@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 6 betting: Expert backs Bills in money line favorites parlay while locking 49ers in underdog parlay
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee…
@timbray@cosocial.caThe collapse of First Brands (it’s not just you, few had heard of them) is *probably* not the pin that pops the current bubble, but it’s entertaining. Wall Street will reliably engage in lethal/suicidal business practices given the chance.
But that bubble-popping pin is incoming.
Matt Levine: https://newsletterhunt.com/em…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioProclaming you’re a LGBTQ ally and then giving money to Nazis is literally worse then just giving money to Nazis
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWhat David said :) 💯
And more so, please remember that @… and I couldn’t hold the verification calls without @… and @…
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.pageAnti-Money Laundering Machine Learning Pipelines; A Technical Analysis on Identifying High-risk Bank Clients with Supervised Learning
Khashayar Namdar, Pin-Chien Wang, Tushar Raju, Steven Zheng, Fiona Li, Safwat Tahmin Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09127
@cdarwin@c.imTrump orders Defense Dept. to issue military paychecks during shutdown
Trump said that the Pentagon would repurpose money to make payroll,
as military service members were poised to miss paychecks on Wednesday.
Most other government workers will not be paid.
https://www.…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Ol' Dirty Bastard ft. Kelis:
🎵 Got Your Money
#OlDirtyBastardftKelis
https://djchrisdiablo.bandcamp.com/track/ol-dirty-bastard-kelis-got-your-money-dj-chris-diablo-dubstep-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YYd5MLpu45J0uLrMdivF7
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialGreat news.
EU approves legal workaround to sideline Orbšn, keep Russian assets frozen forever. The EU’s decision undermines the Kremlin’s hopes of unfreezing the money under a post-war peace settlement.
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-approve…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeCheck out today's Metacurity for a comprehensive run-down of crucial cybersecurity developments you should know, including
--Yanluowang initial access broker faces up to 53 years in prison following guilty plea,
--CBO breach is considered 'ongoing,'
--Asahi's shipments are at 10% following attack and ahead of holiday season,
--Payments by British insurers for cyber incidents have tripled,
--Chinese national faces UK sentencing this week for money …
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialI would not be unhappy if the Federal shutdown goes on through noon (EST) on January 20, 2029.
It may be a pain to many of us - and we should be charitable and understanding when dealing with people who are being hurt.
But at least if there is no money being appropriated to the Executive, it's ability to do damage will be somewhat (but only somewhat) constrained.
(I fully anticipate El Cheeto going outside of our Constitution [again] and pulling money directly from the …
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioHarvard’s business model is raking in ungodly amounts of money selling that name to the offspring of the ultra-wealthy, however deserving or undeserving, and then investing it.
(Harvard does to its credit use a portion of that money to subsidize access for the highly deserving and underprivileged. I’ve seen the “tuition paid” graph for Harvard, and it’s very roughly ~20% pay nothing and ~40% pay full freight and their family has more money than everyone you’ve every known combined.)
2/
@UP8@mastodon.social⚡ Letting EVs take a load off the grid could result in 'negative emissions' while saving drivers money
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-evs-grid-result-negative-emissions.html
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialThe thing about the headlong dash to AI is that it makes very clear that there is just SO MUCH money just sloshing around waiting for an opportunity.
Money that was made by tightening the screws on the labour force another turn, that they didn't even know what to do with.
Money ground of an increasingly oppressive system that they didn't even have anything to spend it on.
Money that could have been making the world a better place all along, except that wasn't…
@servelan@newsie.socialIf Trump Has Raked in Trillions, Where Is the Money? - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/economy/if-trump-has-raked-in-trillions-where-is-the-money/
@marcel@waldvogel.family
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThat was the weirdest thing about the Metaverse: That Mark Zuckerberg having more money than god couldn't spend a few buck on people who could actually develop a compelling vision for their toy.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115350074152009101
@Techmeme@techhub.socialScribe, which helps enterprises identify where AI and automation investments will yield genuine returns, raised a $75M Series C at a $1.3B post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/10/scribe…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deprosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper
@benb@osintua.eu'Gift for Putin' — Czech public raises money for 1 Flamingo missile for Ukraine, Fire Point to provide 2: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/gift-for-putin-czech-public.html
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDel. Eleanor Holmes Norton's Reelection Campaign Is Nearly Broke as Challenges Mount (Taylor Giorno/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/money/eleanor-holmes-norton-reelection-money-campaign-broke-dc
http://www.memeorandum.com/251008/p113#a251008p113
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMoney manager Mario Gabelli said it's "highly likely" he will tender his clients' WBD shares to Paramount in an effort to spark a bidding war for WBD (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieYesterday I found myself on France24, discussing AI policy for 40 mins.
You just never know where your day is going to end up.
Anyway, it was actually a really good discussion as all the panelists tried to push past questions of money and shares to consider society and its values.
https://youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineDe naïviteit van de Nederlandse overheid.
https://social.ftm.nl/@FTM_nl/115699168453607501
@gevoel@mastodon.greenFollow the money: 50%/van de algoritmes van de belastingdienst zijn illegaal.
https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/meer-da…
@brian_gettler@mas.toAnyone know how much OpenAI charges for ChatGPT Edu? I'd love to know how much of my institution's actual mission will go unfunded thanks to its decision to sink money into this particular brand of snake oil.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeFun observation: The CONFIG and CALIB registers on the PIC12F683 contain 12 documented bits each.
The physical die layout, however, contains 25 fuse cell instances not 24. So there is one undocumented bit, perhaps a chicken bit for something or an extra calibration setting, or maybe a parity check over some or all of the other fuses.
If it's an actual config bit my money is on bit 5 of CALIB which is documented as unimplemented/RAZ.
Maybe it's not? Or maybe it's…
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialIn a new Swedish V2G trial, parking enforcement vehicles will generate revenue not only during their money-making rounds on the streets, but also while parked in a garage: with #V2G, they will feed energy back into the grid at high prices and charge at low prices.
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialBasic Instructions. Link in alt.
@deabigt@universeodon.comJust a reminder, before the ACA, insurance could cancel your insurance if you got sick, years into a policy, claiming a preexisting condition. Blue Cross did this to me in 2005.
Trump calls for giving federal health insurance money ‘directly to the people’ as shutdown talks drag on https://ground.news/article/trump-calls-for-giving-federal-health-insurance-money-directly-to-the-people-as-shutdown-talks-drag-on_c1f8ec
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI'm happy that Brad Lander is running, but extremely unhappy about the way I found out. It wasn't from social media, or a newspaper... no, it was from a text message asking me for money, with an ActBlue link. At least it wasn't fucking NGP VAN, I guess..
@cheryanne@aus.socialAgriCoach Wealth & Wisdom Podcast By The Financial Bloke
For Farming Families Who Want More Money matters...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-financial-bloke-wealth-and-wisdom/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialWhen "self-driving" cars were first getting some hype back in ~2015 or so, I told people who asked me that I didn't think they'd be safe, and that I wished the same money were being invested in driver-assistance systems instead.
At the time, advocates were claiming that self-driving cars would be safer than human drivers.
We now have both self-driving cars and some nifty new driver assistance things, and it turns out that the self-driving cars are in fact being developed by corporations whose attention to the bottom line results in danger to others on the road pretty regularly. I don't actually have stats here for whether they're "safer than human drivers" or not, but the opportunity for one bad software update to make *all* self-driving cars dangerous at once kinda makes me doubt that.
Here's an example of Waymo cars getting "more aggressive" as they try to balance between being too timid and obstructing traffic (including emergency vehicles) and being too dangerous:
https://archive.ph/JJuGv
Here's another example of passing stopped schoolbusses leading to a software recall:
https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/News/waymo-issue-voluntary-software-recall-after-close-calls/story?id=128207776
In the first article, Waymo claims 91% fewer serious accidents per mile. Obviously an independent audit would be actually trustworthy, but even if we take that claim at face value, it's meaningless if an update tomorrow causes 100,000 accidents.
Note that they could be using better engineering practices, and the fact that they aren't shows that they don't care enough about the risks. They could be deploying new software versions incrementally and slowly, letting new versions rack up lots of miles only on a few vehicles before pushing them to a fleet. The should also have the equivalent of a simulation unit test for "schoolbus is stopped, what do?" and if a software version fails that test, it doesn't make it to the fleet. Clearly they don't have that.
I feel pretty vindicated in my earlier prediction that this tech is a bad idea in the hands of the current advocates.
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This
@markhburton@mstdn.socialReformUK and their ilk keep claiming it is easy for asylum seekers. Like if they eventually get settled status, the Home Office immediately makes them homeless. So easy for them, our beneficent welfare system. That's after living on a pittance while awaiting a decision, so no spare money to put down for a deposit.
Andy Burnham makes demand after claims government policies creating homelessness - Manchester Evening News
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca#jukeboxfridaynight
#MusicWithImpact
After a 2nd cup of coffee, my choice this week has to be Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles. My 1st album bought with my own money when I was 12 years old. I survived...
A Day In The Life - The Beatles
https://youtu.be/UYeV7jLBXvA?si=7w-gjN4Ue4AVaTTT
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comBillionaire Peter Thiel, founder of defence contractor Palantir, famed for exploring receiving blood transfusions from teenagers for longevity purposes, says that tax is a tool of the Antichrist.
"Thiel said that international financial bodies, which make it more difficult for people to shelter their wealth in tax havens, are one sign the antichrist may be amassing power and hastening Armageddon, saying: “"It's become quite difficult to hide one's money."”
…
@markrsmith@smithtodon.orgThe week beginning 9/7/2025 is giving the week of 9/9/2001 a run for its money
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioSure would be cool if one of the big tech companies would give the Internet Archive money to make a full-text searchable index of the Wayback Machine.
@pre@boing.worldDespite 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta's new model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in 2026 as a "closed" model, a move Alexandr Wang advocates, shifting from Meta's open-source strategy (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@benb@osintua.euThe cost of war: Is Russia running out of money to continue the fight?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/10/the-cost-of-war-is.html
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe thing is, Harvard’s lucrative position •could• cut the other way. As @… put it, “What’s the point of having fuck-you money if you never say ‘fuck you?’”
Harvard has that kind of money. They •could• choose to be a mission-based org and fight back. There have been inklings of that in recent months: they’ve said no, they’ve countersued.
4/
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys owner Jerry Jones will not appeal NFL's $250,000 fine over middle finger https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/10/11/cowboys-owner-jerry-jones-no-appeal-middle-finger-fine/…
@cdarwin@c.imRight-wing billionaire Peter Thiel recently told an audience that he pushed Tesla CEO and fellow billionaire Elon Musk not to give money to charity and instead horde it so it could be used to battle a future “Antichrist.”
According to a Thursday Reuters report, Thiel told attendees of closed-door event in San Francisco last month that he pressed Musk to rescind his commitment to the Giving Pledge, the charitable campaign cofounded by Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates that asks signatories…
@servelan@newsie.socialHustle, muscle and grift: How the manosphere has grown into a money-making machine
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-hustle-muscle-grift-manosphere-grown.html
@marcel@waldvogel.familyPaul Krugman compares the current US policy on digital media to a country trying to sell you illegal drugs: They know that what they sell harms people, but they have the money and power to make sure you will not intervene.
Very powerful comparison. #MustRead
"America has, in practice, become a digital narco-state."
@BBC6MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialPuck: Disney offered YouTube the same rates as major distributors at least for ESPN, but YouTube wants to pay less; Disney is losing $30M/week without YouTube (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/11/youtube-tv-rate-report-disney-losses/
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders-Broncos betting: Sharp money moves spread, total https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/raiders-broncos-betting-sharp-money-moves-spread-total-3591305/
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social“an EV owner in Shenzhen, told Rest of World he earned 1,400 yuan ($197) in charging credits after leaving his car in a #V2G-enabled parking lot for two days. The money he earned was enough to cover his charging costs for an entire year. The parking lot that Li used, however, was one where power..
@NFL@darktundra.xyzSelf-learning AI reveals NFL against the spread, over/under and money-line picks for every Week 6, 2025 game
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ai-nfl-spread-overunder-money-lin…
@nohillside@smnn.chThat‘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
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -
@UP8@mastodon.social🏚️ Half a million young Californians aren't in school or work. Most are men
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-09/half-a-million-young-californians-arent-in-school-or-work-most-are-men
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: Meta's new AI model, codenamed Avocado, may launch in spring 2026 as a "closed" model, and was trained using Google's Gemma, OpenAI's gpt-oss, and Qwen (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeSo Korea's Coupang's cyber insurance gives it coverage of only around $682,000.
https://www.chosun.com/english/market-money-en/2025/12/08/KXCKOF2BYJEFHJQJDYZI6MQZSE/
@mro@digitalcourage.social💬 #PlainText #Accounting with #hledger (FOSS for All presentation) | Plain Text Accounting forum
@mlawton@mstdn.socialI had thought this to be the 3rd of 3 really tough games. Win one and I’d be happy because entering this stretch, #LFC were really playing poorly. We’ve won 2 and I thought we’re playing with house money.
City, at home, have been excellent and LFC less so. I was braced for a loss and at peace with that possibility. Bad luck on two goals can happen, but damn this officiating farce. I am livid abou…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caI am glad that Canada remains at the top of the list of non-USA donors to Ukraine, though I am a little skeptical whether that money or materiel has actually gotten to Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gpzep9n8et
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions (Aaron Krolik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/technology/how-a-cryptocurrency-helps-criminals-launder-money-and-evade-sanctions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.608.uAB_.cwdtsJaviTeJ&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p15#a251207p15
@cdarwin@c.imThe philanthropist MacKenzie Scott
announced on Tuesday that she had made donations in the past year
totaling nearly $7.2 billion,
vaulting the total value of her gifts to over $26 billion.
Since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos,
Ms. Scott has come to embody a new brand of philanthropy.
She has made large gifts to nonprofits that were distinguished
not just by their dollar value
but by the fact that she gave without dictating how the money s…
@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ieNew Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
I try to explain all of this AI thing in one article, and suggest why it is hostile to democracy, to humanity but also happily likely to end with the would-be tech Sun Kings taking trips to the financial guillotine.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-the-sou
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys Owner Jerry Jones Makes Major Decision on $250,000 Fine https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/jerry-jones-no-appeal-fine/?adt_ei=[email]
@pre@boing.worldDaniel 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
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.com"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period."
https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Calico:
🎵 Money Cars Clothes Hoes
#Calico
https://calicosea.bandcamp.com/track/money-cars-clothes-hoes
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow "cash to crypto" swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions (Aaron Krolik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/technol
@brian_gettler@mas.toI know many academics, especially in these dark days, have to deal with worse, but it's obnoxious when the university takes a few years to slowly smother the cost-sharing program that you wrote into your successful grant application. Where I once had the money to hire the undergrad RAs the project needs, I now have enough for maybe a sixth of the planned hours.
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThis is just such a waste of money.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115343249383566862
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itSo Trump is targeting NY's AG with bullshit charges. The AG is sending me emails that look like every single other generic Democrat "we need $15 to fight!" nonsense email, which makes me much less inclined to actually send her money.
![From: Team James <info@jamesforny.com>
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@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders-Broncos betting: Sharp money moves line, total for ‘TNF’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/raiders-broncos-betting-sharp-money-moves-line-total-for-tnf-3533443/
@inthehands@hachyderm.io“The market has too much money not enough ideas.”
That one sentence from @… has a hell of a lot of explanatory power. https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115519429699854085
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.deprosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 10 betting: Bucs, 49ers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@UP8@mastodon.social🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chinese-criminals-made-more-than-1-billion-from-those-annoying-texts/ar-AA1OtOzx
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeYowzer, take a break from reading all the election news by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--EU cops bust money launderers who set up crypto fraud network,
--OFAC sanctions DPRK firms for supporting criminal activity,
--Probe reveals how easy it is to intercept EU and NATO sensitive movement data,
--KC PD hack exposes misconduct details,
--Nikkei Slack hack exposes data on 17K employees an…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comBillionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money (Samantha Hancox-Li/Liberal Currents)
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires-are-hoarding-power-not-money/#/portal/signup
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p29#a251010p29
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, Alaa is still in the North. She cannot evacuate due to lack of money.
Please help if you can.
💕
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified
@cheryanne@aus.socialMind Over Money
The podcast that helps Australian's have finances that work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US sanctions eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes for the North Korean government (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)
https://cyberscoop.com/north-korean-co…
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialRead, think and conclude we have a mentally impaired and dangerous person as president of the US.
#Trump
@pre@boing.worldBedroom is done! Well. Builders are finished anyway. I still have to buy a bed and stuff to put in it, and since I've spent all my money that'll have to wait until payday. And then it's nearly xmas so probably better to wait until January.
There's a clasp missing to hold the window shutters shut. The one we had was too big. Should be able to screw one in myself tomorrow.
Doing all the lights and stuff will takes months and months probably.
But I can go back to sleeping in late instead of getting up to let the builders in every day.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn an unaired segment of his 60 Minutes interview on Nov. 2, Trump said CBS paid him a lot of money to settle his lawsuit over Kamala Harris' 2024 interview (Sean James/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/media/paid-me-…
@tante@tldr.nettime.org"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
https://
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Tariffs Are a Massive Money Grab. That's Why They Are in Trouble. (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-tariffs-are-a-massive-money-grab-thats-why-they-are-in-trouble-cc88c1a1
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p75#a251106p75
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comI think my immediate hot take about the news that the US military is going all-in on AI is: a growing dread that this gives AI vendors access to the bottomless hole that the US likes to throw its money into, aka the defense budget — thus postponing the inevitable burst of the AI bubble.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThe trouble with being Harvard is that your name is the most valuable thing you own. It’s bigger than anything the institution actually does.
Yes, there are some amazing and excellent people at Harvard — and some utter dingbats, as anywhere else — but whatever actual excellence Harvard offers in education or research is secondary. Harvard is a •brand• first and foremost. It’s a name people put on their resumes to make themselves worth more money in capitalism’s eyes.
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@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115510783495155340
One thing that, to my surprise, sells really quickly is old computer books from the 1980s (stuff like "Machine Programs for the Apple II").
I guess perhaps they're cheap to ship (in the US, the post office has a special low rate for packages with books or music) and nice small treats for people?
Regardless, it's a nice win, I free up space and get some pocket money, the books go to someone who will love and care for them. :)
@cdarwin@c.imThis fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comAppeals court revives Trump's effort to remove hush money case to federal court (Aaron Katersky/Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-revives-trumps-effort-remove-hush-money/story?id=127256521
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p72#a251106p72
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 14 betting: Bears vs. Packers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
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@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. just bailed out Argentina
Argentine President Javier Milei,
a staunch ally of Donald Trump,
hailed the initiative
-- even as some MAGA supporters grumble.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announcing Thursday a
$20 billion economic support package
-- and the purchase of Argentine pesos
aimed at stabilising the South American nation’s volatile markets.
“Lending money to Argentina is easy;
getting repaid is what is hard,”
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn an email to customers, Venmo says Venmo users and PayPal users will be able to send each other money natively in the app in the US and worldwide in November (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/venmo-an…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangehttps://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
@pre@boing.worldPrem 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzAgent's Take: Biggest individual dead money charges in 2025, including Daniel Jones still costing the Giants
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-…
@NFL@darktundra.xyzJoe Flacco trade grades: Bengals get desperate; Browns find free money https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6697615/2025/10/07/joe-flacco-trade-grade-bengals-browns/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialQ&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…
