@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 03:32:21
Days after immigration officials announced the death of a detainee at Newark migrant jail Delaney Hall,
Rep. LaMonica McIver visited the facility for the first time since prosecutors allege she assaulted federal agents there during a melee in May.
McIver’s visit coincided with a new filing in the Newark Democrat’s criminal case
in which her attorneys accuse prosecutors of failing to produce key evidence that they say shows bias among the agents involved in the scuffle,
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 20:50:37
Photojournalist Dave Decker was arrested in November while documenting a protest in Miami, Florida.
A coalition of 23 press organizations spoke out against the charges
— and this week the prosecutor agreed❗️
The following statement can be attributed to Adam Rose, deputy director of advocacy for Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF):
“I hope law enforcement officers take this to heart: Swearing an oath to protect the community means protecting everyone — including pre…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-23 11:15:53
Email: Indian crypto exchange WazirX plans to resume operations on October 24, following a court-approved restructuring, after hackers stole $230M in July 2024 (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/2
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 10:39:50
Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
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Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@awinkler@openbiblio.social2025-11-23 08:51:54
Another metadata quest: The #Städel #Museum in #Frankfurt has some very fine digital services (cf.
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-12-22 12:29:13
Tracking the NFL playoff picture: Updated chances to clinch open spots, win division titles https://www.espn.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/47248728/2025-nfl-playoff-live-odds-updated-chances-clinch-bracket-projecti…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 17:19:04
Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://
@thijs_lucas@norden.social2025-11-22 18:38:04
RE: https://ruhr.social/@Jayson1985/115594781268916741
Ich hätte ja schon Lust so ein Projekt mit Frankfurt zu machen und dann die flankierende Radinfrastruktur mit dieser enorm starken Stadtverwaltung gleich mitzuplanen.
Wenn heute Weihnachten wäre -…
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2025-10-22 11:30:14
Thilak Mahendran (Agora Digitale Transformation) analysiert den #DeutschlandStack: Ein Projekt, das alles will – und nichts schafft. Statt klare Ziele zu definieren, wird der D-Stack zum „Container für Erwartungen“. Technisch solide, inhaltlich leer. „Fokussierung? Fehlanzeige.“ | c't | .digital
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-22 13:01:18
Investigation: in 22 US states, Uber approves drivers with many types of convictions, such as violent felonies, that are over seven years old to keep costs low (Emily Steel/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/uber-background-chec…
