Richard Dolan on Latest U.S. Government Limited Hangout UFO Information Release
June 13th, 2026Someone asked if I’d lost interest in UFOs because I didn’t seem to be posting much about it.
I’m still interested in the topic and follow news closely, but what I’m not interested in is the absurd limited hangout wrapper that the U.S. Government is placing around the topic.
Read books like, Incident at Devils Den: A True Story by Terry Lovelace or, The THREAT: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda by David M. Jacobs.
I’ve also personally witnessed the phenomenon. It’s not important at all that you believe me or not. The point is that it’s a waste of time for me to read whatever the U.S. Government is willing to admit in these official releases. Accounts of lights-in-the-sky type stuff. haha I’ve been WAAAAAY beyond that point since the mid 1980s.
Richard Dolan is willing to treat the government releases seriously, if that’s where you are in your journey on this topic.
Via: Richard Dolan:
Related: Grusch Again Says He Saw UFO Crash Retrieval Photos
Cryptocurrency Miners Go Back to GPUs… for AI
June 13th, 2026AI companies buy up nearly all the GPUs, RAM and SSDs: Check
Crypto miners turn to renting rigs for AI, buying up what remains of “consumer” grade equipment: Check
People who mostly hate AI, and try to avoid it, pay a lot more for a lot less when trying to purchase a computer: Check
Six months ago, a client asked me if a Lenovo laptop was a good deal (AMD/32GB/1TB/5060/OLED). I told her that it was a remarkably good deal and that the same system would cost probably NZ$1000 more within a few months. She bought two of them.
She called me last week saying she needed another one of those laptops. The same exact machine was on sale again… for NZ$960 more than what she previously paid.
I didn’t post this video earlier because it’s extremely long, but the point here is that ability of regular people to build and own powerful computers is slipping away. If you go shopping for a relatively powerful computer and wonder what happened to prices, you’re being forced to participate in a bum fight for the scraps the AI companies left behind:
This doesn’t just refer to computers that are capable of being used for audio and video production, streaming, gaming, design, animation, etc.
There’s another reason why powerful equipment is now so unaffordable…
I think the goal is to lock individuals and companies in to paying high monthly fees for AI services by making it mostly impossible to be able to build out AI systems that run locally and privately for a fraction of the cost of what the big AI companies are charging.
I was thinking about trying Claude for a project and I was met with a prompt to enter my mobile phone number. Not optional.
Of course.
*groan*
So, to sum up the options for using powerful AI right now:
* Submit to total surveillance and high monthly fees for access to a state of the art model—which isn’t sustainable at all and will eventually go away, which is why I wanted to try it before it’s over/unattainable.
* Be prepared to shell out the cost of a nice used car to build your own rig that wouldn’t be as good as top offerings, but might be good enough for you. Maybe you care more about privacy than top performance…
* Pay fees to rent someone else’s rig, like in the video below.
I guess there’s another option: Wait until the bubble bursts and then drive forklifts to defunct data centers to harvest tons of GB300s for pennies on the dollar? 🙂
As always, happy computing!
Via: The Hobbyist Miner:
U.S. GOVERNMENT FORCES ANTHROPIC DISABLE FABLE 5 AND MYTHOS 5 CITING NATIONAL SECURITY
June 13th, 2026Update: Amazon Tipped U.S. Government on Jailbreak
Via: Matthew Berman:
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Ahh, ye olde oh shit moment?
Or, does this have more to do with the friction between Anthropic and the U.S. Government?
Anthropic has said it will not back down in a fight with the US Department of Defense (DoD) over how its artificial intelligence (AI) technology is used.
The firm’s chief executive Dario Amodei said on Thursday that his company would rather not work with the Pentagon than agree to uses of its tech that may “undermine, rather than defend, democratic values.”
His comments come two days after a meeting with US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth over demands that Anthropic accept “any lawful use” of its tools. It ended with a threat to remove Anthropic from the DoD’s supply chain.
“These threats do not change our position: we cannot in good conscience accede to their request,” Amodei said.
At issue for Anthropic is the potential use of its AI tools like Claude for two purposes: “Mass domestic surveillance” and “Fully autonomous weapons.”
Amodei said “such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now.”
In any event, I wonder if people had enough time to run knowledge distillation operations against Fable 5 and Mythos 5 before access was cut off?
Via: Anthropic:
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will not be affected.
Japan: Drug May Allow People to Grow New Teeth
June 13th, 2026Via: Popular Mechanics:
Japanese researchers have moved forward with an experimental drug that promises to regrow human teeth. Human trials began in September 2024.
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This study focuses on 30 males between the ages of 30 and 64—each missing at least one tooth. The drug will be administered intravenously to prove its effectiveness and safety, and luckily, no side effects have been reported in previous animal studies.
If all goes well, Kitano Hospital will administer the treatment to patients between the ages of 2 to 7 who are missing at least four teeth, with the end goal of having a tooth-regrowing medicine available by the year 2030. While these treatments are currently focused on patients with congenital tooth deficiency, Takahashi hopes the treatment will be available for anyone who’s lost a tooth.
Gabbard Reveals Information on U.S. Funded Biolabs
June 13th, 2026From 2022:
Malone on U.S. Government (DoD Defense Threat Reduction Agency) Funded “Biolabs” in Ukraine
Defense Department Records Reveal U.S. Funding of Anthrax Laboratory Activities in Ukraine
Via: Office of the Director of National Intelligence:
After months of searching through Intelligence Community holdings and files, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard is revealing new evidence of longstanding United States government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries. These biolabs include labs in Ukraine, which may be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. For example, the Intelligence Community previously warned that a US-funded biolab in Ukraine likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable to longstanding threats of Russian attack, seizure, or damage.
The newly declassified evidence can be found HERE.
Until now, evidence regarding the full existence and funding of these laboratories had been knowingly withheld from the American people. The information surrounding the existence, history, locations and funding of these US funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by powerful people falsely, claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign assets and traitors to America.
Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases to include dangerous Gain-of-Function research, with very little visibility or oversight.
President Trump understands the serious threat dangerous Gain-of-Function research poses to the American people, which is why he took decisive action on May 25, 2025, signing EO 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-of-Function research around the world.
“Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden administration’s national security team lied to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those who attempted to expose the truth. ODNI will continue to work closely with partners across the government to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain to end dangerous Gain-of-Function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world,” said DNI Gabbard.
DNI Gabbard issued new guidance to the Intelligence Community directing increased collection on these laboratories and facilities overseas. This directive is already providing new details on clinical trials that are underway at these facilities, raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding these supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security.
And Now… U.S. Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
June 12th, 2026Via: Wired:
In the wake of attacks on CEOs, a nationwide protest movement targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports with a new domestic target in mind: anti-technology extremists.
More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by WIRED show a national shift taking place to surveil this new and worryingly broad category of people and activities deemed an emerging threat.
Elon Musk Becomes the World’s First Trillionaire with SpaceX’s IPO
June 12th, 2026Via: CBS:
Elon Musk has become the first person to cross the trillionaire threshold, at least on paper, after SpaceX priced its blockbuster initial public offering at $135 a share and its stock soared in its stock market debut.
Massive Medline Warehouse Totally Destroyed by Fire, Sprinkler System Failed and “Fire Hydrants Were Not Providing Good Pressure”
June 11th, 2026Hmm.
Medline Inc. is an American public healthcare company headquartered in Northfield, Illinois. In June 2021 it was acquired by a consortium of private equity firms Blackstone, Carlyle and Hellman & Friedman valuing the company at US$34 billion in one of the largest leveraged buyouts of all time. It was the nation’s largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of medical supplies providing products, education, clinical programs and services across the continuum of care with operations in over 125 countries and territories.
Via: ABC7:
A massive fire at a Tracy warehouse complex was burning out of control Thursday afternoon and sending a huge plume of black smoke into the air.
The fire broke out at a little before 1 p.m. at the Medline Distribution Center, a medical supply warehouse in the 5700 block of Promontory Parkway just south of Interstate Highway 205 and west of the downtown area, according to Tracy Police Department spokesperson Kaylin Heefner.
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In a Thursday evening press conference, Tracy Fire Chief Randall Bradley said when firefighters made entry into the Medline Inc. warehouse, the sprinkler system was not operating.
Chief Bradley also mentioned that fire hydrants were not providing good pressure, which hindered their ability to attack the fire.
macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux
June 11th, 2026Via: Phoronix:
Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 “Golden Gate” beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation.
Whether it’s an accidental bug by Apple or an intended change, Apple changed the boot picker and Startup Disk handling with macOS 27. Any Asahi Linux partition is still present and without data loss but is no longer visible and thus unable to boot for at least the time being.
Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained the Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
June 11th, 2026Via: DroneXL:
Hundreds of millions of Pokémon Go players spent years filming the streets, parks, and buildings around them to earn in-game rewards. Those roughly 30 billion environmental scans are now owned by Niantic Spatial, and they helped train a camera-based navigation model that a U.S. defense contractor is preparing to put into drones and other military robots. Most of the players had no idea.
The pipeline runs from a mobile game to the battlefield in three steps. Players scanned the physical world. Niantic Spatial turned those scans into a 3D map that lets a machine locate itself by sight when satellite signals fail. And in December 2025, Niantic Spatial announced a partnership with Vantor, the defense and intelligence firm formerly known as Maxar Intelligence, to fuse that ground-level system with Vantor’s aerial navigation software for use in GPS-denied operations.
