In a shocking turn of events (to dimwit, inbred EU regulators only), Meta announced they’re withholding their next major AI model from European customers, citing the “unpredictable nature” of the bloc’s regulatory environment. This directly follows unworkable new rules from Brussel’s tech czar Thierry Breton, who famously publicly celebrated Europe’s successful passage of crippling AI regulation before anyone in Europe actually built a relevant AI company. It’s crazy, they’ve robbed us blind for decades over bullshit, and somewhere along the line it really seems they just forgot they don’t actually build anything. Unfortunately for foreign bureaucrats, Americans are over it. At least a few of our executives are finally playing hard ball. And if Trump wins? God knows the government will follow suit. Good luck, Thierry. We look forward to banning your next technology breakthrough once you guys get off from break and get around to building it.

Per a new report in WSJ, Bud Light — for decades the top-selling beer in America — is now third place (and falling), over a year after the company’s collab with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney kicked off a massive boycott. The received wisdom here is the company was victim to a broader wave of backlash to unhinged gender discourse. But I think Mulvaney, a kind of standard Broadway gay doing Audrey Hepburn cosplay, was really just the pretext. Bud Light’s millennial white woman market executive publicly deriding her “fratty” customers is what really set off the war. She wagered the bros, demoralized by a decade of sheEOs, mansplaining, and “Girlboss: The Series,” were strategically weak. Against all odds, they called her bluff. The irony? Theirs was a Pyrrhic victory; decades into nearly unlimited migration, we’re now a Modelo-drinking nation. The Latinos were the real winners of the beer wars. ¡Salud! 

This week, investor/Shark Tank personality Mark Cuban said that the recent support for Trump by some tech leaders in Silicon Valley could really just be a “play” to boost the price of Bitcoin. According to Cuban’s brilliant 4D Chess analysis, the tech bros are betting that Trump policies like lowering taxes will be inflationary (?), thus impacting the US Dollar as a reserve currency and creating the necessary conditions for a Bitcoin price acceleration (insert Conspiracy Theory Charlie from Always Sunny meme here). Yes, Mark, the crypto brothers’ aversion to the Democrats definitely doesn’t have anything to do with the Democratic party’s ongoing attempt to ban crypto. That would be way too obvious of an explanation, much like some of the other lies they tell us — ie, the moon landing being real, the Roswell UFO really being a weather balloon, Shark Tank still being a relevant TV show… (oops).

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