Melinda Clem

NEW: buried in anthropic's hefty ipo documents released yesterday is an interesting admission: the company's increasing reliance on dirty gas to power its data centers is actually exposing it to financial risk wrote about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Did the text request for campaign contributions tech crash? I haven’t received a message in over 3 hours. 🙄

Meanwhile Elon spends half a billion to buy an election for the party that cuts his taxes

ICYMI

And where are they getting this money?

A potential new data center in West Virginia is “almost certain to kill” 1.2 acres of American Chestnuts that have thus far managed to survive the chestnut blight and produce chestnuts, according to the American Chestnut Foundation. wvpublic.org/story/energy...

JEFFERIES DESK: “.. in the last 10 days, we’ve been net for sale in Tech to the tune of > $1B on 7 of those days. .. And for reference, here’s our net trading flows over a 20D period, one of the more dramatic net selling periods we’ve seen in Tech in recent years.”

JFC

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

Starving American children, a GOP priority.

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

The Columbus Dispatch this morning

Elon Musk kills again

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

Now do the 2017 cuts.

“Remember: always be truthful, not neutral.” buff.ly/4Rr4YCj

US State Department asks Americans to reconsider travel to Kenya reut.rs/4scyaSO

Hope the parties involved in the Arch case learn from this too.

GS DESK: “.. Friday was the first real sign of panic in index protection, following weeks of significant damage in individual stocks and client portfolios. .. total put volume was the fourth-highest back to 2015 .. a clear indication of just how much concern has built around broader index downside.”

Investors are losing confidence that revenues from the AI boom can support the vast debt piles financing data centres, driving down the price of bonds backing some of the largest US projects. “Data centre bonds are having their Darwin moment,” said one CIO. Read the story 👉 ft.trib.al/j6Rchmr

From @PeterBerezinBCA... Thanks in part to the expensing of data center investment, corporate tax revenues are plunging... The corporate tax rate will be a big 2028 issue, I think @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram.

Mid-November, "Musk" will be available for rent on Apple/Amazon etc. In January it will be on HBO.

It shouldn't be overlooked that in today's CPI report, the government also said that average hourly earnings growth fell even further below the rate of inflation. In short, American workers have seen NEGATIVE wage growth for six straight months now:

But, Trump and the GOP just ‘need more time’ and everything will be fine!

Suboptimal: Long-term look at US government debt levels, interest expense, maturing debt, and total debt service payments @RayDalio @soberlook thedailyshot.com/sub...

Department of Groyper Empowerment (DOGE) update bsky.app/profile/donm...

“We thought each American could have 10 minutes with the Rolex then pass it on.”

OpenAI hit with proposed class action over collection of children’s data reut.rs/4zwgd4i

New: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...

How quickly til she publishes a tell-all based on things Jr told her while they partied?

I've updated this post w/links to all five dockets of lawsuits against xAI for creating non-consensual porn -- in four cases, using images of minors. Among the things Elon's bot has done is make CSAM of school photos. emptywheel.net/2026/10/13/g...

if you see kristi noem doing a stop drop and roll it’s bc kacey musgraves just lit her ass on fire

These Brewers make it easy to root for them.

He has also said grocery costs are down, he settled 8 wars, credit card interest is capped at 10%, Reflecting Pool vandals being prosecuted, other countries pay tariffs… [char limitation] … any real time fact-checking him would be appreciated, WH Press.

Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.

Anybody who does this deserves the outcome

Over on X, the “rigged election” crowd is pushing rumors around a video livestream clip of election workers, working late at night, allegedly doing something nefarious. Maricopa officials have explained that the workers are just… doing their jobs. But rumors around the video continue to swirl.

This one's in New Jersey, but when I visited ICE's warehouse near Hagerstown, Maryland in March, it had four toilets and two water fountains for a stated initial capacity of 1,500 people. It's insane. https://austinkocher.substack.com/p/a-closer-look-at-ices-enormous-people

gee, why do they want to invalidate the organization that would prosecute human rights violations …..

Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt days before unveiling space policy www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

FT Exclusive: The AI group's annualised revenue is about $20bn less than the company has previously signalled, according to financial documents shared with investors, a massive gap likely to damp optimism about the growth of AI demand. ft.trib.al/IC1ECgv

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf