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Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses.

San Francisco Judge Voices Concerns Over War Department's Ban Of Anthropic Authored by Matthew Vadum via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A federal judge on March 24 seemed receptive to Anthropic’s request to temporarily block the Department of War from continuing to designate the AI company as a supply-chain risk. The designation, under a federal law designed to protect military systems from foreign sabotage, functions as a blacklist, preventing the company from doing business with the federal government and its contractors. If the block is granted, the company would be able to continue...

Hurricane Polo Pounds Baja, Threatens To Swing Its Moisture Across US Southwest Hurricane Polo made landfall in Mexico's Baja California Sur as a Category 2 hurricane before weakening to Category 1, with maximum sustained winds around 80 mph. Forecasters are now tracking the massive plume of tropical moisture associated with Polo, which could bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding to the southwestern US, with all eyes on Texas. Poor Chicago https://t.co/4gCyFfyPsd — zerohedge (@zerohedge) September 28, 2026 Weather influencer Max Velocity wrote on X, "This is insane... I can't remember the last time I...