Friday, June 5, 2026

Today's news and jokes







Maybe Fire can use its resources to supplement them







The Kennedy Center’s general counsel ordered staff on Thursday to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the building by June 12, according to a memo obtained by CNN, in order to comply with a recent court order. https://cnn.it/4uTzYkk

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— CNN (@cnn.com) June 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM








Unbelievably bad tv ads, zero charisma, and the only accomplishment I heard was involvement in school lunches







NEW: While Meta publicly said it was still deciding whether and how to deploy facial recognition in its smart glasses, the company was quietly distributing it to millions of users. WIRED found an unreleased facial-recognition system embedded in the Meta's AI companion app. w/ @dell.bsky.social

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— Dhruv Mehrotra (@dmehro.bsky.social) June 4, 2026 at 10:32 AM

Extortion-as-a-service?

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— Matt Burgess (WIRED) (@mattburgess1.bsky.social) June 4, 2026 at 10:54 AM








Carvana's furious growth isn't hard to figure out: no-haggle pricing for used cars, online shopping, delivery to your driveway. Now it's applying the same playbook to new cars. The project is small for now, but it has traditional dealers freaking out. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/business/aut...

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— Patrick George (@patrickgeorge.bsky.social) May 18, 2026 at 2:25 PM








A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) June 3, 2026 at 11:08 AM








Yesterday Mach Industries alluded to a DIU contract award for runway-independent strike aircraft. Today they revealed they're working with Whisper Aero on the program, leveraging Whisper's "stall-proof" JetFoil tech. My deep dive for @theaircurrent.com: theaircurrent.com/technology/w...

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— Elan Head (@elanhead.com) June 2, 2026 at 9:34 AM
















wolverine sniffing a thing then saying out loud, to no one, "looks like i can follow this sent if i walk forward to the objective" is what i would make up as a cruel parody of playstation games so it is a bold choice to start on that

— headfallsoff (@headfallsoff.com) June 2, 2026 at 2:03 PM



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— Ryan (@shagaru.bsky.social) June 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM








Hauling out a Pride Flagg for June.

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— NES - Explain yourself, NES. (@slugfest.bsky.social) June 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
























Instead of THE BREADWINNER they should've made a movie about the two weeks my dad looked after me alone and would sneak into my room every night to see if I was awake enough to watch "Love Connection" with him.

— Bill Chambers (@flmfrkcentral.bsky.social) May 27, 2026 at 9:25 AM








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Zero has an obsession 🦎

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