Sen. Ashley Moody grills Dr. Fauci on his preemptive Biden pardon: “Did you talk to President Biden and ask for this pardon?”

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Senate COVID hearing. Sen. Josh Hawley: “What day of the week is it today?” Fauci: “I decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment.”

CTA, the U.S. largest tech association, says the CLARITY Act prevents capital flight and job losses: “The longer we delay, the more investment moves elsewhere. Capital flows to jurisdictions with clearer rules. America loses jobs and leadership.”

Palmer Luckey unveils the ModRetro M64: "It's an heirloom-grade tribute to the Nintendo 64, compatible with all your Nintendo 64 games, but with a lot of really cool new features as well."

Bank of Russia drafts first regulations to launch cryptocurrency market: “The Bank of Russia has created conditions for organised trading in digital currencies and digital rights.”

Jim Cramer on data centers: "If you are borrowing money to buy something related to the data center, here’s what you’re going to do. Tomorrow morning, 9:30 AM, sell it. No matter what. You will not regret it."

Rep. Mike Haridopolos on the CLARITY Act: "This is about the future currency and the world, and making sure American markets are the premiere markets in the world."

Bitchat can now share its own APK offline to other Android phones via Wi-Fi hotspot or Nearby Share, no internet required.

Alphabet's estimated capex over the next 12 months just went vertical past $200 billion. For context, they spent less than $30 billion as recently as 2022.

New York City just launched a government-backed grocery network with $70 million in public capital and a required 30% discount on a city-approved basket of staples. The city supplies turnkey sites, covers rent and property taxes, and makes annual "Affordability Payments" to cover the gap. No one has disclosed the size or formula for those payments. The $70M is startup capital, not the recurring subsidy. Average food-retail margins are 2.1%. A 30% mandated discount doesn't repeal spoilage, labor, logistics, or theft. It moves the shortfall to taxpayers. At the same time, the Department of Finance published a surcharge target roll of 959,710 property records for a new non-primary-residence tax. Owners must prove exemption with tax returns, IDs, leases, and affidavits. The city isn't just collecting a tax, it's building an administrative test for who deserves to keep what they own. One group gets a discount at the register. The other gets a surcharge notice and a demand for paperwork. Different agencies, same political logic: define the favored use, set the preferred price, force private property to absorb the difference. Free at checkout is not free. A public target roll is not neutral. New York is building the store and the list at the same time.

Microsoft just released its first in-house AI built to fight cyberattacks. Called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash. It powers a team of AI agents that find and fix threats on their own, with a public tryout starting August 3 in Microsoft Defender.

Bitcoin critic and actor Ben McKenzie urges Congress to block the Clarity Act. "You can not be against Trump's crypto corruption and then vote for a bill that enables that corruption to continue."

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act "is at the 1-yard line" amid talks with lawmakers to advance the bill.

Senate Majority Leader Thune on Clarity Act: “There’s a lot of swirl around it, on yield, some of the things that the banks care deeply about.” Expects “fairly robust amendment process” if cloture is reached.

Franklin Templeton supports the CLARITY Act: “The bill would make clear how crypto is regulated. Investors would know what protections apply. Firms would know which regulators they answer to.”

.Erik Voorhees showing Kimi K3 running on (AskVenice) answering a prompt about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, uncensored.

.(DavidBCollum) and @MartyBent on why Gen Z is leaning socialist and the Rorschach test playing out in real time: "It makes sense why they're leaning socialist. They've been taught that this is a capitalist system." "My main enemy is the people that have been running this country." "The Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson story — you can see people picking sides in ways that you go, I did not see that coming." "I don't think you can convict Tyler Robinson based on what I've seen. Not in a standard court of law."

.(DavidBCollum) and (RudyHavenstein) on the unchecked expansion of executive power and why both parties are the problem: "We gave the executive way too much power under Bush and Cheney and it's just metastasized over the years." "Everything Trump does is gonna be done by some president in the future that you really hate." "There's no cops on the beat. Trump is just making a farce of the whole thing. He's blatantly selling to major criminals." "He seemed like our last hope and now our last hope is gone." "He's done the opposite of everything he promised. And it's pathetic."

"If you're building the most important machine since the Manhattan Project, don't be surprised when the government decides it's a public good." -@npub1g0eu...l966 We discuss: ⚡ The coming AI nationalization ⚡ The new choke point wars ⚡ Bitcoin's most bullish chart

Michael Saylor calls BIP-110 "the latest outbreak of the 'I just heard about Bitcoin, and I’m here to fix it' syndrome."