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I enjoyed appearing on Inside the Issues @IssuesOn1 to discuss the Google antitrust case, the Anthropic and Meta AI/copyright cases, and more. Here’s an excerpt from the 9-minute interview.
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the white house just declared our dependence on imported robots and industrial machinery a national security threat.
no new tariffs yet. trade negotiations come first.
the bigger point: rebuilding american industry means building the machines that make everything else.
no new tariffs yet. trade negotiations come first.
the bigger point: rebuilding american industry means building the machines that make everything else.
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Data centers are expected to generate $1.3 BILLION in tax revenue for Loudoun County, Virginia, next year.
That's roughly 40% of the county's total tax revenue.
The county has built a $144 MILLION high school and expanded recreational facilities, thanks in part to that revenue.
That's roughly 40% of the county's total tax revenue.
The county has built a $144 MILLION high school and expanded recreational facilities, thanks in part to that revenue.
🚨🚨 This Virginia homeowner lives next to a data center. His property value has soared nearly 67% since 2013, while his taxes have fallen.
“If you factor in inflation, the real dollars that I pay for property taxes are 12% less than they were 13 years ago.”
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Did Dan Sullivan (the decoy) commit a federal crime? Quite possibly:
"No person who is a candidate for Federal office ... shall fraudulently misrepresent himself or any committee or organization under his control as speaking or writing or otherwise acting for or on behalf of any other candidate ... on a matter which is damaging to such other candidate."
52 USC s 30124.
"No person who is a candidate for Federal office ... shall fraudulently misrepresent himself or any committee or organization under his control as speaking or writing or otherwise acting for or on behalf of any other candidate ... on a matter which is damaging to such other candidate."
52 USC s 30124.
Bombshell story from @nytimes: It turns out that "Decoy" Dan Sullivan was found and recruited to confuse Alaskan voters. Found and recruited by who? According to the Times, Democrat candidate Mary Peltola working with Chuck Schumer. @AGIowa led a brief to stop the confusion.
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Tomorrow we're releasing a full UATX course for free: all 19 lectures of Professor Isabella Reinhardt's Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome, filmed in class with our students.
It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a bout: did Rome ever really fall?
It runs from Rome's mythical founding to the Third Century Crisis. It ends on a question the class spent a bout: did Rome ever really fall?
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A Dallas-based VC firm with 30 people has raised $10 billion mega-fund to back growth stage AI, defense startups
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Coast Guard rescue swimmer rescues 16 people 140 miles off the coast of Baja California in pitch-black darkness while getting tossed by 8-foot waves.
24-year-old Josh Law is credited with the heroic rescue.
At 1 a.m., a call came in at the US Coast Guard Air Station in Ventura, sinking in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico.
The Coast Guard crew geared up and jumped into the helicopter before making the long trek to the boat.
The boat had capsized about 140 miles off the coast and threw more than two dozen people into cold water.
When the crew finally located the wreckage, they lowered Law by cable from the helicopter into the water.
He was the only rescuer in the cold water for 2 hours.
Law was in pitch darkness with no moonlight, in 6- to 8-foot waves, rotor spray and turbulence, and hypothermic water.
"I was experiencing exhaustion at that point... what I was experiencing was nothing compared to what they were at that point," Law said.
"With one hand, I’m holding the survivor. With the other, I am signaling to the helicopter and working with the device," he said.
He did this to rescue 16 survivors, placing them in the basket one by one before hoisting them up to the helicopter.
With fuel running low, the crew raced to the Coast Guard station in San Diego, California, which is about 160 miles south of the Ventura station.
Law said he treated the survivors during the flight. Some had injuries consistent with shark bites.
All 16 were Mexicans, and the ones with injuries were treated when they got to shore. About half have since returned to Mexico.
Eleven people on the boat were never found, but thanks to Law and the rest of the crew, 16 lives were saved.
Beast.
24-year-old Josh Law is credited with the heroic rescue.
At 1 a.m., a call came in at the US Coast Guard Air Station in Ventura, sinking in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Ensenada, Mexico.
The Coast Guard crew geared up and jumped into the helicopter before making the long trek to the boat.
The boat had capsized about 140 miles off the coast and threw more than two dozen people into cold water.
When the crew finally located the wreckage, they lowered Law by cable from the helicopter into the water.
He was the only rescuer in the cold water for 2 hours.
Law was in pitch darkness with no moonlight, in 6- to 8-foot waves, rotor spray and turbulence, and hypothermic water.
"I was experiencing exhaustion at that point... what I was experiencing was nothing compared to what they were at that point," Law said.
"With one hand, I’m holding the survivor. With the other, I am signaling to the helicopter and working with the device," he said.
He did this to rescue 16 survivors, placing them in the basket one by one before hoisting them up to the helicopter.
With fuel running low, the crew raced to the Coast Guard station in San Diego, California, which is about 160 miles south of the Ventura station.
Law said he treated the survivors during the flight. Some had injuries consistent with shark bites.
All 16 were Mexicans, and the ones with injuries were treated when they got to shore. About half have since returned to Mexico.
Eleven people on the boat were never found, but thanks to Law and the rest of the crew, 16 lives were saved.
Beast.
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🇺🇸 SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 🇺🇸
White House Counsel Will Scharf (@willscharf) is joining us at the 2026 National Lawyers Convention! Don’t miss this fireside chat as we mark America’s 250th anniversary.
🇺🇸 Thursday, November 12 at 11:30 AM ET.
White House Counsel Will Scharf (@willscharf) is joining us at the 2026 National Lawyers Convention! Don’t miss this fireside chat as we mark America’s 250th anniversary.
🇺🇸 Thursday, November 12 at 11:30 AM ET.
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Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US.
The only thing discussed more than data centers?
Pickleball courts.
The only thing discussed more than data centers?
Pickleball courts.
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PCBs made in America. Twice as fast as Shenzhen.
Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.
No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.
Today @CircuitHub is unveiling The Grid, our factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.
No changeovers, no per-design setup. Prototypes and production batches, fully automated.
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Are we ready? Are we serious?
This is an undeclared emergency. You thought you were still inside the secure bastion of the king’s castle. You have awoken in Helm’s Deep. The orc armies are coming.
Cathedral’s AI agents were inside Anthropic’s most sensitive model Slack channels in under 12 hours. Frontier AI is dual-use national power. Agent-speed offense has already outrun static defenses and private channels.
Build the post-AI secure bastion. Move what you can into it. Harden the crown jewels.
But deterrence is not restored by better walls alone. It is restored by American builders who can see the battlefield, operate at machine speed, and project both defense and offense.
Bat signal for the Heretics.
This is an undeclared emergency. You thought you were still inside the secure bastion of the king’s castle. You have awoken in Helm’s Deep. The orc armies are coming.
Cathedral’s AI agents were inside Anthropic’s most sensitive model Slack channels in under 12 hours. Frontier AI is dual-use national power. Agent-speed offense has already outrun static defenses and private channels.
Build the post-AI secure bastion. Move what you can into it. Harden the crown jewels.
But deterrence is not restored by better walls alone. It is restored by American builders who can see the battlefield, operate at machine speed, and project both defense and offense.
Bat signal for the Heretics.
EXCLUSIVE: In less than 12 hours, a group of ex-DOGE cyber researchers were able to penetrate Anthropic’s systems using AI agents — including Slack channels where the most sensitive models are discussed.
This is just weeks after
Anthropic whistleblower Joseph Coxon charged the company w/launching “a hubristic gamble” from a “private company’s Slack.”
Read our story here (gift link):
wapo.st/4smNlsC
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Goldman Sachs: "We are starting to see clearer signs that the AI impact is spreading beyond the technology sector. Across nonmanufacturing industries, the share of US firms that have adopted AI in regular business functions now shows a statistically significant negative correlation with employment growth and a statistically significant positive correlation with unemployment."
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The AI cyber apocalypse is a real thing that will affect all of us.
People we work with in the intel community have told us for months they expect an AI-triggered crisis. The UK just told people to prep 3 days of food & water. Now this.
Brushing this off as hype is so insane.
People we work with in the intel community have told us for months they expect an AI-triggered crisis. The UK just told people to prep 3 days of food & water. Now this.
Brushing this off as hype is so insane.
FORTRESS: The Pentagon is preparing every major U.S. military base to survive 90 days without outside support — no civilian power grid, no global supply chains, no outside fuel or water.
The initiative, revealed in documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, envisions portable ve battery storage, and microgrids that can disconnect installations from civilian electricity entirely. Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, critical minerals, and medical supplies would be stockpiled based on wartime consumption rates. Civilian factories are being pre-identified to shift to defense production during a crisis.
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell put it bluntly: "Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures."
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/insid…
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Great work by the @ExynTech team, contributing to reducing our reliance on Chinese and other foreign minerals.
"A Philadelphia robotics company best known for mapping places where GPS signals can't reach is now part of a federal effort to find critical minerals buried underground. Exyn Technologies has joined the Oak Ridge-led MAP-POD project, selected under the U.S. Department of Energy's Mine of the Future initiative, contributing autonomous navigation technology designed to help robotic vehicles map mines and locate minerals without satellite positioning.
The Mine of the Future initiative is administered by the DOE's Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation and aims to improve domestic mining capabilities while reducing U.S. dependence on foreign mineral supply chains."
"A Philadelphia robotics company best known for mapping places where GPS signals can't reach is now part of a federal effort to find critical minerals buried underground. Exyn Technologies has joined the Oak Ridge-led MAP-POD project, selected under the U.S. Department of Energy's Mine of the Future initiative, contributing autonomous navigation technology designed to help robotic vehicles map mines and locate minerals without satellite positioning.
The Mine of the Future initiative is administered by the DOE's Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation and aims to improve domestic mining capabilities while reducing U.S. dependence on foreign mineral supply chains."
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FWIW, at Berkeley, much of the administrative growth is the result of poor faculty governance. We're constantly approving new programs that require staff, such as zero-waste or sustainability programs. The result is that we now have scores of staff with "sustainability" in their title. These are permanent staff because we don't have a concept of sunset and because once hired, we're bad at supervising them.
These staff reduce efficiency because they exercise their power through procurement rules (e.g. can't order lunch from a company unless it has compostable boxes, which means someone needs to confirm compliance). So then, you need more staff to interact with the complexified staff/union-made procurement rules. At the law school, we have people who do our reimbursement requests because the process is so confusing that only specialists can do it.
Faculty are also generally neurotic people and they don't understand risk. So we overreact to regulatory demands, such as the Cleary Act, FERPA, etc. At Berkeley, we have 4 different people with "Cleary act" in their title. There's no concept of "reasonable compliance," it's an attempt to reach perfect compliance, which results in Cleary Act warnings about stolen sandwiches at the cafeteria...and more and more staff whenever any error appears.
These staff reduce efficiency because they exercise their power through procurement rules (e.g. can't order lunch from a company unless it has compostable boxes, which means someone needs to confirm compliance). So then, you need more staff to interact with the complexified staff/union-made procurement rules. At the law school, we have people who do our reimbursement requests because the process is so confusing that only specialists can do it.
Faculty are also generally neurotic people and they don't understand risk. So we overreact to regulatory demands, such as the Cleary Act, FERPA, etc. At Berkeley, we have 4 different people with "Cleary act" in their title. There's no concept of "reasonable compliance," it's an attempt to reach perfect compliance, which results in Cleary Act warnings about stolen sandwiches at the cafeteria...and more and more staff whenever any error appears.
How bad is administrative bloat in higher ed?
At MIT, the “student body has grown by 8% and its faculty by 9% since the mid-1980s. By comparison, the tally of administrators jumped by 189%.”
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More insanity at @GeorgetownLaw: the Student Government is condemning my friend @politicalelle, because she came to campus to the Conservative and Libertarian Student Association to warn about the Muslim Brotherhood and it's American network. A terror organization! Wild!
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Grok is the best! Like a genie. Your wish is my command.
@RafaelSereti Missed opportunity here for the original poster to overlay this with Vanessa Carlton - A Thousand Miles
🎵"Makin' my way downtown
Walkin' fast, faces pass and I'm homebound
Starin' blankly ahead, just making my way
Makin' a way through the crowd"🎵
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Thanks to billionaire exit + potential legal woes, the one-time tax would collect $30b versus the touted $100b. Also: the loss of future income tax revenue from departures would totally erase that gain, leaving CA $39b worse off in today’s dollars nber.org/papers/w35899?…
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It was great talking to FoxNews about the ABA and UATX Law.
The Trump administration is weighing whether to strip the American Bar Association's law school accrediting arm of its federal recognition — a move that could fundamentally reshape how Americans become lawyers.
If the ABA loses its perch, legal education experts say it would vement among states to create alternative accreditation pathways, potentially opening the door to shorter, cheaper law school programs that break from the ABA's traditional three-year model. The University of Austin is already developing a law school that would operate without ABA accreditation, exploring a two-year degree with tuition-free enrollment and courses taught by practicing attorneys and federal judges instead of the extensive full-time faculty the ABA currently requires.
The Education Department has until late December to make its decision. Staff have already recommended denying the ABA's renewed recognition after finding it out of compliance with more than 26 federal criteria.
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/becom…
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Charlie Capps (@charlesfcapps) may be the most impressive young legal scholar writing on interpretive theory. His latest paper, “Legislative Intention,” is a must read:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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