Feel free to take sources to start your own thread and conversation. Too much happened last month.
Propaganda
Immigration problems start with no trust immigration. Tweet, so double archived.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/67AJe https://archive.ph/d0R7n
Seattle is totally coming back and not dying, says guy paid to say it's not dying.
A woman who doesn't even remember if or how she got married was deported from Hawaii.
Two years ago Pope Francis begged people not to be polarized. Then demanded everyone do as he said.
Too many women think the casual fling market is also the marriage market, and then are sad that they haven't found the perfect man.
Juneteenth still stands!
Texas tried to rebuild the wall between them and Mexico, and have since stopped trying. Lefties crow how they've won.
CNN correspondent is proven to be a liar in court, and loses his job
White House Press Secretary leaves Democrats and goes independent
Larry Fink says he really shouldn't have said his actual plans out loud and regrets it, but in a very side of mouth kind of way
Mark Zuckerberg thinks we will live in holodecks in the future. This may be tech prop, I haven't decided.
Facebook ideas on welcoming people to Portland with gifts. Tetanus shot is listed.
Propaganda: Education
With degrees not getting jobs, many are considering not going to university at all.
Gifted programs weren't left leaning enough!
Propaganda: Voice Actor Death
The voice actor for John Red corn from King of the Hill passed away after fighting a neighbor
TMZ says the neighbor shot him
A woman who became a man and married the voice actor claims it was a hate crime on facebook
The partner then posts that all their bills are being paid to show support against the hate crime.
Reddit claims it was a hate crime. Said killer was an illegal immigrant. This happened in San Antonio where everyone is armed.
Propaganda: Ukraine
Ukraine attacks with drones deep inside Russia
Putin told Trump that the drone attack that was much ballyhooed will get a strong response.
Russia does a major attack
Trump
So it turns out the USA is the military protecting Greenland. No one else. It was just moved from European command, to Northern or USA directly Command
How we slowly let Fascism take over!
National Park Service to fix bad signage and promote America. NPR says this is evil.
J6 Criminal Investigators fired
Trump wants a military parade. There is a Craigslist ad hiring people to fill in the seats.
CNN thinks they have him on ethics. They even think he promised not to be as corrupt as they purport him to be.
T: Deportations
Judge temporarily blocks deportations of boulder family
Judge who tried to smuggle illegal immigrants will be prosecuted says DOJ
A man caught doing illegal things was deported without trial. A court has ordered he be brought back to face trial. The state intends to deport him after the trial is completed.
DOJ will emphasize stripping citizenship
T: Election
Diatribe: Trump did not actually win the 2024 election
Another diatribe about how he lost the election. Evidence is totally there!
T: Supreme Court
Injunctions against stopping birthright citizenship are stopped by the Supreme Court
Supreme Court says students can opt out of LGBT propaganda at school
You need an ID to look at a porn site
Several articles in a row on supreme Court decisions
T: Iran
Israel attacked with secret drones. It was a drone attack and had been shipped in secretly, just like the drone strike on Russia.
The Met has stopped artists from showing anti Israel or pro Palestinians pieces
Maga disagrees with Trump firing at Iran
Trump decides to wait and see if Tehran and Israel can realize they can't keep this up for long, or if he needs to intervene. It doesn't look like he wants to be on anyone's side.
Iran and Israel continue firing at each other.
Trump said he would wait. New York times talked about how dangerous and terrible this was.
Professor predicted this war before Trump was reelected. He thinks we will get a false flag soon and send troops to the countries.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1936882417295298727.html https://archive.ph/E22Hp
Ceasefire is declared. Tehran says it was imposed on Israel. It sounds like Israel ran out of bullets and Iran ran out of bullets, and Trump showed he had plenty of them.
Shot at Qatar was warned early so people got to shelter first. No deaths, just strikes.
Israel says Iran did not follow ceasefire and begins to fire again.
Trump drops F Bomb when talking about Iran and Israel firing at each other.
Iran can rebuild nukes any minute now say credible CNN sources
T: Education
Fullbright board quits in protest
Ivy League schools at war with Trump on funding
Judge blocks Trump blocking funds
T: Protests
‘No Kings’ will be the big protest this Saturday
Protests at Trump's visit to the met included crossdressers
Protests before Trump's big military parade.
The military parade was totally boring at this specific angle and time. Yeah, our protest was more interesting!
https://youtube.com/shorts/1R5q7hbv7qI
Mayoral candidate arrested at protests
Dodgers block ICE agents
NPR says military parade was a dud, and protests were awesome
Coverage during the event by CNBC. They agree with NPR
No Kings in America is a righteous cause says BBC… wait….
The parade is stupid, and you're stupid for liking this thing if evil says the Atlantic
Trump: LA Riots
Mexicans are retaking the West
As it turns out this isn't about immigration but money laundering by the Cartels. ICE was only involved to deport people, but it was a DEA and ATF event.
Similar story in Minneapolis
https://youtu.be/Ci978d93Qi4?si=Op8snotgDk7Zmupc
LA police say they are making mass arrests and Trump says he will Liberate the City
Labor and Immigration have totally gotten along this entire time says NYT
Alex Padilla arrested for disrupting press conference
Journalists sue over their treatment in LA
T:LAR: Not Happening
The protests are organic, have more participants, and are very non-violent. Yep, I wrote an article saying it's true.
Lefty says the riots aren't happening. They're going about their lives, so there's no riots.
T: LAR: Spreading
AP says more is planned
Protests spread throughout the country in left leaning cities
News about riots throughout the country. The Northwest is covered. Even Spokane has rioters.
T: LAR: Marines
700 Marines
Trump sends Marines
Diatribe saying Trump is an evil Dictator for sending in troops
They can arrest people
Much handwringing by left leaning news
A court allows the military to stay
T: LAR: Newsom
Gavin Newsom says Trump is dictator for trying to stop it.
Newsom will totally beat Trump and has so many advantages…
Newsom said the state must fight off the invasion of Marines there to stop rioters in video
Trump: Economy
Slight dip in economy, but otherwise ok. Trump will destroy us all!!
7.4 Million new jobs
Tech companies are using the downward trending economy to do stuff like put in more ads. Or so claims New York times
Steel tariffs will destroy the little guy!
Trump: Musk
Musk returns to his normal jobs, and the NYT thinks he'll be angry because of tariffs and his businesses not doing so well.
Musk tweets he doesn't like the new spending bill.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/bOMmw
He calls it a disgusting abomination
Have an article on his tweet by the BBC
Musk calls for Trump's impeachment
Lefty diatribe on Facebook about it
Elon admits defeat
Even says he went too far
He still believes it on July 1st
Tech
World's smallest violin needs a microscope
Self balancing human exoskeleton, starship troopers gets closer to reality
Roadway 16 miles below sea level
Toyota built an entire city to test ideas on technology and cars
Drone with LED screen becomes giant moveable and animated Billboard.
https://x.com/HowThingsWork_/status/1935800294258229737?t=c-B7PBaeuidc06c4QixPXw&s=19
Robotics
New robotics company for the layman. Everything is open source and materials cost about $1,000 with full open documentation.
Humanoid Robot made in 40 days does manufacturing tasks
DIY Roller Coaster
A roller coaster for your backyard that can be easily built.
The website. Parts can cost tens of thousands, but it can be designed to whatever you want.
3D Printing
The USA military 3D prints drones, and will likely stop needing manufacturing soon.
A fricken VTOL that can fly 130 miles!
3D Print Extruder made by teen. Article is not the greatest.
MIT students rebuilt a bridge by scanning it, identifying what needed to be fixed or replaced and then 3D printing the metal directly to those places.
Science
How the menstrual cycle effects ADHD. It's more of a Woe is Me, but it does show there are connections. Meds don't work during the time.
Building a device to separate sounds into an acoustic rainbow without electricity
Gut bacteria can change your cognitive skills
Big Bang and Grok
New galaxies explain extra radiation, which may disprove Big bang and other theories
https://x.com/realism_fan/status/1939727311991185467?t=-XFRGXw39R3KTC3yaBS-Yg&s=19
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/egANE
Someone argues with Grok over the meaning of science and consensus
https://x.com/MarkLutter/status/1939756480489824418?t=Zw1-P44zGSLN_EeMBZMUAw&s=19
Parts of the argument
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/Urxgz
Soviet Technical Manuals
Soviet Technical Manuals are about to be released, fully translated and ready. Tons of science and technical knowledge.
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1939715815009632709?t=6UnbCBvc_q3SH7lrJTQw6w&s=19
AI companies thought they were unimportant.
https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1939725361685876949?t=Mzg6cJJpRKF74IFEc6yiEA&s=19
Business
The only way to get a big job is to network.
Amazon investing in data centers.
The only way to get a big job is to network.
Tesla building power battery network for China
Google bought 200 Megawatts of energy before it's even created
Disney paid Universal $9 Billion. This will get the next wave of Epic parks to open up, and possibly let Universal buy Warner Bros.
Military
ROTC. Programs are being ended or reduced
Planning the future for Marines
Internet
Man pretends he is a Formula 1 driver while walking dog. Even down to the announcers
Mushrooms playing piano
https://x.com/XPHOENIXDRAGON/status/1939461852498465087?t=6rwhl7hDRlVH0mmaVX0C4Q&s=19
The haunted Toys R Us
Someone posted about winning against Mormons on a videogame video
How autistic supercharmers work
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/AURjr
CIA had psychics look at Mars a million years ago, and discovered a dying civilization.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/fgtin
Fighting and destroying a store front with lightsabers
https://x.com/TheGriftReport/status/1937496458866913425?t=fNc1QdCI-_2LiLkxszkcQw&s=19
Finding out the chat bot is actually people
Conspiracy theory about the cornucopia with Fruit of the Loom
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/AOVJo
Amazon review of Medusa Head shows that it works on the ancient Chinese Emperor's Army.
https://x.com/Mericamemed/status/1939768399770292589?t=bYGyzzrQtQrD7sCr-8FLIg&s=19
YouTube has loosened it's regulations
A very large supply of AI news, but I curated it. Feel free to take parts and start your own thread.
Stable Diffusion updated to work on graphics cards
AI generated ad that cost $2000 to make that showed during the NBA finals
AI: Architecture
Looking at how AI can change design
AI and Architecture videos
The urgency of AI in architecture
Architects use AI
AI: MidJourney Srefs
Some really good Srefs and controls
References for MidJourney
How the different sref controls work.
AI: Tutorials
3D print characters from AI
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/fdBAH
##AI: Videogames
Masohiro Sakurai says AI could help in creating things for videogames, but fans seem to hate it.
Dash lets you control procedural creation in Unreal Engine. Have a trailer.
Tim Sweeny says AI will let a team of 10 make a game the size of Breath of the Wild
AI: VG: Runway
Runway made a text adventure style game
It intends to do more later on and make it open for anyone
AI: VG: Game engine
Huanyuan has an AI game engine.
https://x.com/dreamingtulpa/status/1938612606383919223?t=ol-oK9oq106POAV46fbr-Q&s=19
Have the white paper
https://hunyuan-gamecraft.github.io/
AI: Propaganda
China was using ChatGPT to posts on social media. So my theory of lefty bot posters is true. OpenAI stopped it, but it now makes me question if we can use AI to do stuff, or will it be controlled by various governments?
Bot accounts attack an AI teacher
Authors petition for AI to not steal their works
New jobs in the UK are dying because of ChatGPT
So many Twitter posts saying MidJourney is going to die because of this new AI that will be forgotten
Plant Hobbyist groups are using AI and it's giving bad advice. Run in terror and be angry!
Getty Images drops part of lawsuit against Stable AI
Germany tells Google and apple to block DeepSeek
How to get rid of AI article on Google search
The ‘cost’ of AI. What AI helps and what it takes away
AI is evil, and those with it are in 1st world countries. Why can't we give this evil thing to the rest of the world!
AI isn't letting dumb people do stuff easily, so it is wrong and should just get on with it.
People are rebelling against AI. Duolingo has AI and ‘young people' deleted it. Therefore it's a big rebellion
AI:Business
Big name AI companies starting to destroy smaller names. Windsurf uses Claude to Vibe Code. Claude has blocked windsurf, even though this is a paying user.
CNN says that CEOs threaten to use AI to keep workers in line.
YouTube is being used to train AI. Creators didn't know that.
ChatGPT translated an article and then suggested edits for an English gaming site. Literally teaching you to steal from Japan.
AI: B: Ads
An ad made in AI is getting attention. NPR article
Ad made from AI cost $2,000 and took 2 days
AI: B: Lawsuits
Disney and Universal are suing MidJourney for copyright infringement
MJ is small, but powerful, which is why they're being sued and not Facebook.
Anthropic won a supreme Court case and can use books as training for its AI
kAI: MidJourney Video
MidJourney has video. I've tried it out and am really impressed.
It is working really well, 20 million users can't be wrong.
The cost of making a good video used to cost millions and take large teams. Now it's open to anyone, and a single person can do it. MidJourney itself does not need investors or any of the big stuff others use to get big.
Check out this stable character walking around in multiple scenes
https://x.com/egeberkina/status/1938609897966297482?t=Esp11xEI3U2uDhzFsmk8wQ&s=19
This is just stuff from my much larger collection of sources. I've curated it a bit.
Film and TV
James Gunn says industry is killing itself by moving stuff forward that isn't ready and then demanding more of that. Case in point? Marvel
FTV: Videogames
Silent Hill 2 movie finally releasing in the USA
Elden Ring gets a movie
Duke Nukem show by Adi Shankar
The media's take on the Hunter Schaeffer as Zelda controversy. It's likely a rumour started to promote the actor.
FTV: Doctor Who
FTV: Doctor Who
Doctor Who Children's cartoon has started
Russel T Davies not really saying what will happen next.
Is it cancelled? Maybe watch the shows to give support for it to come back
While the show may be cancelled, the cartoon will live on
Big Finish has some Tom Baker David Tennant goodness coming up. All in one boxed set.
Halloween Horror Nights Universal Orlando
Fallout the TV Show
Five Nights at Freddie's
Jason Universe
El Artista
The theme will be The Conservatory
Evil Dolls house. You will be shrunk down and hunted by evil Dolls
Graves of Flesh. An original
Demon Hunters
Arcade News
A giant arcade news dump from July 2nd
Design and Architecture
This children's area is full of crap. Look at the colors, and how it feels more like some committee's idea of a children's area. The best part is the yarn playing area. They're saying it's an original piece, but I've seen it for sale at theme park conventions.
Venice Biennale
The theme is time and space in existence. This article does a quick overview and shows some pavilions and booths.
Displays on AI
A pavilion with several entrants talking about the future and technology
Venice Biennale 2026 has MAGA proposed pavilion
Korean Pavilion has a section with wheels
AD: Osaka World Expo
Bloomberg asking if World’s Fairs still matter.
It's hot in the summer and this Osaka is hot
Null2 technology pavilion
What the return of the World Expo to Osaka means after 55 years
Italian Pavilion
Visual display of Pavilions
Better CoBeing Pavilion has white metal rods that create shade over a park.
Cars
SeGa is now sponsored by McLaren Racing
Cars: Not Miata
New Miata not coming soon, but rotary engine is finishing up for RX-7
Classic looking car with a BMW engine and the same weight as a Miata made by two engineers for sale. It's called Shoreline Bespoke
A beautiful car with 1960’s style and 10,000 RPM with 1,000 less pounds than a Miata. I call likely not real.
Cars: Toyota
New 4 cylinder car can hit 600+ Horse Power with the right turbo charger
Supra is not depreciating
Cars: Corvette
New Corvette
Corvette wants to be a hypercard
Books and Comics
Bloodborne comic gets hardcover edition
Doctor Who may be cancelled, but they are still releasing books
WarHammer 40k Horror about Space Marines meeting something evil.
BC: Booksellers
Indie publishers angry at Barnes and Nobles
San Francisco Bookstore does not have Harry Potter because they dislike JK Rowling
New online comic shop to take on Amazon
Table Top
New spaceship battle game Homestead Hyper Jump
Rebirth is a new territory owning game
Critical Role is picking up folks from Wizards of the Coast.
Furby Kitbash WarHammer 40k
The tariffs are destroying how games are being manufactured and shipped.
Gundam has a Table Top miniature game, and it looks really good compared to the competition
Hardwar is a mech mini game
Toys
The Cabbage patch kids hospital still exists and takes visitors!
Toys R Us to have more stores soon
SeGa mega drive toy displays
New Lego campus has an awesome design and a toy library
Tricky traps is a kinetic game made of LEGO