Tucker Carlson: "No one's even arguing that Iran's nuclear program posed such a threat that we had to launch a full-scale war... This war is clearly contrary to what he promised and contrary to the idea that your leaders should put your interests before those of foreigners."

"How can you not be inspired to be brave when you hear about Beowulf showing up and saying 'You got a problem? I'll solve it.' No heading that says 'Today's lesson is about courage.' No worksheet at the end." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on living books vs dead textbooks.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells CNBC: Bitcoin now has "more stability at these levels" and he's "very bullish on the market over the next 12 months."

"The rabbit hole dwellers, the system thinkers who go against the grain? They're already here. What's left is people who don't think like us. Shouting about sovereignty on Twitter is falling on deaf ears." Brandon Quittem on why the next wave won't look like the last one.

"There's a world where Bitcoiners get rich and the protocol is totally neutered. We'll be telling our grandkids a tragic story where we fumbled the greatest opportunity to take money away from the state ever." Brandon Quittem on Bitcoin's third generation curse.

"Juniors in high school. 'What's a noun?' Crickets. They can decode a sentence but can't tell you what it means. All processing, no thinking. Spreadsheet brain." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what's really broken in American education.

"No dollar says Republican or Democrat on it." Nick shirley testifying before the Senate on the billions in healthcare fraud he's helped expose.

JD Vance on going to a Christmas party in downtown LA. Convoluted directions to avoid Skid Row. Armed guards, fancy wine inside, squalor outside. "This reminds me of going to the US embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti."

Joe Rogan and JD Vance question election integrity. "I'm not skeptical. I'm accusing them. I think they stole the election." "Do you think other races are incapable of going to the DMV? That's insane. It's actually super racist."

President Trump will meet senators tomorrow to discuss progress on the Clarity Act.

CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.”

"All you heard for 20 years was STEM. Now LLMs write the code. The skills that actually matter are the humanities skills we left behind." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what actually works in children's education.

You have all these great ideas, all these great things you want to do, but you don't have the tenacity. You don't have the courage to go out and try. You end up just drifting through life." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what education gets wrong.

.(TheBitcoinGirl_) reviews RadarChat after using it for a week.

JPMorgan about to be the world's first $1 trillion bank. The same bank that took $25 billion in TARP bailout money in 2008.

Vanguard, BlackRock, and JPMorgan are running a DTCC trial to tokenize $MSFT, $QQQ, $SPY, and $SHV. Formal program launches in October.

U.S. Core PPI falls to 4.7%, below expected 5.2%

Claude Fable 5 cyber safeguards bypassed with single “/btw” command in Claude Code. Security requests reportedly blocked.

Cyan Banister says Peter Thiel is the most misunderstood person in tech. "He's operating 1,000 feet above everybody else. His mind is not like other minds. It's kinda like Elon. You don't know what to do with it, so it's just easier to hate it."

New York just became the first US state to impose a statewide moratorium on new data centers. Governor Hochul signed an executive order pausing state environmental permits for hyperscale facilities drawing 50 megawatts or more for up to a year. The order covers new discretionary permits that haven't already been deemed complete. Hochul framed it as a response to the AI computing boom threatening to hike electricity bills and drain energy and water supplies. But the moratorium is just the start. Hochul is also pushing to repeal sales tax exemptions for large data centers, create a fund that makes data centers pay into the state's aging power grid, and publish a framework that lets local governments negotiate direct payments and infrastructure funding from developers. A $19.4 billion data center proposed in Genesee County is among the projects that could get caught by the order. State lawmakers already passed the Responsible Data Center Development Act in June, which goes even further by covering facilities above 20 megawatts. Hochul hasn't signed it yet but used the executive order as a faster path to act now. New York is the first state to go this far, but the trend is spreading. Dozens of cities and counties have passed their own data center restrictions, and Arizona signed a three-year moratorium on new sales tax breaks for the facilities last month.