Silicon Fences
18,000 permits, 1 factory, and a national security state that can’t find its own socket wrench.
Panel of suits pointing at a ‘CHIPS Act’ banner: “We can stop China from making chips… we just can’t stop Karen from Zoning Board C from stopping us from making them.”
Source headline
18,000 Reasons It’s So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America
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Tech
‘Don’t Regulate Us,’ Beg AI Founders Currently Selling Regulation-As-a-Service
Silicon Valley hails Trump’s plan to let AI companies write their own rules, promises to sell those rules back to everyone else by Q4.
Oct 11

Forecast
Through December 10, Houthis Won’t Damage Pakistan or Turkey Infrastructure
The Mecca Defense Pact just put two more flags on the Saudi firing chart. The consensus panic says this widens the war within weeks. The signal says the Houthis will talk big, hit Saudi and the sea, and leave Pakistan and Turkey’s hard targets alone for this 60 day window.
Oct 11

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