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The sunk cost fallacy keeping millions of people on multiple websites that directly pay Nazis is one of the darkest fucking marks of the current epoch. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-caught-paying-nazis-to-post-on-facebook

Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.

A look at Alpha, an invite-only Discord server of ~30 mostly Gen Z Polymarket traders who pool research and capital and have made an estimated $40M since 2024 (Niamh Rowe/Financial Times)
https://app.ft.com/content/ac1f4db2-54fe-4a36-b3db-bb96675231f5

X rolls out X Money to US Premium and Premium subscribers, combining a deposit account with up to 6% APY, free instant transfers on X, and a Visa debit card (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/27/x-money-apple-wallet/

X Money officially launches in the US with Apple Wallet support after invite-only beta - 9to5Mac
X has officially launched X Money, which includes Apple Wallet support, moving the service beyond its invite-only beta and beginning a...

Hey #Ireland, I have an idea: How about we declare this son of a bitch persona non grata and then he can go and try to sue the whole damn nation if he’s able.
What a dickhead.
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Peter Thiel’s Dialog is suing Powerscourt Hotel over cancelled invite-only conference
The case was lodged before the High Court’s commercial division, which hears disputes involving more than €1 million.

The Mastodon "invite only" situation on many servers got so bad that now people are begging for invites on reddit.
It's really not great for the long term sustainability of the platform when it's so hard to join.
And no, I don't have any idea how to solve the spamming issue that caused so many servers to switch to invite only in the first place

Profile of Noah Shinn, founder of AI assistant Instinct, who soft-launched it as an invite-only site for VCs, and is reportedly fundraising at a $10B valuation (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/noah-shinn-instinct-ai-competes-meta-muse-2026-9…

Meet Noah Shinn, whose Instinct AI competes with Meta's Muse
Instinct, founded by 23-year-old Noah Shinn, captured investors' attention with rapid growth. Now, it's competing with Meta's Muse.

GitHub plans a two-tier bug bounty system, cutting rewards for public reports and boosting payouts for an invite-only group, amid an AI-powered submission surge (Carly Page/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/07

GitHub slashes public bug bounty payouts as AI report flood buries its security team
Code shack also putting new limits on first-time researchers, and reserving the biggest rewards for a hand-picked group of proven hunters