Topic: West Texas

Adam Curry shares a story about getting his hair cut in Austin, where his stylist wore Meta's Ray-Ban "creeper glasses." The stylist recounted a failed date with a man who suffered from "Trump Derangement Syndrome," eventually sending her "Heil Orange Hitler" texts. Curry posits that many people use hatred of Trump as a socially acceptable outlet for personal trauma and compares modern politics to the television series "The West Wing."

Oracle recently invoked a force majeure clause on a data center project due to energy supply issues involving Bloom Energy fuel cells. Despite these hurdles, Texas has become the leader in U.S. solar deployment, driven by the economic benefits of wind and sun in West Texas. Jason Calacanis predicts the "data center trade" will eventually slow down as energy constraints mount.