Plans released for a $16 billion mile-long ship capable of carrying 80,000 people. The 'Freedom Ship' would be home to about 50,000 people, with space for 10,000 tourists and 20,000 crew members. "The Freedom Ship is envisioned as a permanently mobile city at sea designed for long-term residence rather than short-term travel," the company says. The ship would be about 8 times the size of the current largest ship in the world, the Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas. The plans include a 15,000-seat stadium, schools, colleges, shops, clubs, a water park, a music hall, museums, parks, and more. The ship, which would run on nuclear, would be too large to dock and would remain in international waters. Freedom Cruise International says it would go around the world every two to three years. Insane.

For more than a century, one of Washington's best-kept secrets lay beneath the Lincoln Memorial: the Undercroft, a soaring 50,000-square-foot foundation built to keep the landmark from sinking into D.C.'s swampy ground. Beginning in June, the public will be able to visit the space, now with a museum tracing the memorial's history, from its construction to its role as a powerful stage for the civil rights movement. cbsn.ws/4vief5h

June 1 the Department of war is launching a program to teach you to learn cyber security no experience required. It’s only open to US citizens, and it looks to me like the Government wants to scoop up the computer science graduates that are unemployed.

You can crash your yard's mosquito population without spraying a single chemical with a Mosquito Bucket of Doom. Fill a 5-gallon bucket about two-thirds with water. Drop in a handful of grass clippings, leaves, or hay. Let it sit for a day, then drop in a Bti dunk (also called Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis, sold at any hardware store as "mosquito dunks," about $10 for six). Mosquitoes are powerfully attracted to fermenting water and will lay their eggs in your bucket. Bti is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that produces a toxin that kills mosquito, blackfly, and fungus gnat larvae only. This method doesn't harm bees, butterflies, fireflies, fish, frogs, birds, pets, or people. BTI dunks are EPA-approved for organic use and safe in animal water troughs and birdbaths. One dunk lasts about 30 days. Top off the water as it evaporates. Cover with 1/2-in Mesh Hardware Cloth to prevent animals from getting trapped and put the bucket somewhere shady where pets and kids won't get into it. The bucket becomes a mosquito magnet and a dead end. Compare that to fogging the entire yard with pyrethroids, which kills every insect in it, including the predators that eat mosquitoes. Doug Tallamy's Homegrown National Park has been running the "Mosquito Bucket Challenge" since 2021. The more buckets in a neighborhood, the bigger the dent. One bucket per yard is a great start.

NEW: AI consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage.

There is a number sitting in the final report on the 2025 Invictus Games, it has to do with costs, and that number is $118,000. PER COMPETITOR. 500-something wounded veterans would mean $63,000,000 in total spend, and if you do the arithmetic (which I'm sure no one was supposed to do) you arrive at a per-veteran cost roughly equal to the median home price in 26 American states. Which is a lot of money, unless the competitors are being awarded actual pieces of real estate. ...which they are not. They are getting medals. The United States Warrior Games, which exists to do the same thing for veterans of the same wars, runs on $2,000,000, for a full year. The German equivalent runs on $200,000, which means the Germans are basically running their entire operation on what the Vancouver guys spend on high-end cheese platters. So, either Vancouver is uniquely expensive (fine, sure, maybe a cup of coffee there costs... 5,000 dollars?) or something else is happening here, and the thing happening here is a total scam that works because we have collectively agreed "charity for wounded veterans" is a phrase you cannot question without looking like a complete piece of trash. This is the trick that worked so well with things like USAID, by the way. Every charity-industrial apparatus, everywhere, runs on it. It’s a brilliant psychological hack. You attach a noble cause to a budget -> the budget becomes the noble cause. Ask why a wheelchair-curling tournament needed a $60,000,000 production line, and you are no longer asking about a tournament. You are asking about the veterans. And the veterans, as a rhetorical category, are not available for cross-examination, you monster! Veterans end up becoming a very, very lucrative human shield for a giant pile of cash. Meanwhile, a royal commentator is on the record asking whether the 'founder' is using the whole machinery as a personal tax write-off. There is no evidence he is, but... there is also no evidence he isn't. But "show us the ledger" is, somehow, the rudest question anyone is allowed to ask out loud. Oddly enough, the defense isn't "here are the books, look at them all you want." Nope, their defense is just pointing a finger at you and screaming that you're a bad person for wanting to see them. Or maybe systemic racism. Or unconscious bias. Or something else.

Check this out. Hoover Dam launches ‘Road To America 250’ This flag is the length of a football field and it will be on display every day through July 4th #RoadToAmerica250 #HooverDam

Once you hit about a 20-point IQ gap, communication starts to completely break down. It's not that the lower IQ person is "stupid" (although that can often be the case) or the higher one is arrogant, it's that you're literally operating on different systems. A 20 point difference (roughly 1.3 standard deviations) means: Vocabulary and abstraction levels diverge sharply. What feels like crystal clear logic to one side sounds like vague, pretentious word salad to the other. Jokes land flat. Metaphors get taken literally. Complex cause and effect chains get simplified into "this good, that bad." Different time horizons and pattern recognition. One person thinks in months or years and sees systems, the other is locked into days or immediate rewards. Trying to explain second order effects feels like speaking another language. Also, processing speed and working memory gaps. The higher IQ person is already three steps ahead, getting impatient. The lower IQ person feels talked down to or overwhelmed. Both walk away frustrated. Both have wasted each others time.

Steven Bartlett says a few glasses of wine ruined the next 3 days of his life “It's one of those areas where you don't understand the hidden cost until you really give it up for a while. I stopped drinking at 30 years old. I'm now 33. When I was 31, I thought, I'll have a drink again because now I could really A/B test it. I had a year of not drinking, decided to have a drink again” “It ruined three days of my life. I had a couple of glasses of wine, didn't get drunk. It ruined three days of my life because of the domino effect it caused” “I got worse sleep that night, and then because I got worse sleep that night, I ate more poorly the next day because my dopamine system or whatever, the cortisol system was all messed up. I podcasted worse. I didn't go to the gym that day or the day after because I felt really bad. I then slept worse, and I could track all of this on my Whoop”

Tom Steyer: “I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. When you understand the vulnerability, the stress, the danger of being a trans kid and you understand almost half of them try to commit suicide. Then you think we’re gonna punish those kids, we’re gonna cut them off from team sport. It’s like, no we’re not”

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President Trump posts image of him walking with an alien.

🚨 The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that federal law does not shield freight brokers from state negligence lawsuits when they hire unsafe trucking companies.

Red light can literally reduce fat in the belly / waist area via spot reduction, some fascinating research shows. (🧵1/8)