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TLDR: There are a bunch of beautiful, new, empty office biotech labs buildings in Boston. Buildings made to be labs are constructed completely differently than buildings meant to house people (mainly around air and water flow). Therefore turning those labs into anything other than labs (eg housing) will be really, really expensive.

> A 2024 investigation by DMV, CDTFA, and the California Department of Justice (DOJ) revealed a scheme stretching back to 2018, in which the defendants, working individually and in concert with each other, prepared and submitted false CDTFA forms, DMV forms, and bills of lading, indicating that vehicles were purchased for use outside California. However, none of the vehicles were shipped or used outside of California — they were delivered, driven, and stored within the state. The vehicles included a $1.8 million McLaren Elva, $1.5 million Porsche 918 Spyder, and $1.26 million Ferrari F12TDF, among others.

The defendants:

1. Harminder Singh Dhaliwal

2. Parham Karbassi

3. Cameron Robinson McLaughlin

4. Nagib Nemer Haddad

5. Emmanuel Pablo

6. Glenn Jonathan Meyers

7. Matthew Michael O’Brien

8. Wout Cornelis Stokman

9. Lana Hasan Abukweik

10. Lisa Marie Brandini

11. Shane Craik Duncan

12. Arian Anthony Khatibi

13. Andre Charles Wetzell

14. Mohammad Hawar

The cars registered were:

McLaren Elva — about $1.8M

Porsche 918 Spyder — about $1.5M

Ferrari F12tdf — about $1.26M

Lamborghini Huracán STO

Lamborghini Huracán EVO

Lamborghini Aventador LP780‑4 Ultimae

McLaren 765LT Spider

Lamborghini Urus

BMW X7

BMW M2

Porsche 911 Speedster

Corgan thinks maybe it was the CIA, however the more obvious answer is this was fallout from the 1996 telecommunications act, which removed restrictions on how many radio stations a company was allowed to own in a set market.

With the restrictions lifted, clear channel and Viacom bought up an enormous number of radio stations and now currently open about 50% of all US radio stations between them, and standardized the music played across the entire market.

Did you find any kitten mittens among the fake products? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dhrqnDS_oU

Here is the company list who received FDA Warning Letters with the Subject "False & Misleading Claims/Misbranded" related to their GLP-1s. Looks like they are all licensed 503b or 503a type compounding places. Will be interesting if they go after the sketchy Chinese peptide "research" sellers next.

GenoGenix LLC

Kare Solutions, LLC dba Zappy

Strut Health, LLC dba Strut

Peaks Curative, LLC dba Peaks

Lean Rx, Inc. dba SkinnyRx

Good Girl LLC dba GoodGirlRX

Refills Health, LLC dba Refills Health

PharmaZee

Weightless Medical LLC dba WeightCare

Ivim Services LLC dba Ivim

Viv Health, Inc. dba VIV RX

Aspen Aesthetics dba Fifty 410

FitRX, LLC dba FitRx

Join Josie

Kin Meds

Deluxe IV Aesthetics PLLC dba Deluxe IV and Aesthetics

Genesis Health International Inc. dba Genesis

Dripgym Mobile Parent, LLC dba Amp Health

Newman Clinic, PLLC dba Newman Clinic

NewSelf Limited dba NewSelf

MaxLife Technologies Inc. dba Maxlife

Better Health Labs, Inc. dba Measured

Refills Health, LLC dba Refills Health

Levity Inc. dba Levity

MEDVi, LLC dba MEDVi

BluefitMD

Alan Health Technologies Inc. dba Alan

Belle Health LLC dba Belle

Bliv Wellness LLC dba Bliv

I'm a little surprised large hospital systems like administrative and non-clinical IT roles weren't also included. Patient and clinical demand is very strong, but hospital systems have needed to aggressively restructure back-office, IT, admin, and management roles to cut costs.

> The draft for a new permit that would allow data centers across the state to release untreated wastewater and stormwater directly into rivers and streams.

> The new permit would apply to water that circulates through all current or future data centers, regardless of location.

Also creeps can just easily search to see how to disable the light anyways.

The facebook execs literally plotted to relaunch their unpopular product while people were distracted by other bad news.

> “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

I had a similar reaction when I interviewed at Theranos before it was known they were a scam and Elizabeth and Sunny both had insane Lamborginis parked illegally in the handicapped spaces in front of the Theranos building. It was so offputting seeing the CEO and founders of a healthcare company hogging the handicapped spaces that were supposed to be for people who needed them. They seemed super shady for a bunch of other reasons but this was a big red flag! So obnoxious to steal the handicapped spaces with your stupid sports cars.

> The workplace misconduct report details allegations that Callender sent late-night texts to subordinates, including one message reading, “Showered yet? Just playing.” In another message, he reportedly wrote, “I’ll believe it when I smell it.”

> Other allegations made in the misconduct investigation included repeated comments on an employee’s appearance and personal life. Investigators found that Callender told her a dress “fit nicely,” suggested multiple times that they should get married and asked her whether she was dressing up to impress someone “on the side” or make her partner jealous. He’d asked if she had ever “been with” an African American man.

> The report also found that he told the same employee that there was a rumor that they were having an affair and “helped spread this rumor by disclosing it to other personnel.” He also had sent this employee inappropriate photos, including one centered on his clothed lap and another photo of a woman in a bikini, the report said.

If only the FBI put as much effort into investigating and prosecuting his crimes and accomplices instead into the people who posted about this death.

> In a WARN document filed with California officials, as is mandated in the event of mass layoffs, C3 gave notice for 71 Redwood City layoffs. Eighteen data scientists and about 45 engineers in various roles are losing their jobs, according to the document. It’s unclear how deep the cuts go to C3’s larger workforce, which totaled 1,181 full-time employees as of last April

> Women and girls could be put at risk of harassment, stalking, and abuse if Meta presses ahead with plans to add AI facial recognition features to its smart glasses, leading charities have warned.

> Experts said the technology, which would allow wearers to identify people and find out information about them using the platform’s AI tool, could pose a “direct and serious” risk to survivors by placing them “in harm's way” and enabling abusers to locate and track them.

> They added that the feature also has the potential to threaten the safety of “all women and girls in public” by giving wearers the ability to access information about them without their consent.

> It comes after a New York Times report revealed Meta, which owns Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, is considering plans to add facial recognition technology to its Meta glasses as soon as this year.

Associated NY Times report: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-re...

> “What is a lethal dose of fentanyl” was one of many phone searches that investigators say were made by Kouri Richins. Prosecutors allege she killed Eric Richins, her husband of nine years, with a lethal dose of fentanyl.

> The searches found on Kouri Richins’ iPhone include the phrases: “can cops force you to do a lie detector test?” “Luxury prisons for the rich in America,” “death certificate says pending, will life insurance still pay?” “If someone is poisoned what does it go down on the death certificate as,” and “How to permanently delete information from an iPhone remotely.”

> About a year to the day after her husband died, Kouri Richins published a children’s book, “Are You With Me?” about navigating grief after the loss of a loved one.

> Summit County prosecutor Brad Bloodworth told jurors that Richins was $4.5 million in debt and falsely believed that if her husband died she would inherit his estate worth more than $4 million.

> Years before her husband’s death, Richins opened numerous life insurance policies on Eric Richins without his knowledge, with benefits totaling nearly $2 million, prosecutors alleged. Court documents also indicate she had a negative bank account balance, owed lenders more than $1.8 million and was being sued by a creditor.

> Bloodworth showed the jury a series of text messages between Kouri Richins and Robert Josh Grossman, the man with whom she was having an affair. She texted Grossman about her dream of leaving her husband, gaining millions in the divorce and one day marrying Grossman.

Cobalt Red by Siddharth Kara is a fascinating if horrifying long read which looks at the toll cobalt mining takes on the people and environment in DRC.

The reported outage was limited to a single service (Cost Explorer) in one region, so fortunately not AWS’s entire global cloud infrastructure.

If an AI safety director can’t reliably keep an agent from overwriting core safeguards, what hope do average users have?

Fun book sure, but best book of all time?