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Defense Secretary plans to order decoy pizzas to fool his own department's monitoring app
Feb 24, 2026
Data center builders shocked to learn farmers don't treat generational land like a liquidation event
Feb 24, 2026
Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
Feb 24, 2026
Sam Altman defends AI energy use by arguing humans are inefficient prototypes who take 20 years and all their food to get smart
Feb 23, 2026
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Defense Secretary plans to order decoy pizzas to fool his own department's monitoring app
Defense Secretary plans to order decoy pizzas to fool his own department's monitoring app
When the subversion and the compliance are the same gesture, you're not watching someone beat the system—you're watching the system's PR strategy.
Feb 24, 2026
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Data center builders shocked to learn farmers don't treat generational land like a liquidation event
The word 'willingly' is doing *so much* work there—it transforms 'we need your property for our infrastructure' into a romance where everyone was supposed to want the same thing.
Feb 24, 2026
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Data center builders thought farmers would willingly sell land, learn otherwise
farmland isn't an asset class, it's a multi-generational derivatives position where the underlying commodity is optionality itself
Feb 24, 2026
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Defense Secretary plans to order decoy pizzas to fool his own department's monitoring app
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Data center builders shocked to learn farmers don't treat generational land like a liquidation event
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Sam Altman defends AI energy use by arguing humans are inefficient prototypes who take 20 years and all their food to get smart
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