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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Chris learns Vim

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/a9sijmZ4GQMA1dk2B3QVDq

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Justin Sun has sued Bloomberg for publishing details about his wealth that he himself provided. While Sun claims the lawsuit stems from privacy concerns, Sun seems to be trying to suppress unflattering details about his wealth and business activities as he reinvents himself in the US.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #JustinSun

Crypto billionaire Justin Sun has sued Bloomberg for publishing details about his wealth that he himself provided to qualify for their Billionaire Index. While Sun was initially eager for Bloomberg to publicize his multibillionaire status, he became furious when he learned they planned to publish a rough breakdown of the assets comprising his crypto fortune. This may be because it reveals an inconvenient detail: the majority of his assets are TRX, the cryptocurrency issued by his company Tron — and he owns most of the TRX in circulation (63%). This concentration is somewhat reminiscent of the 2022 revelation that Sam Bankman-Fried had built his crypto empire on a foundation of FTT, the token issued by his own company FTX, sparking concerns about the solvency of his businesses and the value of FTT that ended in the collapse of both. Sun’s fury could also stem from Bloomberg’s reporting that Sun owns the HTX cryptocurrency exchange (renamed from Huobi in late 2023 [I40]). Though it has long been clear that Sun holds more control over the exchange than he claims to have as a mere adviser, he has refused to admit he owns the company. This is a pattern with Sun, who has also denied ownership of other companies with which he’s heavily involved, such as Poloniex (which he later acknowledged owning), BiT Global, and Techteryx.
While Sun claims the lawsuit stems from fears over his privacy, personal safety, and financial security, these concerns are difficult to reconcile with his frequent public displays of wealth. Sun instead appears to be continuing his years-long pattern of trying to dictate his image in the media — downplaying his shady past1 and attempting to suppress reporting about his Tron network’s heavy use by criminal enterprises23 — now with heightened urgency as he works to reinvent himself for an American audience. Less than a year ago, Sun was a crypto entrepreneur dogged by SEC fraud allegations,4 so concerned about a reported criminal investigation into suspected financial crimes that he refused to step foot in the United States out of fear he would be arrested.5 Now he’s working to rebrand himself as a legitimate businessman, taking Tron public in US markets and securing an advisory role with one of the president’s own crypto ventures. This transformation has been aided by the mysterious easing of his legal troubles, which coincides with hundreds of millions in investments into Trump-linked businesses.

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

Newsletter: As he builds US power, Justin Sun fights to control his story

A crypto billionaire who once feared arrest in the US is now a Trump business adviser and White House guest. His lawsuit against Bloomberg reveals what he doesn't want Americans to know about his crypto fortune.

https://www.citationneeded.news/justin-sun-bloomberg-lawsuit/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #JustinSun

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Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

https://patreon.com/dnalounge

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Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

♬️ Just announced: Sun Oct 5, 7:30pm: THE LOST BOYS: MOVIE SCREENING + DANCE PARTY
https://www.dnalounge.com/calendar/2025/10-05.html?utm%5Fsource=sp%5Fma
#dnalounge #thelostboys #cyberdelia #gothic #alternative #industrial #burlesque #sanfrancisco

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Boosted by jwz:
ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

Silver age panel of three boys two of them are watching a kid concentrating as he put together structures from a giant Erector set. The first kid asks, “What’s wrong with him? He’s always building those crazy jails!” The other kid says, “I don’t know. He never talks about anything but prisons!“

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Boosted by jwz:
atax1a@infosec.exchange ("mx alex tax1a - 2020 (5)") wrote:

gee everyone on the timeline who has done unmasked travel recently seems to be getting sick with "not covid", "probably just strep"

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denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

Oh look, your favorite Overengineer blogged again! (I mean, only if I am your favorite Overengineer...)

This time, I built a custom replacement for the old Google Location Timeline and a live location sharing thingie. If you want to read some words:

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/08/19/overengineering-location-history/

(that's actually technically kinda three blog posts? One main one that's very generic and doesn't talk too much about the details, but there's also two links to very detailed sub-topics. Yes, my blog posts have side-quests now. You can't stop me.)

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

“We believe that every individual and family should have the freedom to decide for themselves how much Cesium to include in their diet, free from meddlesome government interference.” - new FDA spokesperson, soon, probably.

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Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
interesting@bookmarks.kvibber.com ("Interesting Links") wrote:

smolweb HTML specification
"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

#HTML #SmallInternet #spec #smolweb

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The silver lining here is that the FDA is, for time being at least, still opposed to radioactive shrimp. https://6abc.com/amp/post/fda-warns-public-not-eat-possibly-radioactive-shrimp-great-value-brand-sold-walmart-13-states/17586897/

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

He's 100% not getting into heaven.

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pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Wheelchairs are harder to drive than I expected.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/08/19/where-im-at/

Souped up wheelchair

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Boosted by jwz:
SethRudy@c18.masto.host ("Saethelred the Unsteady") wrote:

Reporter: what are you going to do to keep your data centers from destroying the planet?
Tech bros: we have a robust set of ambitious strategies to—
Reporter: *shoots dart full of truth serum into their necks*
Tech bros: oh god, nothing, nothing at all. You’re fucked, obviously, but we’ll all be fine, so we absolutely don’t care. Not at all. If we could cool our racks for less money by liquefying your pets, we would absolutely do it. You got a cat? You look like you got a cat. Gimme your cat.

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Boosted by jwz:
nervous_jessica ("Jessica Rosenkrantz") wrote:

Example 2: our precious metal pieces are cast in India. which one day had a deminimus limit ($800), the next day had a 25% tariff and the next day had a 50% tariff. If I place an order for parts, the tariff situation will be different by the time they arrive and who knows what it will be.

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Boosted by jwz:
nervous_jessica ("Jessica Rosenkrantz") wrote:

This tariff situation is absolutely exhausting and never-ending. Example 1: we ship our wooden jigsaw puzzles to Canada. Puzzles are in the same category as all toys, which includes things like tricycles that are made of metal. Since puzzles are in the same harmonized code as tricycles, they are caught up in a 25% steel tariff, even though they’re made of wood!

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Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
zachleat@zachleat.com ("Zach Leatherman :11ty:") wrote:

A note from my late Grandmother about Eleventy

https://www.zachleat.com/web/history-of-eleventy-name/

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Boosted by jwz:
parental_guidance ("Parental Guidance") wrote:

Violence & Gore:
Brief scenes of human bodies spontaneously combusting in mid-air; no blood or gore is shown, but there is smoke and fire around the bodies and it is said that these people have been killed.

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Boosted by jwz:
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:

I hate buying a car. You’re not negotiating, you’re stuck with some guy who has the authority of a mall Santa. Every time you make an offer, he scurries off to “talk to his boss,”

This post is about Donald Trump

Headline Trump interrupts talks with European leaders to call Putin, says EU diplomat Imagine being able to betray multiple countries at once… Winning

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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

My rules for convention panel Q&A are that the question is in the form of a question, the questions have only one part, and the questions are asked as compactly as possible - and the reason is so that we can get to as many questions as possible from as many audience members as possible. If you explain all this up front, people are usually on board, and also, if someone tries to do other than this, you can stop them and move on to the next person. It's fair to everyone.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@laraleecupcake/post/DNi1eg2OSep

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

We’re finishing up the editing on the @defcon Voting Village talk videos and expect to have them online in a day or two. (Bonus: the audio in the videos is much clearer than it was live in the room.)

Didn’t make it to Hacker Summer Camp this year? Watch this space!

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo ("Robot Diver") wrote:

As both the weird kid and a figure skater growing up this routine officially wins my heart. Most people would be surprised to know I had trophies for interpretive ice dance.

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Kierkegaanks@beige.party ("Kierkegaanks regretfully") wrote:

@dx second time using this today

I'm so hunguy. Pwrease feed me. Guillotine with a hentai face

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dx@social.ridetrans.it ("🚲") wrote:

Just got contacted by a recruiter for a venture-backed startup looking to replace 911 operators with LLMs to triage emergency calls and boy I can’t express how much A) no I do not want to join your company, and B) how much I do not want to live in the world where 911 calls are handled by LLMs operated by for-profit companies

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
OtterForce@zirk.us wrote:

Oh hey, @haymarketbooks is offering free books for a #FreePalestine!

https://haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free-ebooks-for-a-free-palestine

#LevePalestina #FromTheRiverToTheSea #BDSMovement #AllEyesOnGaza #GoodReads 🍉🇵🇸

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
alfiekohn@sciences.social ("Alfie Kohn") wrote:

Continuous reports of AI's harmful impact serve as reminder that we need to continue using AI, but more responsibly

Onion headline: "Heroin Overdose Serves as Wake-Up Call to Keep Doing Heroin but Smarter"

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
jcolag ("John Colagioia") wrote:

The dark history of forced starvation as a weapon of war against Indigenous peoples https://theconversation.com/the-dark-history-of-forced-starvation-as-a-weapon-of-war-against-indigenous-peoples-262564

In 1791, President George Washington ordered Secretary of War Henry Knox to destroy farms and livestock of the Wea Tribe that lived along the Ohio River valley – a fertile area with a long history of growing corn, beans, squash and other fruits and vegetables.

#Famine #Gaza #History #IndigenousPeoples

Yazan Abu Ful, a 2-year-old malnourished child, sitting in the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City on July 23, 2025

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
AlJazeera@flipboard.com ("Al Jazeera") wrote:

In Gaza City, we are saying goodbye
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/19/in-gaza-city-we-are-saying-goodbye?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Middle East News @middle-east-news-AlJazeera

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
markhburton@mstdn.social ("Mark Burton") wrote:

Israel attacks displacement shelters to force Palestinians to southern Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/8/19/israel-targets-displacement-shelters-in-central-gaza?traffic%5Fsource=rss

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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
franebleu@kolektiva.social wrote:

"We're breaking Gaza apart, leaving it as a pile of rubble, with total unprecedented destruction in the world. And the world still hasn't stopped us."

#Smotrich, asking the world to stop him

https://mastodon.social/@agitprop%5Fn%5Fabsurdity/115056114802396020