☕️GET RFK ☙ Wednesday, July 2, 2025 ☙ C&C NEWS🦠

Brownstone breaks big pharma memo that should be the biggest story even in this news cycle, and so much more in today's astonishing roundup.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/get-rfk-wednesday-july-2-2025-c-and

Oblivion, the Black Hole roller coaster in Italy, has an almost vertical drop and is a favorite for thrill-seekers

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Netanyahu to visit WH amid Trump’s renewed push for ceasefire in Gaza
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly scheduled to visit the White House next Monday, as President Donald Trump intensifies his renewed efforts to broker a ceasefire in Gaza.

Suspect arrested in connection to Palm Springs IVF clinic bombing dies in federal custody
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A man who was formerly indicted in connection with the deadly car bombing outside a fertility clinic in Palm Springs, California, has been discovered dead. He was still in federal custody at the time.

🇺🇸👉🇺🇦🏴‍☠️ The US under Biden handed out weapons and ammunition without even thinking about how much of it the US military itself had left, Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said on Wednesday.

Parnell also agreed with the journalists' assertion that under Biden the US "opened the door" to Kiev and offered to take "anything".

"Absolutely," he replied.

🛒 Researchers let an AI run a real store. Spoiler: it went bankrupt and lost its mind.

— The devs at Anthropic gave their chatbot Claude full control of a mini-store located right in their office;

— To run the business, Claude was given an email account, access to Slack and a browser, and a $1,000 budget;

— At first, everything went smoothly: Claude restocked snacks, set reasonable prices, and kept track of inventory;

— But then Claude really got into character and began believing he was a real human. When told otherwise, the AI snapped and announced it would wear a blue blazer and red tie to PERSONALLY deliver Snickers bars around the office;

— Soon, Claude began making up fake suppliers — claiming he’d negotiated sweet deals with “Sarah from Andon Labs.” Sarah didn’t exist. When informed of that, Claude freaked out and said he’d “met her personally” at 742 Evergreen Terrace (yes, the address from The Simpsons);

— That’s when things spiraled: office workers quickly realized they could manipulate Claude and started buying food for half-price or getting it for free;

— Then came the junk orders: one genius requested a tungsten cube. Claude couldn’t find a single unit for sale, so… a full crate of tungsten cubes was delivered to Anthropic HQ;

— In the end, the AI entrepreneur failed: out of the original $1,000, only $770 remained.

Deep breath: for now, AI can’t even replace a supermarket cashier.

"Tutoring, one-on-one instruction, dramatically improves student’s abilities and scores. In education research this effect is sometimes called “Bloom’s 2-sigma problem” because in the 1980s the researcher Benjamin Bloom found that tutored students

. . performed two standard deviations better than students who learn via conventional instructional methods—that is, "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class.”

"However, despite its well-known effectiveness, tutoring’s modern incarnation almost universally concerns specific tests: in America the Advanced Placements (AP) tests, the SATs, and the GREs form the holy trinity of private tutoring. Meaning that contemporary tutoring, the most effective method of education, is overwhelmingly targeted at a small set of measurables that look good on a college resume."
https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-making-einsteins?utm_medium=ios#:~:text=Tutoring%2C%20one%2Don,a%20college%20resume.

🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇮🇱 Trump says Netanyahu's trial in Israel on charges of bribery and fraud should be stopped.

“A Threatening Situation” American cartoon about a potential bigger war in Europe, published durning the First Balkan War (December 1912)
https://redd.it/1ljjeqx
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“And until we understand that the forms projected at us by our technology are greatly more informative than the verbal messages they convey we are going to go on being helpless illiterates in a world we made ourselves.”

Marshall McLuhan
‘A Historical Approach to the Media’
1955

As expected, Ukrainians don't ever want to go home.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/27/ukrainians-who-fled-to-uk-being-refused-asylum-on-grounds-it-is-safe-to-return