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Industries paying for an authoritarian regime: AI and crypto. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/ai-crypto-trump-super-pacs-stash-millions-spend-midterms-rcna256622

AI, crypto and Trump super PACs stash millions to spend on the midterms
Political groups tied to the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence industries have raked in tens of millions of dollars, according to new campaign finance reports.

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Melenas:
🎵 K2
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Ripple co-founder Chris Larsen and crypto evangelist Tim Draper plan to spend millions this year on an effort to elect moderate California legislators (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/us/poli

California Crypto Billionaires Plan to Spend Tens of Millions on Moderate Candidates
Chris Larsen and Tim Draper, two outspoken Silicon Valley leaders, are planning to spend tens of millions of dollars to elect moderate state lawmakers this year.

Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…

Malanka: Ukraine's winter ritual of masks, mischief, and good fortune: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/31/malanka-ukraines-winter-ritual-of.html

»Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations:
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.«
On the one hand, I don't understand the people who use it, but on the other hand, a company that people don't care about because people are a product.
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Massive AI Chat App Leaked Millions of Users Private Conversations
Chat & Ask AI, which claims 50 million users, exposed private chats about suicide and making meth.

drosophila_flybi: Fruit fly protein interactions (Drosophila melanogaster)
Binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 8723 PPIs among 2939 proteins. The iteractions were identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis.
This network has 2939 nodes and 8723 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Trump’s SNAP Rules Are About to Imperil Food Access for Millions – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/trumps-snap-rules-are-about-to-imperil-food-access-for-millions/

The New Year health-insurance shock facing millions of Americans (The Economist)
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2025/12/30/the-new-year-health-insurance-shock-facing-millions-of-americans
http://www.memeorandum.com/251231/p64#a251231p64