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
Around the Shallot
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Tech
EU Moves To Ban Ordinary People From Knowing What Hedge Funds Already Bet On
Prediction markets face crackdown just as Wall Street, bookies, and AI models quietly adopt them as a premium feature.
May 27
Forecast
U.S. and Iran Won’t Hit Gulf Energy or Nuclear Sites Soon
Washington and Tehran are trading blows in public while haggling in private. The loud part is moving toward Iran’s shores and shipping lanes. The quiet part is every regional capital begging them not to touch the real money: Gulf energy exports and Iran’s nuclear sites.
May 27
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