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Favorites: Chips, Homes, and Pokemon
August 17th 2025
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David Watson
Favorites: Clinton Cuts, CATL Credit, Cooling Culture Wars
August 13, 2025 — Moderation nudges vote share, the first trans House rep tells coalition trolls to pipe down, and YIMBY critics keep inventing strawmen
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Favorites: Bottles, Benchmarks, Bureaucrats
August 11, 2025 — China exit-bans a U.S. child, AI fakes nudge readers back to mainstream news, and RFK Jr. halts mRNA cancer work
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David Watson
Favorites: Jobs Revisions and Retaliation, Apple’s Angle Error
August 8, 2025 – mRNA projects lose federal funding, NIMBYs equate apartments with genocide, and fur farming disappearing
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Favorites: Solar vs Ethanol, Private-Equity Hospitals
August 2, 2025 – Monopoly fire-safety gear adds $7 k per unit, Texas’s open grid slashes power prices, and U.S. students don't know what a Nazi is
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David Watson

July 2025

Favorites: Spinning Solar Sail, Stable Vows
HPV vaccine works wonders, Apple’s UI raises eyebrows, and monopolized FARS hardware inflates rents.
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David Watson
Toronto Tower Triumph, GLP-1 for Everyone?
Multi-agent AI framed as a token hack, OpenAI’s math boast meets Tao’s skepticism, and Caltrain ridership climbs
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David Watson
Favorites: Fiction vs. Fact, Fertility Cliff
July 22nd, 2025: SharePoint hack hits nuclear agency, Anthropic wants power equal to Nevada, and tariffs push Amazon prices up 5%
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Favorites: Nuclear Promises vs. Solar Reality
July 17th 2025: Grok checks Musk for alignment cues, teachers fight ability grouping, and Click-to-Cancel rules die in court.
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Favorites: Solar-Powered Texas, Spectrum Sell-Off
July 6th 2025 Two days after the fireworks: California fast-tracks infill housing, battery prices fall in China, steel mills close at home.
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David Watson
Favorites: Musk Walk-Back, CEQA Wins, and Budget Bill on the Brink
Mid-morning gibraltar edition: House may pass the BBB, Waymo scaling laws, and MacOS Tahoe transcribes twice as fast
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David Watson

June 2025

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