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Trump's pardon of CZ is a gift to the crypto industry, which has spent heavily to ease regulations and rewrite history to remove associations with criminality (Max Chafkin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

Trump Pardon of Binance’s Changpeng Zhao Is Rewriting Crypto History
The move by Trump comes as his family works to profit from coins.

Concept artists give informed critiques of using GenAI to concept. Fav quote:
“When I show someone a rough sketch they see it differently than I do. They’re not seeing the sketch, they’re seeing the potential for what the sketch could be through their own taste and experiences, and it sparks all kinds of wonderful ideas that I would’ve never thought of on my own.”
Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder

Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists working in games about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did.

Donald Trump issued a pardon for the founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange on Thursday.
Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty in late 2023 to one count of failing to maintain an anti-money laundering program and stepped down as CEO of Binance,
which paid $4.3bn to settle related allegations.
He was sentenced to four months in prison.
Zhao, who is often referred to by his initials CZ, is one of the world’s richest people and biggest names in cryptocurrency.

Trump's DOJ declined to prosecute '10 co-conspirators': Epstein documents - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/epstein-co-conspirators-trump/

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/23/academics-who-say-they-are-pro-white-and-have-ethnic-conception-of-australia-turn-spotlight-on-sydn…

Academics who say they are ‘pro-white’ and have ‘ethnic conception’ of Australia turn spotlight on Sydney’s Campion College
Higher education regulator investigates Catholic institute after comments by academics, including endorsing the White Australia policy

Elon Musk has left the White House, but he hasn't left politics behind on X (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-x-politics-crime-conspiracy-content-month-posts-acount-ai-rcna241593
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p33#a251122p33

Rupert Murdoch admits in new Dominion filing that Fox knew election fraud conspiracy theories were all lies it spread for profit | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/rupert-murdoch-admits-new-dominion-filing-fox-knew-election-fraud-conspiracy-theories-were

Ukrainian national Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak pleaded guilty to his role in launching Netflix ransomware attacks. He faces a maximum penalty of ten years in prison.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ukrainian-national-…

Ukrainian National Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Use Nefilim Ransomware to Attack Companies in the United States and Other Countries
A Ukrainian national pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit computer fraud for his role in a series of international ransomware attacks.

49ers to investigate viral substation conspiracy theory as team searches for answers to alarming injury rate

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/san-francisco-49ers-subst…

Because I’ve see people saying you should be “respectful” to chatbots:
You can’t.
You’re not actually talking to someone and the chatbot doesn’t actually understand what you’re saying.
It’s parsing tokens and uses applied statistics to generate more tokens, that’s it.
If even it could understand you and form meaningful concepts and mental images— there’s no self there that could be disrespected.