☢️ 10 Nukes, Medium Rare

Happy Sunday, it’s June 01, 2025.

Here’s today’s dose of what you signed up for.

🔥 Top Shelf Chaos

🧨 Iran stacks nukes while Trump plays peace cosplay. Iran’s uranium stockpile just jumped 50%, now enough for 10 nukes, while Trump calls talks “very good” like he’s reviewing a steak. The IAEA can’t verify jack, Israel’s foaming at the mouth, and Europe’s prepping sanctions. Tehran says it’s peaceful. The U.S. says “maybe.” Everyone’s lying, and the countdown clock’s ticking louder than a war drum in Tel Aviv. Good luck duct-taping this one. (More)

🛢️ OPEC+ floods the market, flips off discipline. OPEC+ just fired a 411,000 b/d oil cannon for July, the third month of fast-tracking its own production cut reversal. Saudi’s done playing hall monitor for cheaters like Kazakhstan and wants prices low, especially with Trump stroking MBS like a prized poodle. Forget 2026 targets, this quota game’s unraveling fast, and the next 1.65M b/d cut could be toast before summer’s over. Oil politics? Pure street fight now. (More)

🧱 U.S. calls China a threat, Asia shrugs politely. Defense Sec. Hegseth warned China’s “rehearsing for the real deal” on Taiwan and urged Asia to beef up defense, or risk being steamrolled. He pitched Trump’s vision of common-sense deterrence wrapped in Reagan cosplay, but China clapped back hard, calling the U.S. the region’s “biggest troublemaker.” Most Asian nations nodded, smiled, and quietly kept doing business with Beijing. Everyone’s prepping, no one’s buying the hype, yet. (More)

👀 Side-Eye Central

🕷️ Germany outs Trickbot boss, Russia shrugs. Germany says “Stern,” the phantom behind ransomware empire Trickbot, is Vitaly Kovalev. He’s accused of running cybercrime like a CEO, possibly linked to Russian intel, and comfortably untouchable in Moscow. Wanted worldwide, but Russia’s not extraditing. So, good luck with that. (More)

🏗️ States chase AI gold rush, locals brace for land grabs. States are throwing fat incentives at data center developers, hoping to land AI-fueled investments, while lawmakers and communities push back over power, water, and land demands. Critics say these server farms bring few jobs but massive resource strain. The race is on, but backlash is brewing. (More)

🤖 Meta to swap human oversight for AI guesswork. Meta’s planning to automate 90% of its product risk assessments using AI, sidelining humans in a process required by the FTC. Faster updates, sure, but critics warn this move invites unseen disasters. Because nothing says “trust us” like robots grading their own homework. (More)

💸 Brazil lets citizens cash in on their data; sort of. Brazil’s testing dWallets that let users sell personal data like gig workers of the algorithmic age. It’s a global first, but critics say it risks exploiting the poor and digitally illiterate. Monetization or manipulation? Depends who’s bidding on your digital footprint. (More)

🚗 Hyundai drops $7.6B EV mega-factory in Georgia. Hyundai’s new Metaplant near Savannah is a 7.5M sq. ft. robo-packed beast cranking out EVs and flexing against Tesla and GM. With AGVs, robot dogs, and a paint shop too pure for human eyes, it’s a production temple wrapped in a power play. (More)

🤷‍♂️ Whatever

🪙 Anglo spins off $11B platinum giant Valterra. Valterra, now the world’s top platinum producer, hits London’s market as Anglo American trims fat and fends off takeover sharks. (More)

🛰️ Space Forge wants to grow chips in orbit. The UK startup raised $30M to build better semiconductors in space using zero gravity, because apparently Earth just isn’t clean enough. (More)

🎓 AI just stole the entry-level job market’s lunch. New grads face a brutal climb as companies swap junior hires for AI, and mentors for metrics. The ladder’s missing rungs. (More)

🎮 ZeniMax QA staff win first U.S. union deal at Microsoft. After two years, workers scored raises, AI guardrails, and job protections, leveling up labor in the gaming industry’s grindfest. (More)

🌍 Meta slammed with $290M in Nigerian fines. Nigeria hit Meta for data abuse, anti-competitive moves, and ignoring local law. Meta cried foul. Nigeria said, “Pay up, or pack up.” (More)

🚀 Trump yanks NASA pick after donor drama. Jared Isaacman’s nomination cratered after Trump learned he’d backed Democrats, despite the billionaire’s ties to SpaceX and spacewalk street cred. (More)

📱 Google drops low-key app for running AI offline. The new AI Edge Gallery lets users run Hugging Face models straight from their phones. No cloud, no data center, just pure DIY inference. (More)

📜 Cursed Wisdom

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