{"id":17484,"date":"2026-08-23T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17484"},"modified":"2026-08-22T07:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T13:21:19","slug":"8-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=17484","title":{"rendered":"8.23"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Occasionally teach the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ethicalskeptic\/status\/2088865706574069860?s=12\">observing<\/a> model the wrong lesson. Advertise a ruse &#8220;win&#8221; by wrong method, far and wide. A perfectly legible organization is a vulnerable organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Milwaukee candidates tend not to good statewide either. Milwaukee is the epicenter of crime and bad education in the state, Crowley has to answer for that. Madison is hated for their residents being nasty and hating the rest of the state, but more people will go to downtown Madison than downtown MKE. This isn\u2019t a race thing but Milwaukee is the most segregated county in the country because the second black people move in all the white people move further out. Those voters who want to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/wisupremacist\/status\/2088755749941805309?s=12\">get away from Milwaukee<\/a> because the crime that comes with it will not vote for the black person who is the executive of that county, I\u2019m sorry to break it to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New York State Fair will pay a $40,000 management fee to the operator, cover payroll for booth employees and provide the New York-grown potatoes, according to a document concessions manager Jack Davison sent to vendors in April. The operator must <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorkupstate.com\/nys-fair\/2026\/08\/nys-fair-pays-40000-to-keep-iconic-1-potato-booth-alive-with-new-vendor.html?utm_placement=newsletter&amp;user_id=66c4be185d78644b3a9f16ab\">continue selling a baked potato or three salt potatoes with butter or sour cream<\/a> for $1, a longtime fair tradition. In return, the booth\u2019s rental fee is waived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the methodology and why quantifying <a href=\"https:\/\/dataindex.us\/terminations-tracker\">data terminations<\/a> is so challenging in this Federation of American Scientists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fas.org\/publication\/data-termination-tracker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blogpost<\/a>. To learn more about the Federal Data Terminations Tracker,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dataindex.us\/events\/Introducing-the-Federal-Data-Terminations-Tracker\">register<\/a>&nbsp;for our webinar on August 19, 2026 from 1:30PM \u2013 2:30PM ET.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Federal regulators have given&nbsp;President Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/08\/donald-trump-world-liberty-regulatory-approval\/\">family<\/a> crypto business a conditional approval to operate like a bank. On Friday, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency\u2014led by Trump appointee Jonathan Gould\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.occ.gov\/topics\/charters-and-licensing\/interpretations-and-decisions\/2026\/cd1385.pdf\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that World Liberty Financial, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/trump-world-liberty-financial-token-price-usd1\/\">crypto venture<\/a>&nbsp;controlled by the Trump family, was on track to receive a banking charter. This will allow World Liberty Financial to issue its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.notus.org\/economy\/trump-family-crypto-firm-federal-banking-charter\">stablecoin tokens<\/a>\u2014called \u201cUSD1?\u2014inside the United States without an intermediary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He concluded that Americans \u201cwould understand the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plough.com\/articles\/bonhoeffers-message-to-america?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=hootsuite&amp;utm_medium=social\">fugitive<\/a> better than the one who stays.\u201d The key phrase here was perhaps Bonhoeffer\u2019s comment that Americans wished \u201cto live out their faith&nbsp;<em>for themselves<\/em>in freedom.\u201d (emphasis added) Americans seemed to portray faith and freedom as things for themselves as individuals: the right to be left alone, to live in comfort, to have every possibility left open, to earn their way and receive their just desserts, to be thoroughly affirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, within the corridors of Washington and the innovation labs of Silicon Valley, this strategic architecture contains a <a href=\"https:\/\/globalsecurityreview.com\/the-blind-spot-of-integrated-deterrence-modern-defense-tech-requires-a-counterintelligence-revival\/\">catastrophic<\/a>, structural blind spot. Military technology is only an effective deterrent if its operational parameters, source code, and behavioral algorithms remain secure from the adversary prior to deployment. If a rising power can utilize sophisticated economic statecraft, gray-zone collection, and corporate insider espionage to exfiltrate the software architecture of an autonomous fleet during its research and development cycle, its deterrent value drops significantly before a single unit is fielded. To survive this in the modern era of great power competition, structural International Relations (IR) theory must be reunited with a modernized doctrine of Counterintelligence (CI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davemcclure\/status\/2089354696485961878?s=46\">Tech<\/a> has now become the whole economy, and the small niche called venture capital is being absorbed into the much larger capital pools that always sat next to it.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Epic said it used these models to search its own several-hundred-million-line <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/ehrs\/epics-roadmap-12-takeaways-from-judy-faulkner\/\">codebase<\/a> for vulnerabilities its own developers had missed, and told customers to expect more urgent security patches going forward, saying the old 30-day patching standard \u201cis no longer good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2023, the Defense Department announced <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/timonpoint\/status\/2089879471637590187?s=46\">Replicator<\/a>, a halfhearted effort intended to field multiple thousands of inexpensive autonomous systems across several domains by August 2025. The language was revealing: small, smart, cheap, and many. The United States had spent decades building exquisite systems. Replicator was an attempt to learn how to build mass. It flopped because of institutional inertia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These places sometimes get described as \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.noahpinion.blog\/p\/where-to-eat-in-san-francisco\">fusion<\/a>\u201d, but their dishes aren\u2019t mashups \u2014 instead, they start from a base of a specific type of cuisine and then play around with it, throwing in a couple of ingredients from other cuisines. In fact, one good way to identify good restaurants in the U.S. these days is to look for places that use one or two Japanese and Korean ingredients in dishes that aren\u2019t Japanese or Korean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it were anyone but Epic, these systems would only use one AI scribe or co-pilot. But Epic&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joshuapliu\/status\/2089919270515769793?s=12\">gravitational<\/a> pull means customers will always give them a chance. Don&#8217;t underestimate the incumbent&#8217;s trust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secondopinion.media\/i-got-the-health-scan-that-100-000-people-are-on-the-waitlist-for\/\">scan<\/a> this past Thursday so wanted to share a review and some thoughts on it while still fresh. A quick note for my American readers: The Neko scans are available in London, UK and in Sweden but not yet in the U.S., so if you want one you\u2019ll have to take a trip to Europe. No one knows yet what the scan will cost when the company makes its way to the States. But my hunch based on the European price point is that it will land in the $300 to $500 range per scan and visit, and I suspect it\u2019ll start off as cash pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last Friday, at least four people went to Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown in Nashville for joint replacement surgeries, and a drug mix-up led to things going horribly wrong in the operating room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family of a Centerville woman who was there for a knee replacement told&nbsp;<em>NewsChannel 5 Investigates<\/em>&nbsp;that she is now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/newschannel-5-investigates\/drug-mix-up-leads-to-event-during-surgeries-at-ascension-st-thomas-hospital-leaving-at-least-one-paralyzed#google_vignette\">permanently<\/a> paralyzed from the chest down. She was supposed to have had an epidural for pain, but the wrong medication was injected. She was not the only one. There were at least three others. The hospital told us in a statement, &#8220;Our hearts are with the four patients and their families impacted by this event.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The U.S. military has quietly established a shipping corridor in and out of the Strait of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/09\/trump-iran-interview\">Hormuz<\/a>&nbsp;to transport <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/08\/19\/hormuz-iran-oil-gulf-trump\">millions of barrels of oil each day <\/a>\u2014 a notable success even as the broader war remains at a stalemate, two U.S. officials told Axios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We build terminal <a href=\"https:\/\/sockpuppet.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/20\/stop-making-tuis\/\">interfaces<\/a> because we have to, not because we should.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020 Tesla partnered with CureVac to build portable <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joehansen\/status\/2090834567489802605?s=46\">RNA microfactories<\/a>, the machines that can print mRNA on demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally teach the observing model the wrong lesson. Advertise a ruse &#8220;win&#8221; by wrong method, far and wide. A perfectly legible organization is a vulnerable organization. Milwaukee candidates tend not to good statewide either. Milwaukee is the epicenter of crime and bad education in the state, Crowley has to answer for that. 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