@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-11-27 06:46:09
That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot
@nohillside@smnn.ch2025-11-27 06:46:09
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-08-28 05:31:00
A look at India's rationale for banning online real-money games, with IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw citing 450M people losing a combined ~$2.3B to them (Vivek Kaul/Newslaundry)
https://www.newslaundry.com/2025/08/27/the-rs-444-question-why-in…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-28 01:53:18
An initiative aimed at boosting Democrats online offers influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line.
All they have to do is keep it secret
—and agree to restrictions on their content.
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secre…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-11-26 19:54:40
Gameday Money Will Show for Chiefs; 2-Way Handle on Ohio State-Michigan https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/gameday-money-will-likely-show-chiefs-two-way-handle-ohio-state-michigan
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-26 15:56:11
Model reveals against the spread, over/under and money-line picks for every Week 4 NFL matchup
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/model-r…
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-09-27 14:14:35
Sharp money moves total on Raiders-Bears Week 4 matchup https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/sharp-money-moves-total-on-raiders-bears-week-4-matchup-3466577/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-08-28 01:05:58
Abolish ICE -- and give the money to real cops (Ilya Somin/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5471976-abolish-ice-and-give-the-money-to-real-cops/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p154#a250827p154
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 10:39:50
Content warning: bitcoin conference report
Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
--
Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-26 16:41:08
Five former Observer journalists launch the Nerve, a culture publication partly funded with their redundancy money, as part of Beehiiv's Media Collective (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-observer…
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-09-26 10:44:08
Eine App, die zahlt, während ihr plaudert? Das klingt verlockend, aber Vorsicht ist geboten! 📱💰
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10671294?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-24 17:54:41
This anonymous coward is an example of the worst of humanity.
(There is a reason his account – and yes, I will bet good money it’s a him – is anonymous.)
He is trying to smear our Gaza Verified campaign (https://gaza-verified.org) which is run by @…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-27 10:25:44
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html…
@catsalad@infosec.exchange2025-09-26 17:50:30
WOW, did you know texting currently prohibits PETTING CATS unless you see a kitty in person? Hang out with ME to PET cute kittens!
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-10-26 20:41:34
From a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.
#Bitcoin
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-26 09:00:01
Beyond SSO: Mobile Money Authentication for Inclusive e-Government in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oluwole Adewusi, Wallace S. Msagusa, Jean Pierre Imanirumva, Okemawo Obadofin, Jema D. Ndibwile
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20592
2025-09-27 03:06:50
The gym that charges their members over a hundred bucks a year is showing us the Google TV Freeplay channel. I wonder where all the membership money has gone.
But honestly, I'd rather than spending more money on better equipment over TV channel subscriptions.
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-11-26 16:12:50
Either this calculator is broken or people *really* don't pay much tax in the UK.*
Greetings from Denmark...
Budget 2025 calculator: how Reeves’ tax changes will affect your money - https://on.ft.com/48iAfmz via @FT
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-23 20:41:54
They have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
3/
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 11:20:59
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Daniel prince from Once Bitten podcast on usury and banking.
Usury is lending money, charging interest.
Aristotle thought money was for use not for interest. He thought usury unnatural.
Many religious quotes saying not to extract interest.
"Money is power" but this is not gold or paper money. It's credit. Infinite money with interest. Which breaks everything.
Imagine a mortgage. Prices of homes inflated by available interest. You have to give a deposit but the bank creates ten times that in new money! Who gets rich here? Banks are printing money. That inflates prices and dilutes money purchase power.
Not just mortgages. Business loans, repair loans, global scale of all of this.
Not only did they create that money, the charge interest on the money they created! And if you don't pay, they take the house.
One judge found this all illegal, but was soon overruled and found mysteriously dead.
What can you do eh? Only opt out. Don't take loans. Use a money that stores value instead of losing it.
#bitfest #bitcoin #banking
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-11-21 07:34:34
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634571/Russian-money-launderers-bought-a-bank-to-disguise-ransomware-profit
Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-10-25 10:47:17
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Smerz:
🎵 You Got Time and I Got Money
#Smerz
https://smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/track/you-got-time-and-i-got-money
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YDl2Oxc1mVRnZsZAbNzI0
@hanno@mastodon.social2025-11-26 17:46:46
OVH claims that they use a "quantum computer" to improve their SSL security. I'm not gonna complain about the marketing term SSL, but... no, a quantum RNG is not a quantum computer. It's also... something that has been around for decades. And QRNGs don't do anything useful. That doesn't stop some companies from selling them for a lot of money.
@servelan@newsie.social2025-10-26 17:29:45
“I'm about to pull $160 million from California, and as we pull more money, we also have the option of pulling California's ability to issue commercial driver's licenses,” Duffy said"
Trump official drops explosive threat against California: 'We have the option' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/gavin-newsom-2674234143/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-09-27 11:24:11
Great article about AI, innovation and comparing it with other innovation cycles.
"The way to invest in AI is to think through the implications of knowledge workers becoming more efficient, to imagine what markets this efficiency unlocks, and to invest in those. For decades, the way to make money was to bet on what the new thing was. Now, you have to bet on the opportunities it opens up."
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-27 06:24:08
Charlie (penguinz0) pulls back the veil on how much ad money he's made as a streamer & why he won't take donations from anyone any more.
(Spoiler: $40M in the last ~5yrs. Top streamers are filthy rich & he's not a top streamer)
▶️ I'm Not Turning It Back On - penguinz0
https://
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-11-26 13:00:43
"10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal"
#ParisAgreement #Climate #ClimateChange
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-25 23:01:41
NFL Week 13 betting: Bills vs. Steelers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@cdamian@rls.social2025-09-26 14:58:29
Friday Links 25-21
Some "AI" related stuff today, with the idea of prompt engineering being requirements engineering and how these new tools can enable non-programmers to get closer to the code.
I also liked how much Wil Wheaton likes a new metro line.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/0…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-11-25 19:51:04
On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-27 22:25:47
Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raised CA$750M co-led by Dragoneer and GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$10B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/wealthsimple-hits-10-billion-valuation…
@gray17@mastodon.social2025-11-25 19:50:57
it's odd that modern monetization is "here's 1000 words you can read for free, and if you pay me, you can have 10000 more words to read". who has time for that?
my guess is this mainly siphons from retirees who have more money than they need before they die.
non-retired people with money are too busy with the hustle. they're going to ask an LLM to hallucinate a 100 word summary.
next-level monetization is "here are 10000 words to read, and if you …
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com2025-10-27 15:53:37
@… @… Just curious, do you have a clear sense of whether processing physical checks is more or less expensive than PayPal’s processing fees?
I’d love to give money whichever way leads to the smallest cut going to someone else :)…
@CerstinMahlow@mastodon.acm.org2025-09-27 17:44:04
Just look at the start of chapter 12 of “It can’t happen here” with an excerpt of the book of dear leader. Sound familiar, doesn’t it?
I'm still wondering whether Trump (or his writer(s)) could be sued for plagiarism?
#SinclairLewis #ItCantHappenHere
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-10-27 20:17:31
College majors with the best, worst job prospects https://archive.is/hsZbT
«Even so, demand for humanities majors is on the rise, and with good reason.
At a conference last year, Robert Goldstein, the chief operating officer of BlackRock, the world’s biggest money manager, said the firm was adj…
@theodric@social.linux.pizza2025-11-27 15:17:20
A fool and his money will soon party
@raysofred@discordian.social2025-10-26 23:55:32
send me money to do unspeakable things
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2025-09-26 13:00:10
Es que, si nos das a elegir entre la pandilla de malos de película formada por Musk, Bezos, Zukerberg y Thiel o el anticristo yo lo tengo claro....
https://archive.ph/2025.09.26-115638/h
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-27 00:50:01
Always, always, ALWAYS check out the "source" of any promotional offers you get. Don't click links in the message. Go to your favorite search engine, look up the organization, and verify from there.
And if they ask for money? Run. #writingcommunity #writers
@thomastraynor@social.linux.pizza2025-09-27 11:09:17
I am looking at buying a new machine and surfing multiple sites and...
1. I don't want online only. If you have a store then I want to be able to go in and look at the machine. I don't mind that for less expensive stuff, but for the money I am putting down I want to see what I will be buying!
2. Stop showing stuff you don't have in stock. Don't have it? STOP SHOWING THE DAMNED MACHINE.
3. My favourite whine. Check boxes are just that, when I click, don&…
@davidaugust@mastodon.online2025-11-26 05:18:01
Current ethnic cleansing in US is making some a lot of money, while destroying others.
“When ICE takes…person…system around them…built to swallow everything they ever touched.”
“Towing companies profit. State agencies profit. &…people who once lived in…homes & drove…cars & held…IDs are left w/nothing but…clothes on their backs. This is not a broken system.”
“…system functioning exactly as…designed.”
@karlauerbach@sfba.social2025-10-24 23:50:51
So El Cheato wants to pay the military during the government shutdown.
OK. (But I do wonder why the military rather than people who guard nuclear stockpiles or provide emergency health care.)
The personal costs for the DoD are about $0.5 BILLION per day. Yup, half a $billion per day.
That's taxpayer money - money from you and me.
And where is it coming from? Where is the mandatory appropriation by Congress?
@raiders@darktundra.xyz2025-09-24 14:43:33
Big money win vs Raiders, can we keep the Falcons grounded? https://www.commanders.com/video/big-money-win-vs-raiders-can-we-keep-the-falcons-grounded
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-27 21:34:36
“Where’s the $50,000?”
At no point in this appearance did Homan deny accepting the money
-- He only said that he didn’t do anything illegal, as the DOJ confirmed.
And of course they would
—the agents who caught Homan with the bribe last September were reportedly waiting to see if Homan would act on the bribe as a member of the administration
-- but Trump’s DOJ closed the case.
@cobordism@berlin.social2025-09-18 11:33:26
"More than a century ago, a wild-eyed, vegetarian, free love-promoting German entrepreneur and self-taught economist named Silvio Gesell proposed a radical reformation of the monetary system as we know it. He wanted to make money that decays over time. "
https://www.noemamag.com/what-if-money-exp
@rae@bne.social2025-09-25 09:09:22
Luddites: "Any council implementing water fluoridation will pay a little bit of money but their residents will save a lot more money and save dental care treatment costs from childhood through adulthood."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-25/gym
@cheryanne@aus.social2025-10-21 02:42:44
Feminist Money
Should your gender determine your pay packet...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2025-09-26 07:35:24
"Awesome" received my first NFT scam via email. Someone wants to buy 5 photos as NFTs - for 1.5 ETH - EACH!
Who really falls for it?!
(But maybe I could make money fast 🤔)
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-27 17:55:54
Kennedy Katch And Kill Kontinued (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/kennedy-katch-and-kill-kontinued
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p37#a251127p37
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-09-17 23:13:44
😲 US sanctions fraud network used by North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ to seek jobs and steal money
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/27/us-sanctions-fraud-network-used-by-north-korea-to-seek-jobs-and-steal-money/
@blaise@mastodon.cloud2025-09-25 18:45:22
What is it about becoming a billionaire that almost immediately turns you into a raving lunatic?
https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/technology/article/palantir-founder-peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-religion-qzm…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-10-26 20:59:01
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.de2025-11-25 15:25:42
Fridays for Future – and six days a week for capitalism:
• Saturdays for Shopping
• Sundays for Syndicates
• Mondays for Money
• Tuesdays for Transactions
• Wednesdays for Whatever the Boss wants
• Thursdays for Thieving
@rberger@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 08:22:48
"As Joy-Ann Reid put it in an Instagram video: “Dear retailers who’ve decided you don’t like diversity, equity, and inclusion, or you really love ICE and you have no problem with them busting into your establishments to drag people away: Here’s the thing. We ain’t buying it. I mean, for real, for real, we ain’t buyin’ it.”
She explained: “We’re gonna spend our money with businesses who actually respect our dollars, respect our communities, and respect our diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are going to buy from people who respect immigrants, who respect immigrants’ rights, and respect freedom and liberty. We are going to buy from establishments that respect our right to vote and our right to live in a free society. And if you ain’t that, we ain’t buying it.”
“Let’s show them our power,” she told listeners. “Let’s show them what we can do together.”"
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/november-25-2025
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-09-23 16:23:34
Do you recall how kids play "shop", trading imaginary wares for imaginary money?
Capitalism is just like that, except it's adults doing that, with other adults watching them and trading even more imaginary money to have a share in their imaginary profits.
#AntiCapitalism
@brichapman@mastodon.social2025-09-26 13:29:02
New Hampshire and Vermont working on plug-in solar bills to make solar systems more accessible for residents. Utah has already passed similar legislation, with other states considering the same. #climatechange #climatesolutions
@markhburton@mstdn.social2025-09-26 06:17:11
Both BBC and ITV now presenting faux investigative journalism with same aim: show that migrants cost the 'tax payer' lots of money.
It is material aid for the fascist and xenophobic fringe.
#MigrationMoralPanic
#BBCBias
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 14:19:48
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Prem ghinde thinks that Alan is killing bitcoin.
Alan is paid in government money, and saves in bitcoin. He's an imaginary straw man.
Alan doesn't plan to spend his bitcoin though. Just stack it until he sells it. And this doesn't build the bitcoin network.
Without transitions, when the block rewards run out, there will be no money for miners. Miners will need fees, which means transactions.
Since he's paying in bank money, he's funding bankers instead of miners. He's encouraging retail to accept bank money instead of miners and lightning liquidity providers.
Unlike Alan, Prem lives on the bitcoin standard. All in. Spending sats because he has no bank money to spend. It can be done, he insists. Today. Mostly by using gift vouchers bought with bitcoin.
He's sad that people here are buying drinks from the hotel with bank cards instead of lightning.
Stop watching the price, he says, it's only a measure of government money's collapse. Change your yardstick. Account in bitcoin. Dollars aren't even money, they are currency. If you must measure, do it against gold.
Since moving to el Salvador he had learned Spanish, until he even dreams in Spanish. Try to dream in bitcoin.
Every transaction is a vote, so stop voting for bank money.
I think the main trouble with this is that tax event in every purchase, and the fact my employer won't set a wage in bitcoin even if they would convert to bitcoin to pay me.
#bitcoin #bitfest
@steve@s.yelvington.com2025-10-20 14:38:34
Voting is under way in Georgia for two seats on the utilities regulatory commission. Current GOP members are totally in the pocket of the entities they're supposed to be regulating.
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-psc-in…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-24 17:21:43
NFL Week 4 betting strategy: Top money-line parlays involving favorites, underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-4-betting-strategy-top…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-27 14:49:24
The Supreme Court upended the constitutional separation of powers on Friday afternoon
with a brief order allowing Donald Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.
In an apparent 6–3 decision,
the conservative supermajority greenlit Trump’s so-called “pocket rescission,”
ensuring that the money will expire before its intended beneficiaries receive it.
It offered a single page of vague, threadbare justification,
suggest…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-26 00:31:28
Canada's anti-money laundering agency fines crypto exchange KuCoin ~$14M for failing to report large and suspicious transactions; KuCoin appeals the decision (Nivedita Balu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/c
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-27 00:50:54
Let's Make Sure No One Wants To Visit America (Erik Loomis/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/lets-make-sure-no-one-wants-to-visit-america
http://www.memeorandum.com/251126/p120#a251126p120
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-27 00:12:15
Trump's racist dictatorship is getting even more brazen, more appalling by the day.
The Republican party's ethics are money, guns & white supremacy.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:twjze4qqf6fgxz33ct52wlnl/post/3m6ku5soo2s2c
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 20:40:43
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
The conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in.
Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves.
Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south.
I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems.
There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done.
Can it work?
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry.
I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here.
Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries.
And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system.
I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-23 20:39:35
What I mean by that is that I grew up in a world where people built wealth by convincing ever-increasing masses of people to buy ever more wasteful and useless crap: “consumer capitalism.”
Now we live in a world where customers aren’t even where the real money is. You don’t get money from customers; you get it from billionaires and investment firms.
2/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyz2025-11-28 04:29:26
Cowboys' George Pickens gets $35 million per year contract update from ESPN analyst https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/cowboys-george-pickens-gets-35-million-year-cont…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-09-25 16:19:59
Half of states don’t have enough money to cover all their bills, report finds • Louisiana Illuminator
https://lailluminator.com/2025/09/25/repub/states-bills/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-27 04:16:07
Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a post-money valuation of $230M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/this-khos…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-27 00:40:55
The prospect of families not receiving food aid has deeply concerned states run by both parties.
Democratic lawmakers have written to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins requesting to use contingency funds to cover the bulk of next month’s food aid benefits.
But a USDA memo that surfaced Friday says
“contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.”
The document says the money is reserved for such things such as helping people in disaster areas…
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-10-18 14:56:43
🧂 Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-19/cocaine-trafficking-in-colombia-moves-as-much-money-as-the-construc…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-25 00:41:08
Trump hunts for money and 'peace' in Asia (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/10/24/trump-hunts-for-money-and-peace-in-asia-00622598
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p134#a251024p134
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-22 22:15:24
Niners voided 2026 guaranteed money in WR Brandon Aiyuk's contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-voided-2026-guaranteed-money-in-wr-brandon-aiyuk-s-contract
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 10:59:21
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
A panel of people from a few different countries.
The UK, where the event is, and the US currently have money which perhaps is good enough that the people there don't see much need to replace the money. Running global reserve currency helps exploit other poorer countries. The problems are fairly invisible.
But in other countries, poorer countries with even worse money, countries more exploited by debasement of the global reserve currencies, the problems with government money are more evident. They see the need for an alternative more strongly.
Adoption is important though. Money is only money if it's widely accepted. So given the choice of more users or higher price, the panel would all pick more users.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-25 09:25:51
DealStreetAsia: VC funding in Indonesian startups fell to just $80M in H1 2025 from $200M a year earlier, as startups face fallout from corruption scandals (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/asean-money/indonesian-s…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2025-09-19 02:01:56
A profile of Aaron Parnas, a news influencer with 4.3M followers on TikTok and 600K subscribers on Substack, whose audience is valuable for top Democrats (Liz Skalka/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/feature/aaron…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-08-28 00:50:41
I wanted to send you a quick note tonight,
thanking you for supporting the Save America Movement.
We’ve taken our message straight to the White House,
DHS, Union Station, and Capitol Hill
— exposing Trump, ICE, and the profiteers behind his authoritarian movement.
The reception has been powerful. But we’re not done.
Tomorrow, the trucks will roll again. Every hour on the road costs money.
Screens, drivers, fuel — it adds up fast.
If we want to…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-22 02:09:33
Source: 49ers voided Aiyuk guaranteed '26 money https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47053369/san-francisco-49ers-voided-guaranteed-money-brandon-aiyuk-deal-2026
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-10-23 22:21:02
Distant ICE Detention Centers Bring Money--and Anger--to an Alaska Native Community (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-23/ice-detention-centers-bring-money-anger-to-alaska-native-community?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTI1MzU4MCwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODU4MzgwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNExST0RHUEw0NEgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNzM0QTk2NzVFRDg0REJEQjc3RUJGN0UxMkE4NjZCRiJ9.RJTfepB80WpN3_HCCntSQuzheX5ootiq_Y1MS05BHFY&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p133#a251023p133
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-23 19:20:54
Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Phoebe Liu, Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/202<…
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-25 22:53:11
Waitwaitwait... you mean NBA basketball, fixed/rigged games, money laundering, wire fraud & criminal betting scams... all in the one video? 🤨
▶️ Someone is About to Talk - TheFlightMike
https://youtube.com/watch?v=gAw-VPNfhx0&si=rDdM4AMcaJ8-la8X
<…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-11-22 23:46:23
Brandon Aiyuk's 2026 guaranteed money voided, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan confirms https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6829442/2025/11/22/49ers-brandon-aiyuk-kyle-shanahan-guaranteed-money/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-17 00:56:32
BBC should not pay Trump any money,
says former director general Tony Hall
It is Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after his threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer
https://www.theguardi…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-11-23 01:45:44
AOC email seeks donations for turkey giveaway -- but money goes straight to her campaign coffers (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/aoc-email-seeks-donations-for-turkey-giveaway-but-money-goes-straight-to-her-campaign-coffers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p78#a251122p78
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 14:34:40
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Short panel on merchant adoption.
Hipster burgers here in Manchester takes bitcoin. The owner says people are generally more curious than dismissive.
Gresham's law implies that people spend their worst money first. They want rid of it. When you give merchants your bank money you give them the worst money. Be kinder to merchants!
Ben from lnbits, the first merchant point of sales lightning devices, says merchants are interested because they want to have a broad portfolio. Accepting bitcoin is the easiest way to get it, without "know your customers" banking rules.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-22 01:39:31
The $40 billion Trump is sending Argentina is roughly on par with the $41.8 billion it owes the International Monetary Fund
— by far the largest debt on the organization’s books,
half of which was taken out under Milei earlier this year.
There is no benefit to working Americans from this,
and the president isn’t even pretending there is.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-23 18:30:36
Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 11:20:28
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Britain is broken, in various ways. Could adopting bitcoin help it bounce back?
Renegade Investor thinks so.
Central banks printing money causes government debt and artificially low interest rates. Their monetary policy is political and done for bankers not for people.
Bitcoin monitory policy is fixed.
Lockdown during pandemic was funded by money printing, and caused a big inflation pump and government debt increase. It caused the current cost of living crisis.
Lockdown could have been impossible under a bitcoin standard.
In pounds the cost of living has gone up lots over the last decade. But in bitcoin it's gone down massively.
He thinks wealth redistribution is taking money from productive people and giving it to those who aren't increasing the country wealth. Here I disagree entirely. Wealth is reality being taken from the workers and given to the capital owners. We are redistributing wealth towards the rich currently. Taking the wealth created by workers to give to idle owners.
I also wonder, would limited government power be good? Did the lockdown save lives? Would it do do under a worse pandemic? Limited government power may be double edged.
Not sure why he thinks immigration is funded by government, rather than immigrants increasing the country wealth. Seems to think bitcoin could reduce immigration, which I find unbelievable and undesirable.
This talk I disagree with quite a lot.
#bitcoin #bitfest #britain
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-25 15:15:48
Kraken launches a Mastercard-powered debit card with 1% cashback and multi-asset spending in the UK and EU as part of a global rollout of its Krak money app (James Hunt/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/380354/kraken-krak-cashback-d…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-10-21 17:02:01
Self-learning AI reveals NFL against the spread, over/under and money-line picks for every Week 8, 2025 game
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-against-the-spread-ov…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-24 00:38:36
Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.
@pre@boing.world2025-09-24 17:42:43
"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 01:26:09
Sources: a new network of super PACs plans to raise ~$50M to counter the Leading the Future super PAC and back candidates who prioritize AI regulations (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/ai-super-pac-anthropic.html
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2025-09-21 14:11:17
Computer model reveals against the spread, over/under and money-line picks for each Week 3 NFL contest
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/compute
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-26 06:45:27
If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, "Be my guest this time,"
accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster.
They expect you to insist on paying
—probably three times
—before they'll take your money.
This dance of refusal and counter-refusal, called taarof,
governs countless daily interactions in Persian culture
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-26 06:45:26
If an Iranian taxi driver waves away your payment, saying, "Be my guest this time,"
accepting their offer would be a cultural disaster.
They expect you to insist on paying
—probably three times
—before they'll take your money.
This dance of refusal and counter-refusal, called taarof,
governs countless daily interactions in Persian culture
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 10:56:00
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Kitchen Mishap takes us through some bitcoin visualisations.
Max keiser promoted KM to buy, and he learned from antonopolis book. So he started trying to graph it since software for money is scary if there's bugs you can lose lots of other people's money.
He spirals blocks around the years, rendering views of the whole chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #dataVis
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 11:34:36
Content warning: re: bitcoin conference report
Geyser is a crowdfunding system.
Lots of history of patrons raising funds from the public for art works or public infrastructure.
Kickstarter and the like on the internet made this much easier. But it's all bank money which is conservative and restrictive. Not global. High fees and middle men.
So doing it freely with bitcoin makes some sense. Censorship resistance and global scope.
Geyser has been running and funding projects for a while. Non custodial and money goes to creators only if target reached in time, otherwise returned.
All open source in smart contracts on chain.
#bitfest #bitcoin #crowdfunding
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-19 13:06:05
Mastodon, the nonprofit behind the social network, plans to offer paid hosting, moderation, and support services for organizations joining the fediverse (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/mast
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-23 02:42:28
Ukraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-09-13 21:26:01
Hike, which was valued at $1.4B in 2016 and has since pivoted from a messaging app to a real-money gaming app, shuts down following India's ban on such apps (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/hike-once-…
