Joe Rogan and JD Vance question election integrity. "I'm not skeptical. I'm accusing them. I think they stole the election." "Do you think other races are incapable of going to the DMV? That's insane. It's actually super racist."

Trump: New York making a "terrible decision" by blocking AI data centers. "They're money machines" for jobs and tax revenue. Companies now heading to Texas, Florida, Arizona & Alabama instead.

President Trump will meet senators tomorrow to discuss progress on the Clarity Act.

Joe Rogan just told the Vice President something about Joe Biden that even he didn't know. "I didn't know he had two brain surgeries!"

The UK tried to ban kids from social media, then immediately realized they can't enforce it without restricting VPNs. Now they're backing off. You can't enforce digital restrictions without breaking everyone's privacy tools.

CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.”

"All you heard for 20 years was STEM. Now LLMs write the code. The skills that actually matter are the humanities skills we left behind." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what actually works in children's education.

You have all these great ideas, all these great things you want to do, but you don't have the tenacity. You don't have the courage to go out and try. You end up just drifting through life." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what education gets wrong.

.(TheBitcoinGirl_) reviews RadarChat after using it for a week.

JPMorgan about to be the world's first $1 trillion bank. The same bank that took $25 billion in TARP bailout money in 2008.

Vanguard, BlackRock, and JPMorgan are running a DTCC trial to tokenize $MSFT, $QQQ, $SPY, and $SHV. Formal program launches in October.

U.S. Core PPI falls to 4.7%, below expected 5.2%

Claude Fable 5 cyber safeguards bypassed with single “/btw” command in Claude Code. Security requests reportedly blocked.

Cyan Banister says Peter Thiel is the most misunderstood person in tech. "He's operating 1,000 feet above everybody else. His mind is not like other minds. It's kinda like Elon. You don't know what to do with it, so it's just easier to hate it."

New York just became the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers. Governor Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for hyperscale facilities drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year. The order covers new discretionary permits that haven't already been deemed complete. Hochul framed it as a response to the AI computing boom threatening to hike electricity bills and drain energy and water supplies. But the moratorium is just the start. Hochul is also pushing to repeal sales tax exemptions for large data centers, create a fund that makes data centers pay into the state's aging power grid, and publish a framework that lets local governments negotiate direct payments and infrastructure funding from developers. A $19.4 billion data center proposed in Genesee County is among the projects that could get caught by the order. State lawmakers already passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act in June, which goes even further by covering facilities above 20 megawatts. Hochul hasn't signed it yet but used the executive order as a faster path to act now. New York is the first state to go this far, but the trend is spreading. Dozens of cities and counties have passed their own data center restrictions, and Arizona signed a three-year moratorium on new sales tax breaks for the facilities last month.

Ben McKenzie is on Capitol Hill lobbying senators against the CLARITY Act. You can't make this up.

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Rogan goes off on how the education system was literally designed to produce compliant workers, not curious humans. If AI removes the need for that, we need to completely rethink what school is for.