If you are reading this, you are someone who reads the news, and if you are someone reading the news, that hand is throttling your heart right now.
On some level, you know this, but you are likely so used to it that you do not really know how hard it’s squeezing, and how much it saps your strength.
There is a difference between burying your head in the sand and periodically reminding ourselves that the world can be beautiful and good. We have somehow become convinced that turning away even for a second is a betrayal of the most vulnerable amongst us, but constant activation paralyzes us with dread and leaves us too exhausted to take action. Hyperawareness is not a virtue, it’s a symptom of mental illness—ask your complex post-traumatic stress disorder friends about it sometime. We are not betraying the cause by turning off our phones for a few hours; we are not lazy pieces of shit who deserve to be poor when we opt for sleep over pseudoproductivity.
The healthcare marketplace would like me, a self-employed person with no recorded disabilities who has never served in the military, to prove that I don’t have insurance through an employer, the VA, or Medicare.
Apparently I am meant to do this with things like a letter from my employer saying they don’t over me coverage?? “Dear me, I regret to inform us...”
this is a very weird headline to run alongside an article that essentially says that an organization that believes in the importance of fair use thinks that fair use should not be interpreted in a way that narrows existing copyright law
In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside Public Citizen. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and landed another federal contract.
Coinbase responded to the initial complaint by arguing that, despite having received a federal contract, they were not a federal contractor — then insinuated I had secret funders and made lightly veiled legal threats against me.
Citation Needed
Answering your questions about who was behind the Binance hack, how they launder the money, and where it goes
Citation Needed
Stablecoin issuers froze about $2.4 billion of the roughly $6.3 billion stolen. The rest exceeds Binance’s insurance fund, and the man promising to make users whole isn’t supposed to be running the company.
Live coverage · ended · Oct 29, 5:30–5:52 pm EDT
Tether starting to freeze assets
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who is legally not allowed to have any managerial role with the company yet still has remarkable amounts of inside knowledge into its goings on, has tweeted that Tether and Circle have frozen around $1.8B
(he's just a shareholder, you see)
government transparency is going just great
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