#DeepSeek, justifiably, freaked the tech world out over the weekend. Experts say that while it's a major democratization of "reasoning" AI without the high price, America isn't suddenly in 2nd place. America is still leading in frontier models. cnet.com/tech/services-and-s… @cnet

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries currentaffairs.org/news/how-…

🇺🇸 🇵🇸 Sama Safi, a 20-year-old American citizen and honors psychology student at Birzeit University, remains in Israeli detention after soldiers seized her from her family’s home near Ramallah at 3 a.m. on June 2, with lawmakers warning her life is at risk. Safi, whose family lives in Florida, was taken without charge and transferred to Ofer prison, then to the Moscovia interrogation center in Jerusalem, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society. Her family says she has a chronic condition that causes fevers up to 105°F and requires daily medication and a quarterly injection she travels abroad to receive. She was one of five Palestinian women detained that week, including two members of the Palestinian women’s national football team. The Israeli military said the women were suspected of “promoting terrorist activities.” Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Sen. Chris Van Hollen have both demanded her release. “I am really sick and tired of the Israeli government taking American taxpayer dollars and then mistreating Americans,” Van Hollen said. Israel has not told her family or the U.S. embassy where she is being held. Rep. Tlaib said, “Her life is at risk—our government must free her now!”

There's no way the secret service will allow Trump to use a Trump Mobile phone youtu.be/XHpP5otFv4M

A six-year-old Palestinian boy with leukemia died while waiting for the Netanyahu government to approve his medical evacuation request. His name was Ghazal. In Gaza, no hospital is fully functional and Israeli approval is required to leave. A cancer diagnosis is a death sentence. That’s why I led 61 of my colleagues in demanding that the Trump Administration reestablish a medical evacuation corridor so patients have a chance to survive—a chance that was never afforded to Ghazal. Read more about how @ChrisVanHollen, @SenMarkey, @RepDean, @RepDexterOR, & I are demanding immediate action to alleviate this horrific humanitarian crisis: mcgovern.house.gov/news/docu…

New NieR game incoming? @yokotaro

Video shows Mohammad Abu Giab, a 15-year-old fisherman from Gaza, diving into the sea he loved. He was later shot dead by Israeli forces off Deir el-Balah. Gaza's Fishermen's Syndicate says at least 238 fishermen have been killed by Israel since October 2023.

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New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive. w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch washingtonpost.com/business/…

Asha says "How about those Exclusives!?" And gives out Xbox 25th Anniversary Consoles to Xbox Fans at Event!

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write. This is the article: volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2…

BREAKING: Israel has moved Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, from a Negev detention centre to solitary confinement in Nafha prison. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/d1okw8

“The first thing anyone noticed in Theodosia was her smile. We’d always see her laughing.” This Lebanese student was killed by Israel just after finishing her final exams. Theodosia Karam is one of over 3,500 people killed by Israel’s attacks on Lebanon since March.

Such a sad story of a family split apart by the Trump administration. youtu.be/EgBGFe2x7v0 via @CBSSunday

My Speed Racer 4K limited edition order was cancelled by @amazon 😭

The Odyssey popcorn bucket is an IMAX Keighley camera.

These are the four college girls, including one American citizen, the IDF kidnapped in the middle of the night from their homes and threw into their torture dungeons. Jolan Abu Awwad, Natali Abu Dayya, Laila Nael Khalil, Sama Safi Israel has a policy called “administrative detention” that allows them to kidnap Palestinians and imprison them for 6 month increments without any charges whatsoever. These holdings can drag out for years. Over 3,000 Palestinians were being held on administrative detention in Israeli prisons on October 7. That’s why Hamas took all those Israelis back to Gaza. To exchange for their release. But do you see how that works? When Israel kidnaps people and holds them for months and years on end, they are simply “prisoners on administrative detention.” But when Hamas does it, they are “hostages.”

#newbies NBC has opened submissions on its TV writing program. No application fee. You need 2 original pilots of the same basic type, a resume, & 2 personal essays of 400 words apiece. They accept submissions until June 21. Check out NBCU's many programs! nbcuniversallaunch.com/tv-wr…

Another in a long list of families that have been wiped out by the IDF naharnet.com/stories/en/3204…

🚨🇪🇨 Reports of sexual torture, mass starvation, physical abuse, and tuberculosis are emerging from Ecuador’s military-controlled prisons while the government expands security cooperation with U.S. Southern Command. Drop Site contributor Camila Galarza-Zavala reports from Quito that one inmate died every seven hours over the past year, pushing prison deaths to their highest level in recent history and surpassing the era when drug cartels controlled the prison system. Among the detainees are former left-wing Vice President Jorge Glas, who lost 30 pounds and was found unconscious after allegedly being denied food and medical care; Omar Campoverde, a member of the Marxist Movimiento Guevarista, who says he was sexually assaulted by prison guards; and Aquiles Alvarez, the elected mayor of Ecuador’s largest city, who has been held by the state for the past three months. The crackdown on political prisoners comes as Washington deepens its support for the Ecuadorian government, supplying Pentagon bombs and deploying military personnel. The photographs accompanying this report were taken inside Ecuadorian prisons by inmates between 2024 and 2025 and shared with their families to expose conditions behind bars. They were first published by journalist Karol Noroña for CONNECTAS. @sovietwithsazon for Drop Site News

Just saw the footage of God of War Laufey... the thing that's kinda ruining it for me is the giant gelatinous talking cube.