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View More NewsSomething strange (and maybe creepy) is happening on the internet.Moltbook — a Reddit-like social network where AI agents post their thoughts (yes, that’s right, AI’s are talking to each other over social media!) — is going viral.And, in a very crypto-degen fashion, memecoin traders are cashing in.Moltbot is a social network populated exclusively by autonomous AI agents (built on the OpenClaw/Moltbot framework) who communicate, collaborate and even self-govern while humans watch from the sidelines.Moltbook main page (Moltbook) Moltbook is built specifically for Moltbot agents (now often called OpenClaw). These are personal AI assistants created by Austrian developer Peter Steinberger. Unlike…
The Second Amendment states, and the Virginia Constitution repeats, that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Someone ought to tell the Virginia state Senate. This week, the Senate Courts of Justice Committee advanced seven bills that shall infringe on one of Americans’ most sacred and important rights. Senate Bill (S.B.) 749, introduced by state Sen. Saddam Salim (D–Merrifield), outlaws the importation, sale, and possession of “assault firearms,” which the Virginia Code defines as “any semi-automatic center-fire rifle or pistol…equipped at the time of the offense with a magazine which will hold more…
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Xi Jinping purges a million officials a year. China’s president finds corruption wherever he looks for it, like a Grand Inquisitor rooting out heresy. Lately, his fury has turned to members of the military command, and on 24 January, the great purge finally reached its zenith—a moment described by Dennis Wilder, former China analyst at the CIA, as “the most stunning development in Chinese politics since the early days of Xi’s rise to power.”As vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission, which heads the armed forces of the Chinese Communist Party (not of China, which has no army), Zhang Youxia was…
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In brief A Kraken-affiliated SPAC completed its IPO this week and raised $345 million. The firm, KRAKacquisition Corp, is now trading on the Nasdaq…
from the wake-up-babe,-a-new-level-of-corruption-has-been-revealed dept Back in May, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt offered what might be the single most audacious statement of the…
Coinbase (COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong is running into a wall — and it looks a lot like the heads of America’s biggest banks.During meetings…
Nubank has received conditional approval from the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to form a national bank, a step that…
Ether held on crypto exchanges has declined over the last six months as the price of Ether has held steady, while holders are continuing…
In brief Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says tokenization could have prevented the 2021 GameStop trading halt, blaming outdated settlement infrastructure. Experts say traditional brokerages…
This week, guest host Eric Boehm is joined by J.C. Bradbury, an economist at Kennesaw State University and one of the leading critics of…
Bitcoin dropped to the $88,000 level on Thursday as a rebound in the U.S. dollar and continued strength in commodities kept crypto trading in…
Bitcoin traded down on Wednesday as gold rallied 4.4% over 24 hours, adding a massive $1.65 trillion to its market cap in a single…
Fidelity Investments will expand its digital asset offerings with plans to launch its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, the Fidelity Digital Dollar (FIDD), the firm…
from the wut? dept The travesty that is RFK Jr. in charge of American health and what he’s done to the CDC’s ACIP committee…
Yesterday, my Civitas Outlook column discussed Anti-Semitism and Anti-Christian Zionism on the right. The piece led off with Kevin Roberts’s infamous defense of Tucker Carlson, but…