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„I would not be surprised if Musk hopes to displace the USD (to ‘denationalise’ the dollar) and to replace the world’s reserve currency with ‘privatised’ cryptocurrencies, that both Musk and Trump are now invested in. Both are fearsome prospects, but under this administration, entirely plausible.“
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Trump, Crypto and a Billionaire Coup?
Do US Treasury impoundments and crypto pose a threat to the US dollar - the world’s reserve currency?

#todayilearned that the US census page went down with others. [1]
PSA: Now is a good time to pull some local copies of datasets and knowledge bases.
Spinning up a small homelab for stuff like #kiwix and backups is easy with

Federal Webpages Go Dark as Trump Administration Removes Public Data
Census.gov went down late Friday, as did the FAA's website, and health datasets from the CDC and other sites.

If you have time to call your rep today to oppose HR
9495, please do. It could give the next admin power to revoke non-profits’ tax exempt status just because they don’t like it. Below is a script to read and the link to find your rep (and their contact info).
https://ziplook.house.gov/htbin/findrep_house

«Schon wieder Ausfälle bei #Microsoft 365:
Erneut gibt es Probleme mit den #Office #Web-Anwendungen. Auch das #Admin…

Schon wieder Ausfälle bei Microsoft 365
Erneut gibt es Probleme mit den Office-Webanwendungen. Auch das Admin Center ist betroffen.

[ April 10, 2025 - April 11, 2025] Conference or similar: AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT https://philevents.org/event/show/125022

AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically after ChatGPT
The advent of increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous forms of artificial intelligence poses a challenge to understandings of the human place in the cosmos in ways perhaps as profound as the Copernican Revolution.  And while artificial general intelligence is not yet and may never be a reality, digital technologies are already introducing powerful new possibilities for deception, surveillance, and bias, exacerbating polarization, and changing the meaning of intimacy, care, creati…