Could Memphis Have Capped Musk’s Colossus 2?
Musk wants 660,000 more chips in Colossus 2 by the end of the year. A power cap is a chip cap - and Memphis could have passed one last year. Nashville did it in eight weeks.
Elon Musk is just Elon Musking - who is actually in charge of stopping him?
The xAI files · the introduction Every essay in this series is pinned to a question on the board at rachelandthecity.com/the-xai-files. And for my next trick… Introducing my new daily series - THE XAI FILES… Some of you may remember that while I was running for Congress, I started digging into xAI. Then I went…
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. You helped pay for it.
I thought everyone knew this - but I guess it bears repeating since I’ve seen so many posts defending Elon Musk becoming a trillionaire. CNN looked at how Musk got there, and the truth is Tesla and SpaceX don’t exist in the form they do today without government help. Our tax dollars ended up saving…
Space, the Final Server Room
Nvidia just announced data centers in orbit, a trillion dollars in chip sales, self-driving cars in 28 cities, and a robot Olaf. We live in the weirdest timeline.
A DOGE Employee Allegedly Walked Out of the Social Security Administration with Your Data on a Thumb Drive
A former DOGE engineer allegedly left the SSA with data on 500 million Americans on a thumb drive. When a colleague raised legal concerns, he said he'd get a pardon.
The 26-Year-Old Who Fired the Ethics Lawyers Is Now Running Pentagon AI
Gavin Kliger got caught with illegal stock holdings at the CFPB, fired the lawyers who flagged it, and just got named Pentagon Chief Data Officer. During a war.
Elon Musk’s RSVP to Epstein Island and the $250K Horse Trade
Sixteen emails, seven lawsuits, and a whole lot of NDAs.
Hegseth Wants to Use a Korean War Law to Make AI Less Safe
Pete Hegseth wants to weaponize a 1950 Korean War law to strip Anthropic's only two AI safety rules - no autonomous weapons, no mass surveillance. Two guardrails. That was apparently too much.
Palantir Built ICE a Hunting App Called ELITE - And Peter Thiel’s Protégé Is VP
Peter Thiel’s Palantir built ICE an app with confidence scores on people’s addresses. $60M in contracts while Thiel’s protégé JD Vance sits as VP. This is the surveillance state’s tech stack.
The Trump Family Guide to Managing Dementia
Fred Trump spent his last years signing blank papers in a fake office while his kids drained his empire. The playbook looks familiar.
The DNC Buried Their 2024 Report. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
I found a very interesting article about 2024 election issues. The DNC promised to tell Democrats what went wrong in 2024. On December 18, they announced they're burying the report instead. That's th...
Trump’s Labor Secretary Allegedly Keeps Office Liquor Cabinet, Affair With Staffer
The Labor Secretary allegedly has champagne, bourbon, and Kahlua in her office, drinks at work, and is being investigated for an affair with a subordinate. Pete Hegseth must feel seen.