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Here’s How the AI Crash Happens The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.

And therefore The Left must pay.

U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump An email obtained by Bounces includes instructions from the U.S. Open on supporting Trump's planned stagecraft during the National Anthem.

More news breaking at Bounces about Donald Trump's visit to the US Open men's final.

The US Open has sent an email to broadcasters, obtained by Bounces, ordering them to censor any reactions or protests from the crowd to Trump's appearance.

Read more here:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-do...

a young man holds a young boy and girl in front of rubble

a man holds a microphone with an al jazeera logo while wearing a vest with the word press on it

a young man in glasses wearing a protective vest with the word press on it leans against a car

a collage shows three young men smiling

The five brave Palestinian journalists whom Israel targeted and killed today (left-right):
-Anas al-Sharif (correspondent)
-Mohammed Qreiqeh (correspondent) -Ibrahim Zaher (camera operator)
-Muhammad Al-Khalidi (photojournalist)
-Mohammed Noufal (camera operator)
-Moamen Aliwa (camera operator)

The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy, Greg Ip writes.

The second time I’ve had to like Billy Long. The first was when he shut up a Laura Loomer protest in a House committee meeting by going full auctioneer.

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal Trading Bitcoin and other crypto-currenices is a criminal activity, China's central bank says.

This is the way.

Considering he stole the one that made him rich he's never had any ideas

Seán Rocks, presenter of RTÉ radio’s culture show Arena, dies aged 63 Tributes are paid to the Monaghan man who was a celebrated actor before moving into broadcasting

Seán Rocks, presenter of RTÉ radio’s culture show Arena, dies aged 63

Trump is trying to kill solar power—here's how to fight back Rooftop solar is a clean power miracle. Why are we killing it with red tape?

Trump is trying to kill solar power. @billmckibben.bsky.social has a plan to fight back.

Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse The whole premise of internet publishing — that you could reach audiences far and wide — is starting to crumble.

This pretty much sums it all up. It makes me feel good about what we're doing at @popheist.com, but it doesn't make me feel good about ... the world.

nymag.com/intelligence...

This is what I wrote 10 years ago today about Donald Trump's first campaign announcement. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

YouTube video by Associated Press Military parade LIVE: In DC as ‘No Kings’ protests held against Trump

.@apnews.com is live streaming the parade on YouTube and it is really hard to wrap your head around how small the crowds are until you see for yourself.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWBU...

“.. as his second-term immigration crackdown—including stepped-up deportation flights and workplace raids—has drawn protests in several cities ..”

@forbes.com @zacheverson.com
www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74 Atkinson’s gleeful brilliance helped people draw on computer screens and access information via links.

RIP Bill Atkinson. One of a kind www.wired.com/story/bill-a...

Former Afghan soldier arrested at Houston-area home by ICE, stripped of asylum protections, attorney says | Houston Public Media The soldier is one of at least 20,000 Afghans seeking asylum nationwide, having fled Afghanistan after aiding the U.S. military during the two-decades-long war there.

ICE arrested former Afghan Nat'l Army soldier—our ally against Taliban—at his home in TX.
He entered legally and atty says he has no criminal record. Was applying for asylum. Appears to be casualty of Trump decision de-documenting legal Afghan immigrants
www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

The Curious Incident of the Trade Deals in the Nighttime About those best offers...

For the AM crowd. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-curiou...

🧵 What's even more depressing about the state of the world right now is that humans don't seem to change. Reading about life in the 1500s, I see similar culture-war issues, the same old hackneyed grievances, the same disinformation designed to rouse the mob. Two recent examples I stumbled across...

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Absolutely. Any positive consumer spending reports are because people are stocking up until 2029. Myself included. Very glad Costco is one of the good guys.

I've heard execs/Wall St analysts take comfort in fact that consumer spending has held up even as consumer views of the economy are tanking. After all, revealed preferences matter!

But I wonder how much of that disconnect could be explained by cases like this (from a reader):

This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.

Robert Wolf on Fox News: "I've been in finance for 40 years. This is probably the biggest manufactured crisis I've seen with a bunch of unforced errors. The execution of 'liberation day' was pathetic."

(Bloomberg) - Two months into Donald Trump’s second term, the pillars of American financial hegemony — erected over the best part of a century — have rarely looked shakier.

@bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Air pollution graphics for central Paris between 2007 and 2023.

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years as a result of a deliberate strategy. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

YouTube video by TED This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED

Listen to @carolecadwalla.bsky.social. She's been warning for years.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...