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HEALTH
Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap.
Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month.
Insulin costs $2 to make.
Alex Smith died this year at age 26 because he couldn’t afford insulin in America.
He made $35,000 a year as a restaurant manager, and couldn’t afford his $450 a month health insurance with a $7,600
out-of-pocket deductible. The insulin he needed for diabetes was $1 ,300 a month. When he turned 26 and was kicked off his mom’s insurance, he started rationing his life-saving insulin.
He died a month later. All this in the richest country in the world.
Two hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, in the latest landmark in the campaign to reinvent Britain’s working week
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jan/27/two-hundred-uk-companies-sign-up-for-permanent-four-day-working-week
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Listen to the ‘earliest known country song’ ever recorded
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0kcmb16/listen-to-the-earliest-known-country-song-ever-recorded
A wax cylinder containing the oldest recorded country song was discovered in Pennsylvania. The track ‘Thompson’s Old Gray Mule’ was recorded in 1891 and sung by Louis Vasnier, a black man from New Orleans. Now a specialty label, Archeophone Records, has restored and released the record.
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Diamonds lose their sparkle as prices come crashing down
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/25/diamonds-lose-their-sparkle-as-prices-come-crashing-down
Anglo American to sell famous diamond business De Beers in breakup plan
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/14/anglo-american-de-beers-bhp-takeover-uk-diamond
South Africa has backed Anglo American’s plan to sell the famous diamond business De Beers as part of a historic corporate overhaul to defend the company against a £34bn takeover plot. The embattled London-listed mining company set out a radical new strategy to dismantle parts of the 107-year-old company, including the sale of the world’s biggest diamond miner, after fending off a second unsolicited takeover offer from the Australian miner BHP. The proposal has won support in South Africa, which is Anglo’s largest shareholder through its Public Investment Corporation (PIC) and the birthplace of Anglo and De Beers. The South African mining minister, Gwede Mantashe, said that he would prefer Anglo’s restructuring plan over a takeover by BHP. The plan was also welcomed by the Congress of South African Trade Unions.
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NEW – Chinese DeepSeek AI surpasses ChatGPT and now tops Apple’s free app download rankings in the United States.
THIS TANKS THE STOCK MARKET.
Crypto AI tokens crushed by DeepSeek-fueled NVDA sell-off
Andrew Ng
@AndrewYNg
Today’s “DeepSeek selloff” in the stock market — attributed to DeepSeek V3/R1 disrupting the tech ecosystem — is another sign that the application layer is a great place to be. The foundation model layer being hyper-competitive is great for people building applications.
Karen Hao @_KarenHao
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
First, what is DeepSeek? A Chinese firm that was able to produce an open-source AI model with roughly 1/50th of the resources of state-of-the-art models yet still beat OpenAI’s o1 on several benchmarks.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1883877986656825503.html
Strategic Reserve
OPINION
Based on SOFTWAR and my time using the global Bitcoin energy-backed settlement network, the world prefers a neutral, incorruptible protocol like Bitcoin over coins controlled by CEOs or governments. Trust flows to open, decentralized systems. The other nations, particularly the competing super powers will only choose bitcoin to challenge US dominance. The US has no choice but to compete or lose.
RESPONSE
Jason Lowery
@JasonPLowery
Do you really think BRICS is interested in adding a meme coin to their reserves, or one controlled by an American CEO? Do you believe they’d choose a USD stablecoin issued by an American company trying to position itself as a neo-Federal Reserve Bank?
Or are they far more likely to adopt the coin that has been relentlessly vilified and condemned by the U.S. for over 15 years precisely because it operates beyond U.S. control? The coin that guarantees sovereign access to block space, ensuring transactions cannot be censored or denied, provided they continue to possess the physical power and infrastructure *they’ve already invested in.*
What many on my news feed fail to grasp is that we are not the only ones who get a vote. The question of “What should be in America’s crypto reserve?” isn’t about what Americans want. The next global reserve asset, by definition, will be the one chosen by other nations—particularly our global competitors. And BRICS will almost certainly favor the asset that offers the greatest independence from U.S. influence—the one that is demonstrably censorship-resistant, provably decentralized, and sovereign. The one that wasn’t premined. The one that isn’t being shilled by cringey, wannabe American influencers. The one the U.S. barely owns, thanks to its own hubris and shortsightedness on this issue.
Our personal preferences are the least important factor in choosing the right assets for our national stockpile, and this is a matter of national strategic importance. The only question that truly matters is this: What assets are *other* countries—especially our adversaries—most likely to choose?
If you cannot confidently say that nations like China or Russia will add massive amounts of your favored crypto asset to *their* strategic reserves, then you are being insincere—and you’re undermining the future security and prosperity of this nation.
Knock it off.
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Crypto exchange KuCoin pleads guilty to US charges and agrees to pay $300 million: Bloomberg
Booze Cruise: Hegseth In Command
Pete Hegseth Confirmed As Trump’s Defense Secretary
The 44-year-old former Fox News host is set to begin the job as the least experienced defense secretary in modern history.
Trump administration fires DOJ officials who worked on criminal investigations of the president.
The DOJ employees had been involved in special counsel Jack Smith’s investigation that led to Trump’s classified documents and Jan. 6 cases.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/politics/trump-special-project-january-6-prosecutors
How many Elon Musk fans does it take to screw in a light bulb?
None, they’re gas lit.
BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan
The guy is 53 years old.
He’s almost a trillionaire.
He employs many thousands of people.
He’s running multiple billion-dollar businesses.
He’s made the “heart with hands” gesture.
He’s had access to the same historical information we all have since grade school.
And, just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day, he tells Germany’s AfD it’s time to move “past guilt” of the Holocaust.
And you want US to believe that he doesn’t know what the fucking sieg heil salute is?
Get the fuck out of here with that gaslighting bullshit.
Cheater, Liar, Nazi Elon Musk admits cheating in video game where he claimed world-class skills
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-01-24/elon-musk-admits-cheating-at-video-game-in-which-he-claimed-to-be-one-of-the-best-in-the-world.html
Fascism, by another name.
Nazism, in everything but name.
So Elon Musk did a Nazi salute.
Then he tried to deflect.
Now he’s gone to Germany to speak to the neo-Nazi AfD party, which he’s endorsed, saying that Germany should let go of historical guilt — which is a dog whistle for Holocaust denial.
So Elon Musk is, in fact, a Nazi.
Elon Musk’s grandfather Joshua Haldeman was a raging racist and anti-semite, per the Atlantic. He also strongly believed in technocracy. Apple doesn’t fall from the tree.
When Elon Musk presents himself as the Director of Government Efficiency – DOGE – it is important to look at history, and that Doge was the name of the rulers of Venice for hundreds of years.
Musk hopes not to become a Director in the government, but the ruler of all.
This is Elon Musk’s grandfather Joshua Haldeman in front of the office of Technocracy, Inc. before he was arrested for being a Hitler sympathizer in Canada. Note the map behind him, which is the same as this official map of the “Technate of America.”
https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1883592674722386051/photo/2
https://x.com/jimstewartson/status/1883592674722386051/photo/1
Does that ring any bells?
So his grandpa was also a socially inept dork who thought he was genetically superior to the rest of the world.
Talk about genetics. Elon’s step sister is now his step mom thanks to his daddy.
How did Elon get his name?
Project Mars
by Wernher von Braunby in ‘49 published in Canada in 2006. https://archive.org/details/ProjectMars
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gil duran is on bluesky @gilduran76
I’ve spent this year writing for the @newrepublic about how a group of Silicon Valley billionaires has gone WEIRD. Now their weirdness is mating up with Trump’s MAGA weirdness in the 2024 election.
Here’s a few things to understand about these guys.
1: They despise democracy. These Trump-loving billionaires believe democracy is bad. They want to create their own corporate dictatorships called Network States. They are actively trying to build these weird little dictator cities all over the world.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1818121375867088909.html
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Robert Reich @RBReich
CBS’s parent company Paramount may settle Trump’s frivolous lawsuit against 60 Minutes. Why?
So it can get approval from Trump’s FCC to be acquired by Skydance for $8 billion.
Skydance was founded by the son of Larry Ellison, one of Trump’s major backers.
Hello?
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TruthLabs @BoringSleuth
https://x.com/BoringSleuth/status/1882072414672035849
After the ETH ICO, the Ethereum Foundation would become involved in the theft of Half a Billion Dollars from GateCoin in 2016. This was prior to the infamous “The Dao” exploit, which faulty contract was setup by The My Ether Wallet Developer wallet.
Their Foundations began corrupted as The Ethereum Foundation and the My Ether Wallet Devs BTC wallets were originally funded from the same seized Silk Road address’ of Ross Ulbricht prior to the ETH ICO.
Proof of the Ethereum Foundations involvement in the Gatecoin Hack in 2016, prior to the DAO exploit
Below is a thread showing transactional evidence linking the Ethereum Team to the 185K Ether stolen from Gatecoin, now worth over $460M today.
https://x.com/BoringSleuth/status/1747666356437475823
thread https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1747666356437475823.html
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