Last week, readers were briefed on the emerging theme of data centers in low Earth orbit, a concept now openly discussed by Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, as energy availability and infrastructure constraints on land increasingly emerge as major bottlenecks to data center buildouts through the end of this decade and […]
It has been a month since Elon Musk and Joe Rogan spoke, but, as ‘Camus’ pointed out this week, this seven-minute exchange, buried in the middle of a three hour conversation, could very well be one of the most important conversations of the decade. Musk laid it out bluntly: AI is a “supersonic tsunami” already […]
TIME magazine has picked the ‘Architects of AI’ as their person of the year for 2025, when the potential for AI “roared into view” with no turning back. “For delivering the age of thinking machines, for wowing and worrying humanity, for transforming the present and transcending the possible, the Architects of AI are TIME’s 2025 Person of […]
Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog, All over the globe, the digital control grid that we are all living in just continues to get even tighter. They are using facial recognition technology to scan our faces, they are using license plate readers to track where we travel, they are systematically monitoring the conversations […]
ANKARA Elon Musk, former head of the controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an unofficial group in the early months of the second Trump administration, said in a new interview that he likely would not repeat his time leading the initiative, calling it only “a little bit successful.” In a YouTube podcast with Katie Miller, […]
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Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Sovereignty is shifting from public institutions to private tech entities like Palantir and SpaceX, which secure massive government contracts and offer “governance as a service.” The AI boom’s massive resource demands, particularly for energy and water, are being subsidized by the public, driving up costs while “efficiency” in the […]
President Donald Trump has said that he expects to play a role in determining whether Netflix’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery should move forward. The $82.7 billion deal would mark one of the largest entertainment mergers in U.S. history. Speaking to reporters as he arrived at the Kennedy Center on Sunday evening, Trump said […]
Via Brian McGlinchey at Stark Realities Across the American political spectrum, support for the State of Israel is steadily eroding. With the long-running, staggeringly expensive redistribution of American wealth and weapons to one of the world’s most prosperous countries under unprecedented threat, Israel’s advocates inside the United States are growing increasingly desperate to suppress the facts, opinions, questions and imagery […]
For years, many in the free speech community (most vehemently, Jonathan Turley) have warned about the threat of the European Union to free speech, particularly in the enactment of the infamous Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU has virtually declared war on free speech and is targeting American companies. That war just began with the […]
