The headlines and some comments on them.

Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's rocket company, dropped a customer's satellite into the wrong orbit

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  royalpanther

  Blue Origin left the satellite with a planet two doors down and took a blurry photo as proof of delivery.

  625
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  realoscarbutler

  The tracking page just says delivered, leaned against a moon.

  588

Train tickets from New York to MetLife Stadium will reportedly cost over $100 during the World Cup.

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  melissa.garcia

  FIFA looked at American healthcare pricing and said yeah we can apply that model to public transit.

  1301
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  realkimkelly

  On the bright side, that's a hundred dollars less someone can steal from you ON the train.

  267

A Florida congresswoman says a Bible story about fallen angels is really about aliens invading Earth

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  hope_90

  Right about now, the Ancient Aliens guy is slowly flattening his hair in a mirror wondering "was I replaced by a congresswoman from Florida? I think the answer is yes."

  670
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  tylersimmons56

  The book of Enoch did not survive three thousand years just to end up as a slide in a Florida town hall.🤦🏼

  527

Disney's new CEO has announced 1,000 job cuts in a brutal email to employees.

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  reed714

  Imagine getting fired by a company whose entire brand is happily ever after.

  753
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  stephanie.lopez

  Bold move sending a brutal email at a company where half the staff knows how to draw you as a villain.

  424

Shoplifting in New York City is down 20% this year after the NYPD started targeting repeat offenders

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  lily_87

  Progress. Now release the razors from maximum security!

  1101
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  ruby1986

  Down 20% and I still need a staff meeting to buy deodorant.

  204

A Singapore-based fund with $40 million is betting on longevity research to make death optional

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  lily_84

  If death becomes optional a lot of rich parents will never hear from their kids again.

  951
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  nick2005

  I told my wife a fund is working to make death optional, and she immediately started a fund to make divorce mandatory.

  477

More landlords and lenders are using AI. Fewer regulators are checking them for bias.

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  sambryant31

  Finally, a way to discriminate at scale without all that pesky human guilt.

  1100
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  coolsun484

  Regulators said they'd look into it, but their AI assistant flagged the task as low priority.

  507

Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees living under a cemetery in New York state

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  goldenforest

  I said rest in "peace", not in bees!

  1200
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  glowbyte

  I love that even in death you can't escape noisy neighbors in New York.

  175

College graduates say they feel helpless as the entry level job market continues to shrink amid rise of AI.

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  mia_hernandez

  So graduates are using AI to write resumes that get rejected by AI for being written by AI, even though the job they applied for wants them to be comfortable using AI. 🤯

  843

A massive chunk of ice mysteriously plummets from the sky and crashes through a California home.

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  groovyranger

  Guys, relax. It was ice that crashed through the California home, not ICE.

  1201

The average U.S. mortgage payment has hit a historic high of over $2,000 a month.

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  limeecho

  Two thousand a month! For that price the house better come with the people who can afford it.

  1102
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  neonmoth

  Our grandparents bought a four bedroom house for the price of what we now pay in closing costs.

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Jada Pinkett Smith is demanding that Will's former friend cough up forty nine thousand dollars in attorney fees

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  katie2001

  $49,000 is a small price to pay for not getting slapped at an awards show.

  814
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  taylorturner99

  Will's friends now require a security deposit and a credit check.

  368

A US soldier is accused of using military secrets to win over $400,000 on Polymarket

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  chillfox

  He finally found a use for that classified briefing nobody else paid attention to.

  1101
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  lily.martin

  So he was doing insider trading? What will they charge him with, impersonating a congressman?

  140

QVC is filing for bankruptcy after 40 years on air, carrying 6.6 billion dollars in debt as their stock continues to drop.

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  the_lynx

  Operators are no longer standing by?😢They have good deals sometimes.

  1003
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  oscar.green

  Their last hope is rebranding as QVC dot AI and selling NFT's of the porcelain dolls.

  419

Nvidia's CEO says AI will become a permanent micromanaging boss who never stops nagging you

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  rustkit

  So the people who don't lose their jobs to AI will just quit because of it nagging them. Problem solved, I guess.

  852
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  gentleforest774

  Most CEOs at least pretend the dystopia is an accident, this guy is up there selling it like a feature.

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A life jacket worn by a Titanic survivor sold at auction for over $900,000

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  drift229

  Somewhere Rose is kicking herself for not grabbing more souvenirs off that door.

  713
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  sarah.edwards

  Meanwhile the guy who sold it at a yard sale in 1983 for five bucks just drove his car into an iceberg.

  288

A new survey finds that half of Gen Z would rather live in the past.

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  eric.allen

  Half of Gen Z wants to live in the past until they hear the dial up modem scream and assume the house is haunted.👻

  882
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  radknight113

  They'd last until grandma picked up the other line and killed their download at 94 percent.

  295

An Atlantic writer who dumped his wife to marry his much younger assistant is being mocked for a planned love advice talk at Yale.

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  hope2003

  Is his first piece of advice to hire a much younger assistant?

  1201
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  kim2002

  Forget the lecture, just put his ex wife on stage with a microphone and a two drink minimum.

  301

A new report says a memory shortage could delay the release of Apple's upcoming Macs

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  cloudnap

  AI is eating RAM like it's Thanksgiving and your Mac didn't get invited.

  708
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  brian_adams

  Apple could just call it Memory Minimalism, charge 300 dollars extra, and tell you that if you need more you are using your Mac wrong.

  352

Nike just announced about 1,400 layoffs in its latest round of cuts

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  ryan_lee

  Swoosh, and they're gone.😢

  1002
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  hjenkins

  HR walked in wearing Adidas and told everyone to Just Do It somewhere else.

  459

Fossils suggest a 60 foot octopus was one of the ocean's top predators during the age of the dinosaurs

A Chinese national was arrested at JFK airport after allegedly photographing US military aircraft at a base in Nebraska.

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  boldpilot

  In his defense, after spending a week in Nebraska, espionage might just be the only thing to do.

  727
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  amandadavis8

  Somewhere in Beijing, someone's frantically reinflating a weather balloon.

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A San Francisco robotics startup says its latest AI model can direct robots to complete tasks they were never explicitly trained on

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  vertex09

  Robots completing tasks they were never trained for is literally the first sentence of every apocalypse movie ever made, but sure, let's keep going.

  1001

A Brazilian beauty queen was arrested for allegedly funding her lavish influencer lifestyle with drug trafficking money.

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  bravestar

  Before we judge her for selling drugs to fund her lifestyle, let's discuss what other influencers are selling to afford those Dubai trips.

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Tesla has expanded its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston

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  smoothwolf

  Finally, a Dallas driver who won't spend the whole ride telling me why he left California.

  1001
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  slatewren

  Elon should give every robotaxi a verified X account so they can post unhinged rants about their passengers at 2 AM.

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