Don’t stop talking about Venezuela: 2,295 dead 11,269 injured 13,000 without shelter 50,000 still missing 59,000 buildings destroyed Time for the U.S. to lift all sanctions, free Maduro, and give back all the money its stolen from Venezuela by plundering their oil. Venezuela deserves to rebuild its country without the boot of U.S. imperialism on its neck.

Ep. 269: Is free speech declining worldwide? Free speech has long been a cornerstone of democratic society. But today, its principles face increasing pressure. Around the world, governments are expanding speech restrictions in the name of combating misinformation, hate speech, and extremism, while new technologies make it easier to monitor and control public discourse. Many free speech advocates warn that these efforts risk eroding democracy itself. Joining @TheFIREorg's @NicoPerrino to discuss this “global free speech recession” is @JMchangama, a senior fellow at FIRE and the founder and executive director of @SpeechFuture at Vanderbilt University, and Jeff Kosseff, a senior fellow at The Future of Free Speech. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 02:07 Why write this book? 04:40 Where free speech stands in America today 05:53 What is a “global free speech recession”? 11:22 Free speech’s high point and what changed 18:56 Election misinformation, disinformation, and the role of AI 34:40 The EU’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act 40:00 Are democracies starting to adopt more restrictive speech laws? 43:52 Solutions to reversing the free speech recession 52:25 Outro

The final table is set in Event #34#: $500 Colossus. A massive field of 16,269 entries has been reduced to the final nine. Two-time WSOP bracelet winner @basebaldy headlines the remaining contenders. The finalists return tomorrow to battle for a gold bracelet and the $550,000 top prize.

Binance holds more than 640,000 Bitcoins. The @cz_binance founded @Binance exchange holds a staggering 640,269 $BTC (worth more than $40B) in reserves. At the same time, it holds 4,086,350 $ETH (worth around $7.3B).

Season 1 - Week 10 AMPs Roundup: → Total AMPs distributed: 581,984 → Unique wallets earning AMPs: 4,269 → AMPs earned through referrals: 28,650 Don’t forget, streaks will become harder to maintain soon, make sure you keep yours going whilst it’s still easy 🤝

RootData Stock Derivatives Exchange Ranking: HTX, BingX, and OrangeX Record the Widest Spreads; HTX and BingX Hit New Highs According to RootData's stock derivatives exchange ranking, three platforms with the widest spreads among ranked exchanges are: 🔺HTX: 0.582% 🔺BingX: 0.292% 🔺OrangeX: 0.269% HTX and BingX both recorded new high spreads, with HTX's spread nearly doubling from the previous day. 👇

The hardest memory failure may be an agent that remembers enough to act but not enough to explain or undo the action. This survey reframes always-on agents as persistent-state systems. Their durable state includes facts and preferences, but also permissions, credentials, task ledgers, triggers, provenance, and external commitments. The key question is whether that state remains authorized, scoped, traceable, mutable, recoverable, and safe to act on. Across a scoped corpus of 435 works, retrieval appears in 269 and writing in 200, while only 27 expose any rollback mechanism; authority appears in 72. The field has built the forward arc of writing, organizing, retrieving, and acting far more thoroughly than the return arc of forgetting, auditing, and recovery. – arxiv. org/abs/2606.30306 Title: "Always-OnAgents:A Survey of Persistent Memory, State, and Governance in LLMAgents"

RIVIAN $RIVN JUST FILED PRELIMINARY Q2 REVENUE GUIDANCE - Revenue: $1.55B - $1.65B est (+19.2% to +26.9% YoY) vs $1.30B a year ago - Cash & short-term investments: $5.3B, up from $4.8B last quarter

🚨New: Jared Hudson (@JaredHudson_AL) leads polling in the Alabama Republican Senate Primary 🔴 Jared Hudson: 35.8% 🟠 Barry Moore: 26.9% 🟢 Steve Marshall: 13.5% ⚪️ Undecided: 18.1% 🟡 Seth Burton: 2.5% 🔵 Dale Shelton: 1.6% 🟣 Rodney Walker: 1.3% 🟤 Morgan Murphy: 0.3% Pollster: @QuantusInsights Voters: 680 Likely Voters Date: May 15th-May 17th