Molly White

crypto researcher & critic, software engineer, wikipedian • @web3isgreat creator • newsletter: https://www.citationneeded.news/
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2026-07-23 16:59:35 GMT

Newsletter: The Clarity Act cryptocurrency market structure bill may well be dead, as the crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-107/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

2026-05-25 22:23:16 GMT

my last name has wound up on some campaign database without my first name, so i keep hitting unsubscribe pages that ask "Not white? Please don't use this form"
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2026-04-30 13:18:09 GMT

i like to think if anyone ever hacks my Google account they'll get totally derailed trying to decipher my hundreds of spreadsheets that all look something like this
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2026-04-17 16:11:15 GMT

as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions

2026-04-03 19:27:25 GMT

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He’s unfortunately not wrong that casinos and sportsbooks have been among prediction markets’ strongest opponents — largely because consumer protection agencies have been gutted and market integrity regulators turned into advocates.

2026-04-03 19:20:21 GMT

“It’s honestly been eye opening (in a bad way) to see how special interests work in our system” says the Head of Politics at Kalshi, which pays Donald Trump Jr. to sit on its advisory board and has spent over a million in lobbying over the past ~year. The government has just filed a lawsuit to intervene to protect Kalshi from several state regulators.
#Kalshi
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2026-03-26 13:02:31 GMT

damn, i just knew i was forgetting something!
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2026-01-29 22:23:03 GMT

As ICE terrorizes communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom have gone conspicuously silent. But behind the scenes, they’ve contributed at least $315 million — more than double their record 2024 spending — to elect more lawmakers to enable this administration.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

2026-01-21 18:17:25 GMT

House Oversight Democrats have published a Web3 is Going Great-style “Trump Family Digital Grift” counter
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/trump-family-corruption-tracker
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2026-01-09 21:00:57 GMT

spotted on ravelry: the pattern to knit the sock pictured on the Wikipedia article for "sock"
https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/as-seen-on-wikipedia-socks
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2026-01-06 15:56:24 GMT

i love the beginning of the year because everyone starts blogging. and if you (yes you) were thinking about starting, this is your sign

2025-12-31 15:37:31 GMT

please address any concerns about late newsletters to the office manager
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2025-12-31 02:50:19 GMT

did vitalik just invent communism?
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2025-12-31 02:06:19 GMT

out of context graphs from Vitalik Buterin’s latest blog post
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2025-12-30 17:41:18 GMT

https://aftermath.site/best-split-keyboards-diy-qmk-zmk-corne/
Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards
#keyboards

2025-12-29 04:05:28 GMT

though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios
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2025-12-27 16:28:11 GMT

the great cookieing of 2025 is complete! 550 cookies in 10 varieties
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2025-12-23 23:23:39 GMT

one of the best things about linzer cookies is that they come with built-in treats for the chef
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2025-12-21 01:25:40 GMT

planning baking for holiday cookie tins, asking questions like: if i make lemon curd x days in advance, i need to make y extra cups of it to still end up with ½ cup for cookies on the 24th. thank goodness i took multivariable calculus

2025-12-16 21:46:37 GMT

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All that and much more in this issue of Citation Needed! Please consider signing up for a pay-what-you-want subscription — my work is entirely reader-supported.
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2025-12-16 21:46:21 GMT

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Crypto firms are lobbying Trump for tax carveouts. Meanwhile, a new 501(c)(3) they back hosted a private dinner with tax lawmakers — despite rules against “substantial” lobbying. Purely educational, of course.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:45:37 GMT

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Meanwhile, Binance is all‑in on Trump’s USD1 — and just made Zhao’s partner Yi He co‑CEO. Zhao is banned from managing the company, but Binance and Zhao seems keen to honor only the most technical reading of that rule.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:45:09 GMT

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House Judiciary Committee Democrats have published a 27-page staff report on how “Donald Trump has turned the Oval Office into the world’s most corrupt crypto startup operation”.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:44:30 GMT

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Trump’s crypto mobile game is apparently launching in December. Spokespeople denied it would be anything like Monopoly Go! — which explains the real estate theme and Monopoly-like game board.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:43:44 GMT

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Alt5 Sigma — the Nasdaq-listed company that became a WLFI treasury company in a deal with the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial in August — is in turmoil. The company was found criminally liable in Rwanda, removed a CEO for undisclosed reasons, and has just lost its replacement CEO.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:42:36 GMT

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A huge list of labor unions and advocacy groups have signed letters to Congress urging them not to support the draft crypto market structure legislation due to the “many systemic failures and harms” of the crypto industry that they believe are going unaddressed in the draft.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:42:03 GMT

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It’s not all good news for Kalshi, though: a federal judge in Nevada has decided their events contracts are not “swaps” under the CFTC and dissolved a preliminary injunction protecting them from civil and criminal action by the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:41:06 GMT

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A Kalshi partnership with CNN and CNBC will place Kalshi prices alongside news stories — inviting readers to view these as probabilities and encouraging them to place their own wagers. Kalshi gets the imprimatur of journalistic legitimacy; CNN — fresh off layoffs — gets cash.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #Kalshi #PredictionMarkets #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:40:25 GMT

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Ondo Finance has announced the SEC has ended a multi-year investigation into their activities. This follows Ondo’s $2 million+ in political contributions to President Trump, hiring of former Congressman Patrick McHenry, and partnership with Trump’s World Liberty Financial.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:40:01 GMT

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The OCC has approved the first five national trust bank applications by crypto firms Circle, Ripple, BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos. This gives them a stronger foothold in traditional finance, confers regulatory legitimacy, and preempts some state financial laws.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:39:30 GMT

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Following hundreds of victim impact statements from people describing how their lives were ruined in the $40 billion Terra implosion in 2022, Do Kwon has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison. He may also serve additional time if sentenced in his home country of South Korea.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-12-16 21:38:26 GMT

Newsletter: Terra’s Do Kwon gets 15 years, crypto banks get the green light, and the Trump family’s crypto grift expands even as one of their treasury companies goes off the rails
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-98/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

2025-12-16 17:55:34 GMT

#CatsOfMastodon
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2025-12-14 20:36:54 GMT

Q: How much do you need to spend on mattresses for it to get mentioned in a DOJ press release about your $11 million crypto theft?
A: $638,000, which I did not realize was a plausible mattress budget
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2025-12-13 17:17:23 GMT

For those in the US doing holiday shopping, you have a couple more days to order from my store and receive your items by Christmas! Stickers and prints should arrive in time if ordered by December 17, other items should be ordered in the next day or two 💝
https://store.mollywhite.net/
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2025-12-13 16:54:47 GMT

i fear the cats/yarn stereotype is well earned, and also ruthie may have learned to open drawers
#CatsOfMastodon
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2025-12-11 22:12:41 GMT

I have purchased the PACER documents so everyone can read the impact statements submitted by victims of Do Kwon and the 2022 Terra/Luna meltdown. Collapses like these ruin lives.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67087481/united-states-v-kwon/#entry-61
#Terra #DoKwon #crypto #cryptocurrency
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2025-12-07 00:54:42 GMT

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@nprofile…scce you're more than welcome to use the name as far as I'm concerned!

2025-11-29 01:35:57 GMT

oscar the couch
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2025-11-25 16:27:36 GMT

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2025-11-25 16:27:17 GMT

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This is a scary trend. If crypto prices don’t rebound, DATCOs could be forced to sell their crypto, dragging the market down even further. Galaxy Digital researchers have compared the model, and its potential unwind, to the 1920s investment trust boom and bust.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-11-25 16:26:50 GMT

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With two months of sinking crypto prices, DATCOs are faltering. Some have even begun to sell their crypto to try to rescue plunging stock prices.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter
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2025-11-25 16:24:24 GMT

Newsletter: Crypto’s latest “infinite money machine” is the digital asset treasury company — a publicly traded firm that exists primarily to accumulate crypto. For a while, these stocks traded at hefty premiums to the underlying assets. But now, the trade is unraveling.
https://www.citationneeded.news/digital-asset-treasury-companies/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #CitationNeededNewsletter

2025-11-18 20:31:16 GMT

that’s an unfortunate Google snippet
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2025-11-10 23:49:21 GMT

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2025-11-10 16:12:26 GMT

i guess Black Friday is just November now

2025-11-07 23:50:24 GMT

thanks Google AI!
#AI
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2025-11-07 17:36:02 GMT

thank you Anthony Scaramucci for this extremely relatable analogy about people buying bitcoin on margin
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2025-11-03 22:46:17 GMT

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At the very end of a 60 Minutes interview, Trump was asked why he would pardon someone alleged to be a threat to national security. Trump replied, “I don't know who he is. ... They sent him to jail and they really set him up. That’s my opinion. I was told about it.”
O’Donnell tried again. Trump repeated that he knew “nothing about it” because he’s “too busy”, then described his sons’ success in the crypto business.
When O’Donnell took a third swing at it, asking if Trump was “not concerned about the appearance of corruption”, Trump responded: “I can’t say, because– I can’t say– I’m not concerned. I don’t— I’d rather not have you ask the question.”
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-11-03 22:44:32 GMT

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Trump said in his latest interview he “was told” Binance’s Changpeng Zhao is “highly respected”, “very successful”, and was unfairly prosecuted — without saying who, exactly, was doing the telling.
Asked about corruption, he bristled: “I’d rather not have you ask the question.”
Trump has portrayed Zhao’s case as part of an unfair “war on crypto”. But Zhao pleaded guilty to knowingly breaking the law; and the indictment depicts a CEO and leadership intentionally violating US laws to keep lucrative customers, enabling terrorist financing and cybercrime.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-11-03 22:42:50 GMT

Newsletter: Faced with blowback over his pardon of Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, President Trump has offered a curious defense: he doesn’t even know the guy.
https://www.citationneeded.news/trump-binance-changpeng-zhao-pardon/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-11-03 20:12:31 GMT

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From the House Oversight Committee report published last week: “The authority to grant pardons is not provided to the president’s inner circle. ... The president must make the decisions, and the courts can hold pardons void if the decisions are made by others.”
https://oversight.house.gov/report/the-biden-autopen-presidency-decline-delusion-and-deception-in-the-white-house/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
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2025-11-03 19:10:02 GMT

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"I know nothing about it because I'm too busy." He talks about how his sons are in the crypto industry, and how his son and wife published bestselling books. "I'm proud of them for doing that. I'm focused on this."
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
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2025-11-03 19:10:02 GMT

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"[You're] not concerned about the appearance of corruption with this?"
"I'd rather not have you ask the question."
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
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2025-11-03 19:10:01 GMT

The full CBS interview with Trump about the pardon of Binance's Changpeng Zhao is shocking. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-full-transcript-norah-odonnell-60-minutes-interview-with-president-trump/
"Why did you pardon him?" "I have no idea who he is. I was told that he was a victim ... They sent him to jail and they really set him up. That's my opinion. I was told about it."
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
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2025-11-02 19:41:09 GMT

Missed my reading wrap-up for September and have been too busy to read as much as usual, so here’s a combined September/October wrap-up. Lots of litRPG, and James S. A. Corey’s Caliban’s War (The Expanse #2) was definitely a highlight!
Wrap-up video on Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/video/7568212380602207502
and YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLddyKiU3ac
#reading #bookstodon
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2025-10-30 15:12:32 GMT

“I have a great and considerable fear that people will freeze to death in their homes this winter if we do not turn this around quickly.”
https://themainemonitor.org/people-freeze-without-heating-aid/
#Maine #USpolitics

2025-10-29 16:03:26 GMT

how many cumulative hours will i spend infuriated at the loose connection on my keyboard before i finally spend the ten minutes to resolder it? stay tuned

2025-10-28 21:46:45 GMT

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President Trump pardoned Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao. Despite a damning indictment suggesting CZ played an active role in directing his firm to break the law, the president has portrayed Zhao as a victim of a Biden “war on crypto”.
Trump admits CZ’s pardon followed lobbying efforts by CZ and Binance. He hasn’t addressed that it also followed Binance’s $2 billion stablecoin deal tied to his family’s crypto ventures, which has already produced tens of millions in profits for his USD1 token.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-10-28 21:44:08 GMT

Newsletter: Binance’s Changpeng Zhao earns a gold-plated pardon as other industry figures fund Trump’s $300 million ballroom
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-95/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-10-28 16:33:45 GMT

fixed that for you
#Wikipedia
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2025-10-23 15:37:45 GMT

Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. Binance has been a major supporter of Trump's crypto projects, and Trump has already made millions after Binance accepted a $2 billion investment from an Emirati fund denominated in the Trump family's USD1 stablecoin.
One of the people CZ hired to lobby for the pardon is Teresa Goody Guillén, a lawyer who has simultaneously represented the Trump World Liberty Financial project. She's also lobbied on behalf of Binance on crypto-related topics.
https://www.wsj.com/finance/currencies/trump-pardons-convicted-binance-founder-7509bd63
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-10-22 17:36:28 GMT

he saw Mamdani talking about housing and thought: but what about crypto?
my guess is this is more of a hail mary attempt to get blockchain/AI money and influence behind him. we haven't seen much crypto industry spending in races below the federal level, but i also wouldn't put it past them to get involved here at the last minute
#NYCpolitics
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2025-10-20 14:36:57 GMT

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I'm at the point where if something I'm reading contains this structure, closing the tab is basically an involuntary reflex

2025-10-20 14:25:52 GMT

"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism

2025-10-19 16:33:02 GMT

flower child
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2025-10-18 20:41:30 GMT

happy dogs that look proud to be wearing their protest signs >>>
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2025-10-17 21:19:29 GMT

Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown
October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.
https://www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a-crypto-meltdown/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-10-15 17:51:49 GMT

crunchy roll
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2025-10-08 20:53:48 GMT

Newsletter: Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-94/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

2025-10-07 19:08:32 GMT

"[Ars Technica] asked Cruz's office to explain why a senator pressuring Wikipedia is appropriate while an FCC chair pressuring ABC is not and will update this article if we get a response."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/ted-cruz-picks-a-fight-with-wikipedia-accusing-platform-of-left-wing-bias/

2025-10-02 19:00:56 GMT

New research from AWU/CWU/Techquity on AI data workers in North America. “[L]ow paid people who are not even treated as humans [are] out there making the 1 billion dollar, trillion dollar AI systems that are supposed to lead our entire society and civilization into the future,” says one.
https://cwa-union.org/ghost-workers-ai-machine
#AI #labor
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2025-10-01 19:24:39 GMT

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross
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2025-09-30 18:05:27 GMT

can't wait to read Elon's new bio on Grokipedia
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2025-09-13 14:18:43 GMT

Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated
#USpol #USpolitics
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2025-09-12 02:41:52 GMT

i feel like Ghost doesn’t get enough love for this feature
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2025-09-11 14:23:28 GMT

If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":
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2025-09-06 18:45:20 GMT

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggests Eric Adams drop out of the New York mayoral race, but first "place a large bet on Andrew Cuomo and then announce your withdrawal from the race" to "fund [his] future".
He writes: "There is no insider trading on Polymarket." Americans are currently prohibited from trading on Polymarket (though Polymarket makes only perfunctory attempts to block it, which are widely circumvented.)
By "no insider trading on Polymarket" he likely is referring to the fact that the SEC can't bring insider trading charges because Polymarket contracts are not securities. That doesn't mean trading on insider information would be legal (or ethical), though.
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2025-09-04 19:22:37 GMT

The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".
The freeze apparently came after Sun transferred around ~$9M of his holdings to Binance.
The World Liberty team has been desperately trying to prevent the WLFI price from sinking, including by burning tokens to boost the price. They may be concerned that whales like Sun could further depress the token price by cashing out.
#crypto #JustinSun

2025-09-04 16:21:02 GMT

this is the company in charge of custody for crypto assets held by the US government 🙂
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2025-08-23 19:12:29 GMT

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i would like to go back to being anxious about irrational, or at least highly improbable, things
#anxiety

2025-08-23 19:11:49 GMT

it feels deeply weird to be Going Through It with my lifelong anxiety disorder as an american in 2025
like yeah i'm grappling with crushing feelings of impending doom but who isn't?
#anxiety

2025-08-19 20:34:05 GMT

Newsletter: As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story
A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.
https://www.citationneeded.news/justin-sun-bloomberg-lawsuit/
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #JustinSun

2025-08-19 01:16:09 GMT

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@nprofile…qz4x wtf. the whole policy is a specter of legal consequences, not you asking questions to clarify it!

2025-08-15 02:53:51 GMT

the more i read contemporary crime novels the more i'm tempted to start a consultancy for crime fiction novelists who incorporate crypto into their writing
this must be how doctors feel watching medical dramas
"But his genius was an algorithm that layered the transactions through the dark web, making his scheme virtually untraceable."
🙃

2025-08-13 23:49:37 GMT

Justin Sun has just filed a lawsuit against Bloomberg, claiming they plan to “recklessly and improperly disclos[e] his highly confidential, sensitive, private, and proprietary financial information,” which they obtained while they were verifying his assets for inclusion in the Bloomberg “Billionaires Index”.
Sun claims this will cause him “ significant and irreparable harm—both financially and physically.” He says they plan to use the information in an article unrelated to the Billionaires Index. He also claims they plan to publish “granular details about his cryptocurrency assets, including a breakdown of his cryptocurrency holdings,” in the Billionaires Index, and that he wouldn’t have agreed to share the information had he known.
Sun sent a cease and desist to Bloomberg, and was informed they still intend to publish. He now seeks an injunction against the company.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71089620/1/sun-v-bloomberg-lp/
#crypto #JustinSun
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2025-08-13 21:17:00 GMT

oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again
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2025-08-11 22:11:35 GMT

August 7: Stablecoin issuer Paxos reaches $48 million settlement with New York financial regulators over due diligence, anti-money laundering failures
August 11: Paxos applies for national trust bank charter
🙃

2025-08-08 21:18:14 GMT

aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by
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2025-08-06 19:37:06 GMT

Good reading month! Highlights were Robert Jackson Bennett's The Tainted Cup and more of the Murderbot series.
Recap video on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/video/7535558278562991373
and YouTube: https://www.tiktok.com/@molly0xfff/video/7535558278562991373
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2025-08-05 17:29:33 GMT

I've updated my past newsletter platform cost comparison to incorporate Ghost's recent pricing changes for Ghost Pro. (Note that past Ghost users are grandfathered in.)
#Ghost
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2025-08-04 15:31:15 GMT

my god, just look at that changelog. looks like it's upgrade day for me!
https://ghost.org/changelog/6/
#Ghost

2025-08-03 23:05:51 GMT

https://www.theblock.co/post/365343/lugano-authorities-recover-satoshi-nakamoto-statue-that-was-thrown-in-lake
#crypto #cryptocurrency
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2025-08-03 14:33:46 GMT

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I've been tracking the quid pro quo between Trump and the cryptocurrency industry at https://www.followthecrypto.org/quidproquo
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-08-03 14:17:05 GMT

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The article only mentions Crypto.com's $10 million contribution to Trump's super PAC, but doesn't mention that after Trump took office, the SEC dropped their lawsuit against the company. His Truth Social company is now partnering with them to sell crypto ETFs.

2025-08-03 14:09:25 GMT

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the Times is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/us/politics/donor-list-suggests-scale-of-trumps-pay-for-access-operation.html
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics
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2025-08-01 00:03:11 GMT

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@nprofile…qz4x The other night on TWiT, Leo had an article about how many people were using Google's new "AI Mode". I pointed out half the clicks they recorded were probably coming from me, because they put the damn "AI Mode" button where the "All" button used to be :blobfoxrage:

2025-07-31 17:03:02 GMT

since i was writing for a general audience i only tucked in a short paragraph about using RSS as a journalist or researcher, but i genuinely have no idea how anyone functions without it.
sometimes in an interview someone will ask me for my “secret” for staying on top of crypto news, and the secret is literally just RSS
https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/
#RSS
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2025-07-31 16:34:14 GMT

Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use #RSS.
https://www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-rss/

2025-07-30 19:45:11 GMT

i love reading changelogs
#RimWorld
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