TIL the world's most cost-effective public health intervention is iodised salt, costing just $0.05/person/year. It prevents iodine deficiency — the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities, affecting ~2 billion people — and has eliminated endemic goitre in countries like the US and Swi [source, comments]

TIL in 2023 about 45% of US adults between the ages 18-29 still lived at home with their parents, which is the highest percentage in 80 years. [source, comments]

Indigenous leaders of La Paz, Bolivia: "We don't want dialogue or negotiation with those who have our blood on their hands, we'll be at the barricades until the President is gone."

The US trying to build a wall and putting children in cages, meanwhile in Africa:

Why is June pride month?

Because of the Stonewall uprising in 1969.

Why did the Stonewall uprising have such an impact?

Because—like the George Floyd revolt in 2020—it began with a leaderless, multiracial anti-police riot that called the whole social order into question:

https://crimethinc.com/stonewall

Song of the Day 🗳💵: https://youtu.be/r4y7i2VUTcA

This reminds me of google books buying books from libraries
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models