According to WaPo, GenZ influencers are abandoning their President. Notably, the coalition of dancing clowns formerly known as “TikTok for Biden” has renamed itself “Gen-Z for Change,” and has still not endorsed the man they blame for everything from “genocide in Gaza” (a thing that is not happening) to the TikTok ban (strangely also a thing that is not happening). In response, Biden’s team has shunned creators with anything less than unqualified support for the president, while Trump, unbothered, has opted into his own lane. In just a matter of months, the GOP frontrunner has come out in favor of crypto, AI, IVF, and the Cybertruck, and come out against the TikTok ban, all the foreign wars, and income tax. Experts say young people are waiting for a Marxist who hates Jews. But idk, it’s looking more and more to me like these kids might just be ready for a Big Mac with the boss.

The Stanford Internet Observatory — the research center most famous for collaborating with the federal government to censor covid- and election-related “misinformation” — is shutting down. A sad day for internet hall monitors everywhere, and a good moment to reflect on SIO’s brief but glorious career (remember when they tried to censor pushback to Krispy Kreme’s “free donuts for the vaxxed” campaign?). But the most interesting thing about the news is probably just the fact that SIO hand-selected Casey Newton, a tech reporter last seen ranting about Substack’s (non-existent) “Nazi problem” and trying to instigate a platform exodus, to break the story. That Newton is their go-to journalist only reinforces SIO’s fundamental problem: despite their insistence to the contrary, everyone knew “misinformation” just meant “tweets I dislike” and “expert” meant “PhD-holder on gov’t payroll.” Their lack of self-awareness unitl the very end is, strangely, kind of charming. RIP, SIO. Thank you for the laughs.

The FAA is currently investigating how an unknown number of recently manufactured Boeing and Airbus jets managed to be constructed using counterfeit titanium that was sold using fake documentation verifying the material’s authenticity. Apparently, the issue dates back to 2019, when a Turkish material supplier received a batch of titanium from a little known Chinese company that “looked different” than what they usually received. That shady titanium subsequently made its way to Spirit AeroSystems, who used it to make parts for Boeing and Airbus. Which… wtf? How many people need to fall out of the sky before we start building more things in America? Boeing said their fleet is perfectly safe, but they also just had a plane door blow off mid-air, and all their whistleblowers have a habit of disappearing. Sorry, catch me on the next high-speed train to LA (oh wait) (please can we build something ffs).

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