The letter’s requests read like a fishing expedition designed by people who fundamentally misunderstand both Wikipedia and the Constitution.

"Rather than end the genocide," Johnson said, "the response instead is to continue firing, doxing, smearing, and attempting to censor inconvenient narratives."

Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation.

“We will use the donated money to replace the books and buy more like them.”

In six months, the Trump administration has already withdrawn or halted enforcement actions against 165 corporations of all types – and one in four of the corporations benefiting from halted or dropped enforcement is from the technology sector, which has spent $1.2 billion on political influence during and since the 2024 elections.

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“My main problem with this strategy is that I don’t really understand where it ends,” adds Benoist. “The company is in a loop where it has to continually feed that loop with additional purchases, go back to the market to purchase more — this cycle has to continue to justify the premium.” The biggest risk is how deep the damage will be if — or when — the price of crypto collapses. Inevitably, a crypto downturn means companies whose share prices are linked to tokens will slide too.  Those that have raised debt face greater risks as they will need to pay interest to investors, and may be forced to raise more money or then sell their crypto holdings in order to meet debt obligations.  “Structurally this is very unhealthy if you’re paying your existing debt by raising other debt. That makes me very uneasy,” says the head of a crypto hedge fund, adding: “You may end up with systemic risk as there are too many of these weak structures which have to unwind fully or partially, and that creates pressure on the market.

A public library in Ohio is celebrating the life of one of its most loyal patrons, a retired social worker named Dan Pelzer.

When Ocean’s Godori first came out, I was somewhat surprised by some of the reader reactions. Many people expressed frustration over words not being directly defined, the frequent usage of Korean, the spelling of some of that Korean that made it difficult to look up, and the glossary not being more prominently displayed. This is, of course the sci-fi genre, one that usually by necessity involves unknown terms, foods, and slang that you assimilate as you keep reading. Sometimes that worldbuilding is like sinking into a warm bath and sometimes it operates like a jarring smash cut, as anyone who has picked up A Clockwork Orange with its opening of “we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip dark chill winter bastard though dry” can attest to.

From lending to payments to stock trading to crypto, prominent fintech businesses have found a competitive edge not in technology itself, but in using narratives about technology as a smokescreen for the profitable arbitrage of financial regulations. This modus operandi is encouraged by Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists, who decide which businesses to fund and often provide advice, gin up hype, and lobby for the businesses they’ve chosen. Our society continues to shower VCs with public subsidies, but as I argue in this brief post, if regulatory arbitrage is what we’re getting from Silicon Valley’s VCs in exchange, it’s well past time to reconsider this relationship.