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In this episode we're at The Dead Rabbit, grabbing a pint with serial entrepreneur and operator, Bill Harris, best known as an early CEO of PayPal. Bill is a veteran FinTech executive who has also served as CEO of Intuit. He later founded Personal Capital, a digital wealth management firm that grew to manage billions in assets before being acquired - and he's now founder and CEO of Evergreen.ai, continuing to innovate in financial technology and investment management. We discuss the early days of Fintech, the gamification of the market, and what it was like working with Elon Musk. — FOLLOW US Instagram: ⁠riskreversalmedia⁠ Twitter: ⁠https://x.com/riskreversal⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠riskreversalmedia⁠ #investing #stocks #stockmarket #ApexFintechSolutions Standing Table is made possible through our continued partnership with Apex Fintech Solutions. Apex Fintech Solutions provides the tools and services that enable hundreds of clients to launch, scale, and support digital investing for tens of millions of end investors. The company provides essential infrastructure and a comprehensive ecosystem of cloud-based products to enable and streamline trading, wealth management, cost basis, tax reporting, and, through its subsidiary Apex Clearing™, custody and clearing. For more information, visit the Apex Fintech Solutions website: ⁠https://apexfintechsolutions.com/⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠apex-fintech⁠ SUBSCRIBE: RiskReversal Pod for more from Guy and Dan: ⁠https://apple.co/3RzvgpD⁠ RiskReversal Media channel for more episodes and content: ⁠@riskreversalmedia⁠ The financial opinions expressed in Risk Reversal content are for information purposes only. The opinions expressed by the hosts and participants are not an attempt to influence specific trading behavior, investments, or strategies. Past performance does not necessarily predict future outcomes. No specific results or profits are assured when relying on Risk Reversal. Before making any investment or trade, evaluate its suitability for your circumstances and consider consulting your own financial or investment advisor. The financial products discussed in Risk Reversal carry a high level of risk and may not be appropriate for many investors. If you have uncertainties, it's advisable to seek professional advice. Remember that trading involves a risk to your capital, so only invest money that you can afford to lose. Derivatives are not suitable for all investors and involve the risk of losing more than the amount originally deposited and any profit you might have made. This communication is not a recommendation or offer to buy, sell or retain any specific investment or service.​​

Not that it matters, but sometimes I wonder if the billionaire potentates of artificial intelligence ever wonder why they've become so despised.I doubt it, since introspection doesn't seem to be in the DNA of hubristic AI demigods like Bezos, Musk, and Zuckerberg. Nor are they programming such qualities into their “superintelligent bots.”So, let me help them see themselves. First, today's eruptions of public hatred toward them are not, as they want us to believe, just petty jealousy by people who want to be like them. Really… be like Musk? His ugliness is not just skin-deep – it emanates from his inner core.Such aloof AI profiteers have sparked a nationwide prairie fire of anger by plundering local water supplies, farmland, electric power, and tax subsidies. They're callously treating our communities as nothing more than a series of financial transactions for them to be consummate. But people's rebellion is not merely about monetary prices and property. Fundamentally, it's fueled by corporate elites' total disregard for the basic human value of Fairness.Even pre-school children comprehend the moral implication of “That's not fair!” The corporate gold rush to an AI future is not about the mystical possibilities of technology, but old-fashioned greed – moneyed elites grabbing more profits and control. And there's nothing fair about either.The spreading rebellion against AI arrogance is raising a politically explosive moral question: “Who the Hell elected you selfish screw-ups to dictate our future?” Musk & Co. say they don't even believe in democracy, so why would We the People let them remake society in their totalitarian image? To join your local rebellion, go to jimhightower.com/datacenters.Do something!There are more and more groups forming around the country to fight this exploitation— so many that we're having a hard time keeping track of them all! Here are a few hubs that will help you find your way to join the rebellion:* Data Center Opposition Report: A regularly-published comprehensive report on the numbers of fights out there, with case studies for inspiration* The Stop Data Centers Coalition has a list of member organizations who are calling for a national data center moratorium* The Coalition for Responsible Data Center Development, a Minnesota based organization, has published a map of Facebook groups all over the country fighting data centers* One of our top go-to resources are the toolkits that MediaJustice has created* Kairos Fellowship also has a slew of guides and is developing a hotline that local groups can call for advice. Jim Hightower's Lowdown is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jimhightower.substack.com/subscribe

John Tamny, author of The Money John Tamny, author of The Money Confusion: How a Literacy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution, provides an unconventional analysis of money, arguing that its only purpose is to circulate consumable goods as a product of specialized labor. Drawing on Adam Smith's principles, he asserts that wealth is created through the division of labor and that money is simply an agreement about value between producers. Tamny contends that current fears of "inflation" are misguided; he defines real inflation as a deliberate devaluation of currency by policy choice, such as the 1971 delinking of the dollar from gold. The book argues that the high prices seen after 2020 were caused by the economic destruction of lockdowns, not an excess of money. Tamny is highly critical of the Federal Reserve, claiming it has no real power over growth or interest rates for startups, as true credit always finds talent regardless of central bank fiddling. He uses Elon Musk as a recurring example of an innovator whose success in companies like PayPal and SpaceX was driven by venture capital and risk-takers rather than traditional banks. Tamny envisions a crypto revolution where private, stable money replaces failed government currencies. He suggests that the recent volatility in crypto is a healthy "shaking out" of the market, paving the way for mature, information-based money systems. He speculates that Musk may eventually use Twitter to launch a global, stable cryptocurrency, finally fulfilling the vision of a "global financial supermarket." (5)Confusion: How a Literacy About Currencies and Inflation Sets the Stage for the Crypto Revolution, provides an unconventional analysis of money, arguing that its only purpose is to circulate consumable goods as a product of specialized labor. Drawing on Adam Smith's principles, he asserts that wealth is created through the division of labor and that money is simply an agreement about value between producers. Tamny contends that current fears of "inflation" are misguided; he defines real inflation as a deliberate devaluation of currency by policy choice, such as the 1971 delinking of the dollar from gold. The book argues that the high prices seen after 2020 were caused by the economic destruction of lockdowns, not an excess of money. Tamny is highly critical of the Federal Reserve, claiming it has no real power over growth or interest rates for startups, as true credit always finds talent regardless of central bank fiddling. He uses Elon Musk as a recurring example of an innovator whose success in companies like PayPal and SpaceX was driven by venture capital and risk-takers rather than traditional banks. Tamny envisions a crypto revolution where private, stable money replaces failed government currencies. He suggests that the recent volatility in crypto is a healthy "shaking out" of the market, paving the way for mature, information-based money systems. He speculates that Musk may eventually use Twitter to launch a global, stable cryptocurrency, finally fulfilling the vision of a "global financial supermarket." (5)1870 manhattan                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

One-on-one pod today: Chris is in London, and Jason is home in L.A. We chat about Jonah Hill's annihilation, Elon Musk's Starlink technology, whether attacking the straight male has become hack, Jon Bernthal in defense of pit bulls, Jason falling in love with Americano-style espresso, Chris takes a long English lunch, a review of Jason's improv debut, and we get to the bottom of Joe Budden's possible Condé Nast profile. twitter.com/donetodeath twitter.com/themjeans howlonggone.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week's episode begins with a discussion about Welcome to Wrexham that jumps to politics more broadly. We then play some listener voicemails about topics like gym saunas, football, and how Christians navigate the grieving process. We play a TikTok about how boring heaven will be, and then hear from another caller about how to deal with Elon Musk's wealth. We play a snippet of a conversation between Bill Maher and Joel Edgerton, and then conclude with another segment of "Pastor Jack's Off."

Trump Backs Down Then Iran Refutes His Claim He Did So Because They Want to Talk | Has the Fratricide Between the Democrats Running For the US Senate in Michigan Doomed the Party's Chances of Winning Back the Senate? | A Whistleblower Who Revealed Trump and Musk's Illegitimate and Dangerous Dismantling of USAID Host: Ian Masters Producers: Graham FitzGibbon, Asher Price

Is the MAGA media machine actually cracking up, or is it just taking a summer nap? Jared and Mike sift through new data reporting from The New York Times, and a truly staggering amount of cringe, to find out. View counts are dropping, engagement is cratering, and people are getting "the ick" from influencers like Benny Johnson.Amid this MAGA content recession, one unusual newcomer is growing her audience: self-styled "American Sweetheart" Savanna Cannon. First covered in The Bulwark, Cannon is producing racist Instagram content in apparent hopes of converting horny MAGA men into OnlyFans simps who will pay to watch her do anal.MAGA has also taken aim at rap music, claiming without evidence that the genre only succeeded in pop culture because of funding from since-shuttered USAID programs. If not for this secret USAID scheme, they suggest, maybe we'd all be line-dancing to country tunes right now. Imagine that!Links to stories referenced:The MAGA Media Machine Is Fracturing (Stuart A. Thompson @ The New York Times)Right-Wing Media and OnlyFans Are in a Symbiotic Relationship (Will Sommer @ The Bulwark)Right Wingers Claim Rap Music is Dead Thanks to ... Elon's USAID Cuts (Nikki McCann Ramírez @ Rolling Stone)

Sam Altman and Elon Musk built some of the most valuable companies on the planet while doing nearly everything we would advise against. So a listener wants to know: if ego and raw self-belief keep landing people at the top, is all this talk of trust and participation on our show worth it? In this mini episode, Rodney and Sam get honest about survivorship bias, why colorful founders get all the ink while quietly thriving companies get none, and how the frontier game selects for a very particular kind of human. They also make the case for a bigger definition of success, one that counts the experience of the people doing the work right alongside the profit. -------------------------------- Ready to change your organization? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Let's talk!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Get our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Sign up here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow us: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Mentioned references: Sam Altman article survivorship bias Sound engineering and design by Taylor Marvin of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Coupe Studios⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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The Senate has limited time to vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before Senators leave Washington to return to their home states for summer recess․ The CLARITY Act was not included on the Senate calendar for the week of Monday‚ August 3‚ 2023‚ and there was no cloture petition for H․R․ 3633 on the cloture ledger for the same date․ ~This episode is sponsored by iTrust Capital~ iTrustCapital | Get $100 Funding Reward + No Monthly Fees when you sign up using our custom link! ➜ https://bit.ly/iTrustPaul Guest: Guest: Adam Minehardt - Chief Policy Officer at Hyperliquid Follow on X ➜ https://x.com/adam_minehardt 00:00 intro 00:10 Sponsor: iTrust Capital 01:00 Cody Carbone: Only one slim path for passage 02:30 What are the odds? 04:30 Ethics vs Yields 06:00 This is hyper political 07:00 Giancarlo: stop mentioning CLARITY? 08:10 Should we backdown? 10:00 Bernstein: we crashing 10:50 Anthony Scaramucci: call out Republicans 13:10 Lummis defends Republicans 14:45 What is the pay day for Dems? 15:10 How will CLARITY failure affect Hyperliquid? 16:20 Crypto shouldn't donate? 17:40 CLARITY needs more pages? 18:30 Ethics vs Stablecoins 19:15 NDAA vs CLARITY 19:50 Blame Thune? 20:30 Thune vs Banks 22:00 CLARITY autopsy 23:00 Pause crypto funding? 23:40 Bernie vs crypto 25:00 Crypto vs AIPAC 26:00 Crypto vs Surveillance 27:00 Stop talking about crypto? 28:00 CLARITY failing is priced n? 29:10 Vote out anti-crypto politicians? 30:30 Trump will blame dems? 31:30 HYPE will benefit from IPO season? 32:00 Clarity vs Binance 32:40 Elon should never mention crypto again? 33:30 Crypto will skyrocket if fails? #Crypto #Ethereum #Hyperliquid ~CLARITY Out of Time!?

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Are critics missing the point of Holly Willoughby's YouTube show? Is Elon Musk leading a new era of Hollywood ‘Wokebusters'? What are the allegations against Jared Leto? Holly Willoughby's new YouTube show has provoked scathing reviews and comparisons to Meghan Markle. But are the critics right? And why are prime-time presenters swapping TV shows for YouTube channels?  Oscar-winning Jared Leto has denied accusations of criminal sexual misconduct made by multiple women in a new BBC documentary. Richard and Marina discuss the documentary.  Elon Musk is using his AI model, Grok, to make a “historically accurate” version of The Odyssey, after the success of Christopher Nolan's blockbuster. Should we be worried about this new wave of Wokebusters? The Rest is Entertainment is brought to you by Octopus Energy, Britain's most awarded energy supplier. Sponsored by Lloyds. Looking for extra value from your spending? You can bank on Lloyds to help your money go further. Search Lloyds Rewards in your app. Summer sale is here: get an annual membership for a third off with code SUMMER26. That's ad-free listening, every bonus episode, and full access to our exclusive members' series. Sale ends August 31st, so grab it before summer's over. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com  Video Editor: Adam Thornton Assistant Producer: Imee Marriott  Senior Producer: Joey McCarthy  Social Producer: Emma Jackson Exec Producer: Ami Bennett Filmed at www.westdigitalstudios.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In Österreich wurde jüngst ein Paket zur Entbürokratisierung abgesagt. Warum ist das so? Und was könnte dennoch Abhilfe schaffen? Ein Podcast von Der Pragmaticus.Das Thema: Alle fordern den Abbau von Bürokratie – doch niemand macht mit. Jan Kluge, Experte für die Themen Klima, Wirtschaftsstandort und Digitalisierung im wirtschaftsliberalen Thinktank „Agenda Austria“, nennt die drei Interessengruppen, die eine Vereinfachung von Gesetzen, Vorschriften und Verwaltungsaufgaben verhindern: die Beamten selbst, die Politik und vor allem Lobbyisten, die neue Vorschriften fordern, um ihren Auftraggebern Wettbewerbsvorteile zu verschaffen.Von absurd wirkenden Detailvorschriften über wachsende Berichtspflichten in der EU bis hin zu halbherzigen Reformversuchen in Österreich zeigt das Gespräch, warum Entbürokratisierung in der Praxis so oft stecken bleibt. Kluge blickt auch auf internationale Beispiele: auf die chaotisch verlaufende Radikalkur von Elon Musk und auf Argentinien, wo der Staat Regeln tatsächlich systematisch durchforstet und anschließend ganze Behörden geschlossen sowie Zehntausende Beamte entlassen hat.  Es ist ein Gespräch über Macht, Beharrungskräfte und die Grenzen staatlicher Steuerung – und über die beunruhigende Frage, was passiert, wenn selbst Experten das System nicht mehr vollständig überblicken. Unser Gast in dieser Folge: Jan Kluge ist Ökonom beim Thinktank Agenda Austria, wo er sich über Themen wie Wirtschaftsstandort, Digitalisierung und Klimaschutz den Kopf zerbricht. Zuvor war er Senior Researcher am Institut für Höhere Studien in Wien und Doktorand am Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung („ifo“) in Dresden. Dies ist ein Podcast von Der Pragmaticus. Sie finden uns auch auf Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn und X (Twitter).  

This week we look at two stories that share a single underlying logic: the people running things have stopped pretending to care about the original purpose of the institutions they control, and are now just taking what they can before the music stops.The first is FIFA. Gianni Infantino announced this week that FIFA, a nonprofit organisation founded to promote and regulate football around the world, will create a for-profit subsidiary and sell 20 percent of its stake to private investors, with Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared Kushner and son-in-law of Donald Trump, among those involved. We discuss why this is the logical endpoint of decades of slow institutional decay, and why UEFA, despite its own complicated record, finds it surprisingly easy to be the good guys here.The second is the SpaceX IPO. Elon Musk bypassed the standard investor road show, set a valuation with no serious basis in the company's financials, ran a targeted marketing campaign at retail investors who worship him, and had SpaceX included in the Nasdaq composite index within 15 days of listing when the standard timeline is three months to a year. Index funds were then legally required to buy SpaceX shares, transferring wealth from ordinary pension holders to the richest man in the world and his Saudi co-investors. We close with an announcement: we are going on our summer break. The deep dive series begins on August 10th and runs through August 31st, taking listeners from the Enlightenment through the 19th century institutionalisation of liberal democracy, through the 20th century peak, and into the 21st century collapse. Regular weekly episodes resume on September 7th.This podcast is an individual project between us, Dario Hasenstab and Balder Hageraats. We are supported by our producer Stefani Obradovic from Western Bubble Insights & Strategy. If you would like to get in touch with us, write us an email at thewesternbubble@gmail.com.

In this week's Autopsy we react to an interview the Economist published with Elon Musk, conducted by Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes. We focus on the section where Musk talks about artificial intelligence, because it contains three logical steps in quick succession, none of which hold up to even basic scrutiny.The tragedy is not Musk himself. It is that a man whose reasoning on these questions is this visibly incoherent is one of the most influential voices shaping how AI develops, and that so many people still take him seriously.This podcast is an individual project between us, Dario Hasenstab and Balder Hageraats. We are supported by our producer Stefani Obradovic from Western Bubble Insights & Strategy. If you would like to get in touch with us, write us an email at thewesternbubble@gmail.com.

Two prosecution bosses down, and counting. The Madlanga Commission has just claimed its second casualty, and a leaked recording shows exactly how bad it got. Meanwhile fresh polling suggests the ANC is about to lose over 500 council seats, Interpol has crowned South Africa the ransomware capital of the continent, and the FSCA has landed a R2.8 billion fine on the company behind those Elon Musk deepfake ads, the same scam BizNews first exposed. On the markets side, Nedbank, Telkom and Stor-Age all moved today, Lewis Group looks like a Buffett-style bargain hiding in plain sight, and Amazon just delivered one of the biggest single day gains in its history. Andy Jassy explains, in his own words, exactly why.

In this episode, we discuss Elon Musk's responses to the recent controversy surrounding OpenAI's retreat. We explore his perspectives and insights.Chapters00:00 Introduction00:08 OpenAI's Influencer Retreat00:54 Alibaba's New AI Model04:12 Visa Acquires BioCatch11:53 Reddit's AI Concerns14:06 Apple's Siri Subscription Plan Show LinksGet the top 80+ AI Models for $8.99 at AI Box: ⁠⁠https://aibox.aiHow I Grow and Scale My Business with AI: https://www.skool.com/aihustleGet the AI Chat Daily Newsletter: https://www.aichatdaily.com/newsletter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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“The human part is 99 percent. The AI part is maybe 1 percent — even if 100 percent of the manuscript was dumped onto the page by AI.” — Keith Teare on writing with AI What is “real” authorship in our AI age? For That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare, all authorship, even the most AI-enabled, is real. It's the cave-dwelling Luddites who are the sloppy ones. For Keith, true creativity, in our age of Claude and Gemini, almost requires the use of AI. A couple of weeks ago Keith confessed, or perhaps boasted, that he is writing an AI-assisted book entitled Who Owns Intelligence. This week, publishing discovered what happens when others play the same game without public acknowledgement. So we have the case of the “red-hot” debut novel, fought over by fourteen publishers, dropped overnight when the agent found AI in the mix. “It's a fantastic book,” the book's agent acknowledged, before firing its less than transparent author. Which, for Keith, is precisely the scandal. His position, argued in this week's editorial “AI Detected,” is pretty absolute. Nothing is written by AI, Keith argues, because AI has no will. It doesn't produce a single word unless asked. The human part is 99 percent, he says, even when 100 percent of the manuscript is spat out by the machine. So the real sin isn't using AI but not acknowledging its use. So, on Who Owns Intelligence, Keith makes it crystal clear that “AI was heavily used in the writing of this book.” I'm not so sure. Amazon is now infested with AI slop that requires no authorship. Besides, Keith clearly has no love of reading books. He admits to reading only a single volume in the last couple of years. And he's still smarting from being, in his mind at least, ripped off by the publishing industry for his last published book some 40 years ago. He no longer needs to read books, he pronounces, because his world-view is already set. For a man who thinks he knows everything, AI isn't scary. Maybe we should rename him Claude. Postscript. Full Keith-style disclosure: these shownotes were produced with the help of Anthropic. When I fed Claude my draft, it responded: “‘Maybe we should rename him Claude' is a closer I'm contractually obliged to enjoy.” Nothing, as Keith says, is written by AI. Although some algorithms seem to have cheeky opinions of their own. Maybe Anthropic should rename it Keith. Five Takeaways •       Nothing Is Written by AI. Keith's absolutism starts from the machine's lack of will: AI won't produce a word unless a human asks. His Who Owns Intelligence — fifteen chapters, arguments, and references — was structured in ninety minutes from years of thinking; the AI produced a manuscript he then shaped, like a color grader working sliders in Photoshop. The human part is 99 percent even when the machine types every word. And authorship was never solitary anyway: Plato's contemporaries thought writing itself degraded ideas, and no publisher will touch a book that hasn't passed through an editor and a subeditor. If editing doesn't change authorship, Keith asks, why would AI?•       Transparency, Not Technology. The week's cautionary tale: a debut novel fought over by fourteen publishers, dropped when the agent discovered AI — while conceding, in the same breath, “it's a fantastic book.” For Keith the scandal is concealment, not composition: own the tool, as he now does with a strapline under his byline. The detection regime, meanwhile, is collapsing on its own inaccuracy — universities dropped their AI detectors this week, and Substack's new detection partner scored Keith's human-shaped editorial as 100 percent AI when a fair reading was 40. Cheating exists only against obsolete rules: the question is moving from did you use AI to how well did you use it.•       “The Publishing Industry Is Basically a Scam.” Keith's response to Andy Hunter's ban on AI-generated books — from last week's Keen On interview — was one word: outrageous. There is no such thing as an AI-written book, only good and bad ones; and the true victim of publishing is not the bookstore but the author. Exhibit A: his own 1988 book sold 50,000 copies at £3.99 and earned him roughly £10,000 — about 5p a copy — while Penguin took the rest. The future he wants is direct, author-to-reader, without the middlemen. As for “organic” artisanal literature: real, elite, and tiny — the new vinyl, which is itself cut these days from digital masters.•       Sharks, Playing Their Own Book. Leopold Aschenbrenner — fired young from OpenAI, transfigured by one prophetic essay into the “Nostradamus of AI” — saw his $45 billion, heavily leveraged Situational Awareness fund lose $600 million, get margin-called, and sell to Ken Griffin's Citadel. (He is, Keith suspects, still super rich.) Zuckerberg's sudden conversion to open source as “the distribution of wealth to the people” struck us both as a bit rich; Amodei's “I'm not against open source as long as it's safe” — from a man on record that no AI is safe — translates as: against. Keith's deeper complaint, from an admiring Claude user: you can't trust Dario. And China, hardware-constrained, has made open source its national strategy — undermining American foundation-model revenue one cheap routed prompt at a time.•       Money Won't Matter by 2036? Elon Musk predicts money becomes irrelevant within a decade; Vinod Khosla — our post of the week — thinks he might just have a point. Keith, ever the economics tutor, reaches for tendency and ceteris paribus: money is a means of exchange and a store of value, and if abundance drives the labor-value of things toward zero, its irrelevance is not illogical — though between tendency and reality lies a whole ton of variables. I bet the opposite: that by 2036 money will matter more than ever. The problem, we discovered, is the stake — you can't bet money on money not mattering. Wives and children were proposed and hastily withdrawn (“We'd be losing, Andrew”). Loser buys dinner — at a free restaurant. About the Co-Host Keith Teare is the publisher of That Was The Week, the essential weekly tech newsletter, and founder and CEO of SignalRank Corporation. A serial entrepreneur — co-founder of, among others, EasyNet and RealNames — he was present at the creation of the UK internet and has spent four decades at the intersection of technology, capital, and ideas. He joins Keen On America every Sunday to make sense of the week in tech. His AI-assisted book in progress is titled Who Owns Intelligence. References: •       That Was The Week — Keith's newsletter, including this week's editorial, “AI Detected.”•       The Wall Street Journal — on the red-hot debut novel at the center of publishing's AI mystery: fourteen publishers, one discovery, one dropped author.•      ...

Christine Hentschel zu Sicherheit und Aktivismus in katastrophischen Zeiten Future Histories LIVE Das Gespräch mit Christine Hentschel ist Teil des Formats ‚Future Histories LIVE‘. In unregelmäßigen Abständen werden hierbei einzelne Episoden live – soll heißen vor Publikum – aufgezeichnet. Diese Folge Future Histories ist am 12. Juli 2026 auf Einladung des Hamburger Künstler*innenkollektivs Zollo entstanden. Shownotes Christine Hentschel Prof. Dr. Christine Hentschel an der Universität Hamburg: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/fachbereich-sowi/professuren/hentschel/team/hentschel-christine.html DFG Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”: https://www.zukuenfte-nachhaltigkeit.uni-hamburg.de zur DFG-Forschungsgruppe "The Promise of Security in Catastrophic Times“: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/verbundprojekte/ru-promise/welcome.html Nina Perkowski zu Reimagining Security: Perkowski, N. (2025). Radical Imagination and Vernacular Security: Creating Spaces for Alternative Security Futures, International Political Sociology, Volume 19, Issue 4.  https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/19/4/olaf033/8255613 Garcés, M. (2024). Versprechen Können. Turia + Kant.  https://www.turia.at/titel/garces3.html zu Tadzio Müller und solidarischem Preppen: Müller, T. (2024) Zwischen friedlicher Sabotage und Kollaps. Wie ich lernte, die Zukunft wieder zu lieben. Mandelbaum. https://www.mandelbaum.at/buecher/tadzio-mueller/zwischen-friedlicher-sabotage-und-kollaps/ https://www.collapseclub.com/blog/five-elements-of-solidarity-prepping/ zur Letzten Generation: https://letztegeneration.org/ zu Just Stop Oil: https://juststopoil.org/ zu ‘Dernière Rénovation' (Riposte Alimentaire): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riposte_Alimentaire Christine Hentschel zu Endzeitaktivismus und Edgework:  Hentschel, C. (2023). Edgework in post/apokalyptischen Zeiten. Soziopolis.  https://www.soziopolis.de/edgework-in-post-apokalyptischen-zeiten.html zur Kollapsbewegung: https://taz.de/Kollapsbewegung-in-der-Klimakrise/!6110821/ zu Heat Strike: https://heatstrike.uk/ zu Les Soulèvements de la Terre: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Soul%C3%A8vements_de_la_Terre Bröckling, U. (2026). Invertierte Zukunft. Konturen der Zuspätmoderne. WestEnd, 23(1), 3–18. https://doi.org/10.5771/1860-2177-2026-1-3 https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/dd3d743d-12ac-3db9-8d17-af67ddb150ba?page=1&toc=5916333 Reckwitz, A. (2024). Verlust: Ein Grundproblem der Moderne. Suhrkamp Verlag. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/andreas-reckwitz-verlust-t-9783518588222 Folkers, A. (2022). Nach der Nachhaltigkeit: Resilienz und Revolte in der dritten Moderne. Leviathan 50, 239–262. https://doi.org/10.5771/0340-0425-2022-2-239 https://www.jstor.org/stable/27295246?seq=1 zu Mutual Aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_aid Christine Hentschel und Susanne Krasmann über gegenwärtige „Collapse Awareness“: Hentschel, C., & Krasmann, S. (2024). Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide. Critical Studies on Security, 14(1), 2–16. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2024.2403795 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21624887.2024.2403795 Vortrag von Christine Hentschel „Vom Retten der Welt zum Vorbereiten auf den Kollaps“ in der Ringvorlesung “Am Scheidepunkt: Zur Krise der Demokratie” in Frankfurt (22.01.2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmn7g3vJPKg Marina Garcés zur postumen Kondition und Metapher der Nachspielzeit: Garcés, M. (2019). Neue radikale Aufklärung. Verlag Turia+ Kant. https://www.turia.at/titel/garces.html zu postapokalyptischem Umweltaktivismus: Cassegård, C., & Thörn, H. (2022). Post-Apocalyptic environmentalism. palgrave macmillan.  https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-13203-2 Anaïs Maurer zur postapokalyptischen Agency im Pazifik & ‘fighting for what's left': Maurer, A. (2024). The ocean on fire: Pacific stories from nuclear survivors and climate activists. Duke University Press.  https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-ocean-on-fire zu climate change mitigation: https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-mitigation-and-why-it-urgent Jacob Blumenfeld zu Managing Decline:  Blumenfeld, J. (2024). Managing Decline. Cured Quail. https://www.academia.edu/121062536/Managing_Decline zu Climate Barbarism: Blumenfeld, J. (2023). Climate barbarism: Adapting to a wrong world. Constellations, 30, 162–178.  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-8675.12596 zu Christine Hentschels und Ursula Schröders Forschungsprojekt „Infrastructures of Protection. Planning for Catastrophes to Come“: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/verbundprojekte/ru-promise/research-projects/rp2.html zu Adaptation: https://climatepromise.undp.org/news-and-stories/what-climate-change-adaptation-and-why-it-crucial zum Forschungsprojekt „Extreme Adaptation to Climate Change“ im DFG-Exzellenzcluster CLICCS: https://www.cliccs.uni-hamburg.de/research/projects-themes/projects/a4-extreme-adaptation.html Lacbawan, M. (2025). Escaping the Climate Crisis: Speculative Wealth and the Selling of a Smart City. Journal of Business Anthropology, 14(2), 94-117. https://www.fis.uni-hamburg.de/en/publikationen/detail.html?id=13f172b2-6f23-44cc-adc7-31b42fb376b4 Rothe, D., Boas, I., Farbotko, C., & Kitara, T. (2024). Digital Tuvalu: state sovereignty in a world of climate loss. International Affairs, 100(4), 1491-1509. https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/100/4/1491/7710472 zu Muscular Adaptationism: Carton, W. & Malm, A. (2025). The long heat: climate politics when it's too late. Verso Books. https://www.versobooks.com/products/3317-the-long-heat?srsltid=AfmBOort8KE2C2ggxjCJE1Q7GTyEoyzLypZO0Wd75hcCmJUTuuW0zGa6 Joshua KaewnetarasForschung zu Wiederaufbau nach der Flutkatastrophe in Valencia: https://urban-future-making.hcu-hamburg.de/research/disrupted-mobilities Solar Geo Engineering: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/unberechenbare-risiken-solares-geoengineering-keine Geoengineering: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/topics/climate-energy/geoengineering zur Securitisation Theory: https://criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/31/key-concept-securitization-copenhagen-school/ Schröder, U. (2026). Schutz in Krisenzeiten. Piper. https://www.piper.de/buecher/schutz-in-krisenzeiten-isbn-978-3-492-07396-7 zu Sicherheit im Anthropozän:  Rothe, D., Hentschel, C., & Schröder, U. (2025). Recomposing the climate-security nexus: A conceptual introduction. Geoforum, 159, 104195. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718524002562 Von Redecker, E. (2023). Bleibefreiheit. S. Fischer Verlag. https://www.fischerverlage.de/buch/eva-von-redecker-bleibefreiheit-9783596711260   zum Begriff der Infrastrukturen in der Sicherheitsforschung: Hentschel, C., Schröder, U., 2020. Democratising Security in Turbulent Times: An Infrastructural Lens. S+F 38, 191–194. https://doi.org/10.5771/0175-274X-2020-4-191 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/27260104.pdf?refreqid=fastly-default%3Abf575832edd748b4b77595527737cd25&ab_segments=&initiator=&acceptTC=1 zu Nina Perkowskis Forschungsprojekt zu „Counter-Communities' Protection Practices and Security Utopias in Catastrophic Times“: https://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/verbundprojekte/ru-promise/research-projects/rp8.html Staab, P. (2022). Anpassung. Leitmotiv der nächsten Gesellschaft. Suhrkamp, Berlin. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/philipp-staab-anpassung-t-9783518127797 Saito, K. (2026). Am Ende des Fortschritts. Überleben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus. dtv. https://www.dtv.de/buch/am-ende-des-fortschritts-28534 Garcés, M. (2022). Critical Imagination. Artnodes.  https://www.academia.edu/73676938/Critical_Imagination zum Thüringen Projekt: https://verfassungsblog.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Thueringen-Projekt_Abschlussbericht.pdf zu Verwaltung für Demokratie: https://verwaltung-fuer-demokratie.de/erste-hilfe-kit-demokratie/ zu Zukunftswerkstätten nach Robert Jungk: https://www.sowi-online.de/praxis/methode/zukunftswerkstatt.html_2 zu climate change boredom: Anderson, B. (2023). Boredom and the politics of climate change. Scottish Geographical Journal, 139(1–2), 133–141. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14702541.2023.2197869 Christine Hentschel zu „Apokalypse-Indifferenz“ (Günther Anders) im Kontext der Klimakrise: Hentschel, C. (2024). Im Angesicht der planetaren Zerstörung. Soziologische Perspektiven gegen die Indifferenz., in: Lessenich, S., Scheffer, T. (Eds.), Gesellschaften Unter Handlungszwang: Existenzielle Probleme, Normalität Und Kritik, IfS-Aus Der Reihe. Bertz + Fischer, Berlin, pp. 78–92. https://bertz-fischer.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/bertz-fischer-ifs-02-gesellschaften-unter-handlungszwang-9783865056528.pdf zu Verleugnung nach Alenka Zupančič: Zupančič, A.(2024) Disavowal. Polity Books. https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=disavowal--9781509561193 Christine Hentschel zu affectiven investments in den Protesten gegen die Coronamaßnamen Hentschel, C.(2021) »Das große Erwachen«: Affekt und Narrativ in der Bewegung gegen die Corona-Maßnahmen. Leviathan 49, 62–85.  https://www.inlibra.com/de/document/view/pdf/uuid/1ed695c2-d459-32aa-a482-bf64a34a412c zur mobilisierenden Kraft von Wut bei Audre Lorde: Lorde, A. (1997). The uses of anger. Women's Studies Quarterly, 25(1/2), 278-285. https://americanstudies.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/Lorde%20-%20The%20Uses%20of%20Anger.pdf zu Everyone hates Elon: https://www.everyonehateselon.com zu strategischem Hass nach Seyda Kurt: Kurt, S. (2023). Hass. Von der Macht eines widerständigen Gefühls. HarperCollins. https://www.harpercollins.de/products/hass-von-der-macht-eines-widerstandigen-gefuhls zum Begriff des Prozesses nach Rahel Jaeggi: https://www.fes.de/asd/buch-essenz/jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression Jaeggi, R. (2023). Fortschritt und Regression. Suhrkamp. https://www.suhrkamp.de/buch/rahel-jaeggi-fortschritt-und-regression-t-9783518587140 White, J. (2024). In the long run: The future as a political idea. Profile Books. https://www.academia.edu/115206928/In_the_Long_Run_the_Future_as_a_Political_Idea_Profile_Books_2024_ Relevante Future Histories Folgen S04E07 | Kohei Saito, Christoph Sorg and Jan Groos on Creative Construction and the Struggle over Progress https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s04/e07-creative-construction-and-the-struggle-over-progress/ S03E46 | Rahel Jaeggi zur Krise des Liberalismus, Fortschritt als Prozess und sozialistischem Utopisieren https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e46-rahel-jaeggi-zur-krise-des-liberalismus-fortschritt-als-prozess-und-sozialistischem-utopisieren/ S03E33 | Tadzio Müller zu solidarischem Preppen im Kollaps https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e33-tadzio-mueller-zu-solidarischem-preppen-im-kollaps/ S03E32 | Jacob Blumenfeld on Climate Barbarism and Managing Decline https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e32-jacob-blumenfeld-on-climate-barbarism-and-managing-decline/ S03E23 | Andreas Malm on Overshooting into Climate Breakdown https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e23-andreas-malm-on-overshooting-into-climate-breakdown/ S02E56 | Şeyda Kurt zu strategischem Hass https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e56-seyda-kurt-zu-strategischem-hass/ S02E38 | Eva von Redecker zu Bleibefreiheit und Demokratischer Planung https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e38-eva-von-redecker-zu-bleibefreiheit-und-demokratischer-planung/ — Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung: Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Schreibt mir unter: office@futurehistories.today Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories Website mit allen Folgen: www.futurehistories.today   Episode Keywords #ChristineHentschel, #JanGroos, #Interview, #FutureHistories, #FutureHistoriesLIVE, #Sicherheit, #Aktivismus, #Katastrophe, #Klimakollaps, #Zukunft, #SolidarischesPreppen, #Kollaps, #MutualAid, #Adaptation, #Mitigation, #ExtremeAdaptaion, #Klimaaktivismus, #Klimakrise 

Het is een beetje een saai, ouderwets en gedateerd techbedrijf, maar tóch moet je erop letten, zegt onze gast, Jos Versteeg van InsingerGillisen. Infineon! Een Duits techbedrijf, volgens Jos in de verste verte niet vergelijkbaar met bijvoorbeeld TSMC, daar is de techniek te oud voor. Tóch vindt hij de cijfers interessant, omdat ze chips leveren voor datacenters. Daar hoopt hij meer over te horen. We kijken vooruit op de cijfers, en ook een klein beetje op die van AMD. In Beurs in Zicht stomen we je klaar voor de beursweek die je tegemoet gaat. Want soms zie je door de beursbomen het beursbos niet meer. Dat is verleden tijd! Iedere week vertelt een vriend van de show waar jouw focus moet liggen. Te gast: Jos Versteeg van InsingerGillisen BNR Beurs is een journalistiek onafhankelijke productie, mede mogelijk gemaakt door Saxo. Over de makers: Jelle Maasbach is presentator van BNR Beurs en freelance financieel journalist. Zijn favoriete aandeel om over te praten is Disney, maar daar lijkt hij de enige in te zijn. Sinds de eerste uitzending van BNR Beurs is 'ie er bij. Maxim van Mil is presentator van BNR Beurs en journalist bij BNR, waar hij zich focust op de financiële markten en ontwikkelingen in de tech-wereld. Je krijgt hem het meest enthousiast als hij kan praten over ASML, of oer-Hollandse bedrijven zoals Ahold of ABN Amro. Jorik Simonides is presentator van BNR Beurs, economieredacteur en verslaggever bij BNR. Hij wordt er vooral blij van als het een keer níet over AI gaat. Je hoort hem ook in de BNR-podcast Moerdijk: dorp van de rekening. Milou Brand is presentator van BNR Beurs, freelance podcastmaker en columnist bij het Financieele Dagblad. Jochem Visser is presentator van BNR Beurs, maakt Beursnerd XL en is redacteur bij de podcast Onder Curatoren. Vraag hem naar obscure zaken op financiële markten en hij vertelt je waarom het eigenlijk nóg leuker is dan je al dacht. Over de podcast: Met BNR Beurs ga je altijd voorbereid de nieuwe beursdag in. We praten je in een kleine 25 minuten bij over alle laatste ontwikkelingen op de handelsvloer. We blijven niet alleen bij de AEX of Wall Street, maar vertellen je ook waar nog meer kansen liggen. En we houden het niet bij de cijfers, maar zoeken ook iedere dag voor je naar duiding van scherpe gasten en experts. Of je nu een ervaren belegger bent of net begint met je eerste stappen op de beurs, de podcast biedt waardevolle inzichten voor je beleggingsstrategie. Door de focus op zowel de korte termijn als de lange termijn, helpt BNR Beurs luisteraars om de ruis van de markt te scheiden van de essentie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Reports say that Musk once visited Epstein's New York residence for about 30 minutes one afternoon, along with Talulah Riley. Musk has said the meeting was at her request, because she was curious, and that nothing inappropriate was observed—just “weird art.” He also says Epstein invited him more than once to visit his private island, an invitation Musk declinedMusk has also been vocal in demanding that files related to Epstein be made more public. He has made claims—without presenting evidence—that Donald Trump is named in still-sealed “Epstein files,” and that this is a key reason they have not been released. Musk has criticized the Trump administration for withholding them and said such transparency is important for public trust.to contact me:bobbycapucci@Protonmail.com

Republicans spent the week chasing Anthony Fauci while their 2026 battlefield caught fire. Todd Blanche's nomination stalled, Trump's lawyers admitted the administration targeted blue states for political payback, the Iran war moved into a more dangerous phase—and nearly every major midterm indicator shifted toward Democrats.In this episode of Political Rehab, Republican strategist Matt Wylie and Democratic insider Matt Robison examine a disastrous week for the GOP—and why nearly every major political indicator is now moving toward Democrats.Anthony Fauci takes the Fifth before the Senate as Republicans revive the political battles of 2020. Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination stalls because the Trump administration refuses to provide two Republican senators with even the smallest assurance that the Justice Department's political weaponization fund is dead.Then Trump's own lawyers make an extraordinary courtroom admission: 283 of 284 canceled Energy Department grants were located in states that voted for Kamala Harris. At the same time, Democratic states are being denied disaster assistance at dramatically higher rates—even when those decisions directly hurt Republican congressional districts.We break down:• Why the Fauci hearing exposed Republican political weakness• Whether Todd Blanche's attorney general nomination could collapse• How the administration admitted it targeted federal grants based on election results• Why Trump's blue-state retaliation also harms Republican voters and lawmakers• What Laura Loomer's sudden conversion on Ukraine reveals about MAGA politics• Why the Iran war may be entering its most dangerous phase• How Democratic spending in Ohio, Iowa, Alaska and North Carolina is expanding the battlefield• Why Republicans are spending heavily in North Carolina but nothing in Texas• Whether Elon Musk can rebuild the GOP's weak turnout operation• How Trump's Medicare announcement created an instant Democratic campaign ad• Why Trump's falling approval and weak Republican enthusiasm could make him a midterm liability• What polling, race ratings and campaign spending reveal about the fight for CongressThe Battlefield delivers a clear verdict this week: Democrats won. Trump's approval is falling, independents are moving away from him, the generic ballot is shifting, five Republican-held House seats moved into the toss-up column and Democrats now have as many plausible House targets as they did before the 2018 wave.⏱️ TIMESTAMPS0:00 – Cold Open1:01 – Fauci Takes the Fifth as Republicans Relitigate COVID3:45 – Todd Blanche's Nomination Stalls Again6:21 – Trump's Lawyers Admit the Blue-State Payback Strategy9:46 – Laura Loomer's Shocking Conversion on Ukraine12:07 – The Iran War Reaches a Dangerous Tipping Point15:09 – The Battlefield: Less Than 100 Days Until the Midterms15:42 – Democrats Expand the Map as Republicans Abandon Texas18:44 – Can Elon Musk Rescue the Republican Ground Game?20:53 – Is Donald Trump Becoming a Midterm Liability?23:06 – The Scoreboard: Democrats Go Six for Six25:00 – The House Map Is Moving Toward Democrats28:32 – Dose of Hope: Technology Solving Real Problems29:56 – Karma Comes for Elise Stefanik, Elon Musk and MAGA

Vinny Lingham is a Bitcoin OG who pioneered gift card payments in 2012 with Gyft, served on the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, spearheaded blockchain identity verification with CIvic, and in more recent years moved on to managing risk with Praxos Capital. Thanks to some of his accurate price predictions, Vinny has also received the nickname "The Oracle". In this episode, we talk about his Bitcoin journey and how his views have evolved over the last 14 years. Time stamps: 00:01:06 Intro & sponsors: Vinny Lingham, 15 years in Bitcoin 00:02:04 Gyft: a dozen companies and one gift card problem 00:02:26 Chargebacks, stolen cards & getting attacked by scammers 00:04:13 Why Bitcoin looked like the perfect payment rail 00:04:51 Zero-conf payments and the first-seen rule 00:05:48 The Starbucks and McDonald's signature math 00:06:51 100,000 Bitcoin payments, zero double spends 00:07:13 Civic's Bitcoin patents & the 2017 fee explosion 00:07:37 Blockstream, Adam Back, MIT and the Epstein files 00:08:10 Core keeps pruning dissenting voices 00:08:55 Why Bitcoin still can't be the whitepaper's payment system 00:09:08 Counterparty, Mastercoin & the birth of Ethereum 00:09:34 "Nothing has happened in Bitcoin in five years" 00:10:16 Why he went and backed Solana instead 00:10:23 Sympathy for BIP 110 over Core 00:11:08 Inscriptions can be done many ways 00:12:27 "Lightning will be ready in 18 months" forever 00:13:26 Drivechains, BIP 300 & the Ecash fork paying miners 00:14:44 UX, mainstream users and idiot-proof money 00:15:17 People who don't know you can hold BTC outside an ETF 00:15:27 Is the ETF the real scaling layer? 00:15:37 What Vinny signed up for when he read the whitepaper 00:16:30 Wayne Vaughn in the chat 00:16:48 Saylor's Bitcoin Security Consortium and the $15M 00:17:24 Saylor argues against bigger blocks and covenants 00:17:49 How is this different from the Bitcoin Foundation? 00:18:36 Saylor as systemic risk: crashing the minority fork 00:19:43 Losing SPV and the simplicity of early Bitcoin 00:20:48 When did you last actually use Bitcoin? 00:21:22 Six confirmations vs Apple Pay 00:21:41 Gyft's customers who had no credit cards 00:22:07 Not a store of value: a store of liquidity 00:23:24 So what is a store of value, exactly? 00:26:00 The 100 year test: one ounce of gold buys one suit 00:27:09 Does the whitepaper ever say "digital gold"? 00:27:53 Saylor's redefinition: expensive to move, held by institutions 00:28:08 Privacy, tiny payments and why volume creates stability 00:28:42 Exchanges are layer two, Lightning is layer three 00:29:06 Solana at the World Series of Poker 00:30:07 BSV, Teranode, BCH and who actually handles volume 00:30:58 Does everyone really need to run a node? 00:31:30 Luke Dashjr, 16MB blocks and 50 billion Catholics 00:33:34 Arguing with someone who redefines words 00:34:33 How did Blockstream become so politically powerful? 00:35:40 Reid Hoffman's $20 million 00:36:26 Reading the Epstein files with Bitcoin eyes 00:36:45 Tether won the global south instead 00:37:42 "The community is people who never built anything" 00:38:00 Why Elon Musk walked away from Bitcoin 00:39:07 The ESG excuse & the Bitcoin Mining Council 00:40:05 Elon on bandwidth, latency and second layers 00:41:03 Why Civic started on Bitcoin and left 00:42:05 Multicoin, the Solana seed round & founding Praxos 00:42:29 Why "Civic" and not "Supra" 00:42:46 Nobody wants identity: crypto's actual number one use case 00:44:03 Zcash's comeback, Ironwood & the auditable supply 00:45:34 Delistings and the headwinds facing privacy coins 00:46:06 Why Zcash chose DeFi rails over merchant adoption 00:47:07 How to know you're in a bear market 00:47:25 Elgamarov & how small this world really is 00:48:10 What does Vinny actually hold today? 00:49:27 Praxos: delta neutral, funding rates and volatility 00:51:44 Sponsors: Braiins, Cake Wallet, SideShift, LayerTwo Labs, Orange Rock 00:54:40 Wayne Vaughn's question: will the CLARITY Act pass? 00:56:47 Michael Saylor and the Strategy problem 00:57:14 The GBTC discount scenario 00:58:16 Why August could be a bloodbath 01:01:56 Node counts, sybil attacks and hash rate 01:03:16 The rewritten history of SegWit and SegWit2x 01:04:19 How Bitcoin Cash became the fallback plan 01:04:59 Gavin Andresen and the word "bamboozled" 01:06:00 Was Craig Wright involved at all? 01:08:04 Hal Finney's logs and the Van Nuy, California IP address 01:08:55 GMX, German privacy law and the missing paper trail 01:11:17 Roger Ver, the checksum test and Craig 01:13:00 Asking Claude who Satoshi is 01:14:17 The case for Nick Szabo and the trusted third parties 01:15:31 The counterfactual: what if Bitcoin had scaled? 01:19:35 Tron, USDT and five years of outperforming BTC 01:20:09 Bitcoiners understand supply, not demand 01:20:36 What happens when the block rewards run out 01:21:15 Rentable SHA256 and the state actor attack scenario 01:22:54 Will Vinny claim the August fork airdrops?

The richest man in the world, Elon Musk, just told The Economist that money won't matter a decade from now. Not that it'll look different, but that it won't matter. And he laid out the mechanism: AI and robots producing more goods and services than humans can possibly consume, governments simply issuing money to people, and deflation instead of inflation because output grows faster than the money supply. In this episode, Karl Eggerss takes the argument seriously rather than dismissing it. Also, he finds that part of it is textbook-correct and part of it falls apart the moment you push on it. What we get into: Why technology really is deflationary, and the history that proves it The one thing robots can't manufacture — and why it breaks the whole prediction Baumol's cost disease, explained with a string quartet Why abundance is a production question and universal income is a distribution question What Keynes got right in 1930, and what he got completely wrong Five practical adjustments for planning in a split-price economy The most likely version of the next decade isn't "money stops mattering." It's that ordinary goods keep getting cheaper while the scarce things like land, care, healthcare, time keep getting more expensive. That distinction changes how you plan.

⚡ Pete rode out the storm glamping in his own driveway—Starlink dish up, house running off his truck—while much of Lake Forest sat in the dark with no power, internet, or reliable cell service. He could communicate. The City couldn't.Rick Lesser joins from his office (Comcast's out at the condo) to work through what happened Monday night—and what didn't. One City advisory went out at 3:03 PM, before the worst hit. Then silence, as limbs came down and live wires hit residential streets.The morning after, Pete goes to the Chamber's mayor's breakfast looking for one thing: a straight answer. Is there a disaster plan? "We don't like to call it a plan. We like to call it a playbook." Yes or no—do you have one? "We got a draft."From there it opens up: the council-manager form of government and who's actually accountable when the lights go out. Smart911—which the City's own website says sends emergency texts, emails, and phone calls—and which, when Pete asked a few thousand local Facebook followers whether anyone got one during the storm, produced a simple answer: no one reported getting one. The episode also digs into cell coverage, the City apps rolled out with fanfare that went quiet the one night they were needed, and whether something as simple as a group text could have made the difference.Public Works and the first responders worked through the night, and they get their due here. This was never about the crews clearing the roads. It's about who's standing at the front of the room when it matters.The mayor? The city manager? The communications director? Or is nobody in charge?We document. You decide.

Progressive candidates have serious momentum going into the upcoming primaries in Michigan and Wisconsin — but they'll have to figure out how to explain away some problematic old tweets. Meanwhile, Democrats land on a novel strategy for competing in deep red states (hint: it doesn't involve Democrats). Jon and Dan discuss the latest in all the key races, as well as Todd Blanche's failing nomination for attorney general, the administration's decision to deny disaster aid to four Democratic-led states, and Elon Musk's plan to pump $100 million into the midterms to support Republican candidates. Then, they check in on the AI singularity, which OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says has officially arrived, and debate how Democrats should talk about AI going forward.Hate listening to ads? Become a Friends of the Pod subscriber for ad-free episodes of Pod Save America, Pod Save the World, Lovett or Leave It, Runaway Country, Offline with Jon Favreau, and more—plus exclusive content, including bonus episodes of Pod Save America. Subscribe now at crooked.com/friends, on Apple Podcasts, or through the Pod Save America YouTube channel.To watch this episode with subtitles, click here and turn on closed captions (CC).You can also request a transcript by emailing transcripts@crooked.com. Include the podcast name, episode title, and air date. Please allow 48 hours for delivery.

Dave Rubin of "The Rubin Report" talks about President Trump threatening to withdraw Todd Blanche's nomination for attorney general as Republican senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis demand written guarantees that the controversial $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund is permanently dead; Elon Musk reviving America PAC for a massive midterm election spending and voter turnout push to help Republicans maintain control of Congress; and the growing backlash against overtechnologized cars as drivers reject touchscreens, surveillance systems, subscriptions, driver monitoring, and intrusive safety alerts in favor of simpler vehicles with physical controls; and much more. #RubinReport #ElonMusk #ToddBlanche #midtermelections #hightechcars #daverubin

The race to build the most advanced artificial intelligence continues to dominate the headlines. On this week's On the Media, who does this new technology actually serve? Plus, how even critical media coverage can feed into the AI hype. [01:00]  Host Brooke Gladstone sits down with Cory Doctorow, journalist, activist, and author of Enshittification, on his new guide to seeing through the relentless, $16 trillion AI hype machine and understanding the technology for exactly what it is, rather than the outlandish stories told about it. [16:47] Brooke continues her conversation with Cory, and they discuss how the hype itself is keeping the AI industry afloat.  [28:47] Brooke asks Cory about his rejection of the notion that AI domination – of our jobs, our lives, our art, and more – is inevitable. Plus, they interrogate the role of the tech in a creative's life, and why AI art leaves us cold. Further reading / watching: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI by Cory Doctorow On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

July 31, 2026 - 7am: EXCLUSIVE: White House details of Hamas disarmament agreement exclusively with Morning Joe  The Atlantic: Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor from Elon Musk To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In episode 2101, Jack and Miles are joined by co-host of Jordan, Jesse, Go! and author of Youth Group, Jordan Morris, to discuss… Fascist Babysitter Club Not Having A Good Time With Iran War, Elon Musk Sues Minnesota To Defend Grok’s Sex Crimes, Forget “Shark Week,” It’s “Crappy Shark Movie Year” and more! Trump’s Big Gamble Blows Up in His Face in Devastating Poll ‘Exasperated’ Trump’s Secret Fury Over Big Failure Is Leaked xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law Where to Watch Shark Week 2026 Online: Schedule, Streaming Guide Just when you thought it was safe … the shark movie is back for more Craving a Summer Blockbuster? Watch My Nephew's New Movie Netflix Officially Drops the Most Ambitious Horror Scene of 2026 With Its New Shark Thriller Shark Thrash trailer: The Asylum’s latest mockbuster gets a digital release Why Are We Still So Obsessed With Shark Attack Movies? Why Shark Movies Are Such Reliable Box Office Bets: A Deep Dive ‘Water Park Shark’ Poster – New Shark Attack Movie from ‘Sharknado’ Director Coming Soon This Ai Shark Movie Is Genuinely Horrible ‘Chum’ Review – Get Your A.I. Trash Machine Out of Our Animal Attack Films! Chum Heathcliff Ham Limit: Okay, I figured out what Beef-ade is, but Ham Limit? Heath Cliff Summer Mummy: Why....why is there a sand flavor? LISTEN: 3:06 by Clutchy HopkinsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

July 30, 2026; 8pm: Tonight, Trump threatens to pull his own Attorney General nominee as Republicans try to shut down his slush fund for good. Plus, what happens when the world's richest man is also its most notorious racist. And Stephanie Ruhle on the market reaction to Donald Trump's new Fed Chair. Want more of Chris? Download and follow his podcast, “Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes podcast” wherever you get your podcasts.To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

From impasse in Iran to still-unresolved conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon, a trend is clear: President Donald Trump's scant, early plans for peace do not actually forge a path to it. Our correspondent says that in the driverless-car future, it will often be Chinese AI behind the wheel. And remembering Wally Funk, who never relinquished her ambition to become an astronaut. Watch extended clips from Insider, plus our full Elon Musk interview, here Guests and host:Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondentDon Weinland, China business and finance editorAnn Wroe, obituaries editorJason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”Topics covered: Iran war, Strait of Hormuz, diplomacyChina, AI, driverless carsWally Funk, astronautsListen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—subscribe to The Economist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A.M. Edition for July 31. Earnings from AI hyperscalers this week showed rising demand for their cloud services, with Amazon's CEO forecasting corporate AI use was still in its ‘early stages.' But as EY's Dan Diasio tells us, rising token costs are leading many businesses to question their broader AI approach. Plus, the U.S. says Hamas has agreed to a broad plan to disarm in exchange for an eventual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. And WSJ reporter Margherita Stancati describes how the arrival of thousands of migrants into the Spanish territory of Ceuta from neighboring Morocco is piling political pressure on the center-left government in Madrid. Luke Vargas hosts. Sign up for the WSJ's free What's News newsletter. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

C Constable reports from France on the high heat and smoke impact near Bordeaux. The discussion shifts to surging energy prices, with Brent crude rising 26% and European gas up 36%. Despite high energy costs, rising copper prices suggest potential industrial growth. (1)Simon Constable and Jim McTague continue with a quiz highlighting that typical data centers use 300,000 gallons of water daily, while larger ones can reach 5 million gallons. Currently, most centers are urban, but 67% of planned facilities are rural. In Lancaster County, a "tale of two data centers" emerges as one town embraces the revenue stream while another resists it due to misinformation and fear. (2)Cliff May argues for maximum pressure and coercive diplomacy to prevent the Islamic Republic of Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He advocates for a naval blockade, specifically targeting oil exports from Kharg Island to strangle the regime's revenue. May emphasizes that the Iranian leadership's ideology makes them likely to use nuclear weapons, necessitating a strategy to cripple the regime's power. (3)John Hardie and Bill Roggio cover the significant leadership change in Ukraine as General Drapatyi replaces General Syrskyi as commander-in-chief. Drapatyi is seen as a representative of a new, western-style generation of officers who embrace technological innovation and listen to subordinates. The transition aims to "desovietize" the military and maintain the momentum of successful drone offensives against Russian infrastructure. (4)Anatol Lieven examines how the Ukraine and Iran conflicts are merging into one global struggle following a Ukrainiandrone strike on an Iranian vessel. This escalation threatens global energy supplies of refined oil products, as Russianrefineries struggle with capacity. While Ukraine targets the Russian middle class to undermine support for the war, Lieven warns of a widening proxy war involving China, North Korea, and Iran. (5)Anatol Lieven turns to Britain's new political era under Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is described as the Labour Party's "last chance" to address a discredited government. Burnham faces immense financial pressure, particularly regarding the costs of healthcare for the elderly and dementia. To succeed, he may need to pivot from "Net Zero" policies to prioritize energy needs and seek a new mandate through an election. (6)Salvatore Vitale and Kalin Plunkett of MIT explain hierarchical merging, a process where black holes merge repeatedly to create larger "monsters." By analyzing gravitational waves from 155 binary pairs, they discovered that 14% are second-generation black holes, born from previous mergers rather than stellar collapse. These second-generation black holes are characterized by rapid spin and mass asymmetry, providing clues to how supermassive black holes form in galaxies. (7)Salvatore Vitale and Kalin Plunkett continue: to uncover the origins of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, scientists propose building larger gravitational wave detectors scaled up by a factor of ten. These advanced observatories would allow researchers to peer further back into cosmic history, potentially detecting black holes from the very early universe. Expanding the global network to four or five detectors would help pinpoint host galaxies and detect the formation of heavy elements. (8)Arthur Herman recounts the historic 1896 meeting where Henry Ford pitched his internal combustion engine to a skeptical Thomas Edison. Edison's encouragement served as the catalyst for Ford's revolution in American transportation. This industrial transformation was further enabled by John D. Rockefeller, whose ability to lower oil prices made gasoline an economically feasible fuel for mass production. The segment also highlights George Washington's vision for a professional Continental Army. (9)Arthur Herman explains the American founders were heavily influenced by the Scottish Enlightenment, particularly the ideas of David Hume and Adam Smith regarding the pursuit of happiness. This subjective right was prioritized over property to potentially allow for the future abolition of slavery. The founding spirit extended to the Northwest Ordinance, creating communities like Marietta, Ohio, that were dedicated to education, religion, and freedom. (10)Arthur Herman characterizes Abraham Lincoln as a founder for his vision of an America without slavery and his willingness to risk the Union to fulfill the Declaration of Independence. His administration's legacy includes the Homestead Act and the Transcontinental Railroad, which expanded the "empire of liberty." Additionally, the Civil War era facilitated the rise of Andrew Carnegie, who later revolutionized the global steel industry using the Bessemerprocess. (11)Arthur Herman reframes the Gilded Age not as an era of greed, but as a period of unprecedented opportunity and connectivity driven by the railroad. James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway fostered regional prosperity and negotiated fairly with Native American tribes. Meanwhile, Thomas Edison's relentless competitiveness and "restless mind" led to the electrification of the nation and the invention of the phonograph, inspiring future generations of founders like Elon Musk. (12)Arthur Herman contrasts Woodrow Wilson's attempt to centrally manage industry during World War I, which resulted in logistical chaos and failure, with FDR's embrace of the private sector for World War II, appointing GM's Bill Knudsento lead mobilization. By relying on the incentives of the marketplace, Knudsen successfully converted American manufacturing into a massive war machine, producing more war material than the world imagined in just 18 months. (13)Arthur Herman presents Martin Luther King Jr. as a founder who refounded the American experiment by taking risks to fulfill the promise of equality. The segment explores the eternal conflict between the bold "founder mindset" and the cautious "manager instinct" that emerged in the 1950s. While managers seek stability and predictability, founders drive innovation and national greatness, preventing the American dream from becoming stagnant and stale. (14)Arthur Herman credits Vannevar Bush's "The Endless Frontier" manifesto with persuading FDR to fund basic scientific research through universities, laying the groundwork for Silicon Valley. This federal support enabled discoveries in information theory and microchip development, transforming the American economy. The evolution from massive mainframes like the IBM 360 to modern microchips illustrates the imaginative leap of founders who see opportunities where others see only current technology. (15)Arthur Herman concludes that today's founders, including Elon Musk and Donald Trump, continue the tradition of taking massive risks to fulfill bold visions. Musk's goals for SpaceX and Mars are described as a step-by-step process of industrial manufacturing and innovation. Central to this enduring success is the Patent Act of 1790, a unique constitutional protection that ensures individuals own the products of their minds, fueling 250 years of American discovery. (16)Corrections applied per the log: John Hardie (transcribed as "Hardy," segment 4) and Labour Party (UK spelling, segment 6). I also dropped the phonetic "(Chopati)" after General Drapatyi in segment 4 — that's Mykhailo Drapatyi, so the first spelling stands. One to confirm for the log: Kalin Plunkett (segments 7–8) — I couldn't verify this MIT researcher's spelling; if it's from audio, it may need checking against the MIT LIGO group roster.

Arthur Herman reframes the Gilded Age not as an era of greed, but as a period of unprecedented opportunity and connectivity driven by the railroad. James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway fostered regional prosperity and negotiated fairly with Native American tribes. Meanwhile, Thomas Edison's relentless competitiveness and "restless mind" led to the electrification of the nation and the invention of the phonograph, inspiring future generations of founders like Elon Musk. (12)1806 BROOKFIELD

-- On the Show: -- White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett attempts to reframe a missed growth forecast as an economic boom during a Fox interview -- Elaine Chao appears in identical clothing across two separate photographs released weeks apart following Mitch McConnell's absence -- New York gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman claims without evidence that Democrats plan to steal the upcoming midterm elections -- Republican officials fear potential Democratic midterm victories could trigger congressional investigations into White House misconduct -- Fox News hosts acknowledge that Donald Trump's signature tax legislation suffers from low public approval and poor messaging -- Federal employment data shows American manufacturing lost thousands of jobs despite Trump's campaign promises -- On the Bonus Show: About 60,000 migrants arrive in Ceuta, Spain in 24 hours, Republicans are far more willing to excuse scandals than Democrats, Elon Musk plans to spend $120 million on the midterms this year, and much more...

From impasse in Iran to still-unresolved conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon, a trend is clear: President Donald Trump's scant, early plans for peace do not actually forge a path to it. Our correspondent says that in the driverless-car future, it will often be Chinese AI behind the wheel. And remembering Wally Funk, who never relinquished her ambition to become an astronaut. Watch extended clips from Insider, plus our full Elon Musk interview, here Guests and host:Gregg Carlstrom, Middle East correspondentDon Weinland, China business and finance editorAnn Wroe, obituaries editorJason Palmer, co-host of “The Intelligence”Topics covered: Iran war, Strait of Hormuz, diplomacyChina, AI, driverless carsWally Funk, astronautsListen to what matters most, from global politics and business to science and technology—subscribe to The Economist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the Weekly Roundup, Brad Onishi and Dan Miller breakdown three stories: 1. The GOP pursuit of Anthony Fauci over COVID era decisions and funding. 2. A new poll that shows 66% of MAGA supporters would continue to push for a candidate accused of sexual assault + Elon Musk's lawsuit against a law that bans nudifying AI. 3. The State Department's humiliating mistake in using an error-filled AI-generated map of Africa. The thesis: You can't have democracy without shared facts, shared reality, and universal accountability. (00:00) – Introduction and technological mishaps (01:03) – The significance of shared facts and democracy (04:12) – Democracy, truth, and trust: Maria Ressa's insights (08:39) – McCarthyism and the obsession with prosecuting Fauci (12:14) – GOP's distraction tactics: From Fauci to election interference (14:47) – The decline of literacy and its societal consequences (19:23) – The post-literate society and the rise of influencers over facts (22:46) – The crisis of accountability and the patriarchal narrative (27:00) – Support for scandal-ridden politicians among GOP voters (35:52) – The monstrous support for domestic abusers in politics (44:42) – The suppression of free inquiry and Western civilization myths (50:04) – AI, geography errors, and neglect of global health issues (52:47) – Musk, deepfakes, and the devaluation of human life (56:38) – Hope amid chaos: Reflections on political resilience and potential for change https://axismundinetwork.substack.com/

Day 1,617.As yet more Russian Wildberries distribution sites reach for the stars, Ukrainian missile producer Firepoint wins the month's top-trolling award by offering merch to anyone who correctly predicts their next target. Dom reports how ballistic-missile defence is the hot topic of military and diplomatic discussion at the moment, with offers from Poland, favours asked of SpaceX and, perhaps least surprising of all, a growing coolness from Donald Trump over the plan/idea/wishful thinking that Ukraine would be given the Patriot blueprints. Alex Nichol reports that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff may be in Ukraine in the next few weeks, which would be their first trip to Kyiv despite making multiple visits to Putin in Moscow.Contributors: Dominic Nicholls (Host on Ukraine: The Latest). @DomNicholls on X.Alex Nichol (Telegraph Journalist).With thanks to Hugh Roberts (@hugh.g.a.roberts on Instagram) and the University of Exeter. Senior Producer: Lilian FawcettVideo Producer: Sophie O'SullivanSocial Producer: Tom SteedStudio Director: Meghan SearleExecutive Editor: Francis DearnleyCreated by David KnowlesNOW IN FULL VIDEO WITH MAPS & BATTLEFIELD FOOTAGE:Every episode is now available on our YouTube channel shortly after the release of the audio version. You will find it here: https://www.youtube.com/@UkraineTheLatest CONTENT REFERENCED:If you're interested in sponsoring Dom's upcoming defence event, email our colleagues at events@telegraph.co.ukRussian missile destroys US firm's Kyiv drone factory (The Guardian)https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/30/us-firm-drone-factory-terminal-autonomy-ukraine-russia Zelensky Asked Trump for a Favor From Elon Musk (The Atlantic)https://www.theatlantic.com/national-security/2026/07/zelensky-asked-trump-for-a-favor-from-elon-musk/688122/Donald Trump ‘not sure' he will let Ukraine build Patriot missiles (Financial Times)https://www.ft.com/content/d8c42f6b-4dba-4976-a907-c7c93bca0bbd?syn-25a6b1a6=1 War and peace: Ukraine's ambassador in Washington joins our table (Christian Science Monitor)https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/monitor_breakfast/2026/0731/ukraine-ambassador-olga-stefanishyna?icid=rssThe Geopolitics of Russia's Civil Nuclear Exports Four Years into the War (Centre for Strategic and International Studies)https://www.csis.org/analysis/geopolitics-russias-civil-nuclear-exports-four-years-war Ukrainian War Time Poetry: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2YPXiQIIQvRHSFfabgsOZM_5G5eqj5OJantar Publishing House: https://www.jantarpublishing.com/Lines from the frontline: the poet soldiers defending Ukraine (The Conversation): https://theconversation.com/lines-from-the-frontline-the-poet-soldiers-defending-ukraine-276676 Death of a Ukrainian Writer (New Yorker): https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-death-of-a-ukrainian-writer-victoria-amelinaThe Buried Book That Helped Ukraine's Literary Revival (The New York Times): https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/world/europe/ukraine-publishing-buried-book.htmlMore about Aliaksei Lazarau: https://x.com/Alx_lazarau/status/2050195969103307014 The petition to allow non-Ukrainian to be recognised as Hero of Ukraine: https://petition.president.gov.ua/petition/264020 EMAIL US:Contact the team on ukrainepod@telegraph.co.uk. We continue to read every message, and seek to respond to as many as possible.HIGHLIGHTS:Russians 'fear being killed in Red Square,' Kyiv claimsZelensky asks Elon Musk a favour Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

-Rob cheers Elon Musk's renewed political efforts, argues the Democratic Party is embracing democratic socialism at full speed, and concludes that communists never outgrow the toddler phase because they just like breaking things. -Mary Walter joins Rob to celebrate Dr. Anthony Fauci's Senate testimony, discuss media coverage of COVID, laugh about California's struggling wine industry, debate whether men or women multitask better, swap stories about modern car technology, and react with disbelief to an NYU student arguing that prison isn't the answer for rapists. Today's podcast is sponsored by : PARAMOUNT PLUS - Don't Miss “Lioness” - all episodes streaming August 2nd on Paramount Plus RELIEF FACTOR - You don't need to live with aches & pains! Reduce muscle & joint inflammation and live a pain-free life by visiting http://ReliefFactor.com  GHOSTBED - I used to think a mattress was just furniture, until I got my GhostBed! GhostBed is offering my audience their lowest prices of the season, plus an extra 10% off. Go to http://GhostBed.com/CARSON and use promo code CARSON To call in and speak with Rob Carson live on the show, dial 1-800-922-6680 between the hours of 12 Noon and 3:00 pm Eastern Time Monday through Friday… Musical parodies provided by Jim Gossett (http://patreon.com/JimGossettComedy) You can now WATCH and chat with The Rob Carson Show LIVE on Newsmax's social media channels (Facebook, X/Twitter, YouTube, Rumble) Listen to Newsmax LIVE and see our entire podcast lineup at http://Newsmax.com/Listen Make the switch to NEWSMAX today! Get your 15 day free trial of NEWSMAX+ at http://NewsmaxPlus.com Looking for NEWSMAX caps, tees, mugs & more? Check out the Newsmax merchandise shop at : http://nws.mx/shop Follow NEWSMAX on Social Media:  -Facebook: http://nws.mx/FB  -X/Twitter: http://nws.mx/twitter -Instagram: http://nws.mx/IG -YouTube: https://youtube.com/NewsmaxTV -Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/NewsmaxTV -TRUTH Social: https://truthsocial.com/@NEWSMAX -GETTR: https://gettr.com/user/newsmax -Threads: http://threads.net/@NEWSMAX  -Telegram: http://t.me/newsmax  -BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/newsmax.com -Parler: http://app.parler.com/newsmax Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Ken Rosato is filling in for Mark Simone. He discusses Elon Musk's plans to spend at least $100 million to support Republican candidates in the upcoming Midterm elections. Ken also highlights Spain, where tensions are high, as authorities recently returned over 25,000 migrants from Ceuta to Morocco following a deadly border surge.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ken Rosato is filling in for Mark Simone. He discusses Elon Musk's plans to spend at least $100 million to support Republican candidates in the upcoming Midterm elections. Ken also highlights Spain, where tensions are high, as authorities recently returned over 25,000 migrants from Ceuta to Morocco following a deadly border surge. Ken interviews Mike Kelly of The Record and NorthJersey.com. Mike talks with Ken about Governor Mikie Sherrill's response to the state's voter registration software error. They break down the details behind the issue and whether there are bigger questions beyond the 6,600 flagged records. Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is gaining on Governor Kathy Hochul, and Ken breaks down the latest poll numbers and what they mean for the race. He also sounds off on New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill's comments after the Trump administration said it would review the state's handling of a motor vehicle software error that allowed some people to register to vote without providing proof of citizenship. Mikie Sherrill called the federal response a political effort to weaponize a state software mistake, but is there more than just 6,600 non-citizens' info out there?  Ken interviews Jesse Weber, Law and Crime Network; host of “Jesse Weber Live” weeknights at 11 pm on News Nation. Jesse, a lawyer himself, explains why Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth during his hearing this week amid claims about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan lab, and whether he misled Congress. He also explains why attorneys sometimes advise people to exercise their Fifth Amendment rights.

Ken Rosato is filling in for Mark Simone. He discusses Elon Musk's plans to spend at least $100 million to support Republican candidates in the upcoming Midterm elections. Ken also highlights Spain, where tensions are high, as authorities recently returned over 25,000 migrants from Ceuta to Morocco following a deadly border surge. Ken interviews Mike Kelly of The Record and NorthJersey.com. Mike talks with Ken about Governor Mikie Sherrill's response to the state's voter registration software error. They break down the details behind the issue and whether there are bigger questions beyond the 6,600 flagged records. Ken Rosato fills in for Mark Simone. Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is gaining on Governor Kathy Hochul, and Ken breaks down the latest poll numbers and what they mean for the race. He also sounds off on New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill's comments after the Trump administration said it would review the state's handling of a motor vehicle software error that allowed some people to register to vote without providing proof of citizenship. Mikie Sherrill called the federal response a political effort to weaponize a state software mistake, but is there more than just 6,600 non-citizens' info out there?  Ken interviews Jesse Weber, Law and Crime Network; host of “Jesse Weber Live” weeknights at 11 pm on News Nation. Jesse, a lawyer himself, explains why Dr. Anthony Fauci pleaded the Fifth during his hearing this week amid claims about his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wuhan lab, and whether he misled Congress. He also explains why attorneys sometimes advise people to exercise their Fifth Amendment rights.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ken Rosato is filling in for Mark Simone. He discusses Elon Musk's plans to spend at least $100 million to support Republican candidates in the upcoming Midterm elections. Ken also highlights Spain, where tensions are high, as authorities recently returned over 25,000 migrants from Ceuta to Morocco following a deadly border surge. Ken takes your calls! Ken interviews Mike Kelly of The Record and NorthJersey.com. Mike talks with Ken about Governor Mikie Sherrill's response to the state's voter registration software error. They break down the details behind the issue and whether there are bigger questions beyond the 6,600 flagged records.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The AI industry spent the week arguing with itself, which is honestly the healthiest thing it's done in years. One coalition led by Nvidia begged regulators not to slow down open AI models, while more than 1,100 AI workers signed another letter asking regulators to do exactly that. Anthropic warned about bioweapons, OpenAI admitted the four-hour workweek isn't happening after all, and Microsoft's Satya Nadella reminded everyone that building your entire business on someone else's AI is a fantastic way to outsource your own brain. In other words, the people selling the future still can't agree on what they're selling, except that you'd better buy it fast.Meanwhile, the AI bubble keeps demanding sacrifices. Patreon, BuzzFeed, and Uber all swung the layoff axe while insisting AI isn't replacing humans... it's just reorganizing them out of a paycheck. Nvidia is floating another three-quarters of a trillion dollars in infrastructure deals that have people muttering "AI subprime mortgage crisis," China has discovered there's money in renting your face to AI companies, and the U.S. is carving data centers out of pollution rules because apparently acid rain is a small price to pay for chatbot dominance. Add in ChatGPT suddenly refusing to imitate famous authors, researchers discovering AI coding assistants are happily installing malware if you ask nicely, and Meta launching an ad campaign about the wonders of AI that somehow forgets to mention what any of those wonders actually are.Elsewhere in Tech Hell™, eBay finally paid the price for its executives' unhinged harassment campaign involving pig masks and live insects, Elon is shopping The Boring Company while promising money won't matter in the AI utopia of 2036, and a traveler is headed to court after allegedly triggering GrapheneOS's "duress PIN" during a border search. We also hit Media Candy with Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Silo, Blade Runner 2099 and Neuromancer, celebrate Dave Bittner's birthday, marvel at Jason's ever-growing Boneyard of dead websites, and somehow end up discussing thermal cameras, piano repair, and old-man bladder supplements. Because that's what happens when Gen X gets older - we just add more tabs instead of closing the old ones.Sponsors:DeleteMe - Get 20% off your DeleteMe plan when you go to JoinDeleteMe.com/GOG and use promo code GOG at checkout.StoryBlocks - For a limited time, they're offering 15% off any annual plan at storyblocks.com/gogPrivate Internet Access - Go to GOG.Show/vpn and sign up today. For a limited time only, you can get OUR favorite VPN for as little as $2.03 a month.SetApp - With a single monthly subscription you get 240+ apps for your Mac. Go to SetApp and get started today!!!1Password - Get a great deal on the only password manager recommended by Grumpy Old Geeks! gog.show/1passwordShow notes at https://gog.show/757Watch on YouTube at https://youtu.be/Sii_nodESkcSHOW NOTESEBay and Former Execs Will Pay $56 Million to Couple They Tormented With Bloody Pig MasksAs US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictionsAI researchers call for new tools that can slow automated model developmentOver 1,100 AI workers sign letter asking US to support tools that 'pace the frontier of automated AI development'Anthropic's Dario Amodei responds: doesn't oppose open-weight models, but fears Chinese AIAmodei Denies Anthropic Supports Open-Weight AI Ban, Warns of China RisksSam Altman said AI hasn't led to 4-hour workweeks because people are competitiveSam Altman Shuts Down Hopes of an AI-Led 4-Day Workweek Anytime SoonOpenAI Proposes 32-Hour Pilot Incentives for EmployersSatya Nadella says companies that trust one AI for everything may not survive Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warns companies relying on one AI model may not surviveOpenAI's rogue hacking incident was a warning shot. Will it be a wake-up call to finally create AI safety regulation?Behind the Curtain: AI godfathers converge on regulationsPatreon is laying off 20 percent of its staffAI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-MakingBuzzFeed Lays Off 33 Percent of Remaining Staff After Bizarre Pivot to AIUber lays off 10 percent of its customer service team in favor of using AIIn China, people are renting out their faces to AIAs SpaceX Sheds a Tesla's Worth of Value, Elon Musk Is Trying to Sell Investors on Another CompanyHow Much Charity Would It Take for People to Like Elon Musk?ChatGPT is now refusing requests to write in famous authors' stylesNvidia's $750 Billion Deals Revive Fear of AI Circular FinancingThe Trump administration is exempting data centers from pollution laws intended to prevent acid rainUS accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border searchMeta launches new Facebook Verified badge for actual, real humansMeta launches a storefront platform through Facebook MarketplaceMeta's pro-AI ad campaign is conspicuously light on AIIf You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your ComputerMinions & MonstersStar Trek: Strange New WorldsBroadchurch S2SiloTed Lasso Season 4 TrailerNeuromancer — Official Teaser | Apple TVPrime Video Finally Lifts the Lid on ‘Blade Runner 2099'Star Trek: Section 31Bad Deeds by Andrew Hunter MurrayDave BittnerThe CyberWireHacking HumansCaveatControl LoopOnly Malware in the BuildingJason DeFillippoJurassic Park computers in excruciating detailWho are the Mandalorians? | Star Wars: Galaxy GuideHF96V Thermal Camera with Visual Camera & Laser Pointer, Intelligent Scene Detection, 240 * 240 Super Resolution Thermal Imaging Camera,25 Hz, 50° FOV, -4°F to 1022°F, IP54 Infrared CameraProject FarmSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Tonight on The Last Word: The Senate Judiciary Committee postpones Todd Blanche's confirmation vote. Also, James Talarico challenges Ken Paxton to three debates in the Texas Senate race. And Elon Musk is confronted over the death toll after USAID ended. Andrew Weissmann, Texas State Rep. James Talarico, and Dr. Atul Gawande join Lawrence O'Donnell. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

In episode 2100, Jack and Miles are joined by comedian and co-host of Action Boyz, Jon Gabrus, to discuss… Trump Administration Confused By Own Propaganda, Why Do People Have Such A Hard Time Accepting That They F**king Suck And Everyone Hates Them? Macaulay Culkin Pitched A Seventh Home Alone Movie To Disney and more! Maria Bartiromo: "I Don't Understand How It Is Possible Iran Still Has The Capability To Fight This Way" If U.S. "Obliterated" Their Military The Economist to Elon: Some people do loathe you. Do you understand why? Elon completely contradicts himself at the end of his disastrous interview with The Economist 90s Superstar Pitches Reboot of Iconic Movie Franchise‘SALIVATING’ 7 Times Home Sweet Home Alone Paid Homage to the Original Home Alone Macaulay Culkin Open to ‘Home Alone’ Sequel and Shares Idea: Kevin McCallister Faces Off Against His Son to Get Into Their Locked House LISTEN: Tea Vendor On the Street by OnraSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.