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Co-Founder of Stock Picker’s Corner on BeeHiiv; Co-author of ‘Contrarian Investing,’ Father of Joey. Pirates, Orioles, Steelers & Penguins. Airplane nut

[@PrivateBriefing @PrivateBrief]

Very excited …

My new #book — “Wealth Builder/Wealth Killer: How to Keep Your Cool and Win in a #StockMarket Built to Break You” — just debuted on #Amazon.

Check it out.

#WealthBuilding #WealthManagement #stocks #investing #ebooks

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[Popular Mechanics @PopMech]

USS Herring disappeared in June 1944 after attacking Japanese ships near a remote island. The cause of its loss was so unusual it remains unique among all U.S. submarine casualties of the war.

Read the full story at the link below.

🔗: https://t.co/ujhUQtgD6L

[Trev Clark's Obscure Aviation History 🚁 @clark_aviation]

Looking a lot like a modern AI image, this is actually the sole pre-war Douglas DC-4E airliner.
Superceded by an all-new DC-4 model, it was sold off to Japan, where several elements of its design found there way into the Nakajima G5N2 Shinzan Kai bomber!

[Ed Russo @EdRussoWX]

THE VIDEO: Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 passes over the Tunkhannock Viaduct.

A 1.2-million-pound steam legend crossing one of the largest concrete railroad viaducts ever built. Nicholson, Pennsylvania delivered an unforgettable scene today.

[Combat Aircraft @combataircraft]

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@nhlpens 😂 Game/set/match

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@JoshYohe_PGH There’s always the Adult Hockey League at Ice World

(No … really)

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@JoshYohe_PGH He’s 31 and was minus 12 last season …

[Noosheen Hashemi @HashemiNoosheen]

I looked into the U.S. Navy's Corsair drone boat that just rescued two American pilots in the Strait of Hormuz, and the engineering is remarkable.

Built by Texas-based Saronic Technologies, the Corsair is a 24-foot autonomous surface vessel powered by AI. It hits 40 mph, carries 1,000 pounds of payload, and can sail more than 1,000 miles without a human aboard. Each unit costs roughly $1 million to produce, which is a fraction of what comparable manned naval assets cost.

The platform runs on Saronic's autonomy stack, which fuses real-time sensor data, computer vision, and AI decision-making to navigate, identify targets, and execute mission objectives without remote piloting. It's part of the Navy's Task Force 59, the unit dedicated to AI-powered unmanned vessels operating in the Middle East.

Saronic stood this up in 12 months from prototype to production. The company is on track to build more than 20 vessels per year by 2027.

This is what American AI looks like in the field. 🇺🇸

[@PrivateBriefing @PrivateBrief]

@Pirates Lawn guy banged on my back door down here in Baltimore this morning.

“Mr. William, there’s a bat sticking out of your lawn.”

Grabbed it. I’m keeping it

I’ll use it to swat away the big pests we face here — purple Ravens.

#LetsGoBucs #HereWeGo

[keepitquarterly @keepitquarterly]

SEC Rule S7-2026-15 would let public companies hide bad numbers for six months at a time. Insiders dump their shares before disclosure, retail buys the bag. Comment is open until early July.

[Francisco Cunha @OnDisasters]

On This Day: The fall of the Valkyrie

June 9 1966: The 2nd prototype of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie [62-02070] collides with an F-104 Starfighter over California (US).

Of the three aboard both planes, only the XB-70´s pilot survives, with his co-pilot and the fighter pilot perishing. Incident occurred during a photoshoot while in close formation.

Enquiry stated the F-104´s pilot was in a position where he was unable to safely distance from XB-70 (more details from the ASN Entry below)

The XB-70 was a Mach 3 bomber developed in the 50s. Developments in missile technology made the concept obsolete, leading to its cancellation in 1961. At the time of the crash, the two prototypes that had been built were being used for research.

Video is from an excerpt by YouTuber Mike Bell – Video´s name is “Wake Vortex and the XB-70 crash”

More info on the report here

“ On 8 June 1966, XB-70A No. 2 was in close formation with four other aircraft (an F-4 Phantom, an F-5, a T-38 Talon, and an F-104 Starfighter) for a photoshoot at the behest of General Electric, manufacturer of the engines of all five aircraft.
The USAF summary report of the accident investigation stated that, given the position of the F-104 relative to the XB-70, the F-104 pilot would not have been able to see the XB-70's wing, except by uncomfortably looking back over his left shoulder.

The report said that Walker, piloting the F-104, likely maintained his position by looking at the fuselage of the XB-70, forward of his position.

The F-104 was estimated to be 70 ft (21 m) to the side of, and 10 ft (3 m) below, the fuselage of the XB-70. The report concluded that from that position, without appropriate sight cues, Walker was unable to properly perceive his motion relative to the Valkyrie, leading to his aircraft drifting into contact with the XB-70's wing”

[The Aviationist @TheAviationist]

New Photos Offer Interesting Look At B-21 Raider’s Speed Brake Arrangement

The photos show the Raider’s outboard trailing-edge control surfaces deflected in opposite directions, suggesting a different speed-brake arrangement than the B-2’s familiar split rudders.

Story: https://t.co/Hbw7tN3Sga

[Harman @itsharmanjot]

firewalls can't stop this.

A developer just open sourced a tunnel that smuggles your entire internet through port 53 the port every router on earth is forced to leave open.

It's called MasterDnsVPN. It hides your traffic inside DNS queries, the one type of packet no network can block without breaking itself.

Every firewall on earth has to allow DNS. Schools, airports, hotels, hotel WiFi, entire countries running ISP-level censorship all of them keep port 53 open or nothing on the network resolves. This repo turns that loophole into a full encrypted tunnel.

Here's what makes it different from every other DNS tunnel that came before:

→ Custom ARQ layer gives you TCP-level reliability over UDP DNS, so nothing drops even on garbage networks
→ Sends every packet through up to 12 different resolver paths at the same time, if 11 fail the packet still arrives
→ Auto probes the maximum DNS payload your path can handle, then locks in the fastest MTU possible
→ AES-256-GCM, ChaCha20, AES-128, AES-192 all built in, pick your encryption
→ SOCKS5 proxy on 127.0.0.1:1080 point any browser or app at it and you're through

Killed: $12/mo Mullvad, $10/mo NordVPN, $15/mo Astrill, every commercial DNS tunnel charging monthly fees for the exact same idea.

Pre-built binaries for Windows, Linux AMD64, Linux ARM64, macOS ARM64. No Python install needed. Configure two DNS records, drop in the encryption key, run the executable.

Works in environments where every other VPN protocol is dead on arrival.

MIT License. 100% Opensource.

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

Okay this is genuinely insane.

SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.

It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.

AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.

They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.

So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.

In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.

And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."

One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.

AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.

And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.

The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.

@SpaceX

[NASA Armstrong @NASAArmstrong]

NASA’s X-59 just cleared a huge milestone with its first supersonic flight. Next up: the first mission conditions flight at Mach 1.4 and an altitude of 55,000 feet, key for future community overflights.

Bonus: You can follow the upcoming flight live on NASA’s flight tracker.

Follow the Quesst blog for what’s coming next in the mission!
🔗: https://t.co/XRadFOf4zS

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Leonardo is a $17 billion defense contractor. It built a system called SignalTrace that clips sensors onto the license plate readers already mounted on street poles, overpasses, and police cars across the US. Every time you drive past one, the sensor grabs the Bluetooth and WiFi signals from every device in your car, ties them to your plate, and logs the time and location. Your phone, your AirPods, your kid's tablet. All of it goes into the same file. A friend rides with you once and their devices are linked to your plate.
Leonardo has sold this to police departments since at least 2023. There is no federal law covering it, no opt-out, and no warrant requirement.

My Take
None of the pieces here are new. Your phone has always broadcast a signal. The license plate cameras were already there. Leonardo just connected them and found a buyer. Nobody had to break a law or build anything from scratch. They assembled a surveillance system from parts already in place and sold it before anyone noticed.

Most people found out this week from a 404 Media investigation. Leonardo received the patent in 2024. By the time you hear about something like this, the deals are done and the sensors are on the poles. That's how it works now.

Hedgie🤗
https://t.co/serZi0IGnT

[Aviation @xAviation]

This engineering masterpiece was designed without computers in the 1950s by men with pencils and slide rules.

📹: cameraguyglenn

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A Saronic Corsair unmanned surface vessel rescued the Army AH-64 Apache crew after they crashed near the Strait of Hormuz in the waters of Oman yesterday, the first-ever rescue of downed aircrew by a drone boat -WSJ

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Would dig a Skenes Jersey

#LetsGoBucs

[Andrew Fillipponi @ThePoniExpress]

Skenes Night: He’s due. So here’s the deal. If Paul strikes out 9 or more. Like he did the last time he faced the Dodgers. And the Buccos win. I’ll give away 5 Paul Skenes jerseys. Just follow me. And retweet this post. And you’re good. Let’s go Bucs!

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@KodyDuncanPGH Tying run on third, one out yesterday.

He pops up.

Need I say more?