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When does philosophy degenerate into simple propaganda? In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines the writings of Jürgen Habermas, concluding that much of what Habermas said was little more than ginned up Marxism.
Original article: https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/jurgen-habermas-philosopher-marxist-propagandist
Growth is abysmal; wages are low. But seen from the outside, Britain is a great place to contract services and buy bargain-basement bonds. We explore the opportunities amid the challenges. After months of reporting, our correspondent shares what he learned about Austin Tice, a missing American journalist. And our obituaries editor remembers Jimmy Swaggart, a famed and fallible televangelist.
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Plus: An initial probe into last month's Air India crash is focusing on the pilots. And the rift between Unilever and Ben & Jerry’s board, ramps up. Kate Bullivant hosts.
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X CEO Linda Yaccarino leaves the social media giant on the heels of antisemitic posts from AI chatbot Grok. SCOTUS rejects a challenge to a Texas law for age verification online. President Trump this week said he’ll impose a 50% tariff on copper. Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino is joined by Maria Curi, tech policy reporter at Axios, to discuss all this.
A.M. Edition for July 11. The flurry of tariff announcements continue as President Trump threatens to slap 35% tariffs on imports from Canada, however WSJ finance editor Alex Frangos says markets are taking it in its stride. Plus, an initial investigation into last month’s fatal Air India crash focuses on pilot actions. And the appointment of a new CEO for Ben & Jerry’s escalates the dispute between the icecream maker and Unilever. Kate Bullivant hosts.
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The Gulf States and China are spending billions to build stadiums and buy up teams — but what are they really buying? And can an entrepreneur from Cincinnati make his own billions by bringing baseball to Dubai?
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array(3) { [0]=> string(0) "" [1]=> string(0) "" [2]=> int(0) }On this week’s roundup, we touch on the CoreWeave and Core Scientific acquisition, IREN’s new AI GPUs, and more.
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Welcome back to The Mining Pod! Today, Ben Harper from Luxor Technology joins us to discuss CoreWeave's $9 billion acquisition of Core Scientific, IREN’s $130 million Nvidia GPU purchase, hashprice hitting $60 for the first time since February, summer hashrate curtailment, and why transaction fees are so low. Plus, why Bit Digital and BIT Mining are becoming altcoin treasury companies.
**Notes:**
• CoreWeave to acquire Core Scientific for ~$9 billion
• Hash price reaches $60 per terahash per day
• Bitcoin fees in sats/vb lowest since March 2012
• IREN purchases 2,400 Nvidia Blackwell GPUs
• Difficulty adjustment expected +7.3%
• Bit Digital pivots to Ethereum treasury
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00:00 Start
01:50 Difficulty Report by Luxor
06:00 CRWV < > CORZ deal
15:20 Fractal Bitcoin
16:00 IREN Blackwell purchase
22:14 Transaction update,
26:04 Hashrate Futures contracts
35:52 Bit Digital/BIT Mining Pivots
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Los Angeles County launches an investigation after a sanitation tunnel collapse traps 31 workers underground. Governor Gavin Newsom tours South Carolina, drawing both praise and criticism over his national ambitions. Meanwhile, Hollywood’s soundstage operators hope new state tax credits will revive production after a historic slowdown. Plus, a watchdog warns of a 400% surge in AI-generated child abuse imagery, calling for urgent regulation. Stay tuned for these stories and more from the LA Times newsroom.
From the moment President Trump and Republicans took control of Washington this year, they set out to turn their longtime threats against public media, which they see as biased, into action.
Now, a piece of Republican legislation would cut more than a billion dollars from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which finances PBS and NPR.
As the bill makes its way through Congress, those who work in public media are warning that radio stations in red, rural and Republican America will feel the deepest impact.
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