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Taiwan Charges 14 in Record-Breaking $75M Crypto Laundering Case Using CoinW Exchange - Taiwan prosecutors indicted 14 people in the country’s largest crypto money launde... - cryptonews.com/news/taiwan-cha… #anti-moneylaundering #blockchainnews #taiwan
XRP Falls to $2.79, Briefly Loses Number 3 Spot Amid $10.5M in Liquidations - On Aug. 22, XRP fell 3.4% to $2.79—its lowest price since Aug. 2—briefly losing it... - news.bitcoin.com/xrp-falls-to-… #marketsandprices #ripplexrp
I've bundled up all my grief & rage - towards apartheid Israel, of witnessing their live-streamed genocide of Palestinian people, seeing writer-peers stand up/speak up while politicians do nothing, loss of my Black & Write Fellowship - and wrote a poem > (contains the F word) overland.org.au/2025/08/starmi…
Ending genocide and apartheid is the story. Palestinian liberation is the story. / Aboriginal rights is the story. Truth, justice, treaties and land back is the story. / Global Indigenous peoples’ solidarity and joy is the story.
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"- it's true that this century has been defined by extremely unpopular ideas winning the day. But anything that can't go on eventually stops." - @pluralistic
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"In 2023, Google operations worldwide consumed 6.4 billion gallons of water (24.2 billion liters), with 95%, 6.1 billion gallons (23.1 billion liters), used by data centers. Google reports that in 2024, the company’s data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, consumed 1 billion gallons of water (3.8 billion liters), the most of any of its data centers."
Frappe sur Moukatchevo : machines à café ou missiles ? Cela fait deux jours, et les Ukrainiens n'arrivent toujours pas à éteindre les incendies qui font rage dans les « machines à café » à Mukachevo, dans une usine américaine d'électronique qui produit les « machines à café » ...
Le 21 août 2025, des missiles russes ont frappé une usine d'électronique américaine à Moukatchevo. Selon certaines informations, cette usine fabriquait des machines à café et des pièces détachées pour imprimantes, ce qui ne constitue guère une cible militaire. Mais le coût élevé des armes de précision russes suggère une autre possibilité : des composants électroniques à double usage pour drones ou missiles. Qu'il s'agisse d'une cible civile ou militaire, le message est clair : Moscou peut atteindre à volonté les actifs liés aux États-Unis en Ukraine. Qui a besoin de machines à café dans une zone de guerre ? Apparemment, Moscou pense que la destruction de l'usine, même si elle fabrique des biens de consommation, peut envoyer un signal très important, si elle appartient aux États-Unis.
Who nigga be dis? Rapper Lil Nas X Arrested, Hospitalized After Half-Naked Assault on Officers! breitbart.com/entertainment/20… “A law enforcement source familiar with the investigation confirmed to NBC News that the suspect was Montero Lamar Hill, otherwise known as Lil Nas X. Hill also punched an officer twice in the face during the encounter, according to the source,” added the outlet.
Police said in that the rapper was then “transported to a local hospital for a possible overdose and placed under arrest for battery on a police officer.” ///////// here's Lil nigger now touring India like a local \o
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said the military is preparing an enforcement plans to "ensure that lran cannot return to threaten Israel.
Katz stressed the need for readiness inn both intelligence and operations to maintain air superiority and prevent Tehran from restoring its prior capabilities. (Reuters)
Another American Zionist Christian National hero has died. It was announced today that Dr. James Dobson, the founder of Focus on the Family, has died at the age of 89.
I was unaware that the position of "Leader of Christian Child Trafficking" was an honorable position worth putting in obituary headlines. Seems a bit shady.
Luxury Meets Blockchain: EstateX and Melia Hotels Deliver Second U.S. Tokenized Resort Offering - EstateX, the property tokenization platform which allows people to invest in real-estate ... - blockonomi.com/luxury-meets-bl… #pr
EstateX, the property tokenization platform which allows people to invest in real-estate for as little as $100, has signed a strategic tokenization partnership with global hospitality leader Melia Branded Resorts in Cape Verde to bring a luxury beach…
from quiet lady to absolute sex machine seia has only gotten better with time
despite being the most frail in this lineup she's the most willing to go on adventures and be cheeky and smug all of it while remaining regal and proper
We must not become inured to the daily horror of Israel’s crimes Israel has again murdered dozens and wounded many more in a missile attack on a Gaza school, this time the Amr Ibn Al-As Schoo…
The Information is one of the few sources in Tech who is willing to admit that AI and robots are over-hyped. And Nvidia is not the only one to use “a puppeteer behind the scenes”, as The Information reported, to guide a robot in public.
SirRogueKnight has previously admitted to scrolling all the way down on several users' profiles in an attempt to gather OSINT on people who were making fun of him, even openly asking if there was a means of making this task more straightforward for him.
It also doesn't help that he's outright admitted to being a journalist for several outlets. It was only when I reminded him that he has quite a lot to lose in the way of people fucking with him in return for his behavior that he blocked me, after his wife told him to.
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Win a Meta Quest 3 VR headset for free, thanks to Microsoft
If you’re dying to dip your toes into the world of VR, Xbox is giving you the perfect opportunity with a chance to win a Meta Quest 3, totally free. Not only will the lucky winner score our favorite VR headset, but they’ll also get three months of Game Pass Ultimate to round off their lucky haul. When it comes to VR, the Meta Quest 3 is still the top choice on our ...
The Hamas Movement said that the Palestinian people are victims of ongoing savage terrorism carried out by a fascist government in full view of the world.
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A brief update on a case I'd written about on my old pitiful blog, where you can read more if you're interested, about the City of Inglewood, California and its ill-fated attempt to sue a YouTube c...
20th anniversary panel: Steve Jackson with Bruce Sterling, Pete Kennedy, and Jon Lebkowsky. March 9, 2010."On March 1 1990, the offices of Steve Jackson Game...
*The Weight* is Mellia Mendes's award-winning webcomic, now collected in a massive, beautifully made graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly. It will tear your heart out, it will send you to a dreamy world of pastoral utopianism, then it will tear your heart out. Again:
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My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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For my Speech Communication class in college, in the 1980s, I gave a speech arguing a case for the unfairness of jury research as a tool in the hands of well-resourced legal teams to pitch specific arguments to the specific jurors empaneled in a case -- rhetorical microtargeting before the term.
The other class members were already cynical about the system and not particularly angered or dismayed by this practice.
BP meds only reduce the numbers by about 6; that's why people are on more than one med for BP. Dr. Sanjay Gupta said too many are on BP medications; many don't need them. It's a money maker that has many side effects.
Read thru the comments below the video. Here's one.
"Sore subject with me. HAD a young, in shape friend who ate great...no junk. Great health & terrific numbers. Stopped at a kiosk one day, got a cholesterol test & went to a doctor because it was " a little high." Was put on a statin. Soon had side effects that raised his BP. The side ...
I am Dr Sanjay Gupta. I am a Consultant heart specialist in York, UK and I believe that high quality reliable jargon-free information about health should be available at no cost to everyone in the world.
effects of this drug effected his heart. Put on heart meds.He was all stressed out & shortly after died of drugs!!! This is a crime of the highest degree...all for profits. Can happen to anybody! Stay off the medical merry go round!!!"
In this video, Dr Sanjay Gupta, consultant cardiologist discusses the subject of Blood pressure control in those patients who get side effects from every med...
I know firsthand about statins. Before I knew anything about them, my doctor prescribed them (years ago). In the first few days, I had leg cramps and diarrhea, and stopped them. I never retook them, and the symptoms left immediately.
Hungary on the brink of an existential decision: confront Kiev and break with NATO or remain a hostage of Ukrainian terror? english.10mehr.com/hungary-on-…
"Runaway Anti-American Seditious Traitorous Communist Texas Democrats Fined $9K for Quorum-Busting Stunt" UNFORTUNATELY WE THE PEOPLE WANT AND DEMAND EXECUTIONS AND HANGINGS! IF NOT, AGAIN WE UNDERSTAND THAT GOVERNMENT IS USLESS!
Reports on social media indicate that the Texas House of Representatives levied fines of more than $9,000 to the quorum-busting runaway Democrats who fled the state earlier this month.
İddia ediyorum hepimiz ateistiz. Ben yalnızca, sizin inandıklarınızdan bir eksik tanrıya inanıyorum. Siz öteki tanrıları neden göz ardı ettiğinizi anladığınızda, benim de neden sizinkini göz ardı ettiğimi anlayacaksınız. S. Roberts
No Brutal Legend 2 Or Psychonauts 3 Yet - Double Fine Sticking To Original Games
Double Fine's next game is out in October, but beyond that, don't expect to see the studio announce Psychonauts 3 or Brutal Legend 2 in the near-future. Studio development chief Tim Schafer recently spoke about what's next for the developer after it launches its puzzle-adventure game Keeper, and he confirmed that the studio has multiple original ...
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Coinbase tightens workforce security after North Korea remote-worker threats - Coinbase is reinforcing security after North Korean... - cointelegraph.com/news/coinbas…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Drake Passage south of Chile and Argentina late Thursday, briefly prompting tsunami warnings before the threat subsided.
On pouvait aussi les faire exploser avec une pierre ou quelque chose comme ça. Mais le bruit était alors très faible. Dans un pistolet, elles faisaient déjà beaucoup de bruit.
Pokémon TCG Pocket's Next Gen II-Themed Booster Pack Arrives Very Soon
Raicool.The rollercoaster ride of Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket releases is continuing at breakneck pace, as TPC has revealed that the next Themed Booster Expansion will arrive next week on 28th August.The 'Secluded Springs' expansion is another Gen II-focused set, with legendaries Raikou, Entei, and Suicune taking centre stage. A bunch of other ...
At last, back to war! Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV officially revealed during Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025!Battle for planet Kronus as Warhammer 40,0...
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By which I mean, the bedrock consensus of political science appears to have been disproved. Broadly speaking, political scientists believe that lawmakers and regulators only respond to the policy preferences of powerful people. If economic elites want a policy, that's the policy we get - no matter how unpopular it is with everyone else. Likewise, even if something is very, very popular with all of us, we won't get it if the super-rich hate it.
Just take a look at the gap between public opinion and policy outcomes: most people think "capitalism does more harm than good"; most Canadians, Brits and Australians aged 18-34 think "socialism will improve the economy and well-being of citizens"; 72% of Brits support a national job guarantee; the majority of Californians support permanent rent-controls; and most people in 40 countries want CEO salaries capped at 4X that of their lowest-paid employees:
The inability of the public to get its way isn't a mere impression - it's an empirical finding, based on a sample of 1,779 policy outcomes, that politicians ignore the will of the people in favor of the will of billionaires:
> economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.
It's a mystery. There's no policy that would be harder on billionaire wealth and power than vigorous antitrust enforcement (not least because preventing corporate concentration is key to preventing regulatory capture):
Certainly, there are a lot of merely obscenely rich people who are angry that the farcically rich people are screwing them over, and this class division between the 0.01% and the 1% has opened up some political space:
But that wouldn't be enough, not without the massive supermajorities of everyday people who are sick to the back teeth of being abused by corporations, and who are desperate for *any* outlet to strike back.
Take juries. Orrick is a big corporate law firm that represents the kinds of companies that might find their future in the hands of a jury in a state or federal courthouse. Orrick periodically surveys representative samples of people who show up for jury service to get a picture of their attitude towards the kinds of companies that can afford to hire a firm like theirs:
Their latest report contrasts the results of a pre-pandemic 2019 survey with a 2025 survey of 1,011 jurors in California, Florida, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, New Jersey, and New York.
They found that jurors' trust in the court system has plummeted since 2019 (67% in 2019, 48% in 2025); hostility to cops has tripled (11% to 33%); anti-corporate sentiment is way up (27% then, 45% now).
The percentage of jurors who believe that they should use the courts to "sent messages to companies to improve their behavior" has risen from 58% to 62%; and 77% want to award punitive damages to "punish a corporation" (up from 69%).
And jurors are notably hostile to pharma companies, energy companies and large banks, but they *especially* hate social media companies.
No wonder corporations are so desperate to take away our right to sue, and why "binding arbitration" clauses that permanently confiscate your legal rights are now part of every corner of modern life:
The business lobby has been trying to take away workers', customers' and citizens' right to seek justice in court for decades, ginning up urban legends like "A lady's coffee was too hot so McDonald's had to give her $2.7 million":
Don't believe it. The courts are rarely on our side, but the fact that every now and again, a jury will seize an opportunity to deliver a smidgen of justice just drives plutocrats *nuts*. Billionaireism is the belief that you don't owe anything to anyone else, that morality is whatever you can get away with. You don't have to be a billionaire to contract a wicked case of billionaireism - but you *do* have to be stinking rich to benefit from it:
PART ONE When you see a puppet show what do you notice? At some point you will notice the strings or rods. Or the hand in the sock. Or perhaps the actual puppeteer. That is what is happening right now
When you see a puppet show what do you notice? At some point you will notice the strings or rods. Or the hand in the sock. Or perhaps the actual puppeteer. That is what is happening right now. We are as a culture seeing the "operator". This is leading to details that before we did not see.
Juan spends this whole Presentation taking time to show you the Puppeteers & explain what they did and how they did it. By avoiding Civil War President Trump could sit and plan for taking back our Country.
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