Washington influencers of the moment: "peptide peddlers"
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/06/rfk-jr-stacks-fda-panel-with-peptide-peddlers-as-fda-scientists-oppose-access/

Claim of the moment: Scottish soccer fans are drinking all of the beer in Boston
https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/rcna350355

Phrase of the moment: “A Giant Unworkable Con Orchestrated By An Overt White Supremacist Huckster” https://karlbode.com/the-spacex-ipo-is-a-giant-unworkable-con-orchestrated-by-an-overt-white-supremacist-huckster/

"The world is too dangerous right now so we're staying closer to home."

The World (on a Gastronomad Experience):

https://gastronomad.net/prosecco

#gastronomad

Some men just want to watch the world burn. Literally!
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/06/12/wildfire-research-funding-pacific-northwest/

Fake disease of the moment: "bixonimania"
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-invented-a-disease-to-test-whether-ai-knew-it-was-fake-then-chatbots-started-saying-it-was-real-180988924/

#MachineSociety

KPMG used AI to write a report about AI but the AI hallucinated and now they're retracting the report.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/13/kpmg-pulls-report-on-ai-usage-due-to-apparent-hallucinations/

#MachineSociety

Number of the moment: 56,000
https://thenextweb.com/news/ibm-whistleblower-data-breach-cover-up#:~:text=breached%20more%20than-,56%2C000,-times%20by%20a

#MachineSociety

HEADLINE: "The Trump administration might take an equity stake in OpenAI"

ALT HEADLINE: "Trump might be a communist"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/06/the-trump-administration-might-take-an-equity-stake-in-openai/

#MachineSociety

Phrase of the moment: "a node in the AI scraping economy"
https://blog.includesecurity.com/2026/06/the-smart-tv-in-your-livingroom-is-a-node-in-the-aiscraping-economy/#:~:text=a%20Node%20in%20the%20AIScraping%20Economy

#MachineSociety

Wind and solar now produce more energy than gas.
https://electrek.co/2026/05/20/in-a-first-wind-solar-generated-more-power-than-gas-globally-april-2026/

HEADLINE: “High-Wire Negotiations With Iran? Trump Finds It ‘Very Boring.’”

ALT HEADLINE: “Trump Isn’t As Entertained By Killing People and Driving Up Global Prices As He Expected.”

https://politicalwire.com/2026/06/01/trump-says-iran-negotiations-are-very-boring/