Hard Pass

As a presidential candidate, Donald Trump gleefully painted his opponents as trigger-happy interventionists who would get the United States bogged down in all manner of foreign wars — up to and including World War III.

As president, Trump has racked up an astonishing list of countries he’s both threatened to attack and actually attacked.

Trump added a new entry to that list on Wednesday, threatening to strike Oman if it tries to control the Strait of Hormuz along with Iran.

“Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ‘em up,” Trump said at a White House Cabinet meeting.

The US' leniency means Ori Solomon faces just improper waste disposal charges for unlawful biolab that made people "deathly ill"

If Trump’s name is removed, a ‘vital fundraising connection will be severed,’ the center’s chief executive argued

A Trump-Kennedy Center official warned a federal judge that stripping the president’s name from the renowned arts institution would cause unbearable financial damage, marking the latest twist in a months-long legal battle.

Charles Matthew Floca, the center’s 39-year-old executive director, filed a declaration Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, arguing the institution’s funding is inextricably linked to President Donald Trump.

“President Trump’s fundraising on behalf of the Center is exemplified by the tens of millions of dollars already raised,” Floca wrote. “Further, the President has committed to raise $150 billion on its behalf from private donors over the next two years.”

About a month ago, Christopherson-Cote found out city council had cut $50,000 in funding for that water supply as part of a larger budget item eliminated during budget deliberations.

Never been so ashamed of paying my taxes, before.

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8614937

By GlasssShine https://x.com/GlasssShine/status/2059637887805620653

It's got what plants crave.

Number of mentions in the Epstein files (millions)

Obama: 0

Biden: 0

Trump: 3

Wildly disrespectful to any artist that ever lived. I'm all up for sharing alternatives that are good/better towards actual artists. Still evaluating my choices, but meanwhile this seems like the only and rather easy signal the streaming community can give as to spread the word if they agree (next to stopping your own subscription). Context: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/22/spotifys-ai-bet-more-of-everything-less-of-what-you-want/

The Therac-25 radiation machine is taught as the literal textbook case study regarding software safety because six patients were injured or killed.

Meanwhile, LLMs Have Led to 33 Deaths

Richard Brooks, climate finance director at Stand.earth, a climate advocacy body, said that with Ksi Lisims Canadians “are being asked to anchor their economic future to a global commodities casino.”

“This isn't a stable market: it’s a volatile swapping game where gas is traded on paper to exploit wild price swings and unpredictable demand. Betting public money on projects like Ksi Lisims means tying Canadian taxpayers to a deeply unstable, trader-driven scheme,” he told Canada’s National Observer.

Jesse Stoeppler, co-executive director of the Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition, an environmentalist group working in the area Ksi Lisims is planned to be built, noted that the federal government was “acting as though Ksi Lisims LNG is already operational when the project has not reached [final investment decision], faces unresolved Indigenous rights concerns, and remains subject to ongoing legal proceedings.”

“Tim Hodgson is trying to create political momentum around a project that still lacks broad consent and carries substantial legal, economic and climate risk.”

This one is getting tickled by the interaction of the electron microscope and can't stop giggling.

Starbucks just quietly killed an AI inventory system it deployed across 11,000 stores, nine months after the launch announcement, and five months after employees started complaining it couldn’t tell oat milk from 2%. That’s not just a Starbucks problem. Enterprise AI is failing at staggering rates right now, and the reasons are almost always the same. Today the win is a lesson.

We break down exactly what went wrong with NomadGo’s Inventory AI, why workers ended up doing twice the work instead of half, what the deleted press release tells us about how these rollouts get sold internally, and the pattern that shows up in almost every failed enterprise AI deployment, from coffee shops to pizza chains.

The former US first lady told CBS News that she was frightened by Joe Biden's performance against Donald Trump.