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An interview with Binance co-founder Yi He on growing up poor in China, the tests she faced during Binance's year of crisis when CZ was imprisoned, and more (Jeff John Roberts/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/crypto/2025/08/13/binance-yi-he/

How Binance’s Yi He became ‘the most powerful woman in crypto’—and steered the company past its biggest ordeal
In 2023, Yi He had to face down an enormous business challenge at Binance—one that was very personal as well.

DOOMscroll — The Game
This is a real doom game like in real life. Scroll through monotonous until you lose and you still believe that is with depth. The acquisition of betting is how deep you sink monotonous ;-)
😈 https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/

DOOMscroll
Scroll to survive. How far can you DOOMscroll?

“We are now in the heart of danger.”
Just had a message from Yousef, Nouran’s brother, on Signal.
Please help @… and her family is you can.
https://…

Hoy fuimos a probar la tercera cafetería de especialidad de nuestras vacaciones.
Estamos empezando la segunda edición del Pasaporte del Café de Especialidad de Costa Rica y justamente en La Fortuna hay 3 cafeterías participantes.
#CostaRica #Cafe

Yup, the hard part isn’t writing code.
I’m always a bit cautious of the argument that the barriers are a good thing. That easily slips into harmful gatekeeping if we aren’t careful. It’s not good when programming is inaccessible or unwelcoming.
What •is• good is that writing code slows you down and (if you’re good) makes you •think• about what the heck you’re doing — the work @… is talking about — with a depth and detail that no amount of chin-stroking and up-front design work can match. Skipping that work, however you skip it, is a false gain.
https://infosec.exchange/@saraislet/114851365996475798

TL;DR: what if instead of denying the harms of fascism, we denied its suppressive threats of punishment
Many of us have really sharpened our denial skills since the advent of the ongoing pandemic (perhaps you even hesitated at the word "ongoing" there and thought "maybe I won't read this one, it seems like it'll be tiresome"). I don't say this as a preface to a fiery condemnation or a plea to "sanity" or a bunch of evidence of how bad things are, because I too have honed my denial skills in these recent years, and I feel like talking about that development.
Denial comes in many forms, including strategic information avoidance ("I don't have time to look that up right now", "I keep forgetting to look into that", "well this author made a tiny mistake, so I'll click away and read something else", "I'm so tired of hearing about this, let me scroll farther", etc.) strategic dismissal ("look, there's a bit of uncertainty here, I should ignore this", "this doesn't line up perfectly with my anecdotal experience, it must be completely wrong", etc.) and strategic forgetting ("I don't remember what that one study said exactly; it was painful to think about", "I forgot exactly what my friend was saying when we got into that argument", etc.). It's in fact a kind of skill that you can get better at, along with the complementary skill of compartmentalization. It can of course be incredibly harmful, and a huge genre of fables exists precisely to highlight its harms, but it also has some short-term psychological benefits, chiefly in the form of muting anxiety. This is not an endorsement of denial (the harms can be catastrophic), but I want to acknowledge that there *are* short-term benefits. Via compartmentalization, it's even possible to be honest with ourselves about some of our own denials without giving them up immediately.
But as I said earlier, I'm not here to talk you out of your denials. Instead, given that we are so good at denial now, I'm here to ask you to be strategic about it. In particular, we live in a world awash with propaganda/advertising that serves both political and commercial ends. Why not use some of our denial skills to counteract that?
For example, I know quite a few people in complete denial of our current political situation, but those who aren't (including myself) often express consternation about just how many people in the country are supporting literal fascism. Of course, logically that appearance of widespread support is going to be partly a lie, given how much our public media is beholden to the fascists or outright in their side. Finding better facts on the true level of support is hard, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about the "fact" that Trump has widespread popular support?
To give another example: advertisers constantly barrage us with messages about our bodies and weight, trying to keep us insecure (and thus in the mood to spend money to "fix" the problem). For sure cutting through that bullshit by reading about body positivity etc. is a better solution, but in the meantime, why not be in denial about there being anything wrong with your body?
This kind of intentional denial certainly has its own risks (our bodies do actually need regular maintenance, for example, so complete denial on that front is risky) but there's definitely a whole lot of misinformation out there that it would be better to ignore. To the extent such denial expands to a more general denial of underlying problems, this idea of intentional denial is probably just bad. But I sure wish that in a world where people (including myself) routinely deny significant widespread dangers like COVID-19's long-term risks or the ongoing harms of escalating fascism, they'd at least also deny some of the propaganda keeping them unhappy and passive. Instead of being in denial about US-run concentration camps, why not be in denial that the state will be able to punish you for resisting them?

Did you know that you can disable #Android apps? https://www.guidingtech.com/how-to-disable-apps-on-android-and-what-happens-when-you-do/
The down…

A superpower that you can gain as you get older is to take a pause and realize when someone is actually talking about themselves when making statements. Obviously there's the "every accusation is a confession" of republicans, but often there's much more subtle things going on with people around you. Like, someone's cranky about how you've done something? Maybe it's because they're actually cranky about something else, like how *they've* done something.…

A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social)
“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’” [contains quote post or other embedded content]

PayPal launches PayPal Links, which lets users create a personalized, one-time link to send or request payment to other PayPal users (Lance Whitney/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/paypal-links-lets-you-send-and-receive-money-much-f…

PayPal Links lets you send and receive money much faster now - even crypto
With the new PayPal Links option, you can create and share personalized links to send or request payment from other individuals. Here's how.

Adyen reports H1 2025 net revenue up 20% YoY to €1.09B, vs. €1.11B est., processed volume up 5% YoY to €649B, and EBITDA up 28% YoY to €543.7M; ADYEN falls 17% (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20