Jay Strellson

Beamish, a living museum in England that recreates historic eras with real towns, villages, and old transport, showing how life looked in the past.

🚨🌍 NEW: The UN has voted to recognise the slave trade as “the gravest crime against humanity” and also called for reparations to the countries impacted The UK, France and other EU member states abstained whilst the US, Israel and Argentina opposed the proposal

Doctors predicted Christina Santhouse would never live a normal life. Yet after losing half her brain, she earned two university degrees and built a successful career as a speech-language pathologist. At just eight years old, Christina underwent a radical hemispherectomy to end the constant, debilitating seizures caused by Rasmussen’s encephalitis. Surgeons removed the entire right hemisphere of her brain. Medical experts at the time warned that she would likely face permanent dependence and severe cognitive limitations. Instead, Christina’s story became a remarkable testament to the brain’s extraordinary plasticity and the strength of human determination. She spent years relearning basic motor skills and defying every pessimistic forecast. At seventeen, she earned her driver’s license. She then completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in just five years. Today, she works as a speech-language pathologist, using her professional training and personal experience to help others overcome communication difficulties. Christina Santhouse’s journey powerfully demonstrates that even the most dire medical prognosis cannot define a person’s true potential. [Johns Hopkins Medicine. (2011). Christina’s Story: Life After Hemispherectomy. Johns Hopkins Children’s Center]

The best advice I could give someone jumping in the game? Prioritize unlocking the camp (chapter 3), then just have fun. But tons of systems are tied to the camp, so get there ASAP! .... Then fill it with pets!

The most wholesome thing you’ll see today. A handcrafted feeding station for a disabled kitten.

The stupid prize of the day goes to this woman. There’s stupid — and then there’s stupid.

A Neuralink patient named Jon Noble can now play World of Warcraft using only his mind. He is a British Army veteran who cannot move his arms or legs. After getting the brain implant, he controls the game on his MacBook just by thinking. No mouse, no keyboard.

BREAKING: Tech’s Big Tobacco turning point just happened. A Los Angeles jury just did something no court has done before: it held Meta and Google negligent for how their platforms are designed. Not the content. The systems. Jurors found the companies failed to warn users—specifically children—about risks tied to features like algorithmic recommendations, autoplay, and persistent notifications. This is the first major verdict to treat social media design itself as a potential source of harm. The case centered on a young woman who said years of compulsive use of Instagram and YouTube, beginning in childhood, led to severe mental health consequences, including body dysmorphia, depression, and suicidal ideation. The defense argued her struggles were rooted in prior trauma and that the platforms were not designed to maximize time or addiction. The jury disagreed. This may be the closest thing yet to a “Big Tobacco” turning point for tech—not because of damages alone, but because of the theory of liability. Plaintiffs are increasingly bypassing Section 230 protections by focusing not on user-generated content, but on product design. That shift is important. It opens the door to arguing that engagement systems themselves—recommendation engines, infinite scroll, autoplay—are not neutral tools, but engineered behavioral loops. And courts may now be willing to scrutinize them as such. This verdict won’t stand alone. A federal case involving school districts and families is set for trial this summer. Multiple state actions are ongoing. Some companies have already settled in related cases. Appeals are coming. The legal fight is just beginning. I have covered this case as both a journalist and with my lawyer’s DNA: the direction is now unmistakable: The question is no longer just what users see online. It’s whether the platforms were built in ways that made it hard to look away—and whether that carries legal consequences

In Spain, a group of migrants raped a girl. When she tried to unalive herself, she became paraplegic. Tomorrow the Spanish Government will officially murder her. She’ll become the first person in Spain to receive euthanasia for depression. She’s 25. Spain is a failed state.

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Jesus was here.