Make passive income today by training a crow to pick pockets for cash! :brdRobe:

NFL 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…

Jeffrey 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

Chief 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…

PSNI: Chief Constable rebukes Treasury over data breach money
Jon Boutcher has criticised the Treasury for refusing to help cover the cost of compensation for officers affected by a major data breach.

Had Fun

Bought a car/micro-camper

Bought 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.

Even as he leverages his presidency to make himself millions, even billions of dollars,
Donald Trump is also funneling Republican donor money into his own cash registers
through the political committees he controls

That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot

Filing: Meta plans to raise money through bond offerings worth up to $30B; the company has said its capex next year would be "notably larger" than in 2025 (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-issue-bonds-worth-up-30-bi…

tbf with some patience, I'd expect these to show up for cheap on ebay next year as people who got one loose interest & want to get some of their money back with economy being hosed and all

We used to say that the Crypto hype and the AI hype were different. That crypto was just a bunch of grifters stealing people's money but AI had at least some actual tech.
Looking at how the AI companies manipulate each other's stock value I am not sure that statement is still true.

To 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…

"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools"
#Kleptocracy
#Enshittification

The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’

Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires While Accepting Award: 'Give Your Money Away, Shorties' https://apple.news/AJZGwWdM5R9CSGm7Y_dwbLQ
11.5 million for food equity, climate justice, carbon reduction, and combating climate change. Thank you, Billie 💗💗💗

Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires While Accepting Award: 'Give Your Money Away, Shorties' — Complex
Mark Zuckerberg was reportedly in the room during Eilish's acceptance speech for the WSJ Magazine’s Music Innovator Award.

'Respond in the next hour!' Trump demands supporters give him money before Dems steal it - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-supporters-email/

Super Informed Radio
From investments, money matters and the world of finance, to member stories and the lowdown on your super...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/super-informed-radio/

The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-t

Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Media’s Lauren Chen is back—even though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.

Went to "Whole Paycheck" for the first time in decades.
Don't get me wrong; I didn't buy anything... only returned a package to Amazon.
What? Do you think I'm made or money or something? Sheesh.
#wholefoods #amazon

I 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

NFL 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…

Why do so many charities waste money on sending you magazines? That's not what the donations are for. An occasional email message is more than enough, and even that I can do without.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@thetelegraph/money-bqbck7l9z/-/a-JjwIJG_URl-V7CvafE2GNQ:a:3199678-/0
The fiasco of the start-stop and let's keep changing our minds, happened mostly within the lifetime of o…

On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…

On Making Christmas Greener
Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas

"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."

Return to Innocence
The pages of this magazine have often orbited around the subject of retrocomputing. Take, for example, the editions about sustainability, computer museums, hardware, hobbies, gaming, operating systems, or the one about BASIC published last summer. If you pay attention, you most probably have realized how much retrocomputing has grown in popularity in the past few decades, with more and more people learning on YouTube or TikTok how to replace the batteries or leaking capacitors from the motherbo…

Gameday Money Will Show for Chiefs; 2-Way Handle on Ohio State-Michigan https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/gameday-money-will-likely-show-chiefs-two-way-handle-ohio-state-michigan

Remembering #SnowLeopard seing the #Tahoe (after a 18GB download) is sobering. And expectations were low to begin with.
Money spoils good products.
P.S.: #TimeMachine U…

It’s clear now that Hitler was just ahead of his time. If he were around today and had picked a different target, our Western governments would be calling him an ally and supporting his genocide with money, propaganda, violent repression of dissent within their own citizenry, and weapons. How do I know this? Because that’s exactly what they’re doing with the Hitler of our time: the wanted war criminal Netanyahu.

Israeli planes strike Gaza City after Netanyahu orders 'powerful attacks'

They have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
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Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…

Databricks Boosts Sales Forecast, Driving Valuation to $134 Billion
Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi has been more vocal than other Silicon Valley executives about the dangers of an AI bubble. His company’s new $5 billion round of fundraising, at a higher valuation than ever, epitomizes the risks and rewards of the boom: While sales are growing faster than forecast, AI ...

If 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.

That the new Affinity is not just free but AI-free sound too good to be true. It is one of the few softwares I gladly saved for and spend money on. This new thing doesn't sound like a reliable long term solution but more like a hard move against Adobe and a bet on AI as the future.

Bitcoin bridging app Garden Finance Reportedly Loses Over $10.8 Million in Hacking Incident
https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-bridging-app-garden-finance-hack/

Garden Finance Reportedly Loses Over $10.8 Million in Hacking Incident
Garden Finance hack leads to $10.8 million loss after money laundering claims, echoing crypto’s ongoing security struggles.

For the record, I'm pretty sure that no one should care what Bill Gates thinks. He's missed/misjudged every single technological and social leap in the past 30 years. I'm amazed he's made any money at all, but I guess that's what multi-million $ trust funds and a willingness to ruthlessly exploit ill-gotten monopolies will get you.

It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.
In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of 1.4 pts.
This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
-- Adam Bonica

The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion
After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

Make Money Not War: Trump's Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290?st=V4zco4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p1#a251130p1

Trump Administration Tells Court It Has Money It Can’t Spend to Prevent Food Stamp Cuts - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/YvoMu

Is there any way, yet, to send small packages to friends in #Gaza? I know that sending money through systems like chuffed.org is probably more useful, but being able to send a personal gift would, I think, do more to raise spirits.

Plenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-

I think that this should indeed be public knowledge as we already pay for this with public money via the universities. The same is not true for the creative industry, including many individual artists that need to make a living off these creative works. But instead of addressing this issue of copyright (the fact that people don't have access to knowledge that is generated with their money) the blogposts are instead complaining that #AI should be exempted?
2/3

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?

So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.

Human Interest, a 401(k) platform for SMBs that aims to cut down on administrative work, raised $100M at a $3B post-money valuation, up from $1.3B in 2024 (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/31/401k-human-interest

Scoop: 401(k) platform Human Interest now worth $3 billion
The $100 million raise comes just days after HI sued rival Guideline.

🤯 Why is Michael Jordan suing Nascar? The blockbuster antitrust trial, explained
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/06/michael-jordan-nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-explained

Why is Michael Jordan suing Nascar? The blockbuster antitrust trial, explained
Michael Jordan’s lawsuit claims Nascar holds too much control over teams and money. Here’s what the trial is about and why its outcome could change everything

prosper: 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

I did ultimately figure out the correct URL to the email verification page, thanks to @… finding me the correct page of Venmo's FAQ which spells out how to do this process.
You know, the same pages that Venmo presumably trained their LLM on.
So in the end I have my money, but not thanks to anyone at Venmo.
What an absolute garbage timeline to …

I think it's time to crack out the daylight lamp. I'm not feeling low - stressed to the eyeballs but not flat - but I do feel like I haven't woken up yet and I've been at work for two hours 😄 My daylight lamp was about £25 and it's been money very well spent. I use it as the light on in the room when I'm getting ready in the morning, rather than sitting staring at it for 20 minutes, and it just works.

In Houston-area floodplain development, money beats science #houston

Well, another security vulnerability filed. Time to put a down payment on that Maybach.

House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted Thursday that feeding the hungry would mess up his political game.
CNN host Dana Bash asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,
which will stop receiving federal funds at the start of November.
The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.

Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps
Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Smerz:
🎵 You Got Time and I Got Money
#Smerz
https://smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/track/you-got-time-and-i-got-money
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YDl2Oxc1mVRnZsZAbNzI0

So China's gonna buy their beans and they get money on top as well...
Trump Admin Readies $12B Tariffs Bailout For Farmers - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/trump-admin-readies-12b-tariffs-bailout-for-farmers/

Today is itch.io Creator Day, where, like Bandcamp Friday, itch will take no cut from sales and give all the money to the creators.
It's the perfect time to buy some great indie stuff ➡ #IndieGames

Trump Administration Tells Court It Has Money It Can't Spend to Prevent Food Stamp Cuts (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/food-stamps-shutdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p78#a251030p78

News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html

Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
The first rule of dark money is to quit blabbing about it. Did they think people would thank them for it?

What did LA cop Stephen Downing have in common with TV writers Michael Donovan, Sean Baine, and Adrian Leeds and the War On (Some) Drugs? The answer in a 5-minute read:
https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/stephen-downing/

Stephen Downing - Honorary Unsubscribe
A retired Deputy Chief of LAPD, Downing came to completely oppose the War on Drugs as the cost, in money and lives, is worse than the drug problem.

it's odd that modern monetization is "here's 1000 words you can read for free, and if you pay me, you can have 10000 more words to read". who has time for that?
my guess is this mainly siphons from retirees who have more money than they need before they die.
non-retired people with money are too busy with the hustle. they're going to ask an LLM to hallucinate a 100 word summary.
next-level monetization is "here are 10000 words to read, and if you …

Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/bending-spoons-aol-billion

Bending Spoons, fresh off its AOL deal, gets valued at $11.7 billion
The Italian holding company buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands.

On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-greenin

On Making Christmas Greener
Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas

Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…

Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration, I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31 so I can save money. Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish…

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634571/Russian-money-launderers-bought-a-bank-to-disguise-ransomware-profit
Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit

Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit
A billion-dollar money laundering network active in the UK funnelled money, including the profits of ransomware attacks, into its own bank to circumvent sanctions on Russia and help fund its attacks on Ukraine

Candy Companies Are Quietly Cutting Down on Cocoa to Save Money - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/LoXVy

So farewell then 2025. Had some serious health worries, made some stuff, did some performance, made money, had some fun.
Not the best year, suspect health things tend to trend down in the second half of life.
Good though, and promising more good to come.

Lions, Aidan Hutchinson agree to $180 million extension with most guaranteed money ever for a non-QB

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aidan-hutchinson-lions-extension/

Phoenix Suns majority owner Mat Ishbia (CEO United Wholesale Mortgage, which is being sued by Ohio's AG & under a class action lawsuit) is the living incarnation of big dumb, testosterone money.
▶️ The #PhoenixSuns #Fraud

Trump appeals criminal conviction in hush-money case
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-hush-money-conviction-appeal

I mean what?
What?
I don't have any idea how you'd embed 7 tablet screens into a semi-circular pine table, let alone also have some kind of telescopic central column?
Even if I knew how I don't have the money for seven individual in-console embedded tabled place-settings.
This is madness. I should be asleep.

𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 (1995) possibly the best #anime ever made even though they didn't really finish the last two episodes
from the imagery of the control room to scenes I couldn't show you because they were constructed by scanning I enjoyed this show more than I did the last time, not least imagining the epic fight the director must have had with the money people

Feminist Money
Should your gender determine your pay packet...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

NFL Week 13 betting: Bills vs. Steelers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee

Anonymous money fuels $5 million in attacks on Georgia's Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (Jeff Amy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/burt-jones-governor-2026-georgia-dark-money-70f49891f560a70fb68788ac8dbe7dc3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p24#a251227p24

Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raised CA$750M co-led by Dragoneer and GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$10B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/wealthsimple-hits-10-billion-valuation…

Wealthsimple hits $10-billion valuation in new round backed by Dragoneer, GIC, CPP Investments
Toronto-based FinTech firm Wealthsimple has announced that it has signed an equity round of up to $750 million CAD at a post-money valuation of $10 billion.

What does money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and,
above all, it eats creativity.
It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
-- William S. Burroughs
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1352864

William S. Burroughs Quote
What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.

What I mean by that is that I grew up in a world where people built wealth by convincing ever-increasing masses of people to buy ever more wasteful and useless crap: “consumer capitalism.”
Now we live in a world where customers aren’t even where the real money is. You don’t get money from customers; you get it from billionaires and investment firms.
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From a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.
#Bitcoin

Who Gets the Money? | Cowboys Storyline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-sC8aLoPDE

Media stuff

Rewatched all of Buffy

Broken wrist meant I had to sit on the sofa for a month doing nothing really. I re-watched all 200 or so episodes of Buffy for the first time this decade.
What an achievement in TV production. Amazing show.
I'll watch it again next decade maybe.
Not that I read a huge amount. Hopefully more next year.
"Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, and actually also his "Not Till We Are Lost"
"Broken Money" by Lyn Alden.
Think "Severance" was the most remarkable show I watched this year, with "Trek, Strange New Worlds" also being great again.
"Pantheon" was a pretty great cartoon, haven't seen the second season yet.

Three powerful businessmen
—two Americans and a Russian
—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks.
They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold
—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.
…

Trump appeals felony conviction citing Supreme Court immunity (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-hush-money-conviction-appeal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p43#a251028p43

On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…

On Making Christmas Greener
Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas

How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html…

Saudi Arabia, Rich With Oil, Wants to Be Known as the A.I. Exporter
The kingdom is pouring money into data centers and working with U.S. and Chinese tech giants, landing its A.I. ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle for tech power.

Niners voided 2026 guaranteed money in WR Brandon Aiyuk's contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-voided-2026-guaranteed-money-in-wr-brandon-aiyuk-s-contract

🧂 Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-19/cocaine-trafficking-in-colombia-moves-as-much-money-as-the-construc…

Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
A new academic paper reveals that the drug trade generates annual revenues of $15.3 billion, equivalent to 4.2% of the country’s GDP

Neo-Nazis raise money for Georgia man wearing Nazi SS uniform who allegedly assaulted UGA student (Grace Gilson/Jerusalem Post)
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-871951
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p52#a251029p52

Source: 49ers voided Aiyuk guaranteed '26 money https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47053369/san-francisco-49ers-voided-guaranteed-money-brandon-aiyuk-deal-2026

Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Phoebe Liu, Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/202<…

Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From A Mystery Investor. Now The ‘Investor’ And ‘Money’ Are Gone
Forbes raised questions about a massive funding round metaverse-turned-AI firm Napster supposedly raised in January. The money is never coming, the company said Thursday.

BBC should not pay Trump any money,
says former director general Tony Hall
It is Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after his threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer
https://www.theguardi…

Trump hunts for money and 'peace' in Asia (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/10/24/trump-hunts-for-money-and-peace-in-asia-00622598
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p134#a251024p134

Brandon Aiyuk's 2026 guaranteed money voided, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan confirms https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6829442/2025/11/22/49ers-brandon-aiyuk-kyle-shanahan-guaranteed-money/

Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/-blackrock-link…

BlackRock-linked tokenization firm Securitize to go public via SPAC deal
Founded in 2017, Securitize filed on Tuesday to go public through a SPAC deal that values its business at $1.25 billion.

NFL Week 17 betting power ratings: Correlated money line parlays to know, plus how all 32 teams stack up

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-17-betting-power-…

Distant ICE Detention Centers Bring Money--and Anger--to an Alaska Native Community (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-23/ice-detention-centers-bring-money-anger-to-alaska-native-community?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTI1MzU4MCwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODU4MzgwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNExST0RHUEw0NEgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNzM0QTk2NzVFRDg0REJEQjc3RUJGN0UxMkE4NjZCRiJ9.RJTfepB80WpN3_HCCntSQuzheX5ootiq_Y1MS05BHFY&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p133#a251023p133

The $40 billion Trump is sending Argentina is roughly on par with the $41.8 billion it owes the International Monetary Fund
— by far the largest debt on the organization’s books,
half of which was taken out under Milei earlier this year.
There is no benefit to working Americans from this,
and the president isn’t even pretending there is.

Trump: no money for health care, plenty for Argentina
Argentina’s libertarian president, Javier Milei, is the lucky winner of $40 billion that Donald Trump managed to conjure from thin air. Less lucky are the Americans who rely on the government programs Trump has gutted to be able to “save” that sum.

Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

Science-centric streaming service Curiosity Stream is an AI-licensing firm now
Curiosity Stream’s owner has more content for AI companies than it does for subscribers.

AOC email seeks donations for turkey giveaway -- but money goes straight to her campaign coffers (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/aoc-email-seeks-donations-for-turkey-giveaway-but-money-goes-straight-to-her-campaign-coffers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p78#a251122p78

Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a post-money valuation of $230M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/this-khos…

This Khosla-based startup can track drones, trucks, and robotaxis, inch by inch | TechCrunch
Point One Navigation, now valued at $230 million, is building out well beyond automotive.