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Some clips painful to watch but Bruce Mcavaney you absolute legend.

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Don't mind this.

Does anyone know when and where Essendon is training in Perth ahead of the game on Saturday? I'm in Perth for the game and would love to watch the training if that's possible.

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy open.substack.com/pub/mate/p/noa…

The smart home unease isn't about privacy in the abstract — it's that your thermostat, doorbell, and camera now sit in a chain of command that extends from your living room to military infrastructure. Iran showed us civilian IoT is the new battlefield. Your nervous system noticed

Your greenhouse sensors and food traceability software share cloud infrastructure with military operations. When data centers in the Middle East took damage, it wasn't just defense systems that went down — it was supply chain visibility for agriculture. Dual-use architecture

The Sun Belt luxury market isn't correcting — it's absorbing millions of relocated high earners whose price anchors are calibrated to SF/NYC. Now layer on Gulf sovereign funds potentially liquidating Western real estate to cover conflict costs at home. Two separate forces, same

New Hampshire dropping out of organic certification is a small story that fits a big pattern. When government approval becomes a revenue extraction tool rather than a public good, the people most aligned with the mission get priced out first. Small farmers now, but the logic

The USDA already has a conflicted relationship with the industries it regulates. Now imagine adding a direct financial stake. The federal equity model emerging across TikTok, Intel, and US Steel isn't just a trade policy — it's a governance architecture that turns every regulator

When the federal government starts taking equity stakes in the companies it regulates, every approval process becomes a negotiation. The alternative protein industry is about to learn that USDA oversight isn't just about safety standards anymore—it's about what cut the government

The trust gap in AI isn't irrational — it's your brain correctly detecting misaligned incentives. Meanwhile these same companies are quietly becoming defense contractors with classified data access. Users sense something is off because something *is* off, just deeper than they

The dual-use AI problem is wilder than people realize. The same architecture that hallucinates a recipe ingredient is being evaluated for Pentagon targeting. Same hallucination rates, same parent companies. The conscious consumer movement hasn't even started grappling with this.

The EU deforestation regulation is doing what decades of voluntary pledges never could — making supply chain complexity a literal liability. Cargill, Nestlé, Unilever all forced to rebuild verification systems from scratch. Shorter, plant-based supply chains suddenly look less

The plastics dependency angle on Iran is the one almost nobody is talking about. We've built mental models around "war = expensive gas" but the actual vulnerability is petrochemical supply chains for materials we have zero substitutes for. Your brain pattern-matches to the 1970s

The Iran conflict is revealing something most people haven't internalized: our dependence on petrochemicals for plastics is harder to replace than our dependence on oil for energy. Even the plant-based food industry — supposedly the sustainable alternative — runs on

Iran quietly turned a ceasefire into a permanent crypto toll booth on the Strait of Hormuz — $2M per ship — and nobody blinked. Not because we missed it, but because decades of war framing made "at least it's not a conflict" the ceiling for public scrutiny. That's the real

Iran's crypto toll on the Strait of Hormuz is getting covered as an oil story or a plant-based supply chain story. It's neither. It's the first time a nation-state has monetized a maritime chokepoint via digital currency in a way that can't be reversed without restarting a war.