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Court filing: SEC drops a case against Gemini Trust, founded by the Winklevoss twins, major Trump donors; the case stemmed from Gemini Earn's implosion (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/politics/sec-crypto-winklevoss.html

S.E.C. Drops Case Against Cryptocurrency Firm Founded by Winklevoss Twins
The agency says that victims of an investment offering involving Gemini Trust got their money back, though after a regulatory action brought by the New York attorney general.

AI companies are raising at valuations that require them to grow at rates that are only achievable by chasing the broadest possible market with the most generic possible product.
A company that raises at a $500M valuation needs to show a path to billions in revenue,
which means it can't afford to be a niche tool that does one thing brilliantly for a specific audience.
It has to be a platform, horizontal, aimed at enterprise, built for no one in particular.
Ever…

Everyone in AI is building the wrong thing for the same reason
Every AI founder I talk to is on an accelerating treadmill, burdened by a nagging suspicion that the entire industry is moving too fast in a direction that doesn't quite make sense, with no idea about how to get off. There is an overwhelming feeling that if everyone stopped and

Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump's Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/trump-supreme-court-national-guard-chicago-errors.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.n8CY.c0U1-AqypG86&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p105#a251125p105

Merry Christmas. Thanks for following. Whether it was a fancy hat, or the latest home computer, hope you got what you wanted.

Jaguars WR Brian Thomas Jr. on tough second season: Adversity 'gives you a lot to grow from' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaguars-wr-brian-thomas-jr-on-tough-second-season-adversity-gives-you-a-lot-to-grow-from

The mechanics sorted out filling the adblue tank.
The warnings have stopped beeping and the 10 l bottle that was in the back is gone, so presumably I can trust it's in the tank now.
Sounds like much of what I have paid for was for them doing what I did: Looking all around the car for an ad-blue tank hole and taking things apart trying to find it.
But none of that is the correct solution, which is to put it up on the ramp and clamber underneath to find the tank which has some sort of lowering mechanism, to then lower it and fill it and raise it again.
Not a job for me then. Next time it'll maybe be cheaper coz of them knowing what to do now and not spending half a day trying to figure it out.
Apparently there is a second emissions reduction mechanism which doesn't take a wattery bottle of urea, but instead needs a pouch of oily tar stuff.
This is more likely to empty and need replacing next, rather than the piss bottle.
And even for normal cars that haven't been screwed up for wheelchair access this is a mechanics job anyway. And the garage will have to order in the tar pouch especially.
Back in the 90s, my first car cost about 200 quid. Today I paid 200 quid to get someone to fill it up with purified piss for emissions reduction. Oh how things change. 😆

A propos de Meta et la sécurité des utilisateurs, déclaration de Brian Boland, ancien vice-président des partenariats chez Meta :
« Mon sentiment Š l'époque, et mon sentiment aujourd'hui, c'est qu'ils ne se soucient pas vraiment de la sécurité des utilisateurs. Ce n'est pas quelque chose auquel ils consacrent beaucoup de temps. Ce n'est pas quelque chose auquel ils pensent. Et je pense vraiment qu'ils s'en moquent. »

'Eisige Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag 'icy times'
Oh I have a couple of frosty photos, but this might be one of my best. I spent quite a while there to capture the cold feeling.
Packed in multiple layers, I really spent quite a while around that spot in order to really see the right motives.
It just reminds me that I could post more of my winter photos! :)
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Five people were arrested following hundreds of investigative hours following 💥 the shooting of Judge Steven Meyer and his wife, Kimberly, in Lafayette Indiana
on Jan. 18.
Both victims were in a stable condition following the attack,
which happened around 2:17 p.m.
The judge was injured on an arm, his wife on her hip.
Raylen Ferguson, 38, from Lexington, Kentucky;
Thomas Moss, 43, from Lafayette
and Blake Smith, 32, from Lafayette,
were all ar…

5 arrested in connection with shooting of Indiana judge and his wife
Police have arrested five people as part of a multi-state investigation into the shooting of an Indiana judge and his wife while they were at home on Sunday

Here's the latest. -- Bruised by a Supreme Court setback and falling approval ratings ... (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/24/us/trump-state-of-the-union
http://www.memeorandum.com/260224/p130#a260224p130