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Molly White @molly.wiki · 13/02/2026

do you think they were twirling their moustache while writing that memo?

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 17/01/2026

Good to be back on the Majority Report to talk about what the crypto industry has gotten out of the first year of Trump’s presidency, its influence on the upcoming midterm elections, and the growing presence of prediction markets in everyday life. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EATV...

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Trump Ushers in Technoligarchy | Molly White | TMR

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 07/01/2026

“WAGMI” — we're all gonna make it — was crypto's 2021 rallying cry. But those with wealth and power knew it was a lie, and that “all” just meant them. My latest traces the last five years from hype to technoligarchy — and why they're not all gonna make it either.

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The year of technoligarchy

In 2025, Trump brought tech executives into power to dismantle regulators and write their own rules. But the instabilities they’re creating may be their downfall.

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codesuji.bsky.social @codesuji.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Hot take: LLMs are "just" databases -- storage mechanism is lossy compression and query mechanism is natural language.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 24/07/2025

Sundog, a memecoin by crypto billionaire Justin Sun, just posted a meme depicting its mascot controlling the White House. Sun has spent (or will shortly spend) a total of $213 million on Trump-connected crypto projects.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 23/04/2025

FBI: Americans aged 60 and older reported losing almost $3 billion to crypto fraud last year. In total, Americans reported being scammed out of around $9.3 billion via crypto, out of a total $16.6 billion in total reported thefts that year. www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport...

2024 IC3 CRYPTOCURRENCY FRAUD COMPLAINTS REFERENCING CRYPTOCURRENCY AGE RANGE21 COUNT LOSS Under 20 1,819 $7,778,157 20 - 29 13,591 $370,443,345 30 - 39 22,218 $1,006,382,458 40 - 49 22,555 $1,462,040,974 50 - 59 19,317 $1,184,912,854 Over 60 33,369 $2,839,333,197 Chart outlines cryptocurrency complaints in 2024: 149,686 complaints; $9.3 billion in losses; 66% increase in loss; largest age group to report is 60+.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/04/2025

@timmiller.bsky.social says @molly.wiki's reporting on Trump's crypto schemes is the most important thing he's read in the past month. Watch his interview to find out why.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 08/04/2025

Newsletter: Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire. Most recently, Trump has called the DOJ off cryptocurrency enforcement and dismantled the agency's crypto enforcement team. www.citationneeded.news/issue-81/

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Issue 81 – Crypto crime is legal

Trump continues to dismantle crypto enforcement while expanding his personal crypto empire

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

NORTH CAROLINA FRIENDS! More than 60,000 voters' votes in the 2024 election are at risk of being tossed, due to a recent (bad) court decision. A key court race is closer than this! You have 15 days to 'cure' your ballot if you're on the list. CHECK THE LIST! Make sure your vote counts!

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AOC, @aoc.bsky.social, making the case for free speech alongside universal healthcare is so KEY for the left, because it's time progressives reclaimed the mantle of fighting for free speech from the faux free speech warriors of the right.

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Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net · 04/03/2025

AOC has more courage and conviction than anyone in leadership, and every Democrat should follow her example.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 04/03/2025

After the most disastrous first month of any President in history, Trump will do everything he can to distract you tonight. He will try to convince you that culture war issues are important. None of these things lower gas prices, improve job numbers, or put food on the table. Don't take the bait.

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codesuji.bsky.social @codesuji.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I stand with Ukraine and the truth that Russia is an invader.

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Nic @anicerug.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is such a good read

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

So, 1) 'no kings' is a good slogan. 2) Striking how these town halls are running ahead (but in the same direction) as the approval numbers. Kinda suggests highly engaged voters are souring faster. Not exactly a big surprise, but probably real bad news for the GOP for midterms and special elections.

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Christopher S. Rice, Ph.D. @badfutures.com · 21/02/2025

This is your regular reminder that Elon actually knows very, very little about technology. As my dad would say, just enough to get himself into trouble. And now the rest of us, unfortunately.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 21/02/2025

(Don’t forget that $50 million of those contributions appeared to be blatantly illegal, although Trump is already hard at work making the Federal Elections Commission even less effective than it previously was.)

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Coinbase appears to have violated campaign finance laws with a $25 million super PAC donation

Actively involved in contract negotiations with a federal government agency, Coinbase was likely prohibited from making its $25 million contribution to the Fairshake cryptocurrency-focused super PAC i...

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

look at that little head nod acknowledging and agreeing w the crowd as they cheer his nazi salute

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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 19/02/2025

What is happening now in the federal government is what happens when private equity takes over a company. They come in with confident ignorance and cruelty, they tear the company to shreds, they extract millions. The company fails and everyone else loses their job. They always get away with it.

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 18/02/2025

he's the worst. And he's wrong www.mysql.com/industry/gov...

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MySQL :: MySQL Enterprise Edition for Government

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 18/02/2025

Highly recommend signing up for Brian’s newsletter, he’s an incredible reporter doing excellent work. Help him keep doing it!!

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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Elon did not have legal status in the U.S. when he founded his first company here, and then very likely lied about it to obtain his citizenship. So he can stfu about “illegal immigrants”

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Okay, so at the request of the lovely @trance.bsky.social , I'm going to tell a story about what happens when a shitty person is "just joking", and then discovers there are consequences. AKA That Time Kat Started An Antifascist Hallway Riot In The Third Grade. Grab your beverage of choice.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 15/02/2025

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Yeah, this mentality did not work out great for the Romans: it led to a lot of law violating, but not much country saving. Indeed, it let to quite a lot of country destroying, in fact.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/02/2025

When I heard Musk say this on Tuesday, my assumption was that it was a programming issue. Because I can code and have written to databases and because I am familiar with other examples of default values being misinterpreted. Yet somehow Musk isn't.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/02/2025

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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The crypto industry’s debanking smokescreen

Cryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 14/02/2025

Just discovered that while I was writing yesterday, Adam Levitin at Credit Slips published “Debanked by the Market”, a much longer explanation of something I briefly mention in my piece: creditslips.org/creditslips/... Worth a read, and I’ll add a footnote to my article to link to it.

There's also an important dynamic at play that the crypto industry conveniently ignores: in the absence of proper consumer protection regulations on cryptocurrency companies themselves, much of the burden of protecting consumers has fallen to banks. When crypto users are scammed or hacked and crypto companies refuse to make them whole, these users often attempt to claw back their losses through their banks. Banks face costly chargebacks and fraud claims, while bearing the customer service burden of dealing with victims of crypto scams who are often treated with outright hostility by the crypto firms they use. This creates a legitimate business reason for banks to be wary of serving crypto customers or companies, entirely separate from any regulatory pressure. The crypto industry's vigorous opposition to consumer protection regulations has, ironically, contributed to their own banking difficulties by forcing traditional financial institutions to act as de facto consumer protection mechanisms.

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Library Innovation Lab @harvardlil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We just launched a 16TB archive of every dataset that has been available on data.gov since November. This will be updated day by day as new datasets appear. It can be freely copied, and we're sharing the code behind it to help others make their own archives of data they depend on.

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Announcing the Data.gov Archive | Library Innovation Lab

Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complet...

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Sergey Tihon 🦔🦀 @sergeytihon.com · 06/02/2025

The next F# feature that Mads would like to have in C# from #fsharp is Type Providers youtu.be/T9UqIkuGnuo?...

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The Exciting Future of C# with Mads Torgersen

YouTube video by Nick Chapsas

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 06/02/2025

Newsletter: Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined. www.citationneeded.news/issue-76/

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Issue 76 – Tripartisan legislation

Crypto exchanges face legal troubles, and Trump’s crypto empire grows as regulations are slashed and enforcement is sidelined.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

This video of mine from five years ago is aging depressingly well --- and it leaves me at once bitterly disappointed and steadfastly resolved www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9O...

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(Anti-)Application Video for YC120 2019

YouTube video by Bryan Cantrill

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Last night, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by Andy Hock and James Wang from Cerebras to talk about the pace of genAI innovation--remarkable even in the first few weeks of 2025! youtu.be/NfR3CUkfOVo

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Oxide and Friends 2/3/2025 -- AI Disruption: DeepSeek and Cerebras

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Mark Russinovich @markrussinovich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Azure will be 15 years old next month. Listen to Scott Hanselman and I discuss a little bit of its history in our latest "Scott and Mark Learn To..." podcast episode:

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EPISODE 8 - Scott and Mark Learn To...The History of Cloud

YouTube video by Scott Hanselman

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Stephen Harrison @stephenharrison.com · 05/02/2025

I wrote for Slate about how a conservative think tank plans to "identify and target" Wikipedia editors who it claims are abusing their position—a dangerous escalation that shifts the fight from debating edits to going after the editors themselves. slate.com/technology/2...

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A Powerful Conservative Think Tank Is Targeting One of the Last Good Things on the Internet

The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors it accuses of antisemitism.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just went live to talk about what is happening, what we can do, and what to expect this week: www.instagram.com/reel/DForuR_...

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 04/02/2025

credit where credit is due to Wired for doing some great reporting on this over the last few days

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I know we're all communicating here on Bluesky, but for the Americans here who are upset with what's going on in Washington, it's worth remembering that yelling at your representatives (phone, mail, email) is more effective than yelling here. A good primer from 8 years ago: youtu.be/KXXYkLa-HHI?...

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Contact Your Representatives

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 03/02/2025

White women are about to be the latest to learn that when you support fascists because "they'll go after other people and improve things for me", "other people" always shifts to include you eventually (Tweet by Trump's new Undersecretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs)

Tweet by Darren J. Beattie on October 4, 2024: "Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.

Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men."

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Looking at the first week of the new administration, it certainly seems like the theme of this new administration is going to be "there is a reason you don't do that." There's a reason you don't appoint violent alcoholics to run the department of defense...

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Molly White @molly.wiki · 25/01/2025

What could contribute more to government efficiency than by securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Musk Exploring Blockchain Use in US Government Efficiency Effort

Elon Musk has initiated conversations about using blockchain technology at the new Department of Government Efficiency, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. It’s the latest sign of t...

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