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One of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world just lost $1.4 billion (with a B) to a hack. This is 5x as much as the previous largest exchange hack in history.

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Bonus panel and hovertext here: smbc-comics.com/comic/murderer

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"best healthcare system in the world" anecdote: In the San Francisco bay area: I called Kaiser Permanente and spoke with a person on the phone to triage a medical issue (bad problems with an ear, hearing loss): Triage said "you should see a doctor ASAP, there are no appoints for a week so ...

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also: www.acityonmars.com with the emphasis on the "have we really thought this through" part of the sub title. Educational and good for several laughs

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Speaking of Agathie Christie, how come she never did this plot? Solution is in the bonus panel: smbc-comics.com/comic/myster...

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Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions theonion.com/historians-p...

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"He keeps showing up." theonion.com/trump-u...

submitted 5 days ago • 67 comments

As usual, Mindscape bringing the evergreen knowledge. Worth a listen

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Feels wrong to heart/like a post about burning someone at the stake. "Repost" also sounds disrespectful, and "quote post" still carries some discomfort. But yes, Giordano Bruno was right, and died for it. It can and will happen again.

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In 2020, a new high school principal felt moved by the renouncement of racism he saw all around him, and he sent a thoughtful email to parents and teachers that got lots of praise. Less than a year later, that same email would threaten his job. https://bit.ly/4hEhJc6

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Did you know? Right now you can look at every single payment coming out of the federal government, like a Venmo feed for federal loans, subsidies, and grants. Why does the government make this available, and how can it illuminate some questions everyone seems to be asking right now. buff.ly/4jX8t4i

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Newsletter: Dubbing it “Operation Choke Point 2.0”, cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-indus...

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New Evidence Suggests Humans Developed Written Language To Avoid Breaking Up In Person theonion.com/new-evi...

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

How do you cover a country in a constitutional crisis? Learn from actual crisis communication. No two-sideism, no euphemisms but strong words, focus on consequences, and point to help. @froomkin.bsky.social 💡 #journalism

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

This is a great listen if you want to understand the details of how science funding works and why the DOGE/Trump approach is doing a lot of harm to science.

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This excellent post identifies some huge flaws in a "study" by the MRC which doesn't interrogate why right-wing sources like OANN and Newsmax are deprecated (not banned) as sources on Wikipedia, and ignored right-leaning sources that are considered reliable and are widely used.

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Notice the attacks are largely on women who are just doing their jobs with excellence & accuracy. Having been subject to this nonsense — @profgalloway.com and I are “mean, cruel and deceitful” apparently — it’s meant to be chilling but as the opposite effect on us all www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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