The Launch 🚀

Everyone loves their tech, but now that the infrastructure is showing up, nobody wants it next door.

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• Data Center Uproar Scrambles the Midterm Election
• GOP Issues Stark Warning to AI Companies
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• The Unexpected Winners of America's Data Center Boom
• Americans Oppose AI Data Centers in Their Area
• Opposition to Local Data Centers Rises Sharply
• Skagit County Commissioners Adopt Moratorium on New Data Centers
• United States Data Center Energy Usage Report: 2025 Update
• Berkeley Lab Data Center Energy Modeling and Forecasting
• Data Centers in Virginia — Economic and Infrastructure Impact Summary
• Ratepayer Protection Pledge
• Building Community-First AI Infrastructure
• The Data Center Era Reshaping America
• Data Centers "Dug Their Own Grave," Says Texas Gov. Greg Abbott
• Above Ground Bunker in WA
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• Bloodshot Lies Funky By: The Doerfels 

Your projects, problems, discoveries, and questionable decisions take center stage as we dig into a stack of listener voicemails.

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• Merriest Christmas Contest
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• The AI Fixer Upper
• Main Character Syndrome House
• You Gotta Live in Cali - Anything will do Shack

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• Too Many Chickens

Starlink Mini promises to kill the deadzone, but the real story is in the tradeoffs, hidden details, and the places where it works better than you’d expect.
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• Starlink Service Plans
• Starlink Mini
• Starlink Roam Data Allowances
• Starlink In-Motion Use
• The AI Fixer Upper
• Main Character Syndrome House
• You Gotta Live in Cali - Anything will do Shack

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• Nevermind By: MOOKY

Something is living among the rocks at the farm, and as we learn how coyotes sleep, hunt, and raise their young, the trail leads uncomfortably close to the chicken coop.
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• Diffusion of Innovation Theory: The Adoption Curve - YouTube
• Coyotes - Theodore Roosevelt National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
• Coexisting with Coyotes - Cuyahoga Valley National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
• Is There a Correlation Between Rodents and Backyard Chickens?

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• Particular Man by Abel James

Chris spent five nights camping in an EV, and the car handled everything he worried about. It was the problems he never anticipated that nearly ruined the trip.

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• The Established Tuber's Next Big Project

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• Tanz am Druidenstein By: Ric Sattler

China’s open-source AI models are catching up fast, rattling American labs, threatening their business models, and triggering a growing push to regulate or outright block the competition.

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• Jim Cramer posted on X this morning
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• Look to Close and you Might get a Splinter
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• Lost Summer By: Ollie

More than 115,000 Flock-style cameras now scan America’s streets billions of times each month. But this summer, a growing resistance is taking matters, and the cameras, into its own hands.

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• FlockHopper | See ALPR Surveillance Cameras Near You
• Find Nearby ALPRs | DeFlock
• Flock's Surveillance Cameras Face Another Blow as LAPD Won't Renew The Contract
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• Flock cameras wrongly flag plates as stolen, lead to police stop in Plymouth - CBS Minnesota
• Fight Creepy ALPR Cameras | American Civil Liberties Union
• Apple vs OpenAI lawsuit: 8 bombshell accusations and how the legal war might change your next iPhone 
• Apple lawsuit reveals how many of its former employees now work at OpenAI

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• Shut It Down By: Robots Are Dix

A Scattered Spider arrest reveals how a VPN wasn’t enough when Windows device telemetry helped investigators connect the dots.

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• A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID 
• Alleged Member of Criminal Cyber Hacking Group “Scattered Spider” Arrested in Finland and Extradited to the United States | United States Department of Justice
• I Heard you Like a House on Stilts...
• Skip the River, Go for the Lake

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Time By: The Fifty Four Plates

A new lawsuit claims RAM prices are being driven by a conspiracy to fix supply, but is that the real story, or just cope?

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• Tech companies hike prices due to 'chipflation' - YouTube
• RAM prices expected to rise another 40-50% in Q3 2026, and then 30% more in Q4 as AI demand outpaces supply
• Major RAM manufacturers sued for manipulating prices and demand
• Today, Micron announced a $250 million investment to increase long-term savings opportunities for children and families through Trump Accounts
• Space Ship House
• A House with an Elevated Style

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• Is Anybody There? By: The Paisley Daze

Free and open AI models get cast as the villain, Valve’s Steam Machine gets mugged by RAM prices, and we check who’s selling the panic popcorn.

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• It's National Donut Day! Here's how chains are celebrating - YouTube
• National Donut Day - YouTube
• Chinese AI models raise cybersecurity concerns, new report warns
• How Booz Allen Hamilton Quietly Took Over U.S. Intelligence - YouTube
• Valve prices the Steam Machine at $1,049 | The Verge
• Valve Steam Machine Review: GPU & CPU Benchmarks, SteamOS Test, Thermals, Noise, and Price - YouTube
• Steam Machine Review: Valve's New Console/PC Hybrid - YouTube
• Even Valve is Disappointed - Steam Machine Review - YouTube
• The PS6 Cannot Come Out in This Era of $1,000+ Consoles | Push Square
• The Steam Machine is the biggest victim of the RAMpocalypse to date, and that's made me unreasonably annoyed 
• Here's What The Steam Machine Might Have Cost If Not For AI
• The Great North Tip
• Live Like a Pirate

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• Cherry, Cherry By: Right Said Fred