Thompson argues you can't justify the SpaceX IPO on the underlying financials, but the long-tail bet on orbital data centers — radiative cooling, solar abundance, no zoning fights — might be the thesis that carries the valuation.
Spanish regulators ordered ISPs to block both platforms after ruling they operate as unlicensed gambling. The first major EU-state-level shutdown of the prediction-market category, and the precedent other regulators have been waiting for.
A first-person account of search results, support chats, code reviews, and forums all slowly turning into LLM output, and what that does to the experience of trying to learn anything. Less a polemic than a description of a texture change.
A close look at Arnold Friberg's 'The Prayer at Valley Forge' — the kneeling-in-the-snow image now mass-produced on Christian-nationalist merch — and the thin historical record behind the scene it depicts. NPR walks the iconography back to its sources.