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The US EPA rules that xAI acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power its Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 data centers in the Memphis area (Dara Kerr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-m…

Streeting and Starmer, 2 sides of the same coin. It's just that one is probably more competent.
Streeting allies call for unity amid reports Cabinet colleagues want him sacked
https://nation.cymru/news/streeting-allies-call-…

Streeting allies call for unity amid reports Cabinet colleagues want him sacked
Allies of Wes Streeting have called for unity within UK Government, amid reports Cabinet ministers are urging the Prime Minister to sack his Health Secretary. Sir Keir Starmer is facing growing calls within the Cabinet to remove Mr Streeting from his post, amid what they see as his public pronouncements of outspoken opinions, according to […]

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Dozens of US Colleges Close as Falling Birth Rate Pushes Them Off Enrollment Cliff - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/17/089219/dozens-of-us-colleges-close-as-falling-birth-rate-pushes-them-off-enrollment-cliff

Members of the Senate Commerce Committee accused FCC Chairman Brendan Carr of making "mafia threats" and encroaching on broadcasters' First Amendment rights (Steven Portnoy/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fcc-ch

FCC Chair Brendan Carr clashes with Democrats in Senate hearing
Sen. Markey calls him "chairman of the 'Federal Censorship Commission.'"

GPI SPHERE detection of a 6.1 MJup circumbinary #planet around HD 143811: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/10/aa57104-25/aa57104-25.html -> Rare image of Tatooine-like planet is closest to its twin stars yet: https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2025/12/rare-image-of-tatooine-like-planet-is-closest-to-its-twin-stars-yet

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Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
By Güney Işıkara, Patrick Mokre
I'd be interested in reading this, but £116 for 200 pages?
The piss is being taken, along with the money.
Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics

Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
Why do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it?  As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism. It demonstrates that the classical political economists’ approach to value and prices, which finds its most advanced formulation in Marx, sheds light on the source of profits, exploitation, whether equivalents are exchanged in trade, dynamics of asymmetric and

Crypto VC firm Dragonfly closes a $650M fund, its fourth, as the crypto VCs go through a "mass extinction event"; Dragonfly backed Polymarket's Series B (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/17/dragonfly-fou…

Exclusive: Crypto venture firm Dragonfly closes $650 million fourth fund—even as blockchain VCs face ‘mass extinction’
An inside look at the fast-rising firm, from its early Polymarket bet to its mysterious founding partner.

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