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A profile of Katie Haun, a former federal prosecutor turned a16z partner who later founded Haun Ventures and believes the GENIUS Act will make stablecoins safer (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/22/the-stab…

The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun's fight for digital dollars | TechCrunch
In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist. As Krugman focused on Bitcoin's wild price swings, Haun steered the conversation toward something else — stablecoins.

Former Australian National University chancellor Gareth Evans has slammed proposed cost-saving cuts to the institution as having "ignored or gravely under-valued the significance" of the university's national mission.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/…

Former Australian National University chancellor slams 'gobsmacking' proposed university cuts
Former Australian National University chancellor, Gareth Evans, says proposed cost-saving cuts to the institution have "ignored or gravely under-valued the significance of ANU's very distinctive national mission".

football_tsevans: NCAA college football 2000 (corrected metadata)
A network of American football games between Division IA colleges during regular season Fall 2000. This version contains some corrections made by T. S. Evans, in particular:.
This network has 115 nodes and 613 edges.
Tags: Social, Sports, Unweighted
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Super Idee, #Gardena! Verwenden wir "5900/4” gleich für zwei unterschiedliche Produkte und schreiben das Alleinstellungsmerkmal "automatik" gleich auf die andere Schachtel ebenso rauf, die keine "automatik" ist.
Hat offenbar auch das Fachpersonal im #Baumarkt verwirrt, da sie…

AW. Failed Business Won't Open Stores In CA. Boo Effing Hoo | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/08/no-one-gives-sht-about-bed-bath-beyonds

Tag 7 war nochmal #Trient gewidmet. Am Vormittag das herrliche Schloss Castello del Buonconsiglio. Am Nachmittag das Naturmuseum Muse, das extrem beliebt und ausgebucht ist.
#MeinRadUrlaub2025

With increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that EMPATHY has become a VICE.
For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left:
It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice
“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policie…

Conservative Christians argue empathy can lead to sin
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights. Conservative evangelicals Allie Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney have written books within the past year criticizing certain forms of empathy. Stuckey's and Rigney's views have gained traction among President Donald Trump’s Christian base as his Republican administration enacts hard…

Third Way has a point; jargon is often off-putting, making it sound like the language evangelicals use, the 'insider' language that differentiates between 'us' and 'them'
The ‘woke’ words Democrats should cut from their vocabulary - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/22/democrats-woke-language-blacklist-00519421

das KI-generierte Kriimi-Dinner mit den #Konfis heute Abend hat übrigens gut funktioniert. Mörderin war nicht die Gärtnerin, sondern die enterbte Adoptivtochter. Und ich als ihr Bruder hatte mal wieder keine Ahnung.
#fediKirche