Episode #184: 10 October 2025

This episode tracks 11 buzzy posts across tech, markets and politics. It opens with Starship Flight 11 set for Oct 13 from Starbase, a montage of past liftoffs and talk of a tower catch for the booster and its 33 Raptor engines. In Japan, PayPay buys 40 percent of Binance Japan, tying crypto purchases to a 70 million user wallet. Elon Musk and Chamath frame the AI race as a contest of scale, citing a billion chips, a terawatt of power and 100 million robots, as xAI touts Grok Imagine v0.9. ZeroHedge highlights Trump promising permanent spending cuts during a day 10 shutdown, while Rep. Thomas Massie blames the Patriot Act, FISA and CISA for surveillance that swept up senators. Trump also says Columbus Day is back, rejecting the Indigenous Peoples Day shift. Ireland tells the EU it will not push new hate speech rules, saying current law suffices. A first drive of the new Model 3 and Model Y Standard notes steady FSD Supervised behavior and trade offs, including no Autopilot by default. An X clip features allegations of coordinated protest logistics across US and UK demonstrations. Tech culture humor lands with a meme about AI code assistants causing panic, plus a note that image edits still favor Photoshop for precision.