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Please share widely! And, if you don’t already, consider supporting my work. This kind of independent research is what I do full-time, entirely thanks to support from people like you. https://www.mollywhite.net/support/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #elections #USpol #lobbying

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Blockbuster reporting from @molly0xfff on the staggering scale of the cryptocurrency money that is pouring into political campaigns.

Cash is flowing from insiders (e.g. investors, founders) who seem to fear that the feds will properly regulate this beyond-sleazy industry.

This is a massive scandal that's been all but ignored by Big Journalism. It implicates Democrats and Republicans alike, and it is leading, ultimately, to financial catastrophe.

https://www.citationneeded.news/follow-the-crypto/

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Problems that were overblown: • quicksand • people offering me drugs • getting lost in the Bermuda Triangle Problems I was not sufficiently warned about: • arguing with robots about unexpected items in bagging areas • remembering all my passwords • existential dread

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Sad to hear they're discontinuing work on the Apple car

A worm-person driving a car made out of an apple. It's a drawing (OBVIOUSLY). The worm looks very happy and is wearing a hat. In the background a sad cat person looks on. They are also wearing a hat and for some reason.... a smart suit. I wanted to think of a cat-based business pun but the best I could come up with was 'miaowvers and shakers'. Sorry.

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Brave Local Bearded Man Comes Out as Not a Big Fan of IPAs: https://theneedling.com/2024/01/21/brave-local-bearded-man-comes-out-as-not-a-big-fan-of-ipas/

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Save the date: June 20. Birmingham, Alabama. MLB at Rickwood Field. 🔊

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Rickwood Field - a living monument to baseball history.

Counting down to MLB at Rickwood Field - June 20, 2024 on FOX.

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Our PG&E bill used to be about $140. Now it’s roughly $230. Nothing has changed. We use the same if not less amount of energy. It’s absolutely infuriating and you have absolutely no choice but to pay. https://48hills.org/2024/02/pg-theres-a-much-better-alternative/

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Happy 2.24.24!

We’re proud to be heading to Rickwood Field this season to celebrate the legacy of Willie Mays, Toni Stone, and all of the men and women who played in the Negro Leagues.

Graphic reading, “June 20, 2024; MLB at Rickwood Field; A tribute to the Negro Leagues.” Includes SF and STL lockups and a background image of the Rickwood Field exterior.

Graphic Reading, “Willie Mays; 1948 First season with the Birmingham Black Barons; Age 17 Starting center fielder; 1948 Rickwood Field hosts the final Negro League World Series.” Graphic includes a photo of Mays in a Black Barons cap.

Graphic reading, “Toni Stone; 1946 Toni Stone played in the West Coast Negro Leagues with the San Francisco Sea Lions. 1953 Joined the Indianapolis Clowns and filled the spot vacated by Hank Aaron after he signed with the Braves. Sea Lions Uniform; On June 20th the Giants will represent the West Coast Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field by wearing the uniforms of the San Francisco Sea Lions.” Graphic includes a photo of Stone in a Clowns uniform.

Graphic reading, “Rickwood Field, America’s oldest ballpark, home of the Birmingham Black Barons from 1920-1960, 180 Hall of Fame players played at Rickwood Field, including Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, Ty Cobb, and Babe Ruth.”

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Ahaaahhhhh wow amazing to see Google using the same marketing playbook for AI that served them so well for the 5+ messaging apps they've tried to launch.

Gemini? It's not Bard, who's talking about Bard? It's also not Duet. Duet? Duet is going away, like Duo, and Duo is not Duet. And no, not THAT Gemini, the other one--there are two, differentiated from each other by synonyms. Simple as.

Tweet from Thomas Kurian, CEO of Google Cloud, saying "We’re introducing a new offering called Gemini Business, which lets organizations use generative AI in Workspace at a lower price point than Gemini Enterprise, which replaces Duet AI for Workspace Enterprise."

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If you hear any country music elitists complaining about Beyonce making country music, just remind them that black people invented country music *and* one of the most decorated and well respected Americana/bluegrass artists in the country (a black woman) plays on the song.

Who Is Rhiannon Giddens? 3 Things To Know About The Banjoist & Violist On Beyoncé’s "Texas Hold ‘Em" | GRAMMY.com

https://www.grammy.com/news/rhiannon-giddens-beyonce-texas-hold-em-guest-banjo-facts

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Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

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A guide to your favorite cutlery

Title: What to cut with these knives?
illustration of various common knives (e.g. carving knife- ham, bread knife- bread, etc)
...followed by a purple lightsaber- labeled 'motherfuckers'

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I hate lose bolts
I cannot lie
you other fellas can’t deny
when a plug falls out
from a bulkhead space
with 16K feet in my face
my poor lungs

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/01/08/boeing-737-max-inspections-begin/

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It’s been 17 years since Mitch McConnell started filibustering everything and like 15 or 16 years since political reporters began treating that as totally normal and writing that routine legislation did or did not have the 60 votes necessary to pass. #media #uspol #gop

@jferg @williampietri I always follow that up with Gray’s Corollary: “any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice”

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Remember Batkid? 10 years ago, the Make-A-Wish Foundation transformed San Francisco into Gotham City so cancer patient Miles Scott could suit up as Batkid and save the city. Today, Scott is a cancer-free high school student. https://www.npr.org/2023/11/15/1213035528/10-years-ago-batkid-was-battling-bad-guys-and-cancer-now-hes-15-and-healthy

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