just added to Wikipedia

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my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

Something we all should remember, as we talk about worst case scenarios and ways to plan for and survive them:

It's very much worth remembering that we collectively can and will survive them.

And, we will build something beautiful on the ashes of their corrupt and childish violence.

There's also an important dynamic at play that the crypto industry conveniently ignores: in the absence of proper consumer protection regulations on cryptocurrency companies themselves, much of the burden of protecting consumers has fallen to banks. When crypto users are scammed or hacked and crypto companies refuse to make them whole, these users often attempt to claw back their losses through their banks. Banks face costly chargebacks and fraud claims, while bearing the customer service burden of dealing with victims of crypto scams who are often treated with outright hostility by the crypto firms they use. This creates a legitimate business reason for banks to be wary of serving crypto customers or companies, entirely separate from any regulatory pressure. The crypto industry's vigorous opposition to consumer protection regulations has, ironically, contributed to their own banking difficulties by forcing traditional financial institutions to act as de facto consumer protection mechanisms.

Just discovered that while I was writing yesterday, Adam Levitin at Credit Slips published “Debanked by the Market”, a much longer explanation of something I briefly mention in my piece:
creditslips.org/creditslips/...

Worth a read, and I’ll add a footnote to my article to link to it.

Scam Nation Ft. Molly White | Western Kabuki Podcast YouTube video by Western Kabuki

NEW EPISODE we talk with @molly.wiki about the recent crypto takeover, how every grifter has their own memecoin, and what it means for the future. we now live in scam nation

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted.
Yet somehow Musk isn't.

She Made $10,000 a Month Defrauding Apps like Uber and Instacart. Meet the Queen of the Rideshare Mafia Priscila Barbosa came to the US with a dream of making it. Using gig-economy platforms she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one huge problem.

I am so delighted that this @wired.com feature, from the inimitable @laurensmiley.bsky.social is an ASME finalist - deservedly so!

Give it a read if you haven’t already:

www.wired.com/story/prisci...

So the US is now kidnapping whole families and trafficking them to random countries that the US has coerced into imprisoning them for some unspecified period of time

An abstract for a paper titled "The Sci-Hub effect on papers’ citations" in Scientometrics, which is paywalled by Springer NatureLink and available only with institutional access or for $39.95

lol

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

Allowing the administration to define broad swaths of history, programming and civil rights compliance as “DEI” and then regurgitating that language instead of clearly articulating what specifically is being targeted is spreading disinformation and propaganda.

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