Jons Mostovojs (@jonn@social.doma.dev)
@atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org how about you go and... (sorry, I'm not good at passive aggressive responses)... stop promoting stalinist trash? 😅Doma Social
#Reddit is now banning entire communities for criticizing Elon Musk.
It’s now time to start banging the drum about #Lemmy, #Mbin, and #Piefed as Reddit replacements.
Because right now we really do need decentralized alternatives to Big Social.
bbc.com/news/articles/czrlep5x…
Reddit community banned as user spat with Musk intensifies
The tech billionaire had complained that some Reddit users were advocating violence against his staff.Tom Gerken (BBC News)
Mx. Alba hat dies geteilt.
Trump 'made something snap in us' - US-Canada ties frayed by tariff row
The tariffs and US President Donald Trump's '51st State' comments have made way for a surge of patriotism in Canada.Nadine Yousif (BBC News)
@Subrote More to the point, and this surprised me, I have met people leaving the US who consider themselves refugees. Most recently I met a gay couple from LA who left as they no longer felt safe. This happened on Davie Street in Vancouver a week ago.
This is probably more common than we think. I fully expect to see more such instances, but it's not something that really reaches the public attention as claims are confidential.
Disney+ Lost 700,000 Subscribers From October-December 2024 - Slashdot
Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers in the last quarter of 2024, largely due to price hikes and expiring promotions.entertainment.slashdot.org
There once was a bomber in flight
Who aimed to cause terror and fright
But in an attack
On a recruitment sack
He met his demise in the fight
#GuardianLimerick #Ukraine #Russia #Europe
theguardian.com/world/2025/feb…
Ukraine war briefing: Bomber dies in attack on army recruitment centre
String of attacks against Ukraine’s mobilisation effort; Ukraine announces robot ground units. What we know on day 1,079Warren Murray (The Guardian)
1.2.2025 23 Uhr, mein letztes Panel für den #HourlyComicDay dieses Jahr.
Die Hourlies für den gesammten Tag erscheinen auf annaheger.de/hourlies2025/.
1.2.2025 21 Uhr
#HourlyComicDay #ImmerZeichnen #QueerArtist
Die Hourlies für den gesammten Tag erscheinen auf annaheger.de/hourlies2025/.
Welche Lösungen in der Migrationsdebatte untergehen
Im Wahlkampf überbieten sich die Parteien mit Forderungen zur Steuerung der Migration. Die Probleme lassen sich damit nicht lösen, warnen Experten. Dabei gibt es Lösungsansätze - die aber kaum präsent sind. Von Marc Feuser.
stephie hat dies geteilt.
BGH prüft Urteil gegen mutmaßliche Linksextremistin Lina E.
Wegen gewaltsamer Angriffe auf Rechtsextreme wurde Lina E. zu fünf Jahren Haft verurteilt. Doch sie und auch die Bundesanwaltschaft legten Revision ein. Nun soll der BGH prüfen, ob die Strafe zu hoch ist - oder zu niedrig. Von A. Lagmöller.
Oracle Starts Laying Mines In JavaScript Trademark Battle - Slashdot
The Register's Thomas Claburn reports: Oracle this week asked the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to partially dismiss a challenge to its JavaScript trademark.developers.slashdot.org
Merz will sich von Demonstranten nicht vom Kurs abbringen lassen
Blockaden bei Wahlkampfauftritten, große Demos gegen rechts: Seit ihren Abstimmungen mit der AfD steht die Union in der Kritik. Doch CDU-Chef Merz will beim Thema Migration Kurs halten - und rechnet mit einem Umdenken bei SPD und Grünen.
Merz-maGga (makes Germany great again).
estejam convidades para experimentar uma atividade de teatro interativa e online, voltada especificamente para neurodivergentes
“Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions” by Erica Moser for Penn Today. Read more here:
penntoday.upenn.edu/news/klein…
Fifth Energy Week to bring Penn community together around solutions | Penn Today
More than two dozen events held Feb. 10-14 will give students, faculty, and staff an opportunity to learn about energy-related research and work at Penn and beyond.Penn Today
Elon Musk's Enemy, USAID, Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine
The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire's company at the time of Musk's assault.Lucas Ropek (Gizmodo)
AMD Outsells Intel In the Datacenter For the First Time - Slashdot
During the fourth quarter of 2024, AMD surpassed Intel in datacenter sales for the first time in history -- despite weaker-than-expected sales of its datacenter GPUs. Tom's Hardware reports: AMD's revenue in Q4 2024 totaled $7.hardware.slashdot.org
Its a plate of semiotic beauty and I hope future lifeforms will not listen to it backwards.
europa.nasa.gov/spacecraft/vau…
Europa Clipper’s Vault Plate
Learn more about Europa Clipper’s vault plate, which is engraved with symbols that celebrate humanity’s shared connections with each other and from one water world to another.NASA's Europa Clipper
Ich habe ja eine gewisse Hoffnung. Es scheint eine Art Murphys Gesetz ambitionierter Regierungen zu geben. Insbesondere besonders einseitig ambitionierter Führungsfiguren.
Je fokussierter sie auf ein oder zwei Themen sind, umso mehr und eher grätscht ihnen irgendein richtig fieses Thema dazwischen, mit dem sie nicht gerechnet haben, das sie nicht auf dem Schirm hatten, und für das sie weder Wissen noch Plan auf Lager haben.
Die Frage ist, ob sich solch ein Thema vorbereiten und dann ausrollen lässt.
Nur so ein Gedanke.
Klaus Stein hat dies geteilt.
*prophezei*
Jaddy mag das.
eu expliquei pro tiago como q é ser autista e vou deixar aqui pra vcs caso vcs tenham curiosidade.
bolha.one/@lorimeyers/11395223…
Lori (@lorimeyers@bolha.one)
@tiago@misskey.bugarin.com.br na prática eu não funciono mto bem não. é difícil saber o q é do autismo e o q é comorbidades (depressão ansiedade) mas basicamente eu tenho q fazer um esforço muito grande e exaustivo pra transitar no mundo entre os neu…Bolhinha
Ich habe gestern viele Detailaufnahmen von der Gedenkstelle für #natenom gemacht.
Es ist wunderbar und sehr beeindruckend, wie viele liebevoll hergestellte Kleinigkeiten zur Erinnerung an ihn hier zu finden sind.
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Capitol Hill Republicans are scared shitless of being primaried by Trump. We need to make them MORE afraid of the general election than of Trump primary opponents.
Organizing at the precinct level needs to start now for the 2026 midterms. Slacktivism and online ads are for losers.
1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.
I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.
dan.mastohon.com/@danhon/11395…
Does anyone want yet another take on what's happening with DOGE from someone like me?
Please sign the petition to lift the ban on puberty blockers here in the UK: petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
Petition: Lift restrictions on prescribing puberty blockers to trans children.
We want the Government to reverse the restrictions it has introduced relating to the prescription of puberty blockers to children.Petitions - UK Government and Parliament
teilten dies erneut
Newsletter: Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined.
France is probing money laundering and tax fraud issues at Binance, and KuCoin just paid $300 million in fines and withdrew from the US for failing to abide by anti-money laundering laws.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
![France has opened a probe into the Binance cryptocurrency exchange to examine money laundering, tax fraud, and other charges. Much like the criminal case in the United States, which examined Binance’s early years of operation, French investigators are looking as far back as 2019 to review Binance’s activities. Unlike the US case, which looked at illicit activity up until mid-2022, French investigators are reportedly reviewing much more recent potential infractions dating up to 2024. That hasn’t stopped Binance from waving off the investigation as “several years old”, and Binance has denied all dethe allegations.1
Stemming from charges filed back in March 2024 [I54], KuCoin has pleaded guilty to violating US anti-money laundering laws. They will pay a $300 million fine and withdraw from the US for two years. Two co-founders of the company who were personally charged have reached deferred prosecution agreements, which include them leaving the company and paying $2.7 million in fines apiece [W3IGG]. This is only the most recent development in KuCoin’s history of legal woes. The case filed by the CFTC alongside the DOJ’s criminal charges still remains ongoing. Prior to that, the company had paid a $22 million fine in a case brought by the New York Attorney General in 2023 [W3IGG], and $2 million in a case brought by Canadian securities regulators in Ontario in 2022 [W3IGG].](https://friend.enby-box.de/photo/preview/640/2845996 "France has opened a probe into the Binance cryptocurrency exchange to examine money laundering, tax fraud, and other charges. Much like the criminal case in the United States, which examined Binance’s early years of operation, French investigators are looking as far back as 2019 to review Binance’s activities. Unlike the US case, which looked at illicit activity up until mid-2022, French investigators are reportedly reviewing much more recent potential infractions dating up to 2024. That hasn’t stopped Binance from waving off the investigation as “several years old”, and Binance has denied all dethe allegations.1
Stemming from charges filed back in March 2024 [I54], KuCoin has pleaded guilty to violating US anti-money laundering laws. They will pay a $300 million fine and withdraw from the US for two years. Two co-founders of the company who were personally charged have reached deferred prosecution agreements, which include them leaving the company and paying $2.7 million in fines apiece [W3IGG]. This is only the most recent development in KuCoin’s history of legal woes. The case filed by the CFTC alongside the DOJ’s criminal charges still remains ongoing. Prior to that, the company had paid a $22 million fine in a case brought by the New York Attorney General in 2023 [W3IGG], and $2 million in a case brought by Canadian securities regulators in Ontario in 2022 [W3IGG].")
Robinhood seems to be taking a lesson from the crypto world. “Sports bets” are now “event contracts”, and “gambling” is now “an emerging asset class”. Perhaps the next pickpocket to be caught by police should try informing the officer that they’re merely democratizing finance!
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
Representative GT Thompson boasted at a digital assets press conference that crypto legislation will be “tripartisan” because it will be set by the crypto industry.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
![Crypto press conference
America’s new “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks headed up a crypto-focused press conference on Tuesday, in concert with the Senate Banking Committee and several Representatives.10 The crypto world reacted with some disappointment to those they were only recently so excited about, seeming unimpressed that these politicians were merely announcing future announcements rather than unveiling anything that would immediately pump their bags. “This [crypto-focused presidential working committee] might need to be DOGE’d as well”, remarked one popular crypto Twitter account (and frequent retweetee of Elon Musk).11
For all of the crypto industry money that poured into installing crypto-friendly Congresspeople this time around, the speakers at the press conference mostly described their plans to push forward crypto-related market structure and stablecoins bills that will look a lot like what was on the table during the last administration. FIT21 is back [I58, 59], although the complaints from last summer from some of the crypto industry that their regulatory windfall was not friendly enough [I60] will likely resurface in front of this new, obsequious group. Speakers at the press conference made no secret of the degree to which they intend to let the cryptocurrency industry write the rules, with Congressman GT Thompson (R-PA) boasting that they would continue to work in a “tripartisan way” with Republicans, Democrats, and the crypto industry.](https://friend.enby-box.de/photo/preview/640/2846004 "Crypto press conference
America’s new “AI and Crypto Czar” David Sacks headed up a crypto-focused press conference on Tuesday, in concert with the Senate Banking Committee and several Representatives.10 The crypto world reacted with some disappointment to those they were only recently so excited about, seeming unimpressed that these politicians were merely announcing future announcements rather than unveiling anything that would immediately pump their bags. “This [crypto-focused presidential working committee] might need to be DOGE’d as well”, remarked one popular crypto Twitter account (and frequent retweetee of Elon Musk).11
For all of the crypto industry money that poured into installing crypto-friendly Congresspeople this time around, the speakers at the press conference mostly described their plans to push forward crypto-related market structure and stablecoins bills that will look a lot like what was on the table during the last administration. FIT21 is back [I58, 59], although the complaints from last summer from some of the crypto industry that their regulatory windfall was not friendly enough [I60] will likely resurface in front of this new, obsequious group. Speakers at the press conference made no secret of the degree to which they intend to let the cryptocurrency industry write the rules, with Congressman GT Thompson (R-PA) boasting that they would continue to work in a “tripartisan way” with Republicans, Democrats, and the crypto industry.")
Musk is “exploring blockchain technology” for use at DOGE and the Treasury, and crypto bigwigs are groveling for spots on the upcoming crypto advisory council — which will, from the sounds of it, be filled exclusively with crypto executives and industry megadonors.
#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpolitics #USpol
![Musk is reportedly “exploring blockchain technology” for use in both his Department of Government Efficiency and at the Treasury,29 because what could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?
The crypto advisory council, led by Bo Hines [I72, 74], will presumably take shape soon. According one hopeful quoted by the New York Post, “everyone and their mother is begging” for a spot. Those rumored to be on the shortlist include crypto megadonor Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, as well as executives from other crypto exchanges and crypto-related companies.30 I’m sure the list of consumer protection advocates and more crypto-skeptical voices also being considered for the council will drop any day now...](https://friend.enby-box.de/photo/preview/640/2846008 "Musk is reportedly “exploring blockchain technology” for use in both his Department of Government Efficiency and at the Treasury,29 because what could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?
The crypto advisory council, led by Bo Hines [I72, 74], will presumably take shape soon. According one hopeful quoted by the New York Post, “everyone and their mother is begging” for a spot. Those rumored to be on the shortlist include crypto megadonor Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, as well as executives from other crypto exchanges and crypto-related companies.30 I’m sure the list of consumer protection advocates and more crypto-skeptical voices also being considered for the council will drop any day now...")
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Well, now we have an answer to the question "What could possibly be worse than Elon Musk taking over the government?”
We still do NOT, however, have an answer to the question “What is the blockchain actually useful for?”
Simon Deane-Johns (@sdjohns@mastodon.world)
The Trump/Musk coup was planned, step by step, with Vance’s input, funded by Musk as the “CEO”, as if they were rebuilding Japan in the 1940s. They are replacing federal employees with their own “ninjas” who are also in academia and the media.Mastodon
The better to steal our money with, since THE ENTIRE PURPOSE OF CRYPTO IS TO LAUNDER MONEY.
Sorrynotsorry to shout, but I cannot understand why media insists on treating crypto like some legitimate advancement in tech rather than the (insanely environmentally destructive) hack of our current monetary systems that it is.
Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation
Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined.Molly White (Citation Needed)
just small circles 🕊
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