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it’s always interesting to read the Current Vibe from SXSW panel titles.

2022: crypto!!!

Eric Trump plainly admits that his father’s Sunday social media post about the “crypto strategic reserve” was intended to manipulate the crypto markets

atlas has an inflamed dew claw and i had to wrap it so he’d stop licking it. better believe he’s milking his new, grievous injury for all it’s worth. “better give me extra snacks, this could be my last day on this mortal coil...”

February reading. I think The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet topped the list, but as should be evident I’m really enjoying the Dungeon Crawler Carl series too. And Cory Doctorow’s second Martin Hench novel was another one-night pageturner (one that, this time, I was smart enough not to begin reading when it was already past my bedtime).

The DOE “book banning hoax” press release claimed that challenged books are “age-inappropriate, sexually explicit, or obscene”. Only 13% of banned books in 2023–24 included “on the page” sexual scenes—but 36% featured PoC characters and 25% featured LGBTQ characters.

checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks

give the brain a lil break today by hacking on the microblog. my books now show up in the activity feed and the reading list RSS feed.

now i'm going to go read my goofy dungeon crawler book

few emails i am so excited to receive

Coinbase says that the SEC has agreed to drop the enforcement case against the company. It only cost them $75 million in political contributions.

(Don’t forget that $50 million of those contributions appeared to be blatantly illegal, although Trump is already hard at work making the Federal Elections Commission even less effective than it previously was.)

It’s a shame to see Sci-Hub falling for web3 hype and adding a pumpfun memecoin ticker to their webpage. Blockchain-based DNS does not automatically mean “decentralized”, and 3DNS — the company behind .box — is based in the US and would be subject to US court orders.

Someone unaffiliated with Sci-Hub created the memecoin, claiming to be fundraising, but said only 20% of proceeds would go to Sci-Hub. Founder Alexandra Elbakyan herself condemned this.