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Tungsten's hardness and high density make it suitable for military applications in penetrating projectiles. This is what a bullet looks like after hitting against a tungsten cube.

The explosive diarrhea-causing cyclosporiasis outbreak has now spread to 31 states, with nearly 7,000 potential cases. Last year, RFK ordered the CDC's Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network to stop tracking cyclosporiasis.

A woman had Netflix for 6 years. She opened the app. She scrolled. She picked something after 25 minutes. She fell asleep during episode 2. She repeated this every night. Her friend, a former Netflix UI engineer, sat on her couch one evening and opened Settings on her account. He changed 9 things in under 15 minutes. Her homepage transformed overnight. The autoplay trailers stopped. The "continue watching" list cleaned itself up. The recommendations got sharper. The buffering on her 4K TV disappeared. The categories multiplied from 30 to 2,200. She said "it feels like a completely different app." He said "it is. You've been using the factory settings for 6 years. Netflix ships the version that keeps you scrolling longest, not the version that helps you find something fastest." Here's every setting he changed 🧵

At least one person was killed, and two others are missing, after 16 people were rescued from the water as a boat sank in the San Francisco Bay Tuesday afternoon, prompting a massive response from crews working to rescue people. For the latest, click the link below abc7news.com/19509080/

This was in Northern ontario and listen to this. ( copy n paste from a friend but still.) Apparently they had cut off from the train but went back to rescue a foreman. They couldn’t see their own train in the smoke and flames and they crashed into it so hard it shut the engines down. They tried to get out by hi rail but the truck caught on fire and then they ran 3 miles on foot down the track This is a train engulfed in flames outside Armstrong, Ontario. The crew made it out safely!

Dry lightning and the resulting wildfires: Minnesota and Ontario, Canada.

"True" is the title track from Spandau Ballet's 1983 album of the same name. The smooth, jazz-influenced ballad peaked at #1 on the UK Singles Chart and #4 on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's biggest international hit. Gary Kemp wrote the song as a tribute to Clare Grogan, lead singer of the Scottish band Altered Images, whom he had a crush on at the time. Its distinctive saxophone solo, played by Steve Norman, became one of the most recognizable instrumental moments of the 80s.

A great development: The Senate voted AGAINST the NDAA 50-46, denying Israel a merger with the US. Those 46 who voted in favor, should face charges for treason

«Small Boy» land-surface nuclear explosion, 1.65 kilotons, Nevada Test Site, 14 July 1962. Test of missile silo hardening principles, specifically EMP.

A massive new hyperscale data center project called Stratos is planned for Box Elder County, Utah. If built, it would demand up to 9 gigawatts of electricity, more than twice the total power consumption of the entire state. But the real shock comes from the waste heat. According to Utah State University physics professor Robert Davies, the facility would generate an additional 7 to 8 gigawatts of heat, creating a total thermal output of roughly 16 gigawatts concentrated in one location. That energy release, Davies calculated, is comparable to detonating 23 atomic bombs per day in Hansel Valley, a high desert basin near the shrinking Great Salt Lake that naturally traps heat like a bowl. The project’s energy footprint would also be roughly equal to that of 40,000 Walmart Supercenters. Local temperatures could rise by about 5°F (2.8°C) during the day and a staggering 28°F (15.6°C) at night. Ecologists warn that such dramatic warming would stress an already fragile ecosystem, worsen toxic dust from the drying lakebed, and disrupt plants, wildlife, and water resources. As the backbone of artificial intelligence, data centers are essential for every AI query, image, and training run. The Stratos project now raises a critical question: Can the massive infrastructure behind AI expand without permanently transforming, and overheating, the communities and landscapes where it’s built? ["‘So much worse than I even thought’: Utah’s ‘hyperscale’ data center could create massive heat island near Great Salt Lake." The Salt Lake Tribune]

Update: "One person was killed and two others are missing after a recreational boat carrying 19 people capsized near Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, according to fire officials. Three other people were hospitalized." - BNO News

Thick smoke from Canadian wildfires descends across the U.S. East Coast.

"We Built This City" is from Starship's 1985 album Knee Deep in the Hoopla. The song reached #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100, #12 on the UK Singles Chart, and became one of the biggest hits of the mid-1980s. Although it was a huge commercial success, the song has frequently appeared in polls ranking the "worst songs of all time", something the band members have taken with good humor over the years.

Prolly the over-the-top corruption, the blatant lies, the abject stupidity, the empty boasts, the hollow promises, the constant story-changing, the malignant narcissism, the ballooning budget spending following all of last year’s performative DOGE bullshit that ended up costing more than it saved exposing my private information to autistic Zoomers with nicknames like “Big Balls”, the list goes on and on.

@bourscheid @CalDisasters What's the homo erotic fixation with the orange man. I'm bastilled

🚨BREAKING: The drained Reflecting Pool did not reveal any slices. Instead, tire marks were visible, obvious damage from Trump’s vanity drive in a fleet of 10-ton vehicles for no reason at all. He ruined his own project, then lied and blamed the citizens who paid for it.

Tuesday Summer weather update Read / view colorful maps at newsletter Main headlines: smoke from wildfires + heat dome Eastern Pacific hurricane season picking up --> Elida (05E) 101°F in Washington D.C. @weathertrader weather.substack.com/p/july-14-2026…

A stunning view of North American wildfires and smoke this evening.

When Sigourney Weaver was sent the script of "Aliens" (1986), she had no idea that a sequel was being made for "Alien" (1979) as the studio didn't inform her. After reading the script, Weaver thought it was "Magnificent" and "The Greatest script" she had ever read. She was blown away by the humour, humanity and action. Cameron was initially afraid to meet Weaver as he feared she would be as stern and intimidating as her Ripley character. After their meeting he was relieved. He said, “She was just this wonderful person, and I was so relieved that she saw some value in the script and where I was proposing to take the character.” Cameron was open to some of the changes to the script mentioned by Weaver. However, on the first day of the shoot, there was one hiccup. The shoot was in England and the sets were built. When Weaver arrived, she told Cameron that she was Anti-Gun advocate and she wasn't touching a gun. Cameron asked her, "Did you read the script?". She replied, "I read it. I understood there were guns in it, I just didn’t think Ripley had to pick up a gun except for a flamethrower.” Realizing that the script would require a major rewrite if he couldn’t convince Weaver to use the machine gun, Cameron took Weaver behind the studio and had her fire off the weapon a few times. Cameron said, “I’ll never forget her blasting away with this thing. And then there was this kind of sly look over to me, like ‘This is fun.'”. Weaver said, “It just shows how addictive guns are." while noting that she felt ashamed of the pleasure she took in shooting the rounds. ("James Cameron and Sigourney Weaver on Their 40-Year Collaboration", Jim Hemphill, Indiewire, 2025) P.S: On this day, 40 years ago, "Aliens" (1986) premiered at Westwood, California, USA.

I'm with Gen X on this. I'm here, the menu should be too.