@cdarwin@c.im'Everybody is profiting':
Trump dismisses questions about more than $1 billion in crypto earnings
While fielding questions from reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota today,
Donald Trump rejected questions about the
$1.2 billion he earned from crypto businesses, according to his latest annual financial disclosure.
“We have funds that run my money well. I’ve made a lot of money before I became president,” Trump said.
“They’re big institutions…
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaColorado Revises Its AI Act: What Changed and Why
https://fpf.org/blog/colorado-revises-its-ai-act-what-changed-and-why/
@…
…
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Dr. Hoynes said that one possible explanation for the benefits seen in the Flint study was that the money enabled low-income women to access prenatal care earlier and act on advice to stop smoking, which is closely correlated with poor birth outcomes."
"While the cash-transfer sums were relatively modest, more than half of mothers in Flint earn under $10,000 a year.
“A $1,500 check for a poor person is a pretty good stress reliever,” Dr. Paneth said."
@markhburton@mstdn.socialI’ve signed a letter calling for Andy Burnham to clarify his views on control or ownership of public services. Can you sign and share it as well?
https://weownit.org.uk/act-now/sign-our-open-letter-to-andy-burnham
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSometimes it makes sense to act smart rather than brute-force.
For example, when Intel makes another #MKL release and you get version like "2026.0.0", and you need to figure out the remaining "-n" suffix for the .deb packages. And you really don't want to start a Debian container to figure that out.
Well, you could just keep brute-forcing until you find the right number. Or you can figure out that the index URL is #Gentoo
@bourgwick@heads.socialwell, the bummer news is that william tyler had to cancel, but the opposite-of-bummer news is that a truly wig-flipping replacement has consented to blow our minds instead. come to mama tried tomorrow, peel slowly, & see! plus our pal ted barron's spinning 45s all night. https://heads.social/@bourgwick/116619
@cdarwin@c.imThe financialization of the American electoral process is well documented.
Now two key progressive legislators are proposing a new law to do something about it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Democratic Rep. Summer Lee (PA-12) introduced the
"Abolish Super PACs Act" on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
It’s a measure they say will eliminate one the primary ways billionaires funnel cash into elections: super PACs.
The bill would limit donations to super PACs t…
@cdarwin@c.imPrior to 1865, many Afro-Texans reclaimed their sovereignty and autonomy
-- well before the federal government acknowledged their basic humanity,
though there’s a dearth of centralized information about Black placemaking in Texas from this time.
This reclamation was called “marronage”
—a term borrowed from French for this act of antebellum self-emancipation.
The word most often refers specifically to runaway slaves, or “maroons,”
who broke free to set up…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI wish Tucker Carlson was less well-trained in the forensic arts.
Heard him on Vox’s “Today Explained” being extremely precise in what he said, what he evaded, and where he steered his filibusters. And I hate the fact that some of it makes partial sense. If you accept his factual premises, he makes a LOT of sense.
I am not sure that it matters whether “young white men” are deluded or not, if they’ve all been convinced that they are being oppressed. People act on their beliefs, n…
