The Trump Surveillance State

Cotton And Stefanik Bill Targets CCP Ties In U.S. Military Trucking Submitted by American Truckers United, Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) have introduced the “Trucking Security and CCP Disclosure Act of 2026.” This legislation requires any carrier handling Department of War equipment to certify that neither it nor its subcontractors are owned, controlled by, or maintain significant ties to entities on the Department of Defense’s list of Chinese military companies (section 1260H of the 2021 NDAA). American Truckers United applauds Senator Cotton for finally taking concrete action on...

Chaos Unleashed: When "Irrational" Makes Perfect Sense Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, Once fairness and honesty have been stripped out of a social order, social trust collapses. Once trust collapses, society disintegrates. It's important to understand the dynamics of chaos before the certainties in our lives are swept away. Over the past few months, I've been exploring the dynamics of delusion and breakdown: 1. our reliance on models to make sense of the world and what happens when those models no longer track reality; 2. the difficulties in adapting when our old...

European Commission Proposes Energy & Water Efficiency Disclosure Rules For Data-Centers Authored by Zachary Skidmore via Data Centre Dynamics, The European Commission (EC) has submitted a proposal to require data centers across Europe to disclose their energy and water efficiency metrics. The European Union (EU) aims to triple its data center capacity over the next five to seven years. This has raised concerns about the build-out's potential impact on the power grid and natural resource use. The proposed rules would create a common rating scheme covering data centers with a capacity exceeding 500kW....