UGH: United flight forced to turn around because of a Bluetooth speaker name. “While the recording does not explicitly confirm the speculation that the Bluetooth name in question was “bomb,” it would certainly make sense given the response from the crew and security personnel on the ground. It also serves as a friendly reminder that what you think is a clever WiFi or Bluetooth name probably isn’t.”
Author Archive: Stephen Green
June 1, 2026
METAPHOR ALERT:
Wow. Somebody just died on Karen's livestream. LAPD is setting up a white tent to cover the body. This isn't a reality show, it's a horror film. Please pray for this city. https://t.co/WRecu0953X pic.twitter.com/7N9J8OCGoC
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) May 31, 2026
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Happy Birthday, Clint Eastwood — and a Happy Retirement, Too.
WAR SECRETARY: Hegseth Calls on Western Pacific Allies to Maintain Military Strength, ‘We Need Partners, Not Protectorates.’
In his speech, United States’ Strategy for Peace in the Indo-Pacific, Hegseth made no mention of U.S. military engagements and activities in the region, instead focusing on Washington’s overall policy, outlook and expectations.
“Alliances only work when they are true partnerships. It is a two-way street. You don’t have a strong alliance unless everyone has skin in the game. No freeloading,” said Hegseth, who emphasized the importance of military strength in maintaining peace and stability, “We don’t need more conferences. We need more combat power. I’m sorry to say this here. Less Shangri-La, more ships, more subs.”
Hegseth said that for too long U.S. pleas for Europe to spend more on defence fell on deaf ears, but now Europe was catching up.
“You can have all the rules you want, and rules are great, but if you can’t back them up with hard power, the rules are not worth the paper they are written on. Europe and NATO have some big decisions to make,” Hegseth said.
No wonder the lefties hate him.
WHEN ART CANNOT IMITATE LIFE:
Every single time someone pushes back against something in my fiction as “unrealistic,” it’s something I stole from life.
Like, I have a good imagination, but not THAT good.
— Meg Keene (@MegKeene) June 1, 2026
AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD:
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) June 1, 2026
NOTHING TO SEE HERE, MOVE ALONG: Camo-Clad ChiComs Caught Crossing Into Texas. “This seems like the sort of thing we should be paying closer attention to. How many military-age Chinese national men are already here, and how much of the anti-border control networks funded by Shanghai-based Neville Roy Singham are designed to to keep ICE from deporting them?”
DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES:
Two days ago, Spencer Pratt held a cookout at Jim Gilliam Park in the Jungles. A week earlier, Rolling 60s territory. Politicians avoid these neighborhoods, scared of the anger from decades of neglect.
Spencer showed up anyway. Broke bread. Listened.
This is a new Los Angeles. pic.twitter.com/79JRiAl1hW
— Derrick Johnson (@4derrick) June 1, 2026
Every Republican needs to do things like this.
THAT WOULD BE NICE, BUT FOR NOW AT LEAST PROBABLY NOT: Can Animal Experiments Be Done on Computers?
OUCH: The AI economy could crash on mounting chip costs — and those token costs won’t help.
Hardly a week passes without news of another hyperscaler spending billions of dollars on AI chips. A single moderate-to-large data center today uses AI chips costing billions of dollars. A single Nvidia Blackwell GPU in a modern AI chip cluster could cost as much as a new Tesla Model 3. Non-AI chip costs have also risen sharply, with both total spending and unit costs for CPU and memory chips at unprecedented levels. All of this has significant implications for the economy.
The primary reason chip costs are increasing is excessive demand. Proliferation of AI, the Internet of Things, and electric vehicles has increased the overall demand for chips. In particular, chip demand for AI has exploded, supporting both the training of AI models and their deployment across applications. Historically, AI model quality scaled with the volume of compute used to build it — more chips meant better outputs. But the demand driver now is shifting from training to inference. Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24-fold increase in token consumption by 2030, reaching 120 quadrillion tokens per month, as agentic AI systems replace single-prompt interactions with multi-step tasks that consume orders of magnitude more compute per query. Meanwhile, chips must still be replaced every few years simply to remain cost-competitive, compounding demand pressure from both ends.
The enterprise reality is already arriving. Microsoft recently canceled most of its direct Claude Code licenses after discovering that employee AI usage had grown so large that, in the words of one Nvidia executive, “the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees.”
If that last line isn’t indicative of a bubble, I’m not sure what else it might be.
On the consumer side, a low-to-mid-tier 2TB SSD like the one I bought 18 months ago for $89 now goes for $299.
CHANGE? Iran’s president offers resignation, citing total takeover by IRGC commanders.
In the letter sent on Sunday, Pezeshkian stressed that the president and the government have effectively been excluded from major and vital decision-making processes in the country, and that the vacuum created by this situation has enabled hardline factions within the IRGC to take control of affairs, the source said.
Pezeshkian added that under such circumstances he is unable to run the government and carry out his legal responsibilities, and for that reason has requested to step down immediately.
It is not yet clear whether Mojtaba Khamenei will accept the president’s resignation, but the contents of the letter point to a deep and unprecedented rift at the highest levels of power.
Keep up the pressure.
HOW IT STARTED:
LA Mayor candidate Nithya Raman has publicly said:
“I don’t think a kid is gonna be safer because a tent is 500 feet away from a school”.
3 days ago a FAKE encampment was set up outside her home, a visibly shaken Raman said:
“I have two little kids. They didn’t see it, luckily… pic.twitter.com/198V0EIb3q— Clyp Keeper (@DGrayTexas45) May 31, 2026
How it went:
Lmao I missed this.
Some heroes staged a homeless encampment outside her home. https://t.co/9sH5mBiqpR pic.twitter.com/d5DfBUvxgs
— Coddled Affluent Professional (@feelsdesperate) June 1, 2026
It’s the latest in a monthslong campaign against alleged drug boats traversing the Caribbean Sea and eastern Pacific.
Video released by the military on social media shows a small vessel moving in the ocean before it’s hit and engulfed in a fireball.
The attack brings the death toll to 205 in a series of U.S. strikes that began in early September, with other attacks announced on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The death toll also rose slightly this week because some people that had been initially reported by the U.S. military as survivors of the strikes have not been found.
They could have tried not being drug smugglers.
SKIN SUIT STAR WARS, SKIN SUIT GOP:
Paxton winning against Cornyn (and many similar political races) and the two indie horror movies beating the latest Star Wars slop are actually culturally related phenomena, but most aren’t ready for that conversation.
— Matthew J. Peterson (@docMJP) May 31, 2026
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Graham Platner Is Not an Outlier in the Democratic Party. “What the few remaining normie Democrats don’t understand is that the coastal Dems are OK with Platner because he’s not that different than any of them. We’ve seen the hard turn to antisemitism that the Democrats have taken in recent years. They’ve been big defenders of the ‘Free Palestine’ campus Brownshirts. The only real difference between Platner and a lot of the Dems in D.C. is that he got the tattoo.”
THE COUNTER-RECONQUISTA IS AIDED BY THE ENEMY WITHIN:
Truly hilarious mask off moment for Spain’s communist government.
Mass import Africans and Muslims and then grant them citizenship at the same time you put out tweets declaring that none of this applies to Ukrainians.
And why would it? Ukrainians are White and Christian. That… https://t.co/4BwZnDNezX
— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) May 31, 2026
GOOD: Hegseth Says US and China Agreed to Keep Talking About AI Guardrails.
Trump and President Xi Jinping discussed guardrails on AI and how to prevent bad actors from exploiting the most powerful AI models, such as Anthropic’s Mythos, which has exposed major software security vulnerabilities.
Hegseth said the two countries agreed to continue talking as technology develops.
“Guardrail conversations are productive between two strong countries,” Hegseth said, “but it’s also our job to run the fastest, and certainly at the War Department, we’re trying to do everything we can to maintain that.”
If we learned anything from The Terminator or WarGames, it’s to keep a human in the loop.
ANALYSIS: TRUE.
The DSA is full of spoiled rich kids who have encountered zero hardship in their life which is why as soon as they get any type of pushback they become homocidal maniacs. https://t.co/Gg4C00Jqmc
— Magills (@magills_) May 31, 2026
I THINK I SAW THIS MOVIE: Google Seeks Approval to Release 32 Million AI-Bred Mosquitoes on California, Florida.
BILL WHITTLE JOINED THE SPENCER PRATT VIDEO VOLUNTEER BRIGADE:
Update: Now with 100% fewer spelling errors, Bill tells me!
CLASS ACT, HIDING BEHIND YOUR WIFE: Maine Senate Dem Graham Platner puts wife Amy on video to defend against claims he was posting on creepy hookup app.
Amy Gertner, who married Platner in 2023, said that she was “deeply hurt” about the campaign’s former political director, whom she tipped off about the sexting, confirming the messages to the press.
The randy oyster farmer is believed to have had sexting affairs with up to a dozen women, according to reports.
“It makes me really angry, disappointed, and I find it really shameful that there’s a group of media outlets and people who are willing to spread gossip, instead of talking about real issues that Graham is running on, like healthcare and education and childcare,” Gertner groused in a video addressing the scandal.
Here’s the video, but be warned that the cringe factor is high.
Related: Platner reshuffles campaign and sends out NDAs as he struggles to get ahead of controversies.
Amid fallout from Platner’s controversial years-old social media posts, his campaign began sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers last week, according to his former top political director, Genevieve McDonald, who said she declined to sign one.
“The campaign offered me $15,000 to sign a NDA,” McDonald told POLITICO in an interview. “I did not accept the offer. I certainly could have used the money. I quit my job to work on Platner’s campaign, believing it was something different than it is.”
And here’s the background on what happened with McDonald: Mamdani spin doctor accused of threatening Graham Platner’s ex-staffer before she blew whistle on sexting scandal.
EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN:
Cavalry, trench warfare, shooting other aircraft with shotguns, and now dazzle camo? Welcome back, World War 1 https://t.co/3gKpafyMvQ pic.twitter.com/zNx57EpqJt
— kebab🇹🇷 (@kebabthesecond) May 30, 2026