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The cryptocurrency industry super PACs dumped $14.2 million into the Illinois primaries. 90% of that – $12.8 million – was wasted, in that it went to opposing Democratic candidates who won their primaries (Stratton in the Senate race, Ford in H-07) or supporting their opponents.

The Fairshake pro-crypto super PAC network spent $10 million to oppose Senate candidate Juliana Stratton and $2.5 million to oppose H-07 candidate La Shawn Ford, both of whom won their primaries

The PACs' only victories in the state were where they contributed money towards outcomes that were already highly likely. They opposed Robert Peters (H-02), who had been polling in third place and ultimately received 12% of the vote. They supported Bean (who was leading the polls in H-08) and incumbent Budzinski (H-13).

never noticed the glob deprecation warning: "support for old versions may be purchased (at exorbitant rates)"

Sam Bankman-Fried’s mom, a former law professor, has been asked to please stop filing documents on her son’s behalf in regards to his motion for a retrial (where he is supposedly representing himself)

A list of my favorite custom keyboard features thus far, courtesy of TailorKey:

• Caps word: Engages the caps lock function only until you hit a word boundary (anything that's not an alphanumeric character, underscore, or backspace basically). So helpful I'm wondering how I ever typed without it.
• Home row modifiers: Tap asdf or jkl; and they function as normal letters, but hold them and they function as modifiers (ctrl, alt, cmd, shift). Tremendous.
• The "select word" functionality. This is a macro for alt-leftarrow (move cursor to beginning of word) followed by alt-shift-rightarrow (select to end of word boundary). There's also a select line, but I haven't found myself using that much yet.

my new keyboard layout has “caps word” functionality (think caps lock but just for a single word) and my god traditional keyboard manufacturers need to get with the times

where has this been all my life

The Binance crypto exchange has just filed a defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over its article reporting that Binance's own compliance investigators had found $1 billion in transfers to Iran-backed terror groups, and then were fired.

The article, and related investigations by the New York Times and Fortune, were cited in an inquiry over the alleged sanctions evasion by Senator Blumenthal, and a request by Sen. Van Hollen and others for an investigation by the Treasury and Justice Departments. Today the WSJ reported that the DOJ had opened such an investigation.

The Coinbase-backed "Stand With Crypto" advocacy group has declared Illinois Senate candidate Juliana Stratton to be "strongly against crypto" solely because she made a statement criticizing the $5.5 million the crypto industry had already spent to oppose her

with great sadness i had to retire my trusty Ergodox Infinity, but: new keeb! expect typos as i learn how to type again

(MoErgo Glove80)