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Human cost of Tory and Labour welfare cuts.
UK is no longer a Welfare State: it's becoming a Warfare State wiith reckless militarisation, and a war without bullets on the "surplus population".
'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore' - Manchester Evening News

'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore'
The Manchester Evening News spent a day at Citizen's Advice to find out what impact Labour's controversial welfare cuts could have

Broncos WR Courtland Sutton suggests he left money on the table to keep the roster together: ‘It wasn’t about me' https://www.nfl.com/news/broncos-wr-courtland-sutton-suggests-he-left-money-on-the-table-to-…

The UK's The Times closes its Money Mentor, launched in 2019 as a free section designed to "demystify finance", but relaunches its personal finance offering (Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-times-drops-fre…

The Times drops free Money Mentor offering in personal finance pivot
The Times Money Mentor is being replaced with a new Money section in the autumn, to be fronted by The Telegraph's ex-head of Money.

Challenge to California money transfer rules paused for appeal | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/challenge-to-california-money-transfer-rules-paused-for-appeal/

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…

The Rs 444 question: Why India banned online money games
The real challenge lies in balancing innovation with protection, profit with responsibility, and freedom with regulation.

A provision in the recently passed Wisconsin state budget that diverts $2.2 million annually from schools to fund 12 Milwaukee County prosecutors may violate the Wisconsin Constitution.
The positions had previously been paid for with federal funding that is set to expire.
The budget act redirects all traffic fines and forfeiture revenues in Milwaukee County to the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office to fund 12 positions.

State Budget Shifts Money from Schools to Milwaukee Prosecutors
$2.2 million per year diverted from city schools could violate state constitution.

Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: some suggestions for refining monetary theory using social simulation
Eduardo Coltre Ferraciolli, Tanya V. Ara\'ujo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22318

Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: some suggestions for refining monetary theory using social simulation
The institution of money can be seen as a foundational social mechanism, enabling communities to quantify collectively regulate economic processes. Money can be said, indeed, to constitute the micro-macro link in economics. This paper reviews influential views on the nature of money in economics and sociology, contrasting them to the relatively limited findings of recent agent-based models of "the emergence of money". Noting ample room for novel combinations of sociological and formal methods t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Funk Masters:
🎵 Love Money
#FunkMasters
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https://open.spotify.com/track/07aBBTWwZ3XvP1hVa27zjL

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations (ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics
http://www.memeorandum.com/250630/p9#a250630p9

E-bikes are saving commuters money, improving health, and reducing emissions. Switching to sustainable transportation is a win-win. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Commuters share firsthand savings data after worker considers e-bike for daily travel: 'I've saved so much money not having a car'
An e-bike can help you save money on gas and reduce your carbon footprint — plus, it provides a great source of exercise.

Rapoport: Jake Ferguson's four-year Cowboys extension includes $52M in new money https://www.nfl.com/videos/rapoport-jake-ferguson-s-four-year-cowboys-extension-includes-52m-in-new-money-back-together-weekend

So these people charge money for their super serious reporting

Baker Mayfield contract: Buccaneers restructure deal, giving QB guaranteed money for 2026, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/baker-m

Canceled the Google account for my small business... Less money going to AI bullshit and Google's evil practices.
And I let them know.
(I had to click through a lot of screens where they tried to get me to stay, offered discounts, or offered to archive data for a few dollars a month. No thanks.)
#noAI

Instead of the CHIPS Act money being tied to Intel actually building fabs,
the money is now tied to the government buying into Intel.
That is a different thing.
The specific deal is also different from the concept of the government getting shares as part of a grant to build fabs.
According to the SEC filing, there is less emphasis on fab building and more emphasis on government ownership.
The actual Intel deal is a major change to CHIPS Act purposes
and…

The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply.
Featured Videos The U.S. Now Owns 10% Of Intel. What That Means For America's Chip Supply. S&P 500 Hits High; Cameco, Rubrik, Micron Among Stocks …

In 2011, I posted to our forums to explain "Why not Windows?" Our goal is not to make the most money; it's to make the best software that we can make. There are other successful platforms, but I don' t think our software would be better on any of them.
Since 2011 we've moved to different forums and the hardware hosting our archived forums died. Maybe someday I'll revive it from backups, but in the meantime it's nice that the Internet Archive still has a co…

»Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims:
A proposed class action alleges family tracking app Life360 secretly sells data about users’ locations and movements to third parties.«
When apps are (almost) free, they make unlimited money by selling you. Don't trust any, if they don't communicate their data protection.
🕵️

Life360 Secretly Sells Users’ Geolocation Data to Third Parties, Class Action Claims
A class action alleges family tracking app Life360 secretly sells data about users’ locations and movements to third parties.

X Money: Musks Plattform hat Kreditkarten-Ambitionen
X möchte viel mehr werden als nur eine soziales Medium. Jetzt werden neue Details über die Pläne als Bezahldienstleister bekannt.
https://www.

Sources: a secretive project offering influencers $250-$8,000 a month to boost Democrats kicked off in July; creators were told 90 influencers were taking part (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influe…

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
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.

Missing Money and Market-Based Adequacy in Deeply Decarbonized Power Systems with Long-Duration Energy Storage
Adam Suski, Elina Spyrou, Richard Green
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20913

Missing Money and Market-Based Adequacy in Deeply Decarbonized Power Systems with Long-Duration Energy Storage
The ability of deeply decarbonised power systems to ensure adequacy may increasingly depend on long-duration energy storage (LDES). A central challenge is whether capacity markets (CMs), originally designed around thermal generation, can provide efficient investment signals when storage becomes a central participant. While recent studies have advanced methods for accrediting variable renewables and short-duration storage, the effectiveness of these methods in CMs with substantial LDES penetrati…

Well back before the 2016 election I remember seeing a news video in which Trump said something about how, if he ran for the presidency, he could make money. That video seems to have vanished beyond our event horizon. It would be nice if someone could find and resurrect it.
Anyway, FFOTUS has made that video come true:
"Trump Used Your Tax Dollars to Open His New Scottish Golf Course"

Trump Used Your Tax Dollars to Open His New Scottish Golf Course
Donald Trump inaugurated a new, private golf course in Scotland during an official state trip funded by taxpayers.

They came for Latinos. They're currently coming for Muslims. Asians, both South & Far East, are next.
This has never been about economic or immigration policy. It's about the color of your skin & neither your money or your US citizenship will help you.
Original post: https://

Mamdani Widens Fund-Raising Lead, as Adams Is Denied Matching Funds (Nicholas Fandos/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/nyregion/mamdani-adams-cuomo-money.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250828/p108#a250828p108

To fight Trump's funding freezes, states propose a new gambit: Withholding federal payments
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trumps-funding-freezes-states-new-gambit-withholding-federal-money-rcna215212

A neighbouring #condo corp here in #Whitehorse is spending good money to reduce their property value. The other year, they felled a line of #trees that stood at their property border. Now they are build…

Monetary Macro Accounting Theory
Ren\'eee Men\'endez, Viktor Winschel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21651 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Monetary Macro Accounting Theory
We develop a monetary macro accounting theory (MoMaT) and its software specification for a consistent national accounting. In our money theory money functions primarily as a medium of payment for obligations and debts, not as a medium of exchange, originating from the temporal misalignment where producers pay suppliers before receiving revenue. MoMaT applies the legal principles of Separation and Abstraction to model debt, contracts, property rights, and money to understand their nature. Moneta…

Good summary of the background:
"But a number of cultural and geopolitical factors – an openly rightward turn among the tech elite; the growing perception of a Chinese threat to US global hegemony; Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, along with Trump’s withdrawal from established defence arrangements, putting the fear of God into EU leaders – have made it clear that there is money, fast and deep money, to be made in defence tech."

Mark O'Connell: If you didn’t have qualms about Spotify before, wait until you hear what its founder has done
Over the past couple of years, tech investors have pivoted toward a collective embrace of the military-industrial complex

1. Order two bags of cat litter.
2. The seller doesn't send it on time. No matter, you're not in a hurry.
3. Recall that they still didn't send it. Decide to resign.
4. Turns out they send it just before you resign.
5. The parcels come. Open the box.
6. Discover that the bag is damaged. Take a photo just in case.
7. Carefully take it out and check how damaged it is. Well, it's only ripped at the top, no point in returning it over that.
8. Notice they've sent the wrong litter (you've ordered non-scented) 🤦.
9. Call them asking whether there's a point in opening the other box. They say it's going to be the wrong litter too, just make a return request and attach photos.
10. You do that, requesting money return. They request you to make damage protocol from delivery company.
11. You do that. Maybe you'd agree to a 20 PLN discount for next shopping instead of returning two bags of the wrong cat litter?
12. They finally accept the return. And they prepare the return… for one bag 🤦.
So I was supposed to work less today. Instead, I've wasted a lot of time on dealing with damaged parcel and the vendor. And a lot of tape, so it wouldn't fall apart on the return journey.

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…

A Dark Money Group Is Secretly Funding High-Profile Democratic Influencers
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.

Friends With Money
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

"Worse, this reframing of capital-as-creativity has captured politicians and regulators at every level."
(Original title: Moguls Moving Money Isn’t the Same as Building a Business)
https://anildash.com/2025/08/20/moving_money_ain’t_building_a_busines…

Moguls Moving Money Isn’t the Same as Building a Business
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Klarna gets an electronic money institution license for its UK division, which could let it directly compete with Revolut and Monzo for retail bank customers (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Buccaneers, QB Baker Mayfield agree to restructured contract that includes more guaranteed money: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6520907/2025/07/28/buccaneers-qb-baker-mayfield-restructure-contract/

I'm a bit tired of the "I'm sorry your data was leaked"
I think there is not enough incentives for fixing this. If you hold my personal data you should be responsible. If you are not we need fines. I fail to see any better incentive than money when companies are involved.

Raiders risking much more than money with controversial Christian Wilkins release https://fansided.com/nfl/raiders-risking-much-more-than-money-with-controversial-christian-wilkins-release

ATM-GAD: Adaptive Temporal Motif Graph Anomaly Detection for Financial Transaction Networks
Zeyue Zhang, Lin Song, Erkang Bao, Xiaoling Lv, Xinyue Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20829

ATM-GAD: Adaptive Temporal Motif Graph Anomaly Detection for Financial Transaction Networks
Financial fraud detection is essential to safeguard billions of dollars, yet the intertwined entities and fast-changing transaction behaviors in modern financial systems routinely defeat conventional machine learning models. Recent graph-based detectors make headway by representing transactions as networks, but they still overlook two fraud hallmarks rooted in time: (1) temporal motifs--recurring, telltale subgraphs that reveal suspicious money flows as they unfold--and (2) account-specific int…

🤦🏿‍♂️ Banks' efforts to curb money laundering fail abysmally, says criminologist
#finance

Banks' efforts to curb money laundering fail abysmally, says criminologist
Two summers ago, Alida, a retiree from Western Maryland, was buying groceries when her card was declined. On the phone, a bank official explained that $10,000 had suspiciously been deposited into her account under her name, and that it was being closed as a result, she recalled.

Started an Illustrator trial and the installer already crashed Explorer. glad to know I'm getting my money's worth

Life hack: if you write a check for negative dollars, anyone who accidentally deposits it will owe YOU money #aiTrainingData

‘Welcome to the Eighties’: Katie Couric Rips Lauren Sšnchez in Scathing Post — Accuses Bezos Bride of Using Lavish Wedding to Buy Prestige and Make Sure Everyone Sees Their Wealth
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/29/money-cant-buy-class-katie-couric-slams-lauren-sanchezs-wedding-look-and-fans-agree/

Looks like that Perifractic guy actually* bought** Commodore*** https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html
*not him, but some angel investors
**they haven't come up with the money yet
***seems like it's mainly the trademark r…

To fight Trump's funding freezes, states try a new gambit: Withholding federal payments (Adam Edelman/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trumps-funding-freezes-states-new-gambit-withholding-federal-money-rcna215212
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p5#a250629p5

Sun Jingguo:
"The cost of driving a petrol car is too expensive. I save money driving an electric vehicle,"
Lu Yunfeng: "I drive an electric vehicle because I am poor,"
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2d5ld8y8pwo

A man named Christian Nieves, who goes by “Daytwo” and “PawsOnHips” online, allegedly stole $4 million from Coinbase users by impersonating employees at the crypto exchange.
https://dailyhodl.com/2025/06/23/hacke

Hackers Impersonate Coinbase User Support To Scam Victims of $4,000,000 Before Blowing Most of Money on Gambling: ZachXBT - The Daily Hodl
An investigation by top on-chain analyst ZachXBT has revealed how an alleged New York-based con artist stole millions of dollars from victims by pretending to be support staff from Coinbase.

Curious: do banks in other countries completely shut down automated processing operations on weekends/holidays, or is that just a US thing? Why is the US still like this?
Like, if I want to move money from one bank to another on a weekend it normally won't execute until the following Monday (plus additional clearance delays etc).
There's no logical reason for this, it's not like there's a social benefit to the process and I doubt the banks shut down their datacent…

This rings very true to me.
You go from Money No / Time Yes to Money Yes / Time No and that changes your relation and connection towards games as you get older.
https://youtu.be/3V2ZatLGXjo

The White House has informed Congress it intends to cancel
$4.9 billion that lawmakers approved for foreign aid programs,
invoking a little-known and legally untested loophole to slash spending without their approval.
The 15-page notification, sent to Congress on Thursday night, is the administration’s first effort to push through what is known as a
“pocket rescission.”
It is an effort to unilaterally claw back money that has already been appropriated
by w…

Defying Congress, Trump Moves to Cut $4.9 Billion in Foreign Aid
The White House notified Congress that it plans to use a legally untested maneuver to circumvent lawmakers and claw back more money for foreign aid programs.

Youtube changing the button from join to subscribe is diabolical.
I'm already subscribed you mother fucker. Stop trying to tick people to play money.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Richie Culver:
🎵 Chase Money
#RichieCulver
https://supernature.bandcamp.com/track/chase-money
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ceYpeqpzPX2ReTFpQWsHO

The popular meaning of "luddite" is a straw-man. It's a sloppy word with a sloppy meaning now, and it's one we'd do well to watch out for.
The actual reality of who the Luddites were is far more interesting, the center of the hard-fought struggles against owners of factories disrupting entire towns and cities economies with massively terrible results, centralizing power and money and leaving a great number of people without any control of their work, formerly artisans who'd had a hand in their own work, and many automated out of jobs. Luddites destroyed automated looms not because they hated technology. They destroyed automated looms because they were taking the livelihood they depended on, with no recourse, and it was a disaster for a good while, and then millwork has gone from those places probably forever.
The problem now with LLMs and automated research systems is there's very little way for workers and creators to stick their shoes in the machinery. They've tried (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12281) but mostly failed, since unlike a factory full of textile workers, the equipment is remote, the automation virtual, an intangible software object that few can access in any meaningful way.

I keep seeing posts from people who ought to know better advocating that the blue states refuse to send tax money off to Washington. THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS. Taxes are sent from employers to the federal government. States are not involved.

This story seems to be slipping between the cracks.
Apparently the Air Force has decided to undertake the conversion of that bribe 747 to FFOTUS - an amount that will probably well exceed a $billion or far more - under cover of a classified project to do something else.
This is a clear violation of the US Anti-deficiency act. It is theft of taxpayer money. And it violates the requirement that money only be spent after appropriation by Congress.
i have not seen any journal…

What Will It Cost to Renovate Trump’s ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.
To hide the cost of renovating the plane Qatar donated to President Trump, the Air Force appears to have tucked it inside an over-budget, behind-schedule nuclear modernization program.

An in-depth look at how foreign scammers use US banks to facilitate large-scale transfers of funds stolen from victims of "pig butchering" scams overseas (Cezary Podkul/ProPublica)
https://www.propublica.org/article/pig-butcher…

How Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Asian crime syndicates’ online scams have reached industrial proportions, cheating victims around the world out of more than $44 billion a year. U.S. banks have been unable to stop them.

The Devil's Dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies
Eduardo C. Ferraciolli, Francesco Renzini, Tanya V. Araujo, Flaminio Squazzoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20691

The Devil's Dung? Money as a mechanism of generalized reciprocity in human societies
St. Francis of Assisi (1181/82-1226) famously called money the devil's dung, and indeed money is often associated with greed, inequality, and corruption. Drawing on Nowak's five rules for the evolution of cooperation, we argue here that money promotes the formation of circuits of generalized reciprocity across human groups that are fundamental to social evolution. In an evolutionary tournament, we show that money exchange is an evolutionary stable strategy that promotes cooperation without rely…

Abolish ICE — and give the money to real cops
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/5471976-abolish-ice-and-give-the-money-to-real-cops/

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

About 5.8 million federal student loan borrowers
– roughly 31%
– were 90 days or more past due on their payments as of April 2025,
according to analysis from TransUnion,
as delinquency and default rates soar in the wake of pandemic-era repayment relief ending.
⚠️US federal student loan debt is worth almost $1.7 Trillion
💥with 42.7 million people owing some form of federal loan debt.
👉And in May, the Trump administration resumed collecting on default…

Goldman Sachs and BNY partner to let institutional investors purchase tokenized money market funds, with ownership recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform (Hugh Son/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/23/goldman-sachs-bny-money-market-fund-digital…

Goldman Sachs and BNY join forces to transform $7.1 trillion money market industry with digital tokens
Clients of BNY will be able to invest in money market funds whose ownership will be recorded on Goldman's blockchain platform.

WGA West report: the number of members reporting earnings fell 9.4% YoY in 2024, while total earnings rose 12.7% to $1.5B in the same period, below 2022's $1.9B (Katie Kilkenny/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

TV and Film Writing Jobs Grew More Scarce, Even If Earnings Were Up Slightly in 2024
The annual tally from the Writers Guild West shows that its members may have made slightly more money overall than during the 148-day strike year of 2023, but there's fewer jobs available.

Jake Ferguson, former Wisconsin tight end, signs big-money extension with Dallas Cowboys https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/07/27/jake-ferguson-ex-wisconsin-player-signs-cowboys-contract-extension/8539…

The ACT government provides a wide range of grants, funding and other support to individuals, groups, and organisations that benefit Canberrans and the Canberra community.
https://www.act.gov.au/money-and-tax/grants-funding-and-incentives

How Raiders' Ashton Jeanty's Contact is Player Friendly https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-ashton-jeanty-cam-ward-saquon-barkley-pete-carroll

Kraken launches Krak, a P2P payments app that lets users send funds across 110 countries using 300 assets, including crypto, stablecoins, and fiat currencies (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/

Crypto Exchange Kraken Unveils ‘Krak:’ Its New All-in-One Global Money App
The Krak app allows users to instantly transact across borders for almost no cost, while earning competitive rewards on their account balances.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #The6MusicPlaylist
Richie Culver:
🎵 Chase Money
#RichieCulver
https://supernature.bandcamp.com/track/chase-money
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ceYpeqpzPX2ReTFpQWsHO

Sources: a secretive project offering influencers $250-$8,000 a month to boost Democrats kicked off in July; creators were told 90 influencers were taking part (Taylor Lorenz/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/dark-money-group-secret-funding-democrat-influe…

How the G.O.P. Bill Saves Money: Paperwork, Paperwork, Paperwork (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/upshot/republicans-medicaid-cuts-paperwork.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.42Eb.FOClm95vHJAO&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p10#a250629p10

Got a yard sign at the Evanston Main Street Fair from @katmabu.bsky.social.
Really respect her hustle in this campaign. Just out there at everything, meeting voters face to face. Her platform seems solid, and it would be great to have her enthusiasm and energy representing the 9th.
The best way to support her campaign is to donate

Mailbag: Stepping back to move forward? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-stepping-back-to-move-forward

'Jerry will pay you': Why Micah Parsons' teammates, both current and former, believe star will get his money

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/je…

This Raiders player is betting favorite to win NFL award this season https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/this-raiders-player-is-betting-favorite-to-win-nfl-award-this-season-3390481/

The Ivy League shakedowns (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/07/the-ivy-league-shakedowns
http://www.memeorandum.com/250729/p7#a250729p7

McCarthyism was rate limited by the number of people engaged,
the amount of money available,
the legal frameworks in place,
and the media environment,
in a way that is very different from what universities will face
not just in the next three years
but until we find a way to contain these people

India's lower house of parliament passes a sweeping online gaming bill to impose a blanket ban on real-money games nationwide, threatening a $23B industry (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/20/india-bans-real-money-…

India bans real-money gaming, threatening a $23 billion industry | TechCrunch
India is set to ban real-money gaming nationwide under a proposed law that has just passed the lower house of parliament.

Mailbag: Stepping back to move forward? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/mailbag-stepping-back-to-move-forward

Hi, this is EDF Action Votes.
Donald Trump is ordering NASA to shut down its
carbon-monitoring satellites
— the very tools we use to track carbon emissions, plant health, wildfire risk, and extreme weather patterns.
This is not about saving money.
It’s about blinding America to the truth of climate change.
If Trump gets his way, we’ll be flying blind in the face of rising disasters
— and Big Polluters will have a free pass to keep hiding the damag…

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Panera Bread to cut hundreds of jobs in shift to frozen dough model
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/07/25/panera-bread-layoffs-frozen-dough-shift/85372741007/

When your opponent is Donald Trump you escalate in response to threats;
you don’t try to appease him.
Jerome Powell must do everything in his power to compel the conventional wisdom of market traders to more adequately “price in” the degradation of the rule of law.
This must include tying the rule of law and the threats to the constitution to the credibility and standing of the Federal Reserve itself.
Powell’s term expires in less than a year anyway.
If defe…

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution
This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effort goes into my writing and my constant dedication to refresh and deepen my

The Federal Reserve System has not been the most craven of the powerful institutions who have attempted to placate Trump to defend themselves,
but it has not been the bravest institution either.
They were quick to concede to Trump on financial regulatory issues in the hopes that would get Trump off their back.
They also ignored the attack on the legal architecture propping up independent administrative agencies in the hopes that other agencies would receive the brunt of Tru…

Powell Will Hang Separately: The Federal Reserve Has Already Failed its Duty to Lisa Cook and the Constitution
This is a free Notes on the Crises article. A reminder to readers that the various activities run out of the still-new Notes on the Crises office cost money, while an enormous amount of time and effort goes into my writing and my constant dedication to refresh and deepen my

Pa. Gov. firm on no state money for new venues https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45562487/pennsylvania-governor-steadfast-no-state-money-new-venues

While the White House calls Trump's Scotland trip a “working visit”
— it is the president’s latest example of using the trappings of the White House to promote and enrich his businesses while in office.
In his first term, Democrats cried foul at Trump’s Washington, DC, hotel, which became a popular destination for foreign delegations to spend money.
The blowback was strong enough that in 2019, Trump scrapped the idea of hosting a G7 meeting at his Doral, Florida, resor…

Trump’s Scotland trip latest example of blending private business with presidential duties
President Donald Trump took off for Scotland on Friday for his latest presidential trip mixing business and golf.

Sources: Crusoe is discussing raising $1B at a $10B valuation; the company, which is helping build OpenAI's first Stargate facility, had $250M revenue in 2024 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/crusoe-talks-raise-money-10-bill…

OpenAI’s Data Center Provider in Talks to Raise Money at $10 Billion Valuation
Crusoe, the developer behind OpenAI’s first Stargate data center, is discussing raising funds at a $10 billion valuation—more than three times its valuation less than a year ago, according to two people with direct knowledge of the fundraising talks. The seven-year-old company wants to raise at ...

Why guaranteed money, late signings for second-round picks are an NFL trend to watch https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46038140/nfl-rookie-contracts-second-round-picks-guaranteed-money-holdouts-2025

The Trump Family Cashes In on 'the Infinite Money Glitch' (James Mackintosh/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/the-trump-family-cashes-in-on-the-infinite-money-glitch-edcaca1d?st=fM8s5h&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250824/p45#a250824p45

Q&A with Harsh Jain, CEO of Dream11 parent Dream Sports, on India's real-money gaming law, which he says erased 95% of the group's revenue and all its profits (Moneycontrol)
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Elon Musk Settles $500M Lawsuit Over Withholding Former Employee Severance Package Money - Above the Law
https://abovethelaw.com/2025/08/elon-musk-settles-500m-lawsuit-over-withholding-former-employee-severance-package-money/

FACT FOCUS: Rural hospitals are expected to lose money from Trump's bill, despite RFK Jr.'s promise (Amanda Seitz/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rural-hospitals-medicaid-bill-cuts-facts-a570794b3431c342fd9ba547e0b953f2
http://www.memeorandum.com/250827/p142#a250827p142

India's move to ban online real-money games over addiction and money laundering concerns appears valid, but it may push users toward offshore crypto casinos (Andy Mukherjee/Bloomberg)

Sources: Apple's team working on AI models wanted to release several as open source, Craig Federighi disagreed, largely concerned about public perception issues (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/apple-losing-ground-ai-talent-wa…

Why Apple Is Losing Ground in the AI Talent War (It’s Not Just Money)
Earlier this year, the Apple team working on the company’s artificial intelligence models wanted to release several of them as open-source software. Doing so would have shown Apple’s technical progress in AI while also harnessing the help of outside researchers to improve the models. Still, it ...

Major real-money gaming platforms in India halted cash games after President Murmu signed the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, into law (The Hindu)
https://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/real-money-gaming-fir…

McCarthyism was rate limited
by the number of people engaged,
the amount of money available,
the legal frameworks in place,
and the media environment,
in a way that is very different from what universities will face
not just in the next three years
but until we find a way to contain these people

In the hands of someone like Trump,
deals are ways to evade, postpone or subvert the efficient work of markets.
Trump does not like markets,
precisely because they are impersonal and objective.
Their results – for corporations, entrepreneurs, investors and shareholders – are subject to clear measures of success and failure.
Because deals are personal, adversarial and incomplete,
they are perfect grist for Trump’s relentless publicity machine,
and a…

Appfigures: xAI debuted Grok 4 late on July 9 and by July 11, Grok's gross revenue on iOS had risen 325% to $419K, up from $99K the day before Grok 4's launch (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/grok

Grok's AI companions drove downloads, but its latest model is the one making money | TechCrunch
Grok's unfiltered AI companions may be making headlines for their unhinged and NSFW responses, but it's Grok 4 that's driven the app's revenue of late.

"The tragedy of digital media isn’t that it’s run by ruthless, profiteering guys in ill-fitting suits,”
Megan Greenwell wrote in an eviscerating blog postannouncing her departure.
“It’s that the people posing as experts know less about how to make money than their employees, to whom they won’t listen.”
Greenwell’s entire staff followed her lead shortly after, mass quitting largely in protest of a mandate to abandon higher-traffic stories about politics and internet od…

Inside the Private Equity Scam—and the Livelihoods It Has Destroyed
Financiers have bamboozled the public for years about their expertise in “fixing” companies. Yet they often—and sometimes deliberately—run them into the ground.

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.
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Since Trump took office, Zapata had heard about federal agents showing up even at routine immigration hearings and taking migrants away in handcuffs.
He was afraid of being arrested and sent to a detention facility like the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida,
or to a far-away country
— perhaps El Salvador or South Sudan, where authorities have shipped U.S. deportees in recent months.
“Imagine arriving in Africa with no documents and no money," Zapata said. …