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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:
🎵 Primer tiempo
#Melenas
https://melenas.bandcamp.com/track/primer-tiempo
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Chinese matchmaking apps like Wanmei Qinjia, which has 50M users and lets parents look for spouses for their children, surge as marriage rates continue to fall (Kohei Fujimura/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

Millions of Chinese parents join matchmaking apps to marry off adult children
Services say parent-endorsed partners are more likely to lead to marriages

Meat-Heavy US Nutrition Guidelines Will Require Millions Of Acres Of New Farmland https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/us-nutrition-guidelines-require-acres-farmland/

Meat-Heavy US Nutrition Guidelines Will Require Millions Of Acres Of New Farmland
The new US nutrition guidelines could require millions of acres of new agricultural land for high-impact animal farming

La fraude aux allocations représente moins de 30% de l'ensemble de la fraude sociale.
#Belgique #fraudesociale

This is how it's supposed to be done. Not by spreading hate and slandering immigrants.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/30/judge-clears-path-to-seize-millions-in-assets-from-aimee-bock

Ooh boy, there was a ton of major infosec developments this weekend, so check out today's Metacurity for a run-down of the important news you might have missed, including
--AI safety red lines tested as OpenAI replaces Anthropic in last-minute Pentagon deal,
--Israel reportedly hacked a widely used Iranian prayer app to urge military defections,
--Unconfirmed reports suggest large-scale cyberattacks in Iran,
--S. Korea's tax service exposed millions of crypto w…

AI safety red lines tested as OpenAI replaces Anthropic in last-minute Pentagon deal
Israel reportedly hacked a widely used Iranian prayer app to urge military defections, Unconfirmed reports suggest large-scale cyberattacks in Iran, S. Korea's tax service exposed millions of crypto wallets' seed phrases, European retailer ManoMano breach exposed 38m customers' PII, much more

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 @…

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Melenas:
🎵 Bang
#Melenas
https://troubleinmindrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bang
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Melenas:
🎵 K2
#Melenas
https://melenas.bandcamp.com/track/k2
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