Saturday morning #headlines recap
SpaceX IPO closes, Musk becomes first trillionaire.
Iran-US deal: two memos, one Strait, no signature. Pakistan's PM says a final agreed text is reached; Trump calls Iran's leaked 14-point version "fake," its authors "very dishonorable people". The break point: Araghchi says Hormuz management "will not return to the pre-war era," sovereignty belongs to Iran and Oman. I think the funniest part of that exchange is Trump commenting on whether or not someone is “honorable”.
Strait of Hormuz still live. US forces shot down multiple Iranian one-way attack drones heading toward Hormuz per Reuters; a US-escorted tanker hit ~May 29 is still leaking (MenchOsint); US says it disabled 9 vessels and redirected 136 enforcing the blockade.
Central-bank hike turn into next week. ECB hiked (first in 3 years), BoJ set for a 31-year high Tuesday, Fed expected to hold Wednesday with markets pricing a hike, not a cut.
Crude plunged ~2% to one-month lows on Araghchi's "closer than ever" comments. How many times can the dealmakers cry wolf? Apparently an infinite amount. Meanwhile the contrarian flag: the physical picture isn't loosening. Cushing tanks are running near-empty; a supply crunch is building as inventories deplete with the Gulf shut in. Iranian crude flows to China collapsed from 160k to 1.8k b/d.
The US government ordered Anthropic to suspend foreign access to its most powerful model on national-security grounds. The bind in one line: "develop frontier model for $10B → trump effectively bans it → $0 revenue". At the same time pressure comes from the other side: cheaper open/Chinese models are commoditizing inference, threatening to widen losses at OpenAI and Anthropic, both "bleeding billions a year".
Russian forces are raising dozens of flags across western and southern Konstantinovka; defenses have collapsed. Ukraine (NATO) hit back deep on Russia Day — Tolyatti chemical plant, Nizhnekamsk refinery, Simferopol power station — while Russia launched 117 drones.
An FPV drone delivered an RPG warhead into the turret gap of an IDF Merkava at Beaufort Castle — one of 22 armed-FPV tank strikes in two weeks. Hezbollah also ran missile/drone strikes on IDF positions using Nasr-2 and Sayyad-2 munitions. Hezbollah making the jews feel the pain with those Chinese and Russian weapons.
At 11:59 PM on June 12, 2026, FISA Section 702 expired. The most powerful domestic spying tool in American history is dead. It’s a nice symbolic victory, but horribly naive to think it will slow down domestic surveillance.
Steven Spielberg's alien film "Disclosure Day" flops during its opening after he made comments that Christians would question their faith after watching the film. A jew shitting on Christians isn’t noteworthy; the bigger point is that the movie is simply terrible. Critical Drinker’s review is scathing.
Christian Zionist leaders have convened an emergency meeting in Jerusalem amid growing concerns that they are losing the online information war over Israel. Leaders say they now plan to strengthen their influence in churches around the world as support for Israel declines. A cleansing fire is needed.
Trump says U.S. killed Tren de Aragua leader in airstrike in Venezuela. I guess Cuba is yesterday’s news…
Homosexuals have picked up some sexually transmitted disease from horses and cows in the tropics and are spreading it in French Saunas. Macron hardest hit?
Two years ago Ukrainian defense contractors tested fully autonomous AI-driven quadcopter drones, programmed to fly ten minutes to the front line, and then engage terminator mode, seeking out anything it saw moving to fly into it and kill it. This was inevitable.
Signs continue to increase that the Whites in Ireland have had enough. May Whites worldwide awaken from their slumber and regain what has been lost.
Regardless of whether you’re going to be nice or naughty, get out there and enjoy your #caturday…
"Chance of getting off-world colonies has increased."
China is going full bore with copying Elon Musk's SpaceX Starship. There are two different Chinese Starships in development, a 10meter diameter Landspace Starship with the BF-20 Raptor V2 knockoff (shown below), and a 10.6 meter diameter CASC Starship (CZ-9) powered by the YF-215 engine, similar to Raptor as well. Yeah, Mankind has a very good chance of conquering space."NASA just announced the Artemis III crew... The SpaceX HLS Starship that may fly on Artemis III is now based on a Starship version 3 vehicle."
(~22 minutes #WAI video)
- Youtube link: https://youtu.be/CqgRxepDDOE
- Invidious link: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=CqgRxepDDOE
“I’m curious if Iran is really going to start knocking out starlink satellites.”
It would be profoundly foolish for Iran to pick a fight with someone who has vastly superior mastery over hypersonics than Iran does.
#ElonMusk
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