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UAE struck Iran dozens of times during war and amid truce, including with Israel -- WSJ
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Virginia bus crash that killed five involved driver who doesn't speak English, Sean Duffy says
[FoxNews] Five people were killed and dozens were injured when the driver of an E&P Travel bus heading from New York to North Carolina failed to slow down near a work zone and slammed into several cars on Interstate 95 in Stafford County, the Virginia State Police said.

The driver of the bus, identified as Jing S. Dong, 48, of Staten Island, New York, was injured in the crash. Police say charges are pending.

Ding is a naturalized citizen originally from China who received his commercial driver’s license in New York two years ago.
At least he won’t be killing any more than he already has, damn him.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1818 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  Cardiothoracic Surgery is Dong's first love. He starts at Staten Island University Hospital on Monday.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2026 3:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Ding? Or Dong?

Freudian slip?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/30/2026 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Charge the person that issued the CDL.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/30/2026 8:52 Comments || Top||

#4  ^#3 Super House I agree.
IF the driver actually had an officially issued state CDT license. Then State Admin Mgt should also be charged all the way to the top.

PLUS State office Admin Mgt to State HQ levels should be personally be sued, not the state taxpayers.

Why should innocent Taxpayer's have to foot the bill for them violating Federal Law.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2026 9:37 Comments || Top||

#5  The person who issued the CDL was only following orders. Sue the State of New York.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/30/2026 15:59 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Mystery as large group of men emerge from manhole into middle of busy Brooklyn street as police place area in lockdown
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] A group of men have been spotted emerging from a manhole in a busy New York street has sparking a police probe.

Seven people were seen climbing out of the sewer system on Brooklyn's McDonald Avenue in Gravesend.

The dramatic exit was caught on camera as it occurred at around 2am on Friday and published by local outlet Flatbush Scoop.

The men emerged and began stripping off their filthy clothes before gathering near some waiting cars.

Some appeared to be carrying equipment and flashlights, while others seemed to be wearing boots and protective gear.

Video circulating online appeared to show a person remaining near the manhole while the cover stayed closed, seemingly acting as a lookout.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 08:32 || Comments || Link || [1806 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Preparing for Sunday's parade?
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 8:35 Comments || Top||

#2 

Having pulled up Google Maps and doing a street drive view of the area. It could have a person wondering, given the new interesting elected leadership for the area.

Could we be looking at a GAZA type tunneling IED project?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2026 9:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Middle Earth men ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2026 9:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Mafia or other gangsters taking care of bidness? Or possibly sewer workers who took a wrong turn underground?
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/30/2026 9:45 Comments || Top||

#5  Took a wrong turn but cars were waiting for them? Hmmm....
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/30/2026 9:46 Comments || Top||

#6  That one looks a bit like Edger Friendly.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/30/2026 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ One would expect legitimate employees to be picked up by work trucks or work vans, not by cars with no official markings.
Posted by: Chantry || 05/30/2026 10:04 Comments || Top||

#8  Any banks nearby?
Posted by: Frank G || 05/30/2026 10:29 Comments || Top||

#9  [AI]
how many jewellery stores in Flatbush NY

Based on local business directories, there are **over 1,200** jewelry-related businesses listed in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn, NY.

* **The Real Yellow Pages** lists approximately **1,297** jewelers in Flatbush, NY.
* A specific search for "Jewelry Store in Flatbush - Ditmas Park" returns **1,483** results.
* These listings include a mix of independent boutiques, gold buyers, pawn shops, and national chains such as **Zales** (located at Kings Plaza) and **Pandora**.

Commonly cited local stores include **Al's Gold Market**, **Gold City Jewelry**, **EdGari Jewelry**, and **BK Luxury**.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 10:37 Comments || Top||

#10  /\ Any banks nearby?
Posted by Frank


The CIA's David Rush team comes out of hiding ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2026 11:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Those bank or jewelry vaults better have their vibration alarms in tip-top shape, particularly Al and his gold market.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 05/30/2026 11:53 Comments || Top||

#12  Did one of the guys look like Jason Statham? Or Wolverine?
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/30/2026 18:20 Comments || Top||

#13  I mean, this has "OOh, ooh, I seen dis movie!" written all over it.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 05/30/2026 18:21 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
A powerful solar flare occurred for the first time since May 22.
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[Regnum] A solar flare of the penultimate power class was recorded for the first time since May 22. The Institute of Applied Geophysics reported this on May 29.

According to his data, disturbances in the geomagnetic field at high latitudes also continue.

"On May 29 at 10:22 Moscow time, an M1.2 flare lasting 24 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range in the sunspot group 4455 (N13E66),” the institution’s website states.

The Institute noted that the last strong flare (M2.4) was recorded on May 22. It was accompanied by an ejection of plasma toward Earth.

On May 19, the Solar Orbiter spacecraft detected three high-level X-ray flares at a supersunspot activity center on the far side of the Sun. They partially disrupted and simplified the sunspot cluster in which they originated.

On May 15, a magnetic storm hit the Earth. Initially, its intensity was G2, classified as moderate. Afterward, its strength began to wane.

On May 10, a powerful M5.7-class flare occurred in a new active region of the Sun. The Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences clarified that the plasma released by the flare will not impact Earth, but two days later, this group of sunspots will enter the planet's zone of influence.

Posted by: badanov || 05/30/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1814 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The first time since a week ago, huh?
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/30/2026 10:37 Comments || Top||



Economy
Yet another ultra-rich tech CEO lays off a huge chunk of its staff by email and blames AI
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Yet another ultra-rich tech CEO has announced sweeping layoffs by email - and once again, artificial intelligence is the scapegoat.

Wix.com, the website-building platform used by millions of small businesses, is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce as executives race to restructure around AI-powered tools and leaner operations.

In a lengthy memo sent to employees and later posted publicly on X, Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami said the company needed to become a 'faster, leaner, and flatter organization' as artificial intelligence rapidly transforms the tech industry.

The layoffs will affect around 1,000 workers of Wix's roughly 5,300 staff worldwide.

'Companies that embrace this change will not only build faster; they will build things the previous generation literally could not have imagined,' Abrahami wrote in the message.

The Israel-based company, which helps entrepreneurs build online stores and business tools without coding knowledge, said the cuts were driven by both AI advancements and financial pressure caused by the strengthening Israeli shekel against the US dollar.

'As the majority of our teams are Israel-based, a very meaningful portion of our costs are shekel-denominated, while our revenue is largely dollar-denominated,' Abrahami wrote.

But much of the attention surrounding the layoffs has focused on the company's embrace of AI - and the increasingly familiar language executives are using to justify job cuts.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1853 views] Top|| File under:


#2  Freeing the Indian drudges from their MS Developer certs. Hooyah!
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/29/2026 16:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing will ever replace a good team.

Posted by: Besoeker || 05/30/2026 3:37 Comments || Top||

#4  OK, so how long before we see a Federal AI / Worker Impact Tax?

Where the population gets a monthly credit to their account to buy goods that AI / Robots and etc.. produce. Because if they FIRE all the humans, then who will have any $$$$ to purchase the items and services that AI & Robots produce?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 05/30/2026 5:40 Comments || Top||

#5  The Dems used to say, "Learn to code" and see what happened?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/30/2026 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  They could be cleaning out DEI and HR departments with little or no impact on business. In this case the NYT can report 'women hurt hardest'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 05/30/2026 9:47 Comments || Top||

#7  P2K, had the same thought. The reports never say from which departments. eg Twitter/X
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/30/2026 10:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Which companies have you worked for, and saw people that you couldn't understand what it was they did?
Posted by: ed in texas || 05/30/2026 10:39 Comments || Top||

#9  Now it is a little clearer why certain cities had mandatory minimum wage increases that appeared ridiculous. I’ll wager there was a this is what’s coming meeting with a solution along the lines of 3-5 low wage for everyone 1 tech worker will replace the loss of the higher wage earner or something along those lines. Throw in a little UBI and g2g
Posted by: Jefe101 || 05/30/2026 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  aka... we hired too many DEI slups during the pandemic and AI gives us a good excuse to fire those worthless fucks.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/30/2026 14:27 Comments || Top||

#11  Which companies have you worked for, and saw people that you couldn't understand what it was they did?

All of them.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/30/2026 16:16 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Google planning to release millions of mosquitoes into California to help stop diseases
[NYPost] California could soon become a testing ground for one of Google’s most ambitious public health projects yet.

The tech giant is seeking federal approval to release up to 32 million specially treated mosquitoes in California and Florida over the next two years as part of an effort to reduce the spread of mosquito-borne diseases, including West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis, dengue, Zika, chikungunya and yellow fever.

The proposal is currently under review by the US Environmental Protection Agency, which is accepting public comments through June 5 before deciding whether to issue an experimental use permit.

Regulators have not announced where any mosquito releases would occur if the plan is approved.

Researchers say the latest proposal targets Culex mosquitoes, a species known for transmitting West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, West Nile virus remains the leading mosquito-borne disease in the US.

Those viruses are already established in California, where they circulate naturally among local bird and mosquito populations.

On Friday, a positive sample of West Nile virus was confirmed in Riverside County.

The project is part of Google’s little-known Debug initiative, launched more than a decade ago to develop new technologies aimed at reducing populations of disease-carrying mosquitoes.

Rather than releasing biting insects, the company plans to release male mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia, a naturally occurring bacteria. When the infected males mate with wild female mosquitoes, the offspring do not survive, helping suppress mosquito populations over time.

Because only female mosquitoes bite humans, experts say the releases would not increase the number of biting mosquitoes.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 10:48 || Comments || Link || [1771 views] Top|| File under:

#1  launched more than a decade ago

In 10 years they could have developed tiny mosquito assassin robots instead of sterile incels.

A review of beetle hindwings: Structure, mechanical properties, mechanism and bioinspiration
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 14:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Common insect repellent now attracts mosquitoes — signaling a ‘blood meal’ for bugs: study

Propagating lessons learned thru the hive mind.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/30/2026 14:39 Comments || Top||



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  UAE struck Iran dozens of times during war and amid truce, including with Israel -- WSJ
Fri 2026-05-29
  Iran-backed militia leader killed in car bombing in Iraq
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  UN condemns drone strike on UAE nuclear plant, doesn’t assign blame for attack
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  US Carries Out 'Self Defense Strikes' on Iran, As Trump Makes Important Announcement About 'Nuclear Dust'
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  IDF struck an Hezbollah underground compound in the area of the Beqaa that was used by terrorists to manufacture weapons
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  Troops killed terror operative who crossed Yellow Line in northern Gaza, army says
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  Neo-Nazi ‘Active clubs’ haven't been broken up and arrested by the FBI. Now, they're getting bolder, cf. San Diego Mosque Killers, Day 3
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