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Maine becomes first US state to pass data centre construction ban ft.trib.al/xgimnFK

LA County quality of life hits record low, UCLA survey finds spr.ly/6017B64XLS

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left. Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops. If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time. The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation. The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy. They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand. The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker. The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

Jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly and overcharged fans cnn.it/4crCC8G

AI use appears to have a “boiling frog” effect on human cognition, new study warns msn.com/en-us/news/technolog…

RT @NatashaBertrand: Iran’s new national security chief Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr's views "were so extreme that one of his subordinates—Qass…

Purge of experienced federal agents and prosecutors on pretextual grounds is not just lawless, it’s dangerous. My thoughts in ⁦@USATODAY.com.

This statement will go into the history books when the full story of the Trump admin's dealings to benefit Putin is told

The question now is how many Republicans will follow Trump over the cliff like lemmings?

The President has lost his mind.

This would be a good time for: a.) STRATCOM commanders who implement orders to fire nuclear missiles to read up on Nuremberg and prosecutions for obeying orders to commit war crimes; and b.) for cabinet members to reread the 25th Amendment and have each other on speed dial.

I've taught European history for 30 years. Americans have always asked me how the Holocaust was possible, how Germans could have enabled a madman reveling in mass murder to carry out his plans. Now we can see in real time how this is enabled; now we have front-row seats.

Elon Musk promised absolute miracles with DOGE if Donald Trump won the election. None of it came true. The public debt is higher than ever and still climbing. Keep that in mind the next time he tries to tell you how to vote

Pay the US Coast Guard. It is horrid that they are not being paid 46 days now. Wtf is wrong with Congress? #payUSCG

I'd just like to point out that Don Jr sits on the Board of Polymarket and his firm is invested in it. Also, the Polymarket CEO's apt was raided by the FBI in 2024. Not shockingly, that investigation was dropped by Trump's DOJ.

RT @NatashaBertrand: CENTCOM: "U.S. and partner forces began striking targets at 1:15 am ET to dismantle the Iranian regime’s security appa…

Barack Obama reached a deal that prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. Trump ripped up that deal. Now we are at war with Iran to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon.

Trump just launched a war in Iran — without Congress and without a plan. As a 25-year vet who served in Iraq, I’ve seen how wars begin and how hard they are to end. Regime change from the air won’t work — but American troops will pay the price. This is not peace. It’s chaos.

Statement from Major General (Ret.) Paul D. Eaton, an Army commander during Operation Iraqi Freedom:

Iran has the capacity to launch terror and cyber attacks against allies and US. Due to DOGE, partisan firings of FBI and cyber officials, and lack of focus or know how by AG Bondi and DHS Noem, they are ignoring this possibility completely.