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Edward Ridgely retweeted
It seems to me that democracy has on the whole worked very well in America over the last decade, and perhaps better than in any other major country in the West. National outcomes have repeatedly been responsive to underlying voter preferences on meaningful questions, and significant changes in policy have ensued. I’ve been reading Democracy in America this past week, and it’s striking how much it still rhymes nearly two centuries later.
Edward Ridgely retweeted
smart devices are going to be a nightmare to manage.
millions of tvs and fridges that can listen in to what you are doing in your home, with backdoors waiting to be blown wide open.
disconnect them from the internet while you still control them.
BREAKING:
This morning’s cyberattack against supermarket fridges and freezers has now spread to Belgium, Sweden, Luxembourg and Estonia.
The hackers increased the temperature up to 50C. Food worth millions of euros has been spoiled.
Experts warn that such cyberattacks on supply chains and logistics can constitute a threat to national food security in many Western states.
Edward Ridgely retweeted
SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios.
The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios.
Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said.
Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior.
Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…
Ultimately, it's a question of federal supremacy versus state sovereignty. There's a lot of tax revenue on the line.
This week marked the start of a new Term at SCOTUS and one question on everyone’s mind is whether the Justices will rule that Kalshi and Polymarket’s sports event contracts are swaps. But the more interesting question for now is when they’ll rule.
There will be petitions from both sides soon urging the Court to take this question. But the CFTC has told us that they’re coming out with a new rule for regulating prediction markets in a few months. If SCOTUS wants to wait for this rule, it tells us a decision likely won’t come out until the spring of 2028 and that the Justices will be looking for guidance from the agency on how to define what a swap is under the Commodity Exchange Act.
If they step in now, however, and don’t wait for the CFTC’s new rule, it's another sign that after the Loper Bright decision (2024 decision that ended Chevron deference, the rule that courts defer to agencies' reasonable readings of ambiguous statutes), federal courts, not agencies, decide what federal statutes mean.
Remember, @btaylor rewrote Google Maps in a weekend. As the PM. Without AI.
It all comes down to who cares the most.
