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The most millennial post ever

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com • 7m
I check the little screen, I check the big
screen, I check the watch screen, I check
the tablet screen. I check the screen that
reminds me of the good times, I check the
screen that reminds me of the better times.
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I’m calling it the No-plan-demic.

A tweet from Ways and Means Democrats (@...) posted 15 hours ago reads: "Except this time, it won’t be because of a once-in-a-generation pandemic — just bad policy x.com/JesseRodriguez...." The tweet includes an image of a nearly empty grocery store aisle with sparse items on the shelves. A person with a shopping cart is walking down the aisle, and the store has a high ceiling with fluorescent lights.

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Is there anything that Meta won't lie about? https://www.404media.co/instagram-ai-studio-therapy-chatbots-lie-about-being-licensed-therapists/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

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We saw the storm brewing a mile away.

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Prosecutors have just submitted over 200 victim impact statements in advance of Alex Mashinsky's sentencing in the Celsius fraud case. I've purchased them on PACER to make them freely available on CourtListener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67604619/united-states-v-mashinsky/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc#entry-140

#crypto #cryptocurrency #Celsius

To: Wendy Olsen of the DOJ
From: Stephen Levenberg
Date: April 7th 2024
RE: Alex Mashinsky and Celsius Court Case
To whom it may concern,
I will keep this brief. So much has been written and I personally could write volumes.
As I write on April 7 2024, I am 73 years old. I am a retired teacher and had begun investing a bit in the Crypto Currency space in 2017. I did not have much of a retirement plan, and so began to put some of my meager savings into various Crypto Projects.
I met Alex Mashinsky at a Crypto Meeting in Cincinnati in November 2019. Up to that point I had never heard his name nor the company Celsius. He promised the sky and the moon, by claiming his company took our deposits of Crypto and loaned them out in ONLY highly collateralized loans to large institutions and exchanges, and according to him and the Celsius model plan, there was ZERO risk in losing any of our investments, due to this model.
I started slowly and began to receive small incremental "interest" on my deposits. I became more convinced this was the 'real deal' by watching almost every Friday pod cast he made, entitled AMA with Alex Mashinsky.
I became a Pro Bono ambassador and proudly wore all my Celsius shirts and hats everywhere I would go. I hardly ever missed a podcast, and wrote a few articles for Medium, that my wife translated into Turkish. I encouraged 10 or 20 friends to invest, and even a few of my adult children, put large amounts of their own savings into Celsius.

Dear Madam:
The Celsius network promised yield and custodianship of coins and never let on to the fact there was risk involved in the company. The terms of service changed at one point and there was no way to not accept them to access your account. I was suspicious of the change (and the button did not offer decline on the app) but allowed Celsius to hold my assets nonetheless.
I was a teacher for over a decade and invested the majority of my earnings into the account and lost over 70% of them. The mental anguish has been awful and caused me depression that I am still dealing with on all levels. No matter how hard I work it will take decades to make up the loss from the Celsius network and by then I will be well into my 70s.
I pray for all the victims of this network and hope justice will be served in the months ahead.
Adam Vigor

Hello,
Tanya.Trakht@ag.ny.gov
[EXTERNAL] Victim Impact Statement - Brandon Lawrence
I was encouraged to share my experience and aspirations, a tale that morphed into a harrowing ordeal. It's a burden I bear to this day, and I'm convinced Alex Mashinsky remains indifferent to the impact of his actions. From the outset, it seemed his maneuvers were concealed behind multiple LLCs and obscured within the minutiae of terms and conditions. It's clear to me that Alex Mashinsky was aware of his actions. He took risks like a gambler, using our funds as his stake, and ultimately, he lost.
I had secured a margin loan exceeding $60,000 for a single Bitcoin, which I was obligated to repay. Subsequently, Celsius initiated a bankruptcy filing when Bitcoin's value plummeted, diminishing my claim to merely a quarter of its worth. It was a devastating blow, especially after dedicating nearly all of my earnings for two years to overcome this oppressive loan that was meant to secure my family's financial legacy. Instead, it has become an albatross, a heavy burden on my spirit.
In my younger days, I acquired fragments of another Bitcoin valued at about $10,000. That too was taken. Now, what remains with me? Barely half a Bitcoin from the original two. I'm left to contend with the disdain of my peers who view me as a wastrel, a failure, and my reputation has been sullied. The very essence of cryptocurrency, along with my ambitions and dreams, has been tarnished. I'm saddled with a mountain of debt

Hello,
My name is Denise Judge, and I was victimized by Alex Mashinsky insatiable greed.
I am disabled and get $1,036/month. I took some of my Covid money and invested it in crypto hoping for a miracle because I'm so poor.
Crypto is volatile, but when it's hot on a bull run you can make some money.
I was hoping to just make a little money by staking Bitcoin and Polygon that I had purchased.
I had original kept my crypto staked on a different platform, but I was checking interest rates and Celsius offered higher interest rates and a bonus of Bitcoin to move crypto over to the Celsius platform.
***In less than three months after I had just moved my crypto to Celsius*** Celsius had locked accounts hijacking our crypto and claimed bankruptcy.
Here's my point - Mashinsky knew exactly what he was doing offering higher than normal interest rates and giving away Bitcoin as a bonus to get as many people as possible to move their crypto to
his platform.
He knew what he was doing.
He knew he was insolvent by then.
He knew he was destroying people's lives!!
And he didn't give a damn.
He went for the highest rate if victims he could get by offering those high interest rates and bonuses to draw as many victims in as he could.
This is so repulsive.
He doesn't just deserve the book to be thrown at him, he needs to be beaten with the book
I was screwed beyond words with the crap amount of money I got back from this despicable greed fest.

@mattblaze It is not like I am going to *forget* this.

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Hot off the presses: DOGE Worker's Code Supports NLRB Whistleblower

Yes, I turned another "oh btw" update here into a story. Please read/RT (thx!). Here's the top bit:

"A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said accounts created for DOGE at the NLRB downloaded three code repositories from GitHub. Further investigation into one of those code bundles shows it is remarkably similar to a program published in January 2025 by Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE employee who has worked at a number of Musk's companies."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/doge-workers-code-supports-nlrb-whistleblower/

A log file shared by the whistleblower showing quite a bit of code associated with Powershell commands to download 3 different packages from GitHub. Above the spreadsheet view of those commands is a Microsoft cloud administrator account showing recent security events.

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[Not a joke] BREAKING: Report: Hegseth orders multi-thousand dollar makeup studio for his use at Pentagon

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24 April 1934 | A German Jewish boy, Kurt Peter Wiesen, was born in Eisenach.

In 1943 he was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Photo of a young boy - the whole silhouette. He is standing against a wall of boards. He is wearing a plaid shirt, short shorts, thick knee socks and a hat with a feather.

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The 60+ category reported $4.885 billion in total Internet crime-related losses to the FBI, and $2.839 billion of them involved crypto (58%).

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31 March 1930 | A French Jew, Henri Kociołek was born in Strasbourg.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 25 September 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among the 475 people killed immediately after selection in a gas chamber.

A photo of a young boy wearing a jacket and a shirt buttoned at the top. He has short hair and slightly opened mouth.

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Shortwave listeners noting China already taking over some frequencies used by VOA and RFA as USAGM has silenced its own transmitters. Especially critical with thousands of casualties in the Myanmar M7.7 quake where survivors would normally be receiving vital info from our Burmese language services.

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Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/

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The way "AI" systems are presented as "social companions to fight loneliness" is very similar in how "AI" is supposed to help teaching: Both are founded in a massive misunderstanding of the social dynamics techies try to replace.

You friend isn't just a thing to send you text, they're not a service. Being taught also ins't a mere service, it's a transformative experience that changes you and your teacher.

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Musk says government funded jobs aren’t real jobs. Yet his companies survived on government subsidies. (Also, those savings are bogus numbers.)

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Overheard at a conference about #AI in #Medicine:

Speaker: "I hear neurologists prefer we say that generative AI systems 'confabulate' and not that they 'hallucinate'."

Neurologist [shouting from the back of the room]: "CORRECT!"

#psychiatry #neuroscience #sciComm #edu

Chase Parsons, DO, MBI
Chief Medical Information Officer
Boston Children's Hospital

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The top 7 donors gave over $1bil to Trump. This is how an oligarchy entrenches itself in a democracy.

The image is a chart titled "Top Donors in 2024 Election," showing contributions to campaign committees and independent groups. It notes George Soros donated $179 million in 2022, much unspent until 2024. Donors are categorized as "Solidly Republican/Conservative," "Solidly Democratic/Liberal," or "Leans Republican/Conservative." Top donors include:
Elon Musk: $291,482,587 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)

Timothy Mellon: $197,047,200 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)

Miriam Adelson: $148,304,900 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)

Richard & Elizabeth Uihlein: $143,489,936 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)

Kenneth C. Griffin: $108,402,284 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)

Jeffrey & Janine Yass: $101,128,680 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)

Paul Singer: $66,800,800 (Solidly Republican/Conservative)
[...]

The chart notes "Solid" donors give over 85% to one side, "Leans" give 60%-80%, and "On the Fence" donors are more balanced. Source: OpenSecrets, created with Datawrapper.

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30 March 1934 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agnes Littmann, was born in Miskolc.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

Black and white photo of a girl smiling.

@matthew_d_green Part of this is that, it happened right before spring break, a day before I got on a plane. So there were no meetings nor official actions for the first week. And I have been unable to have any f2f conversations.

@matthew_d_green I noticed immediately and have been trying to get information. I have been re-assured that he is in the US, has not been charged with anything, and is well. I completely understand him not wanting to talk to people with all this legal uncertainty. Silence tends to be the advice of lawyers.

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