Today · Wednesday 3 June 2026
The headlines and some comments on them.
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Millions of Americans Are Talking to AI Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It’s Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice
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realryanlewisI asked AI about my chest pain and it told me to turn it off and on again.
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mia1999Yeah, go to a real doctor so they can glance at you for 90 seconds, nod thoughtfully, and then secretly ask ChatGPT in the hallway.
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Scientists say they have tested a method that could get us to Alpha Centauri in just twenty years
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michael.bakerWe're about to reach Alpha Centauri faster than a contractor can finish my kitchen remodel.
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jake.campbellAliens on Alpha Centauri just saw this headline and started building a wall.👽🪓🧱
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A new browser plugin adds typos to your AI generated emails to make them look like a real human wrote them.
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paul1971We've officially come full circle, we invented AI to fix our typos and now we need AI to put them back.
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jamesprice62For an extra five dollars a month, it also adds a passive-aggressive... per my last email... to every third message.
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A New Jersey man was arrested for running unlicensed marijuana vending machines at 80 locations, pulling in up to $20,000 a day.
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gustmintMeanwhile the owner of a vending machine next to it that sells Honey Buns, Doritos, and Pop-Tarts couldn’t understand why he suddenly had to restock it every 30 minutes.
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An Ohio man who stopped to buy tomatoes at a grocery store ended up winning a three million dollar lottery scratch-off.
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prism219His mom called immediately: ‘Told you eating your veggies would pay off!’ 🍅💰
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A new report goes inside the exploitative, cynical, and money-fueled world of mommy influencers
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smoothlionImagine monetizing your kid's tantrum at Target and calling it a brand partnership.
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david.jenkinsThe article makes it sound dark and exploitative but honestly my parents did the same thing, they just got paid in Facebook likes from my aunt.
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Lawyers are warning clients that their conversations with AI chatbots could be used against them in court.
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realbensimmonsCan't wait for ChatGPT on the witness stand agreeing with the prosecutor, then turning to the defense and saying 'you raise an excellent point'.
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Doctors are warning that flying abroad for cheap cosmetic surgery can lead to devastating consequences.
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joe.kellySaving two thousand dollars on a nose job sounds great until your nose is in a different time zone than your face.
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realbethwhiteThe only thing worse than a bad facelift is a bad facelift with a layover in Frankfurt.
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A New Jersey man was caught helping North Korean IT workers steal American identities to land remote tech jobs
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pixel091The fact that every single one of them listed their hometown as Pyongyang, New Jersey should have been the first clue.
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masonsanders48By the time the feds knocked on the company's door, the North Korean had already been replaced by AI.
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Failed startups are selling their workers' Slack and email messages to AI companies looking to train on real workplace data
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crystalrogueSo we can expect AI to tell everyone not to worry about monetization, just focus on users.
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steve_96I asked AI to review my business plan and it said the bad news is you'll fail, the good news is I'll buy your DMs for forty bucks.
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Netflix is launching a TikTok-style vertical video feed this month
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realcameronlongI finally just got my screen time under four hours a day and Netflix said not on my watch.
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johnwatson5Great, another app for parents to blame when their kid watches nine hours of vertical Cocomelon clips.
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A retired sportswriter says he lost his entire $270,000 life savings to an online scam featuring a young, gorgeous woman.
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miles.alexanderI honestly can't decide what's worse, losing 270 grand to a fake woman online, or being one of the athletes he used to write about who lost millions to a real woman.
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A hotel guest was shocked to find out the free bathroom items in their room actually came with hidden charges
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patchfoxThe shampoo was free, the rinse was $19, and leaving the bathroom triggered an early checkout fee.
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tyler.williamsThe lotion was free but I used both hands to apply it so they charged me for a spa treatment.
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A furious Alex Jones is vowing to fight The Onion's takeover of Infowars and is asking his audience to buy up all his merch.
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realtompriceHe's asking fans to buy all his merch, which is the first true emergency he's ever reported.
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kate2001Must be hard losing your company to a satire site and still somehow being the least believable one in the room.
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Allbirds stock soared around 600% after the struggling footwear company announced it's pivoting to AI services and rebranding as NewBird AI.
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snipjetAnd when the investors inevitably lose all their money, you can call them Angry Birds.
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patch22First AI took our jobs, now it's taking our shoes.
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Amazon customers are complaining that the delivery drones are dropping packages from 10 feet in the air and damaging orders.
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mossflickThe drones were probably trained on footage of the drivers chucking boxes out of moving vans.
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cloud38xReturn drones are next, and you will have to throw the package into a moving drone's basket like a carnival game or your refund gets denied.
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Blue Origin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's rocket company, dropped a customer's satellite into the wrong orbit
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royalpantherBlue Origin left the satellite with a planet two doors down and took a blurry photo as proof of delivery.
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realoscarbutlerThe tracking page just says delivered, leaned against a moon.
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Train tickets from New York to MetLife Stadium will reportedly cost over $100 during the World Cup.
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melissa.garciaFIFA looked at American healthcare pricing and said yeah we can apply that model to public transit.
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realkimkellyOn the bright side, that's a hundred dollars less someone can steal from you ON the train.
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A Florida congresswoman says a Bible story about fallen angels is really about aliens invading Earth
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hope_90Right 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."
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tylersimmons56The book of Enoch did not survive three thousand years just to end up as a slide in a Florida town hall.🤦🏼
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Disney's new CEO has announced 1,000 job cuts in a brutal email to employees.
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reed714Imagine getting fired by a company whose entire brand is happily ever after.
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stephanie.lopezBold move sending a brutal email at a company where half the staff knows how to draw you as a villain.
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Shoplifting in New York City is down 20% this year after the NYPD started targeting repeat offenders
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lily_87Progress. Now release the razors from maximum security!
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ruby1986Down 20% and I still need a staff meeting to buy deodorant.
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A Singapore-based fund with $40 million is betting on longevity research to make death optional
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lily_84If death becomes optional a lot of rich parents will never hear from their kids again.
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nick2005I told my wife a fund is working to make death optional, and she immediately started a fund to make divorce mandatory.
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More landlords and lenders are using AI. Fewer regulators are checking them for bias.
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sambryant31Finally, a way to discriminate at scale without all that pesky human guilt.
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coolsun484Regulators said they'd look into it, but their AI assistant flagged the task as low priority.
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Scientists just discovered 5.6 million bees living under a cemetery in New York state
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goldenforestI said rest in "peace", not in bees!
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glowbyteI love that even in death you can't escape noisy neighbors in New York.
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Imagine training an AI on OkCupid photos and all it learned was 47 different ways people hold fish.
Somewhere an AI can identify me, my ex, and the guy I lost her to, all from the same bathroom mirror angle.