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“The internet is not a good idea” -Newspapers
“Email is not a good idea” -Post Office
“Television is not a good idea” -Radio stations
“Streaming is not a good idea” -Blockbuster
“#Bitcoin is not a good idea” -Central banks
#TECH
GhostTouch: Targeted Attacks on Touchscreens without Physical Touch
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/wang-kai
Google to pay Illinois residents $100M in privacy lawsuit settlement
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2022/06/03/google-pay-illinois-settlement-photo-privacy/7495827001/
Record Labels Dig Their Own Grave. And the Shovel is Called TikTok.
It’s not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game
https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/record-labels-dig-their-own-grave
#HEALTH
4 companies control 90% of the US #babyformula market
4 companies control 85% of US beef
4 companies control 80% of US soy
3 companies control 72% of US cereal
Greed and price gouging are the problem, oversight and competition the answer.
Ban the Filibuster NOW!
Hey, Hey, NRA, how many kids did you kill today?
In the 1960s all the Dixiecrats & other racists became Republicans.
The people for civil rights became Democrats.
‘It’s going to be an army’: Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/01/gop-contest-elections-tapes-00035758
Legal Director @DavidColeACLU thoroughly rebuts the argument that @ACLU has “lost its way.” Even a cursory review of the docket of the ACLU and its affiliates demonstrates that the organization remains an indispensable guardian of the First Amendment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/letters/archive/2022/05/aclu-amber-heard-title-ix-kavanaugh/629959/
The Federal Reserve is looking into creating a centralized digital currency — aka digital cash — and how it could provide privacy to consumers without complete anonymity or facilitating illicit activity.
Ron Wyden @RonWyden May 19
I wrote Aaron’s law nearly a decade ago to protect researchers from misguided, overzealous prosecutions. Glad to see DOJ is finally recognizing good-faith security research isn’t a crime, it actually makes us all safer.
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-new-policy-charging-cases-under-computer-fraud-and-abuse-act
Today, we and our partners let them know: Anonymity is non-negotiable.
The world cannot adapt its way out of the climate crisis, and counting on adaptation to limit damage is no substitute for urgently cutting greenhouse gases, a leading climate scientist has warned. Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature
Top Scientist: We Can’t Adapt Our Way Out of This Climate Crisis
Portland doctors ‘first in world’ to apply new cancer therapy
https://www.kgw.com/article/news/health/portland-doctors-new-cancer-therapy-tumor-reduction/283-549b1b8f-ced6-4bc9-af50-10a6516e44a6
EPA moves to give states, tribes more power to protect water
https://apnews.com/article/environment-climate-and-water-quality-government-politics-9057b0dbb146b6d45d364720665a67dd
Bees Are Fish, California Court Rules
https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dgnn8/bees-are-fish-california-court-rules
Glyphosate weedkiller damages wild bee colonies, study reveals
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/02/glyphosate-weedkiller-damages-wild-bumblebee-colonies
Pharmaceutical contaminants discovered in South Florida bonefish
https://news.fiu.edu/2022/pharmaceutical-contaminants-discovered-in-south-florida-bonefish
#BITCOIN
New Bill Would Force Congress to Disclose Crypto Holdings
Why should I run a bitcoin node? — 7 reasons
Bitcoin Legality by Country Map
https://www.bitrawr.com/terminal/legality-map
Oil Companies In The Middle East To Use Excess Gas For Bitcoin Mining
https://cryptonews.net/news/mining/7502583/
Kenya’s largest electricity producer to offer its surplus power to Bitcoin miners
Kenya’s largest electricity producer to offer its surplus power to Bitcoin miners
Give some bitcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/guides/five-ways-to-gift-bitcoin
#CRYPTO
Vitalik tweets he is conflicted after watching Luna burn to the ground. He realises he gave birth to a gorgon that is eating everything in sight and maybe he should have just played around with #bitcoin instead of wasting the last 9 yrs on a monster that will haunt him forever.
Jesse Berger @jayberjay
When Vitalik tells you that #ethereum is unstable, centrally controlled, fragile, elitist, ideologically deficient, overly-complicated, and willing to bend the knee to evil… believe him.
Labor Department Sued for Opposing Crypto in Retirement Accounts
https://cryptopotato.com/labor-department-sued-for-opposing-crypto-in-retirement-accounts/
Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company
Do Kwon’s Terraform Labs accused of laundering $4.8 million via a Korean shell company
OpenSea’s Former Head of Product Arrested by the FBI
Aaron Wise: “I hear a lot of people speak fawningly about Arthur Hayes, the “genius” who they think still owns thousands of bitcoin. Few recall that in response to months of investigation, Hayes finally admitted (on April 30, 2018) that BitMEX traded for-profit AGAINST its own customers.