The problem with Las Vegas is that visitors are now treated like marks rather than guests.
The $50 gotcha charge at Paris Las Vegas for unplugging a cord in the room to charge a laptop is a perfect example:
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Filing: Applied Materials plans to cut ~4% of its global workforce and expects the layoffs to cost $160M to $180M; it had 36,100 employees as of the end of July (Nick Turner/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…
Chiefs moving from Missouri to Kansas following the approval of a new tax-funded stadium
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/kansas-city-chiefs-moving-missouri-kansas-new-stadiu…
The #EuroSkyLive name badges have a QR code that opens in Flashes.app and links you to a starter pack of attendees.
This is great! Going to steal this idea for #ATmosphereConf
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Cate Le Bon:
🎵 Heaven Is No Feeling
#CateLeBon
https://catelebon.bandcamp.com/track/heaven-is-no-feeling
https://open.spotify.com/track/6QyDopDgclGYNXf3UeuDZv
Suing a guy who called me a litigious asshole. As I claim in the filing, this is libelous because I'm only a regular asshole.
Cowboys 7-TD Standout Targeted for ‘Increased Snap Count’ After CeeDee Lamb Injury https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/wide-receiver-jalen-tolbert-snap-count/?adt_ei=[email]
The conference also has a cinema room, showing bitcoin based films. Not mine, but I'm here for "finding home" by avi burra. Who did q&a after.
A short Travelog about a visit a cypherpunk in Prague for BTC Prague. Which was a much bigger bitcoin conference.
Lots of shots of a beautiful European city, and brief interviews with the people there. Many at restaurants where meals are paid for with bitcoin.
I guess they have a circular economy there of some sort.
Conclusion seems to be that fixing the money is important but building community is even more importanter.
#bitfest #film #bitcoin