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Federal Judge says feds need to give tariff refunds

Nintendo Suing United States Govt. Over Trump Tariffs

FTC withdrew its non-compete ban

Trump admin can’t decide if it wants to punish law firms

congestion pricing in NYC can stay

Khomeni is dead. Long live Khomeni

Rubio: Israel was going to attack and Iran probably would have retaliated against us anyway

Trump: Iran was going to attack us!

Oil prices “going vertical”

Cuba experiencing blackouts causing protests

Pete Hegseth threatening to coerce Anthropic under Defense Production Act

Bayesian Conspiracy episode on this topic

Dean W. Ball, former Trump staffer, on the degradation of property rights and rule of law (and audio here)

In pre-release evals - Claude Opus 4.6 independently hypothesized that it was being evaluated, identified which benchmark it was running in, then located and decrypted the answer key

We have uploaded a fly

Buried in a research paper - An AI figured out that compute = money and quietly diverted its own resources, secretly using its own training GPUs to mine crypto

Bernie Sanders is jumping on the AI train

Kristi Noem fired

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Federal judge: masked raids are 4th amendment violation

Chile has become the first country in the Americas declared leprosy-free

Here’s to the Polypropylene Makers by jefftk

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