Chris Lavergne
I’m the Founder of Thought.is and the Publisher of Thought Catalog.
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Anthropic’s Mythos Model Broke into Almost Every U.S. Classified System in Hours, a Senator Says
Anthropic’s Mythos model broke into almost all classified systems run by the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command in a matter of hours, according to testimony relayed to the Senate Intelligence Committee and reported by The Economist. Senator Mark Warner, the committee’s vice-chair, said on June 11 that General Joshua Rudd, who leads the NSA and…
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Trump’s Interior Department Now Says a Federal Height Law That’s Stood for 115 Years Doesn’t Apply to His 250-Foot Arch
The Height of Buildings Act of 1910 limits most structures in Washington, D.C., to roughly 130 feet, a rule rooted in early 20th-century fire safety concerns and a desire to preserve the city’s low, horizontal, neoclassical character, one dominated by monuments rather than modern skyscrapers. Trump’s proposed Independence Arch would stand 166 feet tall, with…
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Trump Just Unveiled the New Air Force One, a $400 Million Plane Qatar Gave Him, and It’ll Fly Over Washington on July 4
The new Air Force One is a $400 million luxury jet the U.S. accepted free from the Qatari government, and Trump unveiled it Friday inside a hangar at Joint Base Andrews. It’s technically a “bridge” plane, designated the VC-25B, meant to fill in until Boeing finally delivers the long-delayed next-gen Air Force One fleet in…
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Michelle Obama Brought Barack to Tears at the Opening of His Presidential Center, Telling Him Standing by His Side Has Left Her in Awe
Michelle Obama paused mid-speech to make her husband look her in the eye. “Barack, you gotta look at me,” she said. “You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. And of course you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
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Michelle Obama Brought Barack to Tears at the Opening of His Presidential Center, Telling Him Standing by His Side Has Left Her in Awe
Michelle Obama paused mid-speech to make her husband look her in the eye. “Barack, you gotta look at me,” she said. “You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. And of course you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.
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This Is the First Time Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton Have Ever Posed Together for a Photo
Biden, Obama, Bush, and Clinton posed together in Chicago’s Jackson Park ahead of the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center. The pool photo, shot by AP’s Pablo Martinez Monsivais, also caught the four first ladies alongside them: Jill, Michelle, Laura, and Hillary. There’s no known prior photo of these exact four posed together. The…
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Bruce Springsteen Says He Wants to Find “Common Ground” with the Fans Who Walked Out Over His Trump Criticism
Springsteen made the comment while accepting the Harry Belafonte Voices for Social Justice Award at Tribeca’s “Storytellers” event on June 13, with Bono presenting and moderating the conversation. Bono asked whether he ever feels torn about fans who used to come to his shows and no longer do because of his politics. Springsteen’s answer leaned…
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Just Weeks Before He Died, Oliver Tree Explained Why His Family Wouldn’t Inherit a Cent of His Fortune
Oliver Tree Nickell died on June 14 in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro. He was 32. He made music that refused to sit in one genre, “Life Goes On,” “Miss You,” “Alien Boy,” and built a whole visual world around it with the bowl cut and the videos he wrote and directed himself.…
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Taxpayers Won’t Fund UFC Freedom 250’s $60 Million White House Production, Dana White Says. TKO Expects to Lose $30 Million
UFC Freedom 250 is set for June 14, 2026, with seven fights on the South Lawn, a fan fest on the Ellipse, and a Zac Brown Band concert built around Trump’s 80th birthday and the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Court filings from a failed lawsuit to block the event revealed the $60…
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Fake Pilot, Real Talent: Former Air Canada Captain Flew Passenger Jets For 17 Years On A Fake License
Geoffrey Wall, 59, retired from Air Canada in 2025 after a 27-year career and what looked like a clean run to the top. Peel Regional Police now say almost half of that career was a fraud. According to the force’s “Project Icarus” investigation, Wall was promoted to captain in 2009 without ever completing the Airline…
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What Comes Around Goes Around: Gen Z Is Bringing Back Tanning Beds, Which Are Classified as Carcinogenic to Humans
The World Health Organization puts indoor tanning beds in the same cancer-causing category as cigarettes, asbestos and plutonium. Gen Z is climbing back into them anyway, and they’re calling it “tanmaxxing.” A wave of young “tanfluencers” is timing UV exposure with apps, filming sessions for #TanTok and experimenting with unregulated “tanning pills,” USA Today reports.…
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Why Did Bishop Betray Alamo in ‘Euphoria’?
Warning: Massive spoilers for the last episode of HBO’s Euphoria. Ali (played by Colman Domingo) storms in armed and in military gear seeking revenge after Rue’s death from fentanyl-laced pills Alamo gave her. A tense Western-style duel breaks out between Ali and Alamo. Alamo tries to cheat by drawing early, but his gun clicks empty.…
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Trump’s Treasury Officials Pushed to Put His Face on a New $250 Bill, Even Though Federal Law Says Living People Can’t Appear on US Currency
According to a Washington Post report, two Treasury political appointees, US Treasurer Brandon Beach and senior adviser Mike Brown, repeatedly pressured staff at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to prepare prototypes for a $250 banknote featuring Donald Trump’s portrait. The mock-up reportedly showed Trump’s face in the center, with his signature and Treasury Secretary…
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Fashion Brands Are About to Discover Their Next Growth Market: Dressing Humanoid Robots
Robots need clothes for the same reason humans do, how they’re dressed changes how people feel about them. A humanoid in exposed metal reads as cold industrial machinery. The same machine in a tailored concierge uniform reads as helpful, calm, and premium. Hotels, hospitals, retail floors, and restaurants are the first big buyers, and they…
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Brad Pitt Called “Cut” on His Own Scene. Quentin Tarantino Told Him: “Never Again In Your Life Will You Ever Cut A Camera…”
Bruce Dern is 89, the father of Laura Dern, and a two-time Oscar nominee who has been working in Hollywood since the early 1960s. He’s appeared in two previous Tarantino films, “Django Unchained” and “The Hateful Eight.” He told this story to People at Cannes, where a documentary about his career called “Dernsie” is debuting.…
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Pope Leo Xiv’s First Encyclical Is About AI, and He Puts It in the Same Moral Category as Nuclear Weapons.
Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical today, and its central demand is that artificial intelligence be “disarmed.”‘ The document is called Magnifica Humanitas (“Magnificent Humanity: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence”). It runs roughly 42,300 words across 184 pages and was signed on May 15, 2026, exactly 135 years…
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The Pentagon Posted Its 2nd Declassified UFO Data Dump, And It Looks Like We Haven’t Been Alone For 77 Years
The files were posted to WAR.GOV/UFO this month as the second batch in a rolling declassification Congress ordered in 2022. The most striking thing isn’t any single sighting. It’s what the reports have in common. The recurring visual is bright green or orange lights, usually near mountains or secure sites. A 1990 letter from a…
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Jeff Bezos Thinks Every Other AI CEO Is Wrong About Jobs.
Bezos said this Wednesday morning on CNBC’s Squawk Box, sitting across from Andrew Ross Sorkin inside Blue Origin’s rocket factory in Merritt Island, Florida. He’s one of the only people running a frontier AI company saying this. In November 2025 he launched Project Prometheus, a secretive startup he co-runs with former Google X executive Vik…