I don't know how much of an issue KYC is to your average crypto-dabbler.
I found a few K's worth of BTC down the back of the sofa recently, and was astounded by how easy it was to use it like Visa after converting to stablecoin.
I don't think prediction markets are a function of stranded crypto, because for most holders, crypto has never been more fungible.
This is so utterly urgent. The US is an increasingly-deranged, hostile actor, which is able to cripple our tech at will.
I think we've been far too complacent about the direction of travel across the Atlantic. Trump and his crew are the new normal, and the key players in Silicon Valley are on board.
Any European government not currently working towards independence from US tech is being almost criminally neglectful.
Steps are being taken. This week two big announcements in The Netherlands as well, one for a replacement to AWS and one for taking US tech out of state secrets, which weirdly enough wasn’t already a thing.
There will be no peace till Bibi and his enablers are at a 21st century Nurenberg.
The extent of the atrocities committed over the last years alone is staggering. The West's support of this animal is disgusting.
He is now attempting to scupper a desperately-needed, and difficult to achieve and maintain ceasefire. The world's economy and food security is at stake here. He has to be stopped before he drags us all into ruin.
It’s not just one man, you have to follow the money. Look at Trump’s donors, there is a huge lobby in the US funded by Israeli billionaires who got us into this war and the previous Iraq war. The majority of our senators in both parties also supported this conflict (and also the billions in military aid we send to Israel every year) because they too have been purchased by the same lobby.
Even if we had a Nuremberg for Bibi and his cronies, this lobby will still wield enormous power in the US and continue to push us into wars for Israel.
Not disputing that in the slightest, but the locus of accountability stands with those at the helm.
A network is vast and complicated, a cabinet is not. This is where prosecutions typically start.
The statements Trump and Hegseth have made in the last weeks are similar in form to those used to bring to justice perpetrators of atrocities in Rwanda and Serbia.
Prosecutions may be optimistic, but the rest of the world needs to think very seriously about boycott, divestment and sanctions on both the US and Israel. The UK and Germany are borderline.
We stop them all now, or we're all going to spend the next decade broke and hungry.
I've designed jewellery for my wife's last few birthdays. Nothing fancy, geometries, square kufic and such.
Very crude approach: I've been doing it in Blender, if you've 3D skills should be easy. I've got a friend who does the printing and casting, so there's more I could explore there later.
I also do dioramas, which grew out of 40K. Got bored with hench guys with guns and moved to 6mm, it's been great fun focusing on buildings.
Matrox Mystique was a combination 2D/3D consumer card, which at the time, was still something that mattered. Sure a Voodoo addon card mattered more, very soon, but then quickly things shifted back to combination 2D/3D card with Nvidia!
Also, how is a "first $2000 consumer card" something that "matters"? That's precisely the kind of thing that doesn't matter. My entire laptop cost less than that and I play games with it. What matters much more is that I can play quite a bunch of games that are even pretty recent with a laptop that cost less than that, all with an integrated graphics chip from a company that is precisely known for having abysmal 3D performance: Intel (I have an Iris Xe)
Exploring "interesting ideas" is kinda broad, but I find Philip K. Dick, J.G. Ballard, and Iain [M.] Banks all packed full of stuff that gets the noodle baking.
And now you have moved the argument away from Russia. Pulling a thread off-topic like that is one of their simplest strategies. It begs for engagement.
You don't need the Steele dossier to see trump and his entourage are manipulated by Russian agents.
Fact: Michael Flynn talked with the Russian ambassador.
Fact: Flynn lied about the content of his call. Not to journalists, but to FBI agents.
Fact: Trump dismissed Comey to stop the investigations around Flynn. He said it openly, on camera.
Fact: Trump pardoned Flynn.
Fact: Trump is pushing for the prosecution of Comey - a case so weak it has already been rejected before going to trial.
Fact: FBI agents have been demoted and punished for nothing else than working on the Russian dossier. Including respected career agents currently working on e.g. Iranian operations in the USA. Their only crime has been to be assigned to the Russian dossier, something they didn't choose.
You absolutely don't need the Steele dossier to see something's wrong - except to deflect from the obvious.
Another big driver, which TFA mentions, is that outrage drives both clicks and repeat visits. There are lots and lots of people in it purely for the money, including Americans. It's nothing political, it's purely the profit motive. Then the reward functions on FB and YT direct people towards content that appalls or outrages, disturbing videos, conspiracy theories, bigotry. For FB the ideal user is one who's been sucked into a vortex of conspiracy theories and spends all their time on FB.
When I say it's apolitical I mean the con artists know exactly who to target, which is the right, because you can feed them anything and they'll keep coming back for more. It's far harder with the left, they'll say "this is all bullshit" and move on quickly, there's no money to be made there. There was a great interview a few years back with a California-based troll who said he targeted the right because that's where you got the responses: "We've tried to do similar things to liberals. It just never worked, it never takes off. You'll get debunked within the first two comments and then the whole thing just kind of fizzles out".
It seems to me like a lot of the American stuff is people directly or indirectly under Russian influence or part of an international network of extreme-right politics of which Putin is the most powerful figure.
> Is Putin the most powerful figure? It seems Bibi holds the most sway over Trump this month.
Power and influence can be considered two different things.
As for holding sway over Trump: it's often generally anyone that can flatter his ego and/or put money in his pockets. (Or for his swaying himself: whatever will get the most headlines, the most people talking about him.)
>Musk repeats verbatim Russian talking points about Ukraine.
Have it crossed your mind that they're just closer to truth than what Western propaganda spreads about Ukraine conflict and why it started and keep going?
> Have it crossed your mind that they're just closer to truth than what Western propaganda spreads about Ukraine conflict and why it started and keep going?
It started because Putin wants the 'good old days' of the Soviet Union back, and he does not consider Ukrainians their own people, but just a bunch of folks that have forgotten they are really Russian/Soviet. The 'official' Rusian reason is/was because Ukraine was run by Nazis (never mind that Zelenskyy is Jewish).
I think the likely scenario is Trump digging in post-mid terms. This is very likely, given the amount of flagrantly illegal stuff he's got floating around him and his crew.
Then two paths: he's either successful, forming the sort of "managed democracy" you see in Russia etc.
Or he's unsuccessful, and we see what happens. ICE are a militia beholden to the regime. Could get spicy.
Constitutionally, I think the framework that's supposed to check executive power is already shredded, or at least revealed for what it's been all along: pretty much norms.
What's really weird about this list is what's not there.
I'm not seeing my spicy extensions (e.g. BPC), or the ones I use to block content on LinkedIn (ViolentMonkey, Ublock). So this isn't about detecting what they might deem as bad behaviour.
Nor could it be a fingerprinting thing, right? You'd want a full list for a full ID.
But they are checking out your religion. Deeply creepy.
You do get Opus 4.6, and it's really affordable. I usually go over my limits, but I'm yet to spend more than 5 USD on the surcharges.
Not seen a reason to switch, but YMMV depending on what you're doing and how you work.
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