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View More News“Free healthcare is cool,” comedian Shane Gillis recently said on The Joe Rogan Experience. “We should have that.” “You should treat the entire country like it’s a community,” Rogan replied. “If you had a community, would you want the sickest person to fucking die who could be very valuable if you could take care of them, and do you have the resources to take care of them?” While support for “free” healthcare in the United States is not new—Harry Truman campaigned on universal health insurance in 1948, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has popularized the “Medicare For All” slogan in…
In brief President Donald Trump said artificial intelligence could be “bigger than the internet, bigger than anything anyone’s seen.” Trump said AI regulation should not stifle the industry as the U.S. competes with China. The president defended AI data centers amid growing opposition to their electricity use and impact on local communities. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that artificial intelligence could become “bigger than the internet,” as he called for regulation that does not slow the industry and defended the rapid buildout of data centers and power plants across the United States.Trump’s remarks come as his administration pushes to maintain…
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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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from the whatever-happened-to-liberte? dept Even as the wider EU was grinding through a long, drawn-out process to figure out which regulatory levers to pull…
COIN and BLSH rose about 8% and CRCL gained nearly 10% ahead of a key procedural vote scheduled for Sept. 15. Read the full…
The $1 billion facility will deploy assets backing USDe into overcollateralized institutional loans, expanding Ethena’s sources of returns beyond crypto basis strategies. Read the…
In brief Moderna (MRNA) jumped ~131% Wednesday after the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial of intismeran autogene plus Keytruda hit its RFS and DMFS endpoints…
Just when you think smartphone panic can’t get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones are why…
Galaxy Digital became the second company this year to secure a New York BitLicense, following Strike’s approval in March. Read the full article here
Cryptocurrency investment products posted heavy outflows last week as investors reduced risk amid inflation fears and uncertainty over a lasting ceasefire between the United…
In brief Hive Digital Technologies’ stock price jumped 26% on Monday, after touching its highest point this year, following the data center announcement. Hive’s…
from the MAGA’s-replacement-theory dept Behold this utter bullshit, uttered by the Trump administration’s “border czar” Tom Homan: White House border czar Tom Homan said…
“We’re probably not going to use grenades on this one, right? Because I got ’em.” James Jacobs had hired a motley crew of toughs…
The bitcoin mining firm continues on its investment path into AI data centers after raising $115 million to expand its global footprint in the…
Ether (ETH) dropped sharply after rejection at $2,400 last week, dropping as low as $2,100 on Monday, indicating that bears are back “in control,” according…