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.
SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI IPO Bag Holders – You Might Become One of Them
June 11th, 2026Hint: Retirement funds.
Via: Andrei Jikh:
AI Price Wars Begin: OpenAI Considers “Drastic Price Cuts” In Pursuit Of Anthropic Customers
June 10th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
In short, we now have a classical deflationary race to the bottom, precisely the opposite of what the profit-strapped industry desperately needs to grow into its gargantuan balance sheets (and massive SPVs); Instead, the AI world is about to get hit with a collapse in both revenues and profit margins, while cash burn goes into full-on incinerator mode.
Warning that “business executives have begun to balk at the high prices for AI usage”, the WSJ writes that OpenAI CEO Altman said at a recent event that costs had become “a huge issue.”
“I think we’ll have a lot of ways we can help people get more value for less spend,” he said.
In other words, LLMs tried to push up token prices to and beyond their breaking point… and succeeded.
And now it’s time for the brutal drop: a drastic price war will erode the profit margins of both companies, which already lose billions of dollars because of the enormous cost for computing resources needed to run AI systems.
The Potemkin Ballot
June 10th, 2026CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California.
“You can just put Pinocchio Lane.”
California NGOs Encourage Fake… pic.twitter.com/2pkylhgPY9
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) March 17, 2026
Via: American Greatness:
The only completely predictable result of an election in a Western democracy is election fraud. Fraud is so fundamental to Western democracies that it is fair to say that democracies exist in name only. In fact, elections have become so essential to illegitimate power that they are almost the surest path to subvert the will of the people. Potemkin elections are essential ways for the ruling class to mask that they are truly in control.
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Politicians selling themselves like hookers on South Figueroa Street in L.A. is not enough these days. Donors need insurance policies for the peace of mind that their investments do not go to waste. And so, they are not above good old-fashioned voter fraud. The alleged appearance of 24,000 votes from nowhere in the Los Angeles Mayoral primary election this week is a testament to the new era of “mail-in balloting,” which is about as legitimate as a Florida time-share. It was the midnight deliveries of mail-in ballots in swing districts during the 2020 election that led to the Capitol protests on January 6, 2021—and the perception by nearly half of Americans that the election was outright stolen.
The utter ignorance of the history of election fraud in the United States is perhaps the major reason that anyone would believe that our federal elections are trustworthy. Apart from the outright purchase of votes in Congress, American history has consistently had patterns of repeat voting, padded rolls, absentee-ballot abuses, vote buying, dead voters, false or corrupted registrations, not to mention election-official complicity, patronage pressure, counting manipulation, control of election officials, and downright intimidation. Election fraud is not prosecuted as often as it should be, but it is prosecuted with regular frequency. The 1982 Illinois Election Fraud cases, combined with the Greylord investigations and indictments of federal and local judges, have clearly demonstrated the infiltration of organized crime into the courtroom. And allegations of organized crime connections between presidents such as Kennedy and Nixon have swirled for decades.
Related:
Unless the Voting Machine Issue Is Dealt with, It’s All Just Pissing in the Wind
Everyday ‘Placebo Buttons’ Create Semblance of Control
Smartphones Reduce Birth Rate [???]
June 10th, 2026Via: AFP:
As governments around the world struggle with ways to reverse plunging birth rates, new US studies suggest they have ignored a key culprit — the smartphone.
“Is the iPhone Birth Control?” asked a paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research, delving into why US fertility rates have fallen by 22 percent since 2007.
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So Middlebury College economist Caitlin Myers and her student Ezekiel Hooper tested a hypothesis that smartphones — which emerged with the arrival of the first iPhone in 2007 — might have something to do with it.
Until 2011, iPhones were available from a single US cellular network, AT&T, so they compared US counties that had near-universal AT&T coverage with those that had little or none during those years.
And they found that access to the iPhone correlated with reductions in births by 4.5–8.0 percent at ages 15–19 and by 3.2–6.6 percent at ages 20–24.
There were also statistically significant but smaller declines among older women.
While they stress that iPhones are not the “sole cause,” the introduction of the smartphone “played a sizable role in the decline in US births” after 2007 as it shaped people’s behavior with less in-person contact.
“As modern smartphones diffused, time spent with friends in person and sexual activity fell sharply alongside rising consumption of pornography, a possible substitute for partnered sex,” they concluded.
Belfast: African Migrant Tries To Saw Off Victim’s Head In Street Attack
June 9th, 2026— cryptogon (@cryptogon) June 11, 2026
Update: After Horrific Belfast Migrant Knife Attack, U.K. Officials Think the Problem Is X
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Via: Modernity News:
Authorities and the media have scrambled to soften language around a graphic knife assault last night by an apparant African migrant that has left a local Belfast man fighting for his life with devastating injuries.
Horrifcic footage shows the attacker straddling the victim and repeatedly stabbing his head before sawing at his neck in a clear attempt to behead him. Bystanders screamed in horror as the attack unfolded. However, police have described it as nothing more than a “stabbing incident” involving “a man.”
The assault happened shortly after 10:30pm on Monday on Kinnaird Avenue in north Belfast. the attacker hacked at his victim’s head and neck with a small box cutter style Stanley knife. Locals rushed in to drag the assailant off, batting him with blunt objects before police finally arrived.
“Exposing The Solid State Donut Battery. It’s Over.”
June 9th, 2026Via: Ziroth:
More: Donut Lab’s ‘solid-state’ battery exposed as regular li-ion in damning investigation
U.S. Army Develops Quantum Sensor to Pinpoint Radio Signals on Battlefields
June 9th, 2026Via: Interesting Engineering:
US Army scientists have demonstrated a new quantum sensor that can measure the full 3D direction of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields, a milestone that could reshape how signals are detected on the battlefield.
The breakthrough was achieved by scientists at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory.
According to the researchers, the sensor could improve situational awareness, strengthen secure communications, and help soldiers make faster, better-informed decisions in complex battlefield environments.
“Our work in quantum science is about giving our Soldiers new ways to sense and understand the world around them,” said David Meyer, ARL research physicist.
“This research opens the door to detecting and pinpointing signals over a broad frequency range in a single sensing package, even in the most challenging environments.”
SpaceX AI Satellites
June 9th, 2026As I was listening to Elon Musk talking about AI satellites, I started thinking about a video I clipped from a livestream recently in Los Angeles.
As the bums shuffle around the filth in Skid Row, the thinking machines are being readied to launch into space.
*shrug shoulders*
So it goes…
SpaceX AI Satellites pic.twitter.com/e87XMW2tXb
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 9, 2026
This is from Conner's livestream on Kick a few hours ago. Skid Row, Los Angeles. Not news. Nobody cares. Situation normal. pic.twitter.com/V5S16VGAvz
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) May 26, 2026
Why Aren’t Oil Prices Higher?
June 9th, 2026It’s all fun and games as long as the U.S. and China keep releasing oil from their reserves…
Via: Peak Prosperity:
