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Leslie, a giant wall of mud and rock collapsed into a river on the border between Nepal and Tibet this morning, triggering a massive mudslide and catastrophic flooding. Local authorities say hundreds of people are missing. At least 3 Americans are among them. The flash floods decimated villages in the area, wiped out bridges, wiped out roads. Homes are gone, of course. Seismologists noted that there was a 4.4 magnitude earthquake that hit just minutes before the collapse, though authorities have not yet identified that as the cause of the big mudslide. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky today awarded Elon Musk one of the country's top honors, the Order of Freedom. The country is looking to expand the use of Starlink satellite internet service. Musk had turned on that Starlink access just after Russia's invasion. And it has become a key battlefield advantage for Ukrainian forces. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are reportedly back in the UK. The BBC reports the Duke and Duchess of Sussex— yes, they kept their titles— arrived with their two children after 6 years in California. Though they have their titles, the couple reportedly has no plans to resume royal duties. They're expected to live in the Cotswolds, about 2 hours west of London. That's the news now. Carl, I'll send it back to you.
Contessa Brewer — Squawk on the Street · 10AM Hour: Nvidia Ahead, Meta Settles, & PCE Comes In Hot 8/26/26 · 2026-08-26I believe that as well. And if you speak to most people, like if you had Sean Carroll sitting here, he would say something like, reality is probabilistic. It exists in this quantum superposition, and that's just fundamentally what it is. And if you look at the origin of quantum mechanics with the Copenhagen School, Niels Bohr, all these guys in Denmark sitting around debating what reality is, it turned into this sort of, you know, the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics is that measurement collapses the wave function. And then you have to ask, what does that mean? Like, does it— and that now we basically have gotten into this thing where it's like the quantum detector, or when, you know, uh, uh, waves or particles collide, they collapse into specific states or whatever. Um, but who— it's literally unfalsifiable in either direction. Like, you can't say it's not the observer, it's not the human being that's present. The superposition could exist in the quantum detector itself. So— and a lot of the godfathers of quantum mechanics themselves flirted with this idea. So von Neumann and Wigner, you know, David Bohm, a lot of these guys were like, actually, we think the mind could collapse the wave function. And then you have parapsychology institutes at elite universities across America, the Rhine Center at Duke, Stanford Research Institute, Princeton Engineering and Anomalous Research Lab, which was started by the dean of engineering at Princeton, and they all have something called the random event generator experiment, which is basically you tie something that is conventionally thought of as random in quantum mechanics, so something like radioactive isotope decay or a double-slit experiment where you have, you know, 50-50 distribution between the two slits. No quantum physicist could ever argue that that's not basically a perfect coin flip, right? Over a long enough period of time, within a standard deviation, you expect a certain amount of slit 1 a certain amount of slit 2, left slit, right slit, and you bring an observer present and you say, "I want, you know, more of the right slit," or "I want more of the left slit," and it's usually tied to a graphical interface and it— you're seeing 1s and 0s.
Jesse Michels — The Joe Rogan Experience · #2545 - Jesse Michels · 2026-08-25I want to talk more about your company and then we'll get into the value you see in GPUs because you've got a pretty unique perspective on all of this. Sprout is a company that you started 12 years ago in your dorm room at Duke. Tell us about the genesis. What happened?
Becky Quick — Squawk Pod · USTR Jamieson Greer & a GPU Lifecycle 8/24/26 · 2026-08-24Not that you were saying that you were with the spread of those outcomes, but, but, um, it's very much how I try to apply this, um, myself. I am, I am absolutely knowing that I am going to probably get best have a 50/50 strike rate, but if I continue to do it right, I'll probably have very, very reasonable— let's not get too hyperbolic— reasonable overall portfolio returns. And it's just people and yourself will be very tempted to call yourself lucky. It's like, oh, if you took out that one or two stocks, your overall returns would have been terrible. It's like, yeah, if I took out the three worst ones as well. It's silly, and it's cherry picking. It's only a valid criticism if you just threw it all at the dartboard and just happened happen to be lucky. If you're making a reasoned bull case, and a couple of them happen to execute in the manner that you expect, and others didn't, not through anything that was obvious, but just through the natural difficulty that comes with entrepreneurship and running a business, I mean, these are very different kinds of things. And it's just— I'm not articulating it well, but people don't really grok the probabilistic of nature with this. And I think it's— although it's a dangerous analogy to make, I think the professional gamblers really have it right, you know, the, the, the, those rare individuals who actually make a living betting on the ponies, you know. And it's just like, you know, to ask them if they're worried that the last, you know, ticket didn't win, and it's like, no, it's abs— it's absolutely— it's the same with, same with poker players, you know, like all professional gamblers. And again, it's a, it's a very uncomfortable analogy to draw. But they're not a million miles away here. You mentioned Eddy Duke, was it last week, a professional poker player? She's excellent.
Chris Hill — Motley Fool Money · Mailbag, incl: Don’t miss the glimmers of light. August 23, 2026 · 2026-08-22I think it's right. I think what's interesting about the Annie Duke and the probability stuff you talked about is you talk about the professional gamblers and you made the point of the good ones, the very good ones. And I think that's right. In fact, it's 100% right. I would actually say even the ones that lose get it right. And I don't mean that they're doing it well. I mean, they're understanding the game properly. The hardest part for professional gamblers— I get people on Twitter all the time. All the time, tell me that share market and gambling's the same. And I usually say in a short number of characters, um, it's not the same thing, but there are some similarities in terms of the way you should think about it. Yeah. Why investing and gambling are different is investing has a positive expected outcome. Speaking of any given outcomes, why? Because the market goes up over time. Gambling, I win, you lose, you and I lose, and the house takes its cut. So it's a negative expected outcome on average for the gamblers. It is a— you're playing an entirely different game. But the approach that each takes, I feel so sorry for gamblers. Not because— not morally, just like, guys, take that skill and invest. You are literally trying to win in a game where the average investor must— the average gambler must lose. It's literally— it's the way it's designed because the house takes its cut and you and the other guy, one wins, one loses. The average gambler must lose. The average investor I won't say must win, but should win, does win because the market goes up about 9% a year on average. Now, not every day, not every month, not every year, not even every 5 years, but over time. The system has a positive expected outcome. But I only make that point, mate, to say it's not just the successful gamblers who are doing it the right way. The unsuccessful ones are too. Now, not the amateur gambler who just puts $50 on the nose on some horse in one race on Saturday, but even the losing gambler who says, I'm going to work this out on a probabilistic basis, I'm going to weight my bets. That's literally the idea. Me.
Jason Moser — Motley Fool Money · Mailbag, incl: Don’t miss the glimmers of light. August 23, 2026 · 2026-08-22Kevin, I hope that you are as well still a naive optimist as I am. So despite all those stats, I call myself a naive optimist because I want to— I don't think I could bear with the opposite and there's not much point, and I don't want to be a cynic. So with all those statutes are out there— Matt Abrams, I'm out here in Central Oregon, and I would say the reason why I'm so focused around these arenas is it goes back to where I grew up in deep southern Oregon and Lumbertown, USA, as it was called in the '80s. And it was the height of the spotted owl debate and— or the epicenter of the spotted owl debate. And I grew up, you know, to a father who was an Orthodox Jew, a mom who was a good Methodist. I grew up going to church and to Sunday school. A father who was a doc as well, and seeing loggers who, that's all they knew how to do was cut down a tree, come into the ER where my dad worked on because a radical environmentalist would have put a spike in the tree and the chainsaw would hit that spike, kick back, cut them up. And then a tremendous period of automation during that time where the mills were going through that, but they weren't telling the workers that, "Hey, you're losing your job to a lot of automation," not just— they're pinning things on the environmental aspect. And so I grew up around this perspective of seeing multiple sides and perspectives. And that is something which I think has been a defining piece throughout my life as to How do we engage in trust and trusted conversations with trustworthy individuals and have trustworthy information on which to make decisions on? After 9/11, that became sort of the Moby Dick for me when I had a friend who was ostensibly a smart guy, Duke Law School grad, who was sending around email chains. I mean, think pre-Facebook, maybe the very early days of Google, it was more Yahoo then. And even back then, you know, him sending around these, these misinformation that were bullshit verses from the Quran, you could spend 10 minutes either researching back then or your own logic to say, hey, this isn't real.
Matt Abrams — The Lawfare Podcast · Scaling Laws: Matt Abrams on Trust and the Migration to the Digital Age · 2026-08-21The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are heading back to Britain after more than 6 years in the U.S., but Burnham wouldn't discuss any potential security arrangements or what it could cost British taxpayers for the family. That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Monica Ricks, and this is Bloomberg.
Monica Ricks — Bloomberg News Now · Bessent Bets on Bigger Buybacks, Anthropic Preps for Record IPO, More · 2026-08-20The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are heading back to Britain after more than 6 years in the U.S., but Burnham wouldn't discuss any potential security arrangements or what it could cost British taxpayers for the family. That's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now. I'm Monica Ricks and this is Bloomberg.
Monica Ricks — Bloomberg News Now · Bessent Flags Bigger Buyback Potential, Walmart Sales Slide, More · 2026-08-20