks of heat illness and large wildfires.
High pressure over Arizona will expand west through the weekend,
reaching California’s interior deserts and potentially as far west as the coast, according to the National Weather Service.
That will send temperatures about 10 degrees above normal in man…

SoCal has had 'so many heat waves,' but this next one is a doozy
More dangerous heat is on tap for Southern California starting Friday, with forecasters warning of elevated risks of heat illness and large wildfires.