Authored by Kimberly Hayek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has placed on hold an order suspending Tesla’s car sales in the state, granting the electric vehicle maker additional time to respond to allegations of misleading marketing and overstated self-driving capabilities. Teslas fill the charging stations at a newly […]
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us In a system dominated by Keynesian economics the word “deflation” is considered taboo; like saying Donald Trump’s name out loud in a crowded Seattle yoga studio. The screeching reaction you will get is rarely worth the effort of arguing the point. Every element of modern financial policy is designed […]
Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, All human societies have informal social classes or formal social castes that separate groups of people within the same community. Generally speaking, notions of aristocracy and hereditary nobility started on the battlefield. Warrior chiefs of clans became minor kings after killing more rivals without dying themselves. Rather than remaining in a constant state […]
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 […]
