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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As I’m writing, the season is “Crickets chirp around the door.” By the time you read it, it will be “First Frost.” In New York, where I live, autumn is taking hold. Darkness in the early morning, leaves and branches coming down in high winds, and in the afternoon, low light floods the avenues, catching the tops of trees.
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Navigating 10-foot flames,
he arrived at the crashed
cyber truck.
But the bulletproof door,
opened electronically by a hidden push button,
wouldn’t budge.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/cyb…
Raiders fire OC Chip Kelly after latest poor offensive showing in loss to Browns https://www.nfl.com/news/raiders-fire-oc-chip-kelly-after-latest-poor-offensive-showing-in-loss-to-browns
UK filings: Paramount and Comcast invested $1B into European streamer SkyShowtime since 2022; SkyShowtime had a €543.7M operating loss in 2024, down 3% YoY (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/10/paramount-comcast-invest-1b-into-skyshowtime-…
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
My wife spotted this on Facebook: it’s apparently posted somewhere along Kings Hwy near Bungendore. #Christmas
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.
It makes sense that I posted my favorite 20 LPs of 2025 Friday and over the weekend I found another great death metal and punk album from this year, and now today, just Monday of the following week, I stumble across a TROVE of great rap records that just came out also. Yeah, that tracks. 😂
Well, at least now I follow this label and am aware of these bands, etc. (And they're not a secret or anything, I'm gonna post about em here but I'm still going through em all.) Unbelieva…