⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, wants new powers that would let her office ask social media platforms to intervene when someone is targeted by a large group of users. She said the current system focuses too much on single posts and not enough on coordinated harassment. According to Grant, “the cumulative effect of a pile-on can be just as harmful, if not more harmful, than a single post.” She also argued that platforms should have “a duty to protect” users targeted by these coordinated campaigns. Under her proposal, platforms could be asked to take action against involved accounts, including suspending them if necessary.

⚡️🇮🇱🇹🇷 NEW - Netanyahu on Türkiye: I don't think they should be given F-35s or the engines for their fighter jets, because that'll upset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority and also by, I think, America's posture in the Middle East.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇳 NEW - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau: India should understand that we’re not going to make the same mistakes with India that we made with China 20 years ago, In terms of saying, "Oh, you know, we’re going to let you be able to develop all these markets," and then the next thing we know, you’re beating us in a lot of commercial things. We’re going to make sure that whatever we do, it’s fair to our people, because ultimately we have to be accountable to our own people, just as the government of India has to be accountable to its people.

⚡️🎙️ WATCH - Rainn Wilson says “fuck you” to Ricky Gervais for telling actors to shut up about politics "One of the things that pisses me off to no end is Ricky Gervais saying, ‘Just take your actor award. No one wants to hear what you have to say.’ It’s like, Fuck you. Bullshit" "Everyone gets to say what they want to say about anything. Gaza, climate change, politics. You get to say it if you’re a truck driver or a school teacher. We have free speech" "Why would you try to shame and silence someone from speaking their truth?"

⚡️💻 TECH - Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code after developers discovered a hidden backdoor that could detect whether users were connected to China. Anthropic confirmed the backdoor was real, saying it was added in March to detect unauthorized resellers and help prevent AI model theft through “distillation.” The company said it looked at signals like time zones, proxy settings, and other indicators to identify suspicious access. Alibaba has now classified Claude Code as high-risk software internally and is telling employees to switch to its own AI coding assistant, Qoder.

⚡️👀 NEW - Bryan Johnson spends $2 million a year and has a team of 30 doctors trying to reverse aging. He takes over 100 supplements a day, follows a strict plant based diet, exercises obsessively, and tracks every metric imaginable. He just announced his stomach has an incurable autoimmune disease and has been eating itself from the inside for years without him knowing.

⚡️👀 WATCH - Dolly Parton asks Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce for their firstborn son while flashing devil horns with her hand. This comes after Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce made a $2 million donation to her Imagination Library. "Can I have it? Because that is going to be one special baby." "We'll continue that mission in bigger ways now with your money."

⚡️🤡🇺🇸 ICYMI - President Trump personally called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask him to review the suspension of U.S. player Folarin Balogun, according to the NYT. Balogun was given a red card against Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday and was suspended for the next game. FIFA has now announced that Balogun will be eligible to play on Monday against Belgium. “Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right and reversing a great injustice,” President Trump said on Truth Social. Good. Everyone knows that call was ridiculous.

⚡️🇮🇱 WTF - Israeli soldier throw an explosive inside a car with full of civilians and hold door to prevent him escaping then left the scene and this is captured by CCTV camera.

⚡️🤖⚽ NEW - Coinbase’s AI predicted a Norwegian victory… before the match had even started. The AI-generated notification claimed that Norway had beaten Brazil 3-2, with Erling Haaland scoring twice, even though the match hadn’t even started yet. To make matters worse, Coinbase’s official prediction markets page indicated at the same time that the match had been delayed due to weather conditions and that no result was available. In response to criticism, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said his teams were investigating the incident.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - RFK Jr. admits wearable technology is "key" to responding to chronic disease epidemics and will "mesh" with your personal health records. He says the technology could go as far as telling you how to shop and what to buy. He wants to work with Congress to incentivize the widespread adoption of wearables.

⚡️🚨 BIG - Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Commerce Secretary, worked back channels with FIFA in an effort to get U.S. striker Folarin Balogun's red-card ban overturned — Politico

⚡️💬 FLASH - 90% of my private messages on Nostr are hacking attempts. It's a jungle.

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⚡️🇮🇷 ICYMI - Millions of Iranians turned out for the funeral of Ali Khamenei.

⚡️🇮🇱🇵🇸 NEW - Aid workers are in shock after being attacked by Israeli settlers while working alongside Palestinian residents northeast of Ramallah.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Donald Trump thanks FIFA for rescinding the red card (and thus the minimum one-match suspension) issued to Folarin Balogun There was, however, no way for the United States to appeal, but no worries: after an emergency meeting, FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee found a workaround by explaining that the sanction was now suspended for a one-year probationary period, citing a rule (Article 27) that does, in fact, allow the committee to suspend decisions Completely independently, of course...

⚡️🇻🇪 WATCH - A terrifying video captures a backyard pool violently sloshing and spilling most of its water, showcasing the powerful seismic forces during the M7.5 earthquake in, La Guaira, Venezuela.

⚡️🎙️ NEW - RAPAPORT: “The Jewish tunnels of Los Angeles are real. I've been in there.”

⚡️🇫🇷 NEW - French Presidential Candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the US-France relationship: Fundamentally, non-alignment and independence. Every domain in which we are in their hands, we must get out of. I'm thinking particularly of digital data storage and artificial intelligence. In 250 years of history, 226 years of war. That doesn't exactly inspire my sympathy. They stole half the territory of Mexico. For those who still have any doubt that we need a cautious and distant friendship with them, go watch Antonin Baudry's film — you'll see how the United States intended to occupy us and replace our currency.