@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…
@benb@osintua.eu🔥 BUDANOV KNOWS! Servicemen, money, resources: what will Russia lack in 2026?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/budanov-knows-servicemen-money-resources.html
@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-…
@mapto@qoto.org
@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-…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzSharp money moves line on lightly bet Raiders-Chiefs season finale https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/sharp-money-moves-line-on-lightly-bet-raiders-chiefs-season-finale-3603393/
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MechanicalBreakdown
Donna Summer:
🎵 She Works Hard for the Money
#DonnaSummer
https://manumedina.bandcamp.com/track/donna-summer-she-works-hard-for-the-money-manu-medina-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/3FlOciKDqFlTMPeC7t92Qy
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotDear @…, thank you so much for this podcast. It makes me think very carefully about the narratives that I am trying to write. But let me in turn urge you to reject the thought that 'there is no alternative' to money.
Money is the vector which transmits the disease of capitalism.
Accidental Gods: Thoughts from the Edge: Navigating the turbulent seas…
@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://
@yaya@jorts.horseread this as rocket money and 400 "rocket money by quicken loans" podcast ads started playing in my head simultaneously https://mastodon.social/@hellyeahbot/115483802392810229
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialPeople that support Trump are followers of a satanic idol who couldn't be more immoral & less ethical.
✅ How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn 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://www.earth.org.uk/note…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesOne one side i'd rather have those large corporations spend their money in the economy instead of holding cash in the bank account of their billionnaire owners.
On the other hand, it's hard to think there is anything sustainable to the amount of money spent on AI right now.
Screenshot from Bloomberg this morning
#FAANG
@anneroth@systemli.socialYou use @… ? A mail account or a mailing list? Please help to keep it going:
"We ask that individuals with email accounts or owners of lists give monthly or yearly.
If you are broke, live in the global South, or live somewhere with a devalued currency, we don’t expect you to give. This means that those with money in the global North should contrib…
@cheryanne@aus.socialMind Over Money
The podcast that helps Australian's have finances that work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods
@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
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialWas Stereo Total trying to warn us when they sang:
Big money
Big system
Big fame
Big brother
No, no, no, no, I don't need it
@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
@detondev@social.linux.pizzathere was a magical mattress in an old loner's boston apartment which always had some money under it every day, never more than five dollars.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itBig gub'mint trying to keep me from enjoying my shredded metal & cheese that I bought with my hard-earned money. I thought this was AMERICA!!!
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaUkrainian intelligence fakes commander's death, takes 0.5M bounty from russians.
https://kyivindependent.com/ukraines-hur-faked-death-of-top-anti-putin-russian-commander-claimed-kremlin-bounty-money/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comCBS News heavily edits Trump 60 Minutes interview, cutting boast network 'paid me a lotta money' (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-cbs-60-minutes-interview-edited
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p70#a251103p70
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGB News pays substantial libel damages to Islamic Relief after airing false claims that the charity sent money to terrorist groups in the Middle East (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co…
@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
@servelan@newsie.social‘How Tf Is This Legal?’: Trump PAC Threatens His Own Supporters with ‘Punishment’ If They Don’t Send Money Fast Enough
https://atlantablackstar.com/2026/01/01/trump-pac-threatens-his-own-supporters-with-punishment-if-they-dont-send-money-fast-enough/
@peterhoneyman@a2mi.social[M]any consumers might not realize the privacy risks just by glancing at the flyer sent to them, according to Florian Schaub, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
"The privacy policy is very specific that we're going to track everything, including what you do in Incognito Windows. Previously anonymous data may now be identifiable. All those risks are not disclosed here," Schaub said, after reviewing a copy of the flyer.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 14 betting: Bears vs. Packers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social#GamesDoneQuick just started!
A whole week of amazing speedruns is ahead of us, raising money for charity and being generally pretty cool all around (trans rights!).
If you haven't heard of this before, check out the schedule at #GDQ2026
@rigo@mamot.frI think the concept is similar to Amazon who has killed retail to get a dominant position and then to monetize that position. The AI stuff is cheap and we shall get used to it. And then they slowly start boiling the frog. First, because it is integrated everywhere and one can't escape it. Second, because we lose our ability to do without.
IMHO, this bet can go terribly wrong if people will not become dependent on AI, just use it where it makes sense and is affordable.
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe first large project that I took on basically alone in a large environment was polishing the custom-crafted system for feeding printers into something less support-ticket-generating at Daimler-Chrysler. That provides a rough date... The original author (who had become management) praised my work.
It got me a promotion of sorts. I graduated to no longer being required to work on printer issues or with anyone who might have printer issues.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 11 - Gambit
AVON: Yes, well, that makes it all worthwhile.
VILA: I mean, you give me a warm feeling right here, around the money belt.
AVON: We are going to need some kind of casing for Orac.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/103 B7B2
@hansaplast42@social.wastedalpaca.wtfWalmart Precision Bombing
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNJlzKWSKob/
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeMake passive income today by training a crow to pick pockets for cash! :brdRobe:
@cdarwin@c.imUkraine's military intelligence (HUR)
⭐️faked the death of Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK),
⭐️and claimed the bounty placed on his head by Russia's intelligence service,
HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov revealed on Jan. 1.
"Welcome back to life," Budanov said on a Telegram video,
while congratulating Kapustin and the intelligence team involved in the operation
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Lady:
🎵 Money
#NowPlaying #Lady
https://zackeyforcefunk.bandcamp.com/track/cocaine-lady
https://open.spotify.com/track/6gknJVkbQb8jkAXbXx0SYA
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca @Techmeme@techhub.socialJimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@katrinakatrinka@infosec.exchangeMike Schultz, the same weirdo from Hooper, Utah who thought he should have a say in my Millcreek representative choice by creating and funding a PAC that tried to trans scare people out of voting for the progressive candidate.
Thankfully, my neighbors and I like trans people and voted for a candidate that does, too.
Now, it appears Mike is using public funds to attack a judge who is following the law and upholding the power of the people, from whom the legislature gets its power…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA bit out of date and it is gross figures. So some money comes in e.g. via rubberneck tourists, but my guess is that's typically overestimated.
The Windsors (Battenburg Saxe-Coburgs) cost a lot, 8 times more per citizen than Spain's Bourbons.
Here’s how much Europe’s royal families really cost | CNN
https://…
@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
@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
@jamestdg@mastodon.worldFor those of you who are wondering where I have been, as I barely get any sort of attention on my artwork when I post, I have decided to focus my attention on bluesky instead.
I know, I know, Mastodon and the fediverse are meant to be unshackled and FOSS platforms, but I honestly need the engagement in order to increase the chances of receiving commissions, especially since I'm no longer getting food money from the government.
@Duckbill4994@social.linux.pizzaMy new years resolution: Cancel as many subscriptions as possible (Netflix is already gone, my family has questions about cancelling Spotify ;-) ) and send that money directly to creators and artists instead.
Any suggestions on how to efficiently do just that?
@kctipton@mas.to
@aardrian@toot.cafeI’m not on board with this.
Instead of an “are you over 18” question for a feature I don’t want, let me skip it and keep the feature off.
Also, didn’t Vispero get my contact details in order to take my money?
“Vispero Accounts: An Explanation, an Apology, and a Path Forward”
https://vispero.com…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alThe problem with the world is that we listen to people with money instead of people with sense.
@chrisnelder@mastodon.energyBig Tech, business groups and the governor successfully gutted State Sen. Steve Padilla's attempt to protect consumers from the costs, emissions & unintended consequences of the AI data center frenzy. Big money wins again! https://
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWeek 18 NFL odds, lines, best bets, predictions: Computer model backing Packers and Titans
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/week-18-nfl-…
@isonno@mastodon.socialI just realized the profit end game for AI. It's the same thing that fueled Facebook, Google and all the other tech behemoths: Advertising.
As Internet search shifts from search engines to chatbots, this is the next frontier for AI companies.
Chatbots will be paid untold billions to tell you what to buy, where to go, what to watch.
And with the billions of SuperPAC money - who to vote for.
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
@khalidabuhakmeh@mastodon.socialFor folks forking IdentityServer. It's not "just code". There are decades of understanding specs, working with security teams around the world, ongoing support, and doing all those things continually.
When it comes to security, staying behind, or even worse, standing still, is the worst option.
From a maintainers perspective, think of doing all of the above for FREE to save your employer money for the "atta boys". In the meantime wasting the most precious …
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioThat’s a bit over $5,000 in today’s money btw
@steve@s.yelvington.comThey were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialPor um mundo em que isto se estenda Š merda dos "rankings das escolas" que infestam a imprensa portuguesa.
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115479917595681479
@primonatura@mstdn.social @yaya@jorts.horsegonna need the bank to hurry up and let me access the rest of my settlement check money cuz my vape is so close to dying
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioThey 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/
@joannalaine@hachyderm.ioIf the Dodgers win, I have my money on Kershaw taking off all his clothes and running in from the bullpen naked
@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
@cjust@infosec.exchange
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com@… And even IF taxation only netted the same amount, the broader point IMO is that *the people* get to decide how we collectively spend the money. It shouldn’t be up to the billionaires to decide which cause is worthy.
@newsie@darktundra.xyz9 arrested in Europe in operation against fake platforms for crypto investments https://therecord.media/9-arrested-europe-crypto-platform-takedown
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzGameday 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
@Lach@social.linux.pizzaMy chest freezer stopped freezing. A quick diagnostic revealed a broken thermostat. I've replaced this thermostat once before, but now they where out of stock, and it was hard to find a good replacement that was worth the money in repairing a 15 year old freezer. So what to do?
Replaced the old mechanical thermostat with dual temp sensors, a relay and an esp32-C3. Connected a display and installed EspHome.
Some quick modeling in
@deprogrammaticaipsum@mas.to"After the 8-bit MOS Technology 6502 that powered the Apple II around 1980, Macs used the 16-bit (later 32-bit) Motorola 68000 around 1990, then 32-bit (later 64-bit) IBM PowerPC around 2000, later settling with Intel’s 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86-64 around 2010.
We are in 2020, not even around 2020 anymore, and we should be able to spend an insane amount of money to buy Macs powered by ARM architecture CPUs – “finally!”, as some of those headlines online would scream."
@paulbusch@mstdn.caMaybe I'm in my own little info bubble but I find it hard to believe that 60% of Canadians would support a new pipeline from Alberta to the west coast. I was disappointed with Carney's negotiation/capitulation to Smith, and I think longterm it's a misstep by the Liberals. Indigenous People will fight it tooth and nail, and we should support them in that effort. B.C. doesn't want a new terminal on their coast. Demand for oil continues to drop and there's a real risk the pipeline is severely underused upon completion. Most of the money made from oil moving through this pipe will leave Canada. Canada's reputation is polluted with this announcement while the majority of countries continue to develop alternative energy solutions. I can understand the support from Alberta as the province doesn't appear to have a strategy for transitioning from an oil dependent economy. But who are the other Canadians that Angus Reid surveyed?
#CanPoli #Pipeline
https://youtu.be/3VISu7l6FhY?si=kgpadeUAXu8DC5uP
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Given that the amount of money banks make from the average sale of one vial is approximately $1,200, the industry has less than zero interest in voluntarily putting a halt to their less-than-ethical practices. It’s been proven time and time again that, without anything reining them in, they will choose profit over all else.»
What happens if industries "self-regulate" 🫠
The Profit Motive Has Corrupted the Fertility Industry
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-profit-motive-has-corrupted-the-fertility-industry
@seeingwithsound@mas.toTo Perplexity AI: Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training and support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind. Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOICe. https://www.perplexity.ai/s…
@cdarwin@c.im @memeorandum@universeodon.comJeffrey Epstein Went to War Over Money Laundering Probe in 2007 Sex Case (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-jeffrey-epstein-emails-money-laundering-charges/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251031/p13#a251031p13
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialJimmy Wales says Wikimedia is working with Big Tech on AI deals similar to Google and reader donations are "not to subsidize OpenAI costing us a ton of money" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeChief Constable rebukes Treasury over PSNI data breach money
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l7px2y0jo?xtor=AL-72-[partner]-[yahoo.north.america]-[headline]-[news]-[bizd…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #StreetSounds
Young Thug ft. Future:
🎵 Money on Money
#YoungThugftFuture
https://blackdiamondbeats.bandcamp.com/track/young-thug-x-future-money-on-money-rmx
https://open.spotify.com/track/48PfbKRDDyinnMcXqxtfR3
@yaya@jorts.horsecanceled my morning doctors appointment with the back brace people so at least I don't gotta wake up early. Just gotta call them and reschedule again for hopefully a day when I don't have negative money cuz idk if they're gonna charge me for shit upfront or not
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSwiss and German law enforcement agencies jointly shut down Cryptomixer, a major bitcoin mixing platform suspected of laundering money from criminal activities (Ludwig Burger/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/s
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"In the wealthiest country on Earth, it’s normal for people who are diagnosed with cancer to set up a web page to beg their friends and family for money. It’s normal for those people to go bankrupt. Getting sick is the most normal reason to go bankrupt...
At a time when billionaires compete to launch rockets into space, it’s normal—completely normal—for construction workers to die of heat and thirst"
@servelan@newsie.socialMcDonald's hit by penny shortage, rounds cash transactions to a nickel
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/10/31/mcdonalds-penny-shortage-rounding-cash-transactions/87008678007/
@aral@mastodon.ar.alFolks, you know Joy, my partner at Gaza Verified who is herself enduring Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza while trying to help her fellow Palestinians. Well, she’s gone and done the sort of thing Joy does, which is to use the money she had saved from her donations to pay for her aunt’s cancer surgery. She’s one of the most selfless people I know and I’d be very grateful if you could help with her fundraiser so she can afford to buy everyday necessities for her family.
This is her fund…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"World’s Largest Solar Panel Mural Powers Canadian Building While Cutting 150 Tons of Carbon Annually"
#Canada #SolarPower #Energy
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf AI chatbot companies truly had what they claim they have (arbitrary scaling human-level intelligence)—they would use it exclusively themselves, prompting it to come up with schemes to make money and execute them.
In reality these companies all lose money (in historically unprecedented amounts), to fuel a drug dealer-like approach by giving it away for free and hoping enough people get addicted to sycophantic chatbots; with the goal to charge exorbitant fees for it in the future.
@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
@pre@boing.worldBought a van to do up as a micro-camper, and did a temporary rush job of that conversion myself while waiting in the list for the pro to do it.
Then the pro gave himself a health criss the week it was booked so I took apart my temp job and only got another temp kit-job in it's place.
Went out in it like four times during that and then broke my wrist and couldn't really use it or improve it.
Then had to take it apart even more to try
and figure out where the ad-blue hole was.
I will do a proper permanent job of the
floor and walls and ceiling and adjustments to the kit-job to make it the nicest it's been so far during the spring next year.
My assumption that the prior conversion
into a van and for wheelchair-access meant the microcamper conversion was half-done already turned out to be false.
If I buy a new one, it'll be one that has never been wheelchair adapted.
But it's going okay. Only scraped it once so far.
Fewer than aimed for or booked, but I broke my wrist and had to cancel the second half of the summer.
Went to a conference about money and computers and fringe decentralized social media and it wasn't as boring as you might expect and felt pretty much like a festival.
Exactly the target number! It's lovely.
Took 3 times longer than I'd hoped and
50% more money than I'd planned for really.
Still improvements to make but they will
be incremental and gradual over the coming year or two now.
It's been interest-only for 20 years so a big old lump sum payment that I never really expected to be able to make. Expected to have to sell and move at the end of the mortgage term.
But surprisingly the stocks ISA got high enough to pay it off after all, so I did that.
Cash-flow ruined by that and the bedroom but should start to feel a bit richer next year.
@cdarwin@c.imTrump’s team raised more than $100 million for a super PAC in the second half of 2025,
with much of the money coming from wealthy people and corporations with issues before the administration.
The haul by MAGA Inc., detailed in a campaign finance report filed on Thursday night,
reveals how aggressive fund-raising has continued for a political operation that revolves around Mr. Trump,
giving the organization over $300 million ahead of this year’s midterms.
The d…
@benb@osintua.eu'Welcome back to life' — Ukraine's HUR faked death of top anti-Putin Russian commander, claimed Kremlin bounty money: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/welcome-back-to-life-ukraines.html
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk @NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 18 betting: Cowboys vs. Giants is part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comInfrequently Asked Questions About Jeffrey Epstein, Part One: The Money Thing (Greg Olear/PREVAIL)
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/infrequently-asked-questions-about
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p57#a251202p57
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt a Tokyo forum, Masayoshi Son says he "was crying" over SoftBank selling its $5.83B Nvidia stake but "I just had more need for money to invest in OpenAI" (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/softbank-m
@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
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump appeals criminal conviction in hush-money case
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-hush-money-conviction-appeal
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 9 betting: Lions, Raiders featured in expert's best money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee…
@yaya@jorts.horseI probably shouldn't go pub for derby day tomorrow morning
I really want to but my money is fucked up and my head hurts and I'd have to get the bus at 7:20am
aauugghhh i guess we'll see if I somehow feel up to it
otherwise next one I can go for is February and ofc I can go for other games but I really feel like concentrated 8am hater energy will be so powerful
#fedifc
@cdarwin@c.imBBC 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…
@pre@boing.worldThe 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
@Techmeme@techhub.socialChina's central bank reaffirmed its stance on crypto, calling virtual currency activity illegal and saying stablecoins fail KYC and anti-money-laundering rules (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa<…
@pre@boing.worldA 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL 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
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNiners 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
