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  • The $100 Billion GPU Marriage: Nvidia and OpenAI’s Compute Cathedral

    The $100 Billion GPU Marriage: Nvidia and OpenAI’s Compute Cathedral

    There’s something uniquely American about announcing a hundred-billion-dollar partnership with the casual bravado of a press release that might as well have read: “We’re building God’s calculator, and we’d like you to know the first down payment clears next week.” That’s what Nvidia and OpenAI just did. The “letter of intent”—a corporate prenup written in…

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  • Elon Musk and the Free-Speech Flamethrower: How One Billionaire Turned Tragedy Into Trending Content

    Elon Musk and the Free-Speech Flamethrower: How One Billionaire Turned Tragedy Into Trending Content

    Charlie Kirk is dead, felled by a bullet that cracked open the already brittle shell of American politics. A tragedy, a headline, an FBI investigation with reward money stapled to it. And then, like clockwork, Elon Musk did what Elon Musk always does: treated the entire ordeal as if it were just another opportunity to…

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  • Democracy with a Matchbook: How America Learned to Love Political Violence, Tribalism, and Excel Spreadsheets

    Democracy with a Matchbook: How America Learned to Love Political Violence, Tribalism, and Excel Spreadsheets

    Pod Save America did what it does best: deliver the bad news with a podcast ad break for magnesium powder and underwear that “feels like on-body AC.” The guest of honor was Dr. Liliana Mason, Johns Hopkins political scientist and unwilling Cassandra of our collapsing republic. Her subject? The roots of political violence in America…

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  • When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    When Separation of Powers Becomes Separation Anxiety

    The Supreme Court has once again reminded us that the Constitution is less a sacred text and more a choose-your-own-adventure paperback where one ending includes civil liberties and the other ends with Donald Trump auditioning for The Apprentice: Federal Agencies Edition. On September 22, 2025, the Court—in a tidy little 6–3 order—handed President Trump what…

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  • From Fever Dreams to Folate: Trump’s Autism Science Fair at the White House

    From Fever Dreams to Folate: Trump’s Autism Science Fair at the White House

    If you thought public health messaging couldn’t get stranger than a president telling people to inject bleach, buckle up. On September 22, 2025, President Donald J. Trump stood at a White House autism event, beaming like a game show host unveiling a mystery prize, with none other than Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at…

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  • Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

    Jimmy Kimmel Live, Dead, and Resurrected: Disney, the FCC, and America’s New Speech Test

    Disney can reanimate cartoon deer and resurrect billion-dollar franchises, but even they didn’t think they’d have to stage a primetime Lazarus trick for Jimmy Kimmel. Yet here we are. After an extraordinary two-week suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!—a late-night show that once got canceled only for recycling too many “Matt Damon” bits—Disney announced the show…

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