Tootfinder

How "cash to crypto" swaps allow users everywhere to convert national currencies to stablecoins and then debit cards, avoiding financial oversight and sanctions (Aaron Krolik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/technol

How Stablecoins Can Help Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions
Through layers of intermediaries, stablecoins can be moved, swapped and mixed into pools of other funds in ways that are difficult to trace, experts say.

Harvard’s business model is raking in ungodly amounts of money selling that name to the offspring of the ultra-wealthy, however deserving or undeserving, and then investing it.
(Harvard does to its credit use a portion of that money to subsidize access for the highly deserving and underprivileged. I’ve seen the “tuition paid” graph for Harvard, and it’s very roughly ~20% pay nothing and ~40% pay full freight and their family has more money than everyone you’ve every known combined.)
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The mastermind behind an extensive cyber-fraud empire, Vincent Chen Zhi, has been deported from Cambodia to China.
Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations | The Standard
https://www.thestandard.com.hk/china-news/article…

Cambodian tycoon Vincent Chen deported to China amid $10bn fraud and money laundering allegations
Vincent Chen Zhi, the founder and chairman of the Cambodian Prince Group, has been deported to China following his arrest in Cambodia amid serious allegations of large-scale fraud and money laundering, among other transnational crimes that involved more than US$10 billion.

The thing about the headlong dash to AI is that it makes very clear that there is just SO MUCH money just sloshing around waiting for an opportunity.
Money that was made by tightening the screws on the labour force another turn, that they didn't even know what to do with.
Money ground of an increasingly oppressive system that they didn't even have anything to spend it on.
Money that could have been making the world a better place all along, except that wasn't…

If Trump Has Raked in Trillions, Where Is the Money? - WhoWhatWhy
https://whowhatwhy.org/economy/if-trump-has-raked-in-trillions-where-is-the-money/

Money manager Mario Gabelli said it's "highly likely" he will tender his clients' WBD shares to Paramount in an effort to spark a bidding war for WBD (Christopher Palmeri/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Mario Gabelli ‘Likely’ to Tender Warner Bros. Stock to Paramount
Money manager Mario Gabelli said it’s “highly likely’ he will tender his clients’ Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. shares to Paramount Skydance Corp. in an effort to spark a bidding war for Warner Bros.

Just a reminder, before the ACA, insurance could cancel your insurance if you got sick, years into a policy, claiming a preexisting condition. Blue Cross did this to me in 2005.
Trump calls for giving federal health insurance money ‘directly to the people’ as shutdown talks drag on https://ground.news/article/trump-calls-for-giving-federal-health-insurance-money-directly-to-the-people-as-shutdown-talks-drag-on_c1f8ec

Introducing The East Venezuela Texas Tea Company (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money-capital-risk/2026/01/09/introducing-the-east-venezuela-texas-tea-company-00718187
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p77#a260109p77

"Did you know that for every US$1,000 a person has in savings is roughly equivalent to the direct #Emissions generated by flying from New York to Seattle every year”
#Banks are a core part of how we store and spend money. This

Why I Changed Banks For The Planet
Banks are integral to our daily lives. We rely on them to receive our salaries, make transactions, pay bills, and secure loans or mortgages. However, behind each of these transactions lies a financial system that subtly influences not just our economy but also, albeit less obviously, our planet. The practices

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

Agent's Take: NFL playoff incentives and how much money Aaron Rodgers, Josh Allen and Jalen Hurts can earn

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2026-nfl-playoff-in…

🧧 Chinese criminals made more than $1 billion from those annoying texts
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/chinese-criminals-made-more-than-1-billion-from-those-annoying-texts/ar-AA1OtOzx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Calico:
🎵 Money Cars Clothes Hoes
#Calico
https://calicosea.bandcamp.com/track/money-cars-clothes-hoes

This is just such a waste of money.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115343249383566862

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image Europe is upping its game in AI. Researchers, innovators & policymakers now have stronger support to shape the future of science. Today we launched two AI strategies to boost EU leadership in scientific innovation: 🥼 AI in Science 🔹Access to AI Factories & Gigafactories 🔹Stronger EU & global cooperation 🔹 Impact on major challenges such as climate change and health 🔬 Apply AI: 🔹Enhances EU tech sovereignty 🔹Targeted actions to boost AI in key secto…

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

So Korea's Coupang's cyber insurance gives it coverage of only around $682,000.
https://www.chosun.com/english/market-money-en/2025/12/08/KXCKOF2BYJEFHJQJDYZI6MQZSE/

Coupang's 1 Billion Won Insurance Falls Short After 33.7 Million Data Breach
Coupangs 1 Billion Won Insurance Falls Short After 33.7 Million Data Breach Critics demand higher insurance limits as current minimums fail to cover massive breaches, with calls to increase coverage up to 100 billion won

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115510783495155340
One thing that, to my surprise, sells really quickly is old computer books from the 1980s (stuff like "Machine Programs for the Apple II").
I guess perhaps they're cheap to ship (in the US, the post office has a special low rate for packages with books or music) and nice small treats for people?
Regardless, it's a nice win, I free up space and get some pocket money, the books go to someone who will love and care for them. :)

The thing is, Harvard’s lucrative position •could• cut the other way. As @… put it, “What’s the point of having fuck-you money if you never say ‘fuck you?’”
Harvard has that kind of money. They •could• choose to be a mission-based org and fight back. There have been inklings of that in recent months: they’ve said no, they’ve countersued.
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via @stongleton@threads.net
context: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/01/05/dhs-blasts-hilton-hotel-canceled-ice-reservation/88037098007/

I am glad that Canada remains at the top of the list of non-USA donors to Ukraine, though I am a little skeptical whether that money or materiel has actually gotten to Ukraine.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c4gpzep9n8et

New Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
I try to explain all of this AI thing in one article, and suggest why it is hostile to democracy, to humanity but also happily likely to end with the would-be tech Sun Kings taking trips to the financial guillotine.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-the-sou

The Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
We can calculate the amount of money flowing into AI. But what will the full cost be to society when the bubble pops? This is the Gist.

Think of this as a good place to start
— for you and your loved ones
— to expand your knowledge of indie news outlets
who are more deserving of your time and money than corporate, billionaire-owned media.
And feel free to add your suggestions in the comments.
https://www.thehandbaske…

Giving the gift of independent journalism: a guide
The Handbasket has subscription suggestions for almost everyone on your list.

Read, think and conclude we have a mentally impaired and dangerous person as president of the US.
#Trump

It's not hard to calculate. How much money is each person, man, woman, and child paying for the US military under trump?
Right now the US is spending one $TRILLION each year on the military: That's this many dollars, each year:
$1,000,000,000,000
We have roughly 330,000,000 people in the US.
That means each of us is paying about $3000 each year to pay for the US military.
So a family of four is paying about $12,000/year.
Now, remember, trump wa…

"If everyone who streamed All Hell on Spotify had done so using Tidal instead, we would have received an extra £31,847.38, which would double the amount we made from streaming of the album in this time period."
https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money…

Bedroom is done! Well. Builders are finished anyway. I still have to buy a bed and stuff to put in it, and since I've spent all my money that'll have to wait until payday. And then it's nearly xmas so probably better to wait until January.
There's a clasp missing to hold the window shutters shut. The one we had was too big. Should be able to screw one in myself tomorrow.
Doing all the lights and stuff will takes months and months probably.
But I can go back to sleeping in late instead of getting up to let the builders in every day.

I know many academics, especially in these dark days, have to deal with worse, but it's obnoxious when the university takes a few years to slowly smother the cost-sharing program that you wrote into your successful grant application. Where I once had the money to hire the undergrad RAs the project needs, I now have enough for maybe a sixth of the planned hours.

Raiders-Broncos betting: Sharp money moves spread, total https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/raiders-broncos-betting-sharp-money-moves-spread-total-3591305/

Elon Musk's "X" allowed and enabled online prostitution/pornography, and you're surprised they are planning on making money off of deep fake porn?
This is the guy who offered to buy a physiotherapist a pony if she'd jack him off...

The US military has always had a massive global advantage against enemies by having bases all over the world. There are bases in every NATO country. This would appear to be a powerful threat to anyone willing to oppose American hegemon, and under normal conditions it would be.
But a lot of those kids serving on those bases joined, not because they love America but, because they needed a ticket out of poverty. They joined for the education, for the money, maybe a bit for the adventure, but, more than anything, to escape the ghetto or podunk backwater that trapped them. Under normal times, this is the best deal they could expect. Maybe they risk their lives, usually they sit around being bored for a few years, and they get to come out with respect and paid college.
But what they are being offered is normal in most of the countries they're stationed in. Free healthcare, cheap or free education, is just what citizens in a lot of countries have come to expect. If the US attacked a NATO country, how many would snap up citizenship if they were given a chance to defect? Bonus points for taking some hardware with you, I'm sure.
But there are some who love their country. There are some patriotic Americans on those bases. Some of them joined specifically to protect the US from all enemies, foreign *and* domestic. Given a chance to fulfill that oath or violate international law, what happens?
There are a good number of former military folks too who now are unsafe in the countries they served, who would do just about anything for citizenship in any EU country and almost any NATO ally. Some of those folks know things they swore an oath to never share, but the country they swore an oath to has betrayed them. Today there's no value in leaking those secrets, but in a war between the US and NATO allies things would be different. Some of those former military folks still believe in their oath, and know exactly who the real enemy is. What happens when there's a real threat of war, when they can use their knowledge to fulfill that oath to protect the US against those domestic threats?
There are a bunch of civilian tech workers who have become targets of the regime. Some of them had clearance, or know about the skeletons in the closet. They know about critical infrastructure, classified systems, all sorts of things that would be extremely valuable to an opponent. But the opponents of the US have always been a frightening *other*, never familiar societies these folks look up to, have visited, have thought about moving to, are trying to escape to.
All I'm saying here is that invading Venezuela and kidnapping the president has a very different calculus than does attacking Greenland. I don't know if Trump or his people are able to understand that, but if he and his folks aren't then I hope European leaders are. But more than that, I hope it never comes down to finding out.
But perhaps we should all think about what we would do to make sure things ended quickly if American leadership ever made such an incredible mistake.

The Justice Ministry is proposing to take 75% Client Account Interest into its own hands, so a tax.
This is essentially Clients own money as Solicitors have to account for it.
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultation

Interest on Lawyers' Client Accounts Scheme

Give me your money and I make it disappear!

The 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…

North Korean companies, people sanctioned for money laundering from cybercrime, IT worker schemes
The Treasury Department on Tuesday sanctioned eight people and two companies it accused of laundering money obtained from cybercrime and IT worker schemes to fund North Korean government objectives.

🔥 BUDANOV KNOWS! Servicemen, money, resources: what will Russia lack in 2026?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/03/budanov-knows-servicemen-money-resources.html

Apple fined $261,000 for poisoning people.
(Apple made that money back in about 21.5 seconds.)
#BigTech #Apple #poisoning

Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD (@ashleygjovik@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image "Former Apple employee Ashley Gjøvik moved into one of the adjacent apartments in 2020 only to fall badly ill with indications of chemical poisoning, she told SFGATE. She didn't know what was happening at first, she said, but after she arrived she started suddenly having chest pains, strange rashes, arrhythmia and numbness. She regularly fainted. When she got her blood and urine tested that September, she said, the results showed arsenic, mercury, toluene and xylene." https:…

From ⁨⁨⁨⁨⁨#AnnafromUkraine⁩⁩⁩⁩⁩ @AnnafromUkraine@youtube.com
BASHKORTOSTAN WITHOUT MONEY, #TAXES PROTESTS ACROSS #RUSSIA Vlog 1251: War in

I had thought this to be the 3rd of 3 really tough games. Win one and I’d be happy because entering this stretch, #LFC were really playing poorly. We’ve won 2 and I thought we’re playing with house money.
City, at home, have been excellent and LFC less so. I was braced for a loss and at peace with that possibility. Bad luck on two goals can happen, but damn this officiating farce. I am livid abou…

"So far, only Brazil and Indonesia have announced investments in the scheme. The World Bank has agreed to host the facility. Several countries have murmured positively, but not yet committed any money. The UK has made clear it will not contribute at this stage. There will need to be greater momentum at Cop30 if the plan is to get off the ground."
"Brazilian finance ministry officials, who have spent the past 18 months working on this project, say the TFFF would be a step…

In Maine, prisoners can work remote jobs from their cells. Some make six figures. : Planet Money : NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/11/07/nx-s1-5601059/maine-prisoners-remote-work-jobs

Good Morning #Canada
Did you know that a Dodecahedron is a 12-letter name for any 12-sided shape. And did you also know that on this day in 1962, the Canadian Government decreed that our dodecahedron nickel was decadent and that round was right. Pre-1962 nickels are now pretty worth a nickel, but a coin in "mint condition" has been known to fetch a few pennies more.
Have you noticed there are more coin buying events in your neighbourhoods over the past few years? Some of that activity is driven by buyers taking advantage of people wanting to sell old jewelry, collectibles, or jars of coins that are sitting in the back of drawers or closets. But the rise of digital transactions, particularly increased during COVID when no one wanted to touch your infected money, has increased the collectible value of coins and, in some cases, the actual metal value exceeds the face value.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
http://canadiancoinnews.com/otd-12-sided-five-cent-coin-becomes-round/

For some web sites... NO, I WILL NOT TURN MY AD BLOCKER OFF. You want to make money then show me generic ads. I will not allow you to snoop and pull all of that info to sell. Block me from reading? Fine, I will go elsewhere.
Keep this in mind. How do they know you are running ad blockers? Must be those snooping scripts trying so hard to siphon all my info.

How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions (Aaron Krolik/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/technology/how-a-cryptocurrency-helps-criminals-launder-money-and-evade-sanctions.html?unlocked_article_code=1.608.uAB_.cwdtsJaviTeJ&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p15#a251207p15

Had a lovely evening while playing an experimental board game on post-quantum #cryptography with people from Tampere University, the OpenSSL Foundation and Cybernetica.
A fitting end for the 2025 #OpenSSL Conference.

NFL picks: 49ers vs. Eagles part of expert's top money line parlay for Super Wild Card Weekend

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

Gosh, Nancy Pelosi is retiring so young! I hope she's saved up enough money for retirement.
#USPOL

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

Making money off of porn now:
Musk’s Grok limits image generation to paid users on X | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/technology/musks-grok-limits-image-generation-to-paid-users

Here's how NFL teams like Cowboys beat the salary cap: QB Dak Prescott https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/01/08/how-cowboys-can-shave-salary-cap-space-restructurin…

Mind Over Money
The podcast that helps Australian's have finances that work...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/

Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

Austerity and sprawl are not the future Port Alberni deserves.
(The Letter was sent to the AV News on January 8, 2026) Dear Editor, I’ve been increasingly disturbed by Mayor and Council’s decisions of late and the latest budget related scandals have only gotten worse: Ending the City's relationship with the BCSPCA; proposed ending support for McLean Mill National Historic Site; the Visitor Centre begging for money;  Expensive (to city and residents) sprawling and…
https://chrisalemany.ca/b/Au9

This fall, Americans got to see what it’s like to go without a safety net for the hungry.
With the U.S. government shut down for multiple weeks
and Donald Trump refusing to fund SNAP, the federal food stamp program,
a panic set inamong the more than 40 million people who rely on it.
Families skipped meals,
and babies went unfed.
Food banks ran out of food, and some people turned to dumpster diving.
It was just a glimpse of what’s to come.
Start…

Wave of Tax Cuts Has Left Many States Vulnerable to Trump SNAP and Medicaid Crisis
President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act will shift billions in costs for SNAP and Medicaid to states. But with 26 having cut or eliminated state income taxes just since 2021, they may not have the money to continue the programs.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6MusicsJukebox
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

Raiders-Broncos betting: Sharp money moves line, total for ‘TNF’ https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/raiders-broncos-betting-sharp-money-moves-line-total-for-tnf-3533443/

Kid: Dad!?! The (no longer maintained) software that school wants me to use is throwing a "Code C" error on the video we took in class (on a brand new iPhone). Can you help?
Me: I don't know who suggested you use this software. I don't know why. If the software company is telling you to pay for an upgrade, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career (in scientific software)

The UK's FCA grants Ripple approval for its Electronic Money Institution license and crypto asset registration, clearing the way for UK expansion (Sarah Wynn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/384953/ripple-secures-fca-authorization-cl…

Trump: I talked to the oil CEOs & it'll only take 18 months to rebuild Venezuela's oil industry.
Big Oil CEOs: He's lying & never talked to us. It'll take 10 to 20 years & we'll lose money by going into Venezuela.
#trump #oil

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

The trouble with being Harvard is that your name is the most valuable thing you own. It’s bigger than anything the institution actually does.
Yes, there are some amazing and excellent people at Harvard — and some utter dingbats, as anywhere else — but whatever actual excellence Harvard offers in education or research is secondary. Harvard is a •brand• first and foremost. It’s a name people put on their resumes to make themselves worth more money in capitalism’s eyes.
1/ https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:36n7wd7gg4tapamnog4zyyc6/post/3m2r4uuijyc2r

The Smart Money Is Turning Out to Be Green Money (Mark Gongloff/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-07/clean-energy-green-stocks-and-bonds-are-a-smart-investment?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2Nzc5MjA3OCwiZXhwIjoxNzY4Mzk2ODc4LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOEhQNkZLSVVQVEcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIxMkE1QzVFRUNERDg0NUJEQjVFOTM1MUE0Mzk4QTAxNCJ9.J92FFjnx8wyjJT6Q9myk6oxhMlbwxQCm_s3EtEovf-g
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p24#a260107p24

Source: Piers Morgan's YouTube-based venture Uncensored is raising £22.5M from The Raine Group, Theo Kyriakou, and others at a £97M pre-money valuation (Mark Kleinman/Sky News)
https://news.sky.com/story/piers-morgan-s-uncensored-nears-…

Piers Morgan's Uncensored nears £100m valuation after stake sale
The US-based merchant bank Raine and Greek media mogul Theo Kyriakou are among the backers of the former Mirror editor and CNN anchor as he raises funds to grow the Uncensored media brand, Sky News learns.

Albany Georgia isn’t the only place where the poorest among us are also the sickest.
The United States is blessed with one of the most scientifically and technologically advanced health care systems in the world,
a sprawling industry so vast and lucrative that it is now one of the largest drivers of the economy,
accounting for more jobs and revenue than manufacturing.
But for all the money flowing in and out,
Americans have more chronic illnesses and shorte…

Sick in a Hospital Town
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.

Netflix changed movie distribution and its executives now think that licensing shows leaves money on the table; YouTube may help Netflix's WBD antitrust case (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/netflix-and-the-hollywood-end-game/

Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.

So Ubiquity (networking supplier) reported record earnings, much higher than expected, yet their stock price immediately plummeted almost 20%.
In tech bubbles, suppliers are usually the companies who _really_ make money.
This is obviously extremely concerning.

https://www.theverge.com/news/853765/someone-made-a-ton-of-money-betting-on-maduros-capture

Someone made a ton of money betting on Maduro’s capture
A brand-new account placed suspiciously timed bets on Polymarket regarding Nicolás Maduro’s ouster.

NFL Week 10 betting: Bucs, 49ers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs

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

300 billion dollars to Ukraine – Russian money working against the Kremlin! | Special report: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/07/billion-dollars-to-ukraine-russian.html

Yowzer, take a break from reading all the election news by checking out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--EU cops bust money launderers who set up crypto fraud network,
--OFAC sanctions DPRK firms for supporting criminal activity,
--Probe reveals how easy it is to intercept EU and NATO sensitive movement data,
--KC PD hack exposes misconduct details,
--Nikkei Slack hack exposes data on 17K employees an…

EU cops bust money launderers who set up crypto fraud network
OFAC sanctions DPRK firms for supporting criminal activity, Probe reveals how easy it is to intercept EU and NATO sensitive movement data, KC PD hack exposes misconduct details, Nikkei Slack hack exposes data on 17K employees and partners, Curly COMrades abuses Microsoft Hyper-V in Windows, more

"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://

AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work
Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…

Pluralistic: Where did the money go? (Cory Doctorow/Pluralistic)
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/08/after-the-moneys-gone/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p130#a260108p130

Corporate cowardice in action...
As Bob Dylan once wrote "money doesn't talk, it swears". And here is a case where a big corporation opens its kimono for nazis.
"Hilton Hotels removing Minneapolis franchise location after it again denied DHS booking"
https://www.

Hilton Hotels removing Minneapolis franchise location after it again denied DHS booking
Minneapolis, which has a large Somali community, has become a focus of criticism by the Trump administration, which has surged ICE agents there.

Q&A with Square product chief Willem Avé on Block's restructuring in 2024, AI automation, investing in crypto, the Lightning Network, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/839062/square-product-ch…

Square’s product chief on the death of the penny and the future of money
Square’s Willem Avé thinks AI is the most exciting technology shift in two decades. Here’s what he thinks it will do for fintech.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Zion Train:
🎵 Money (Numa Crew Remix) (feat. Daman)
#ZionTrain
https://manwelt.bandcamp.com/track/permanent-pressure-money

Relative to many, my life is very good,
-- in that I am alive and housed, fed, sometimes employed.
I am healthy and loved.
Still, I am about to lose my entire mind over the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) website,
and the fact that someone,
probably a bot farmer,
has already used my 16-year-old son’s identity to establish a fraudulent account.
This is a common scam,
one that was fortunately detected before any money changed …

FAFSA Is Breaking Me
I think I have been holding it together in the face of everything we can’t stop talking about—the killing and the dying, the explosions and the terror, the eggs and the bird flu and the shameless ghouls ruining the good parts of our country, the weapons and the

"Sadiq Khan calls on Reeves to bring ‘authentic’ Labour budget that boosts green investment"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Money #Finance

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cody Currie, Kaidi Tatham:
🎵 Money
#CodyCurrie #KaidiTatham
https://codycurrie.bandcamp.com/track/money-kaidi-tatham-remix-extended-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/21OuAHMbZVnrSQme2RBuhI

Fuck Elon and his money! (I was really hoping for more good news this week.)
We absolutely need to destroy the value of every company that asshole is associated with.
#USPOL

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro wasted our money pursuing sandwich thrower (Barbara McQuade/MSNBC)
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/jeanine-pirros-case-dc-sandwich-thrower-was-downright-lawless-rcna242612
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p4#a251108p4

Sharp 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/

The money's electronic, so it can be sent whether the gov't.'s open or not but (Vance): “in the midst of a shutdown we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”
JD Vance calls court order to fully fund SNAP 'absurd ruling'
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5594443-vance-pushes-back-snap/

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV) - OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating

Open-Source Thermostatic Radiator Valve (OpenTRV)
OpenTRV retrofit open-source reference mechanical/hardware/software design for zoned heating to save carbon and money. #OpenTRV #TRV #heating #cutCarbon

Falcons restructure QB Kirk Cousins' deal, set stage for offseason decision, per report

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/falcons-kirk-cousins-contract-money-offseason/…

In 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-…

‘Paid Me a Lotta Money!’ Trump Takes Victory Lap Over ’60 Minutes’ — In Part of In ...
One part of President Trump's 60 Minutes interview on Sunday that did not air live: the president gloating that CBS paid him millions of dollars to settle

Trump's Tariffs Are a Massive Money Grab. That's Why They Are in Trouble. (Greg Ip/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-tariffs-are-a-massive-money-grab-thats-why-they-are-in-trouble-cc88c1a1
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p75#a251106p75

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Cody Currie, Kadii Tatham:
🎵 Money
#CodyCurrie #KadiiTatham
https://codycurrie.bandcamp.com/track/money-kaidi-tatham-remix-extended-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/21OuAHMbZVnrSQme2RBuhI

LMArena, which runs a leaderboard ranking AI models based on their performance, raised $150M at a $1.7B post-money valuation, taking its total funding to $250M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ai-evaluation-…

AI Evaluation Startup LMArena Valued at $1.7 Billion in New Funding Round
LMArena, astartup that operates a widely cited ranking of AI models based on their performance, has raised $150 million at a valuation of $1.7 billion, including the new money, according to the company. That’s nearly triple the valuation of its seed funding round, announced in May 2025. The ...

Appeals court revives Trump's effort to remove hush money case to federal court (Aaron Katersky/Associated Press)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-revives-trumps-effort-remove-hush-money/story?id=127256521
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p72#a251106p72

Money has always distorted U.S. politics,
but the current Trump regime has entered new territory with
🔥an unabashed pay-to-play setup that’s stuffing the president’s political coffers
while enriching him and his family.
💥Donald Trump’s coldly transactional dealings have been on full display
as he’s tapped billionaire allies and major corporations
to shower his administration with donations to pay for his latest vanity project:
a 90,000-square-foot, $…

Trump’s White House Ballroom Is Being Bankrolled by Genocide and ICE Profiteers
The ballroom donor list also includes Wall Street and cryptocurrency firms that benefit from the president’s agenda.

NFL 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

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

Intel spinout and enterprise AI company Articul8 raised over half of a $70M Series B at a $500M pre-money valuation and expects the round to close in Q1 2026 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/intel-spi…

Intel spinout Articul8 raises more than half of $70M round at $500M valuation | TechCrunch
Articul8's valuation for its current funding round marks a roughly fivefold increase since its Series A.

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Agent's Take: Biggest individual dead money charges in 2025, including Daniel Jones still costing the Giants

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/agents-…

Trump officials loosen strings on federal education money for Iowa. More states could follow (Collin Binkley/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/education-department-iowa-block-grant-mcmahon-trump-bd80ffce0d743e7d77efffc664bb225f
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p85#a260107p85

Ex-D.E.A. Agent Charged With Agreeing to Launder Millions for Cartel (Benjamin Weiser/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/nyregion/dea-agent-money-laundering-mexican-cartel.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p59#a251205p59