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In today’s headlines: the Supreme Court issues four major rulings in a single day, Apple hikes Mac and iPad prices over an AI-driven chip shortage, and more.
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Nostalgia Nerd
On this day in 1908, what event over Siberia flattened hundreds of square miles but left no crater? (answer revealed below!)
(hint: a UN-designated day)
Before We Dip In (TL;DR)
In today’s issue:
Supreme Court overturns 91-year precedent. 📜
Apple prices jump as AI crowds out memory chips. 💻
Mamdani responds to moderate Democrats. 🏛️
Plus, take today’s poll and check out the Nostalgia Nerd quiz answer down below!
LAW & POLICY
📜 Supreme Court Overturns 91-Year Precedent, Expanding Presidential Firing Power
The Supreme Court issued four major rulings on Monday. The most consequential, a 6-3 decision in Trump v. Slaughter, overturned a 91-year-old precedent called Humphrey’s Executor, allowing presidents to fire heads of independent federal agencies without cause. The ruling covers roughly two dozen agencies, though the Federal Reserve was explicitly preserved.
A second 6-3 decision restricted law enforcement’s use of geofence warrants, ruling they constitute Fourth Amendment searches. The Court also upheld, 5-4, Mississippi’s grace period for mail-in ballots postmarked before Election Day.
The session: The Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the $5 million E. Jean Carroll defamation verdict, leaving it intact with no explanation.
🌉 CRASHING OUT LIVE IS COMING TO SAN FRANCISCO!
Did you know San Francisco is built on buried Gold Rush ships? During the California Gold Rush, abandoned ships in San Francisco Bay sank and were later buried as the city expanded, with downtown construction still occasionally uncovering pieces of them under modern streets.
It’s basically a city built on top of abandoned chaos…which feels very Crashing Out-coded.
Crashing Out Live comes to the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre on September 11. If you’re in the SF area, grab your tickets now 🎟️.
Won’t be in San Francisco but interested in attending in other cities? Check out the rest of the tour lineup here 🏙️.
VIP Upgrade Available: We also have tickets for a post-show Meet & Greet with Philip DeFranco and Alex Pearlman ✨.
TECHNOLOGY
💻 Apple Hikes Mac and iPad Prices, Citing AI Memory Chip Shortage
Apple raised prices on MacBooks and iPads last week, with increases ranging from $100 to $500 across its lineup. The company blamed a shortage of conventional memory chips driven by AI companies, which have redirected manufacturing capacity toward high-bandwidth memory for data centers, pushing DRAM prices up.
Microsoft and other hardware makers are facing the same pressure, and analysts say the crunch has only just begun for consumer electronics.
The reaction: Senator Bernie Sanders called the increases unacceptable. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez renewed her call to break up large tech companies. Apple has not indicated whether the increases are temporary.
Dipper Poll
:📈 Today’s Poll: Chip Crunch
AI companies are racing to build data centers powered by specialized memory chips, and their competition is crowding out conventional DRAM, driving up prices on everyday consumer devices like MacBooks and iPads.
Who should absorb the cost when AI infrastructure demand raises prices for consumer electronics?
POLITICS
🏛️ Mamdani Dismisses Moderate Democrats’ Manifesto After DSA Primary Sweep
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani appeared on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday to address moderate Democrats pushing back after candidates he endorsed won three Democratic primaries last week. When asked about a centrist manifesto from Rep. Josh Gottheimer declaring that socialists are not Democrats, Mamdani said the positions described sounded like his own.
The mayor pointed to declining murder and shooting rates in New York City as evidence that his approach is working.
The limit: Asked whether the natural-born citizen clause in the Constitution should be changed so he could run for president, Mamdani said the Constitution looks good as written. He was born in Egypt and would be constitutionally ineligible for the office.
Fun Facts
🐯 Animals: Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. If you shaved a tiger, the pattern would still be there. Please do not attempt to verify this.
🌈 Nature: Moonbows are rainbows created by moonlight instead of sunlight. They’re proof that even rainbows have a night shift.
👃 Anatomy: Your sense of smell is strongly linked to memory because the brain stores them close together. That’s why one random scent can launch a full documentary.
🤯 WTF: Roman concrete can actually repair some of its own cracks over time. Ancient engineers somehow unlocked features we’re still trying to install.
TODAY’S QUIZ ANSWER:
The Tunguska Event
On June 30, 1908, a meteor (or possibly a comet) exploded in the atmosphere roughly five miles above a remote stretch of Siberia near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River. The blast, estimated at 10 to 15 megatons and roughly 1,000 times the energy of the Hiroshima bomb, flattened about 2,000 square kilometers of forest, with felled trees pointing away from the epicenter for miles. Because the object vaporized before hitting the ground, no impact crater was ever found. The area was so remote that casualties were minimal. In 2016, the United Nations declared June 30 International Asteroid Day in its honor.
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