Peter Thiel ist heute einer der mächtigsten Strippenzieher der amerikanischen Rechten. Hunderte E-Mails zeigen: Sein Weg dorthin führte über Jeffrey Epstein, der ihn mit Trump-Vertrauten, Geheimdienstlern und ausländischen Machthabern vernetzte.

https://jacobin.de/artikel/jeffrey-epstein-peter-thiel-trump-usa

Song of the Day 🫡🔫: https://youtu.be/xIn65vmhggI

This is honestly huge: Google is set to cause a dramatic drop in traffic for media outlets. Media companies that rely on advertising will have to adapt VERY quickly or go bankrupt. But what will Google do once it has driven the media outlets—the very ones that provide the answers to the queries —into ruin? https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

"In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.

While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.

Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.

This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.

If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment." - Jürgen Geuter, Research Director@Art+com

Running is usually not my cup of tea but this is interesting:
https://aeon.co/essays/what-ethiopian-running-says-about-the-limits-of-human-ability

Song of the Day 🐟🚀: https://youtu.be/_JZom_gVfuw

Cats purr at frequencies between 25–150 Hz. These vibrations match ranges studied for bone and tissue growth. Vibrations in this range can trigger cell repair and strengthen bones. Scientists are studying purring to see if it may have healing effects. Purring produces gentle vibrations that move through a cat’s body and the surface it rests on.
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A cool guide to know your shit!
https://redd.it/1tlp0jh
@coolguides

Now that AI slop is used more and more to influence politics and society, please read this: the more you engage with AI slop, the more familiar and normal to your imagination it gets. It slowly crawls to your conscious and eventually poisons all of our minds. So don't engage with it. Neither ironically or as mockery...don't click, don't like. Maybe report it. But best option: Ignore
https://tiktoktiktoktiktok.substack.com/p/variations-of-slop?triedRedirect=true

Switzerland has one of the highest concentrations of data centers per capita. And these data centers already consume 1% of the countries fresh water.
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-ai/how-ai-data-centres-risk-straining-switzerlands-water-resources/91396476