OVERWORLD:
-Meta and Google secretly collaborated to brainwash children.-

ONE BETWEEN:
-What are Olympic Air Pistol competitors wearing on their faces?-

THE DEPTHS:
-Would you go to this milk bar?-

“I wish those who are disturbing you might also get themselves castrated!”
— Galatians 5:12

✦DISCOVERY PICKS✦

▶️ YouTube:
Joe Rogan & Alex Jones - Sushi on Sunset (2003)

✖️ X:
cats stealing food in paintings

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Mystery link.

Gross

Meta and Google secretly collaborated to brainwash children.

Okay, so apparently Google and Meta secretly collaborated to break rules about advertising towards minors. The way they did this was by targeting Instagram advertisements to teenagers on YouTube, bypassing Google's policies for protecting minors online.

Plans changed, and Google tried covering its ass, in case somebody found out. Google initiated an investigation into itself and canceled the project.

Google stated that it prohibits ads personalized to people under 18 and claimed no registered under-18 YouTube users were directly targeted. However, they acknowledged using the "unknown" loophole and pledged to reinforce policies with sales representatives.

Meta defended its actions, stating it kept to its policies. It also claimed the "unknown" audience tag wasn’t an attempt to get around the rules.

Horrible.

✦QUICK HITS✦

✦Business & Tech✦

X sued major advertisers for conspiring to withhold ad dollars, costing billions. They accuse Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) of organizing an illegal boycott since Musk's takeover, which Rumble also alleges.

Typical: Apple might charge up to $20 for its new AI features. The AI system, Apple Intelligence, includes enhanced Siri, and automatic email and image generation. Analysts suggest it could be part of the Apple One subscription.

Prophecy: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees a 35%-40% chance of a "soft landing" for the U.S. economy, with recession being the most likely scenario. He cites uncertainties like geopolitics and spending.

✦Fashion & Culture✦

Rich people drama: Milo Yiannopoulos accused celebrity dentist Thomas Connelly of exploiting Kanye West (Ye) and getting him addicted to nitrous oxide. Yiannopoulos claims Connelly diminished Ye's mental faculties for financial gain.

Who Is Slawn?

True political war: Nobody cares, but war is waging inside the r/MonsterGirl subreddit. Controversy has bloomed as members demand a ban on AI-generated content, leading to the creation of an AI-free splinter group. The sole moderator refuses, sparking community backlash. This is revolution.

✦Hmm… Interesting✦

Cozy 1-minute-read: Prevention of HIV

How French Drains Work

For programmers: Tony Hawk’s Pro Strcpy

For weebs: The Philosophy of One Piece: Finding Meaning in a World of Pirates

ONE

BETWEEN

Mechanica

What are Olympic Air Pistol competitors wearing on their faces?

If you watched the Olympic Air Pistol event for the first time, you might've noticed how sick the competitors' eyewear is.

They have an equally sick name; mechanical irises.

They actually play a crucial role in the sport. Mechanical irises are precision instruments that shooters use to bring their gunsights into sharp focus.

By fine-tuning these devices, competitors can achieve optimal clarity and accuracy for hitting targets.

They could just prescription glasses, right? No. First, they’re not as cool looking, and they’re not as precise.

Human eyesight varies much more than you think, like over a day. Over the course of a day, a shooter's vision can change due to factors such as fatigue and fluctuating light conditions.

Prescription glasses, being static, cannot adapt to these changes. Mechanical irises, on the other hand, can be adjusted on the fly, providing shooters with the flexibility to maintain optimal focus throughout their competition.

It's also interesting to note that not all top competitors use mechanical irises. Oh Ye-jin, the South Korean competitor who won Gold in the 10-meter Air Pistol event this year, skipped them.

THE DEPTHS

Really, really cool

Would you go to this milk bar?

Hugh Donald McIntosh was a man with big dreams. Born in Australia, he built his fortune as a fight promoter, theatrical producer, and newspaper magnate.

By 1935, McIntosh went bankrupt. Womp-womp. He tried everything to rebuild his wealth, from running an angora rabbit farm to opening a cake shop. But nothing really took off like his sexy ass milk business.

On August 1, 1935, McIntosh opened Britain’s first milk bar on London’s Fleet Street. The Black and White Bar offered 50 different non-alcoholic drinks.

Here’s a video:

Customers could choose from malted milks, yeast milks, fruit phosphates, shakes, and milk cocktails. The drinks had names like Bandit’s Prize and Blackstocking, which sounded exciting but were harmless, even if you added a sprinkle of nutmeg.

An Edinburgh reporter visited and was surprised to find the bar full of men. Real, rugged men—not just women or weaklings. It seemed McIntosh was onto something. He dreamed of opening 500 milk bars across the country.

But his idea was easy to copy. Soon, milk bars popped up everywhere, from Belfast to Birmingham. Newspapers called it “the craze of the age.”

In some places, the craze lasted. Even in the 1950s, Teddy Boys gathered in milk bars. But McIntosh didn’t live to see it. His venture failed in November 1938, just three years after it started. Four years later, he died, penniless.

McIntosh’s milk bars were a fleeting success, but for a brief moment, he made milk the drink of the day. spirit.