Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/hike-once-…
A dark money group that was founded by one of former President Trump’s key allies raised over $20 million in 2020 and used the money to help finance various conservative groups.
Leonard Leo’s The 85 Fund received the money through the Donors Trust, a donor-advised nonprofit group that funnels money from wealthy conservative financiers to other organizations, according to a tax filing first seen by CNBC.
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA received $200,000 for a “TP Campus Project” fr…
Folks, Mohammed ( @…) has taken ill after his trip to the South to try and secure a place for his family.
It’s likely Covid.
It’s the second account I’m seeing of someone who visited the South falling ill with Covid in as many days.
Please help him cover cost of treatment in addition to everything else.
This is his fundraiser:
Elizabeth Warren Exposes All The Corporate Money Flowing To Trump's Presidential Library (Jennifer Bendery/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elizabeth-warran-donald-trump-presidential-library-bribery_n_68766871e4b0eefef0c4f890
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p77#a250715p77
How Australian men's lifestyle publisher Man of Many is countering a decline in Google referral traffic, through a registration wall, podcasts, and newsletters (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/
When the optometrist's aide asks you to read the bottom line of the card, she doesn't mean the small imprint of the card number and edition.
She was very confused, thought I couldn't read the text and numbers at all.
As we continue down this path of escalating nihilistic meme violence, it can feel like the worst things have become viral. We are drowning in the memetic effluent of a capitalist media that profits by maximizing engagement. But I wonder if anyone remembers "Pay it Forward?"
A movie came out in 2000 about a kid who started a viral kindness campaign. The idea was that you do something nice for someone else with the expectation that they do the same in the future. I never really saw the movie, but I do remember the time. There were a few weeks, maybe a few months, where people started doing it. People would just be randomly nice, and everything actually just started feeling better.
Over time, the world caught up. Capitalism consumed the whole thing, and life went back to normal. 9/11 happened the next year, and the US started down the path of becoming the most twisted and evil version of itself. But there was a short time that doing nice stuff was a viral meme, a thing that people just started doing.
Gun violence doesn't have to be the only viral meme we have. We can make good things happen too.