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NetHappenings Headlines: Bitcoin, Funny, Jobs vs AI, The Arts, Health, Politics

BITCOIN

Do you own 0.1 #Bitcoin yet? c’mon let’s go!
THERE ARE 1000s of VIDEOS TO WATCH JUST GET STARTED.

1) Reacting to Bitcoin breaking $100 in 2013
2) How to buy bitcoin from an ATM
3) How to use Blue Wallet for Bitcoin and Lightning Network Transactions
4) Why You Need Sparrow Bitcoin Wallet
5) Can You Actually Buy Anything With Bitcoin?
6) P2P BITCOIN TRADING platform Non-custodial Bitcoin trading solution, we don’t hold your funds.
7) Why-Every-Fixed-Income-Investor-Needs-To-Consider-Bitcoin-As-Portfolio-Insurance.pdf
8) Bitcoin Rent: Top 5 Cities Embracing Crypto for Housing Payments

Oh The Irony

Michigan Retirement System has nearly tripled its stake in the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB) during Q2 2025, increasing from about 110,000 to 300,000 shares. Retirees will have indirect exposure to Bitcoin through their pension fund.

The $9T US retirement market can  invest in crypto. This is a MASSIVE new source of demand being unlocked, just a 5% $BTC allocation would mean $450B of inflows. For reference, $BTC ETFs have seen cumulative net inflows of $53.86B so far.

WHY ELECTRIC CARS ARE SO MUCH BETTER
https://www.tiktok.com/@thefinanceinfo/video/7532506945819823382

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website.
Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with: – Writ of Habeas Corpus – Congresses ability to control tariffs.

Democrats leaving Texas to protect their district.
Republicans leaving D.C. to protect the Epstein Files.

Jeffrey Epstein signed his sweetheart non-prosecution deal with U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta, requiring him to register as a sex offender on 9/24/07. Mar-a-Lago’s registry listed Epstein’s membership as “Account closed 10/07” as per the authors of the Grifter’s Club.
Jeffrey Epstein still had exclusive membership at the Mar-a-Lago club while out on bail until October of 2007, but despite that, Epstein publicly laughed it off and claimed to have been invited there.
Trump says he “kicked Epstein out” over Virginia Giuffre — but Epstein was still a Mar-a-Lago member while out on bail. He laughed off the ban. This isn’t denial. It’s a cover-up. And she was 17.

Trump is not Only a pedo, he’s a trafficker
IF YOUR PRESIDENCY CAN BE DESTROYED BY RELEASING THE
EPSTEIN FILES, IT DESERVES TO BE DESTROYED BY RELEASING THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Previously unseen photos revealed a network of cameras in Epstein’s seven-story New York mansion, raising new questions about who may have been caught on tape.
The images taken inside his Manhattan home showed video cameras on the third floor in Epstein’s suite, which included his bedroom, bathrooms and the massage room where Epstein was accused of having teenage girls give him massages while he was naked. There was at least one camera mounted in a corner above his bed, according to the bphotos. A second camera could be seen in the room next door. There were no cameras visible in the photos of the massage room. Photos of Trump’s former senior adviser and conservative podcaster Steve Bannon, including a mirror selfie of him by Epstein, were kept in at least two rooms of the townhouse. There were also framed pictures of Epstein with former President Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Pope John Paul II, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk.
The #TrumpEpsteinCoverup is not working and not going away. there is just too much evidence that Trump and Epstein were in cahoots.

“An evil man will burn his own Nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.” —Sun Tzu

Marsha Blackburn @VoteMarsha vs. Hegseth?
It’s official! I’m running for Governor to ensure Tennessee is America’s conservative leader for this generation and the next.
I would be honored to have your support. #TNGov

Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets

Hegseth’s Headlong Pursuit of Academic Mediocrity His military-education reforms seem designed to ensure fighting men can’t think and thinking men can’t fight.

JOBS VS. AI

AI hallucinates, lies, schemes, can’t be trusted, wastes your time, gives advice, and can’t code correctly cause it decides on its own to do wild wrong things that breaks the code. You have to spend all the time checking the code for all the mistakes it’s making. LLM suck.

Just when your boss

1) doesn’t know how to use AI
2) thinks AI will be better at your job than you are
3) workers are let go but still have to pay off their student loan for that college degree they didn’t get to use
4) needs to send out the resume that only AI reads

vs. “AI is coming for your job. It’s already replacing writers, coders, artists, and even doctors. As it gets smarter and cheaper, no industry is safe. If your work involves repetition or patterns, AI could do it faster—and better

Alert: Vocational Training gives the poor and middle class job security!

Academy at Penn student from Furness High, said he was surprised to be chosen for the program.
A new Penn program is spending $8M to help underserved Philly kids. Here’s how its first summer is going.
Academy at Penn, currently serving 50 students from School of the Future and Furness High, includes a summer session and school-year programs.
Is this really a game changer? really?

A vocational school (alternatively known as a trade school, or technical school), is a type of educational institution, which, depending on the country, may refer to either secondary or post-secondary education[1] designed to provide vocational education or technical skills required to complete the tasks of a particular and specific job. In the case of secondary education, these schools differ from academic high schools which usually prepare students who aim to pursue tertiary education, rather than enter directly into the workforce. With regard to post-secondary education, vocational schools are traditionally distinguished from four-year colleges by their focus on job-specific training to students who are typically bound for one of the skilled trades, rather than providing academic training for students pursuing careers in a professional discipline.

@teneikaask_you If you live in the DMV – this program is back! Its a free tech training program that prepares you with the skills to pass CompTIA and AWS certifications. You’ll also receive a voucher to take the exam for free, and a full resume revam and mock interview!
TechMAP Certification Prep Program Application (Fall 2025)
Montgomery College is proud to announce the Technology Metro Area Pathways (TechMAP) grant program. Funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, TechMAP aims to support current and aspiring IT professionals in the DMV-area to obtain industry-recognized certifications and high-quality employment, particularly in the field of IT.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must reside in the DC, Maryland, or Virginia (DMV) area.

Herbert J. Hoelter Vocational Training Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The majority of homeless men in Philadelphia are veterans, that is unacceptable. Do you know a veteran looking for FREE vocational training? Email me Se***********@*****et.org

NCIA’s Herbert J. Hoelter
Vocational Training Center 801 W. Girard Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122
There is NO COST to participate if you are eligible for food stamps!
HVAC NCIA’s Herbert J. Hoelter Vocational Training Center (VTC) provides 15 weeks of vocational training for
veterans, returning citizens, and those 18 years or older on food stamps. Students receive industry recognized certifications in the vocation of their choice. VTC alumni have built careers in automotive, transportation, construction, culinary and HVAC.
• 15 weeks of vocational training
• Industry-recognized certifications
• 12 months of post-training support
• Strong employment partners
• 75% employment rate
CULINARY ARTS
In addition to vocational training, the VTC provides wrap-around support services as needed including help with transportation and housing. The vocational training program includes financial literacy, digital literacy and workforce development including resume writing and interview preparation, plus up to 12 months of post-training support. The VTC has strong employment partners and maintains a 75% employment rate for those who successfully complete the program.
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, VIC programs currently include a mix of small-group, hands-on training (following state guidelines and safety recommendations), and virtual training with online simulators.
To learn more, email vt*************@*****et.org or call 610.563.6269

Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump
Wagner Middle School in Philly is bringing real-world learning to life with Saturday morning classes focused on hands-on skills. From fixing things to building futures — this is what education should look like. Relevant, empowering, and rooted in reality. We love to see it!

My junior high in the 60s only had shop for the boys and Home Economics for the girls, who learned to sew /operate a sewing machine, cut patters, make aprons, learn to cook food and how to present it, all taught by a older unmarried women.
The  boys took shop class. In the 70s that all changed, these classes went coed which had a  huge effect on turning some girls into a diy power tool wielding woman!!

Apple to announce $100B further commitment for U.S. manufacturing.

After 147 failed ChatGPT prompts, I had a breakdown and accidentally discovered something

Teens going to AI Chatbots, but is it healthy?
“Discussing profit motives, personal security risks and social or emotional risks doesn’t guarantee that a teenager won’t go online and get an #AI girlfriend; but it will at least plant the seeds of a healthy doubt”

How to get rid of AI Bytespider, Amazonbot, ClaudeBot, and GPTBot crawlers, scraper Bots from your site.
User-agent: anthropic-ai
Disallow: /
User-agent: Claude-Web
Disallow: /
User-agent: CCbot
Disallow: /
User-agent: FacebookBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /
User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /
User-agent: PiplBot
Disallow: /

ARTS

Why this is so funny ? cause it’s telling the truth!! The Truth is Hilarious!!!

To Begin:
“Alexander Hamilton” and “My Shot.” Everyone wore a costume for the occasion and used classic childhood instruments like a triangle and a kazoo.

thx to Amy for Revenge of Sesame Street & public TV-supercallafragilisticextraalladocious

The President of the United States is publicly arguing with,… a cartoon. ‘South Park’ hurls DHS’s own post back in its face as feud with Trump escalates

ANOTHER EXAMPLE HOW MUSIC IS DANGEROUS
Treasury Department @USTreasury
Today, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned three high-ranking members of the Mexico-based terrorist organization Cartel del Noreste (CDN), along with narco-rapper El Makabelico.
The narco-rapper’s concerts and events are used to launder money on behalf of CDN, and 50% of his royalties from streaming platforms go directly to the group.

HEALTH

Researchers can forecast what this will mean for health care.
As a direct result of losing coverage: 2.5 million people will no longer have a personal doctor. 1.6 million pts will take on medical debt. The lack of care will cause nearly 22,000 deaths annually.

U.S. FDA Human Foods Program @FDAfood
Today, @US_FDA is proposing to extend the compliance date for the Food Traceability Rule by 30 months, to allow additional time, across all regulated industry sectors, to fully implement the rule’s requirements. https://fda.gov/food/hfp-constituent-updates/fda-proposes-extend-compliance-date-food-traceability-rule-and-issues-new-faqs-and-other-resources

Brain Dead Kennedy
“Genes don’t cause epidemics. They may provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin — and we know what it is. It’s sugar and ultra-processed foods.”
@SecKennedy
MAHA is winning.
Steak ‘n Shake © @SteaknShake • 7/16/25
Starting August 1, Steak n Shake will offer Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles.
America deserves the best!

Nothing screams “die peasants die” louder than cancelling $500 million in vaccine research and development. This also means stunting future mRNA vaccines for cancer prevention and other diseases—never forget that. THEY REALLY DON’T CARE ABOUT HUMAN LIFE.
“We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted. BARDA is terminating 22 mRNA vaccine development investments because the data show these vaccines fail to protect effectively against upper respiratory infections like COVID and flu.”
WHO ARE THESE SO CALLED EXPERTS!
WHAT “SCIENCE” DID THEY REVIEW?
THEY DON’T SAY!!!

The Trump administration is literally trying to make American sicker, dumber and poorer. Vaccines have saved MILLIONS of lives. This is just sinister at every level.

@RETTIWTGMM
My Fellow Americans … Can we get ANY MORE STUPID than what @RobertKennedyJr is doing as @SecKennedy over @HHSGov
RFK has brought back #Measles #Polio & desperately wants to welcome ANOTHER #Pandemic by eviscerating #VaccineDevelopment
When kids ☠️ DIE, Thank @GOP & OLDdon.

From 2017 to 2022, a total of 400,181 Uber trips resulted in reports of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in the US, court records show.
The company had only disclosed 12,522 accounts of serious sexual assaults for that same time period.
NYT paywall https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/business/uber-sexual-assault.html

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ECP NetHappenings What ever Happened to the Rule of Law

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BREAKING MY BRAIN:
HOW DID WE GET HERE?

WHERE DID THE SERIOUS ADULTS GO?

Serious people in the 50’s and 60’s expanded our collective consciousness and felt it was their duty help make things more fair for people, animals and the planet. Nothing  wrong with making money but everything is wrong with corporations getting away with killing people for profit.

THIS PHOTO ON JUNE 8, 1968 SHOWED OUR REVERERENCE AND RESPECT FOR OUR PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY  FROM THE ORDINARY AMERICAN CITIZEN  ON HIS RIDE HOME AFTER BEING ASSINATED.
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/robert-kennedy-funeral-train-1968/

This photo was taken during the funeral procession (by train) of RFK.
The photos show Americans of all colors and classes. Catholic schoolgirls, field hands, firefighters, blue-collar workers and housewives in their bonnets create a tableau of those who came to say farewell to the man many knew simply as “Bobby.” Some climbed fence posts to get a better view. Some saluted. Others stood rock-ribbed straight. Some waved American flags or handmade posters: “So Long Bobby.” Everyone Dressed like this in a typical summer style.

Serious people in the 50’s and 60’s expanded our collective consciousness and felt it was their duty help make things more fair for people, animals and the planet. Nothing  wrong with making money but everything is wrong with corporations getting away with killing people for profit. 

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY?

FORWARD TO THE MICHAEL MILKEN TRUMP Symbol of ’80s Greed IS GOOD
A swashbuckling financier, he was charged with playing a central role in a vast insider-trading scheme and was sent to prison for violating federal securities and tax laws. He was an inspiration for the Gordon Gekko character in the film “Wall Street.”

MNUCHIN

It is a vivid illustration of the power that Mr. Milken, who was barred from the securities industry and fined $600 million as part of his 1990 felony conviction, has amassed in President Trump’s Washington. In addition to the favorable tax-policy changes, some of Mr. Trump’s closest advisers — including Mr. Mnuchin, Jared Kushner and Rudolph W. Giuliani — have lobbied the president to pardon Mr. Milken for his crimes, or supported that effort, according to people familiar with the effort.

TO TRUMP PROFITS FROM
Tax Break for Poor Areas.

TAXING POOR PEOPLE

Americans need to earn about 70% more today than six years ago to comfortably afford a median-priced home, per Realtor com.

The rule of 55 is an IRS guideline that allows you to
avoid paying the 10% early withdrawal penalty on 401(k) and 403(b) retirement accounts if you leave your job during or after the calendar year you turn 55.

You Can Only Withdraw from Your Current 401(k)
Penalty-free early withdrawals are limited to funds held in your most recent company’s 401(k) or 403(b) under the rule of 55.
“Even if you’re 55 or older, you can’t reach back to old 401(k)s and use that money,” says Luber. “Additionally, this rule doesn’t apply to individual retirement accounts (IRAs), so you need to leave your IRA alone if you want to avoid the penalty.”

$880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.

House Republicans unveiled the cost-saving centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s ” big, beautiful bill ” late Sunday, at least $880 billion in cuts largely to Medicaid to help cover the cost of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks.
https://triblive.com/news/world/house-republicans-unveil-medicaid-cuts-that-democrats-warn-will-leave-millions-without-care/

76% of Trump’s budget goes to the military and police.
He’s gutting social safety nets while giving over $1T to the Pentagon — which hasn’t passed an audit in 6 years.
He never cared about fraud and waste.
He cares about having a militarized oligarchy.
https://popular.info/p/inside-trumps-1-trillion-military

So American importers continue for next 90 days pay 30% tariffs while China importers pay 10% on tariffs so United States could.
-Lose 10 trillion in stocks.
– Trillions in retirement.
– Negative GDP growth from quarter 4 of 2024 to 2.7% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Consumption dropped from 4%. quarter 4 of 2024 to 1.8% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Inflation quarter 4 of 2024 from 2.4% to 3.8% quarter 1 of 2025.
– Thousands of trucker and port jobs lost.
– Companies not shifting any manufacturing back to US. In fact Manufacturing jobs declined.
Art of the deal.

“The IRS can’t audit the wealthy and corporations without resources and manpower.
Take away the funding and staff?
25 billion-dollar corporations get away with cheating us out of $20 BILLION.
In case you were wondering, THIS is why Trump and Republicans are defunding the IRS.”
25 Corporations Could Save Over $20 Billion from Low Tax Enforcement
New uncertain tax benefits reported in 2024 for tax year 2024
Meta
Google
Apple
J.P. Morgan Chase & co.
Amazon.com
Nvidia
Gilead Sciences
Eli Lilly
International Business Machines
UnitedHealth Group
Visa
Broadcom
Pfizer
Merck
Comcast
Goldman Sachs Group
Salesforce.com
Exxon Mobil
AT&T
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals
Wayfair
Wells Fargo
Chevron
Tesla
Uber Technologies

How Apple helped China become America’s biggest tech rival
Apple relied on cheap Chinese labour as it become the world’s most valuable company. But there was an unforeseen consequence: the millions of workers it trained would go on to transform the Middle Kingdom into a tech superpower.

HEALTH

Trump announces he’ll sign executive order that aims to cut drug prices
His prior rule, called “Most Favored Nation,” was finalized in late 2020 but blocked by federal courts and rescinded by then-President Joe Biden in 2021. It would have applied to Medicare payments for certain drugs administered in doctors’ offices. However, it is unclear what payments or drugs the new directive would apply to. Prescription Drug and Pharmaceutical prices will be REDUCED, almost immediately, by 30% to 80%,” he wrote. “I will be instituting a MOST FAVORED NATION’S POLICY whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World.”

Mark Cuban @mcuban
Dunking on the pharma industry with @costplusdrugs.com, the lowest prices on meds anywhere. check it out !
costplusdrugs.com

If you are a CEO of a self insured companies and you want to know what the problem with pricing on medications do this:
Call your PBM and ask for
1. A list of all your pharmacy claims the last month and the net price for each
2. A price list of all net prices
3. Why a drug that is just a pill, is considered a specialty drug
4. Who pays for the rebates you get (hint, it’s your sickest employees)
5. Why they reimburse your local pharmacy less than their cost and charge them crazy fees
6. If you can discuss your PBM contract with anyone
7. Why you can’t add @costplusdrugs to your network, for when our prices are cheaper than theirs
8. Why you can’t call a manufacturer to discuss adherence or wellness programs with the company who created the drug
9. Why they don’t provide claims data to the manufacturer to help them improve the safety profile
10. Why they sell positioning on their formulary rather than using it exclusively for clinical value
11. Whether they calls doctors to get them to change scripts to the PBMs white label biosimilar
12. Why your consultant didn’t tell you any of this
The level of opacity that the big PBMs create is why the price of brand drugs are outrageous

Rare genetic mutation lets some people thrive on just 4 hours of shut-eye
Natural short sleepers seem to thrive on less shut-eye than the rest of the human population. Now, researchers have identified one of these mutations, named SIK3-N783Y, in a human super-sleeper. The team then studied the mutation in genetically modified mice and found that the mice carrying this mutation also got less shut-eye, according to a new study.

Trump official who is taking over DOGE from Elon Musk revealed

Elon Musk’s Grok AI was specifically instructed not to say he spread misinformation

Tesla employees ask Elon Musk to resign, confirm massive demand problem, get fired for it

A county pension fund in Pennsylvania just became the first known to cease purchasing new Tesla stocks

SECURITY

Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected

Artificial Intelligence is like the Ford Model T
https://www.zaita.com/blog/ai-is-like-ford-model-t

You think ransomware is bad? Wait until it infects CPUs

@GummoXXX
“You don’t trade your image for pixels & call it innovation.
Every face uploaded trains the machine.
Every smile handed over fuels surveillance.
Every “just for fun” is one less piece of yourself you control.
Decentralize your identity. #AI #privacy”

@GummoXXX
“Darcula” PhaaS platform doesn’t merely spoof sites, it thinks like a criminal, with generative AI churning out phishing kits in 100+ languages… even amateurs can now launch pro grade cyberattacks.

Carole Cadwalladr – If you want to know what’s really going on, we’re going to have stop falling for the spin & asking better questions.
What on earth was Palantir’s top UK dude doing anywhere near this? And why has neither govt revealed the sweetheart tech deal? Any why was that same Palantir executive, a company at the heart of the US’s illegal deportations, on the BBC being laundered *as a political pundit*?
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/a-secret-us-uk-sweetheart-tech-deal

Peter Thiel is a legit bond villain. Why is any western leader letting this drug addicted psychotic TechnoNazi anywhere near government …For some reason it didn’t surprise me to learn that the head of Palantir is Oswald Mosley’s grandson.

New computer chips do math with light
The photonic devices could pave the way for cheaper AI processing

SCIENCE

There will always be more gold vs. bitcoin which is finite = 21 million Bitcoin.
This is what it looks like when an explosion creates gold in space
The first observation of a collision between neutron stars, detected in August 2017, created gravitational waves, light and heavy elements like gold and platinum. But astronomers have realized they also witnessed a kilanova, the kind of explosion that creates gold and platinum, the year before as well.

Sending Bitcoin over Ham Radio
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1817264133085044736/pu/vid/avc1/480×852/Ew_H4XHA3gMku_d2.mp4

Secure Your Bitcoin

Why Bell Labs Worked. Or, how MBA culture killed Bell Labs
Hallowed is the name of Bell Labs. It falls from many an ambitious lip, seeking to conjure forth lost magic for their pet jar. Some zealots go further. They attempt the most venerated of summons — to materialize an Apollo.
The conjuring proceeds with hope. It is extremely exciting and hopeful to be a part of such an endeavor. Naked hope sparks the flame of conviction. Sponsors are found. Press releases are released. Social media is social-ed. Applications are announced… It’s real!

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions?
And then there’s silence. Louder the start; quieter the end. Many an aspiring titan ends up wandering the plains of human endeavor with an open jar; forever searching for magic to bottle.

New computer chips do math with light
The photonic devices could pave the way for cheaper AI processing

BITCOIN

Missouri just voted 102-41 to scrap state capital-gains tax—stocks, real estate, and yes, #Bitcoin. Now it’s Gov. Mike Kehoe’s call: signing would make Missouri the first U.S. state where selling sats carries 0% state tax. Who’s next?
https://www.tax-rates.org/taxtables/income-tax-by-state
AND
https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/a-comparison-state-tax-rates.html

COINBASE JUST SAID #BITCOIN ETF INFLOWS WILL EXPLODE SOON WHEN ADVISORS CAN RECOMMEND THEM

BREAKING: Michael Saylor’s STRATEGY just bought 13,390 Bitcoin for $1.34 BILLION (Average price of $99,856 per $BTC)

Metaplanet acquires 1,241 $BTC for ~$126.7M, bringing their total holdings to 6,796 Bitcoin

BREAKING: $66 BILLION DELL OFFICIALLY REJECTS SHAREHOLDER PROPOSAL TO ADD #BITCOIN TO TREASURY
THEY WILL CONTINUE TO HOLD CASH AND BONDS. THEY WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.

David Bailey and holding company Nakamoto raises $710 million and announces merger with KindlyMD to establish #Bitcoin Treasury.

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U.S. Announces China Trade Deal in Geneva
LEFT: Trump says they’ve agreed to a trade deal with China.
RIGHT: China says they’ve “reached an agreement” to talk more.

Will we see Bitcoin go up to $110,000 tomorrow!

The OCC says it’s OK for your bank to embrace Bitcoin.
US BANKS CAN NOW CUSTODY #BITCOIN
OCC-regulated banks may buy and sell assets held in custody and are permitted to outsource bank-permissible crypto-asset activities, including custody and execution services.

FORMER PAYPAL PRESIDENT SAYS AI AGENTS WILL BUY, SELL, AND TRADE #BITCOIN “WITHOUT HUMAN INVOLVEMENT”
BTC WILL BE THE “NEUTRAL ASSET OF THE AI ERA.”

MISSOURI HOUSE JUST PASSED A BILL TO EXEMPT CAPITAL GAINS TAXES ON #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO
THIS IS MASSIVE!!!

Bitcoin officially surpasses Amazon to become the 5th largest asset in the world by market cap. Well over 1 MILLION BTC has been accumulated via the ETFs in just over a year!

“Trump on Jerome Powell: “I know much more than he does about interest rates. Believe me.”

“Laughter is a force for democracy.”
– John Cleese

SCIENCE

This is what it looks like when an explosion creates gold in space
“The 2016 event was very exciting at first. It was nearby and visible with every major telescope, including NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. But it didn’t match our predictions–we expected to see the infrared emission become brighter and brighter over several weeks,” said Eleonora Troja, study author and associate research scientist in the University of Maryland’s Department of Astronomy.
The first observation of a collision between neutron stars, detected in August 2017, created gravitational waves, light and heavy elements like gold and platinum. But astronomers have realized they also witnessed a kilanova, the kind of explosion that creates gold and platinum, the year before as well.

“We’ve never had a breach” often means “We’ve never looked hard enough.”

LAW

The Copyright Office report yesterday affirms what our members – and the broader creative community – have long contended: that the wholesale ingestion of copyrighted works to train gen AI models without consent or compensation is NOT fair use under current law. Here is a full statement from DCN along with the very important and thorough analysis from the Copyright Office
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-3-Generative-AI-Training-Report-Pre-Publication-Version.pdf

Via email, Trump fires head of Library of Congress
President Donald Trump fired the Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, via email, a move that immediately drew sharp condemnation from her supporters.
“President Trump’s ignorant decision will impact America’s libraries, our copyrighted economic interests, and service to the American people by threatening support for Congress,” Rep. Joe Morelle, a New York Democrat, posted to social media shortly after Hayden’s firing became public late May 8. “His decision is a complete disgrace.”
Added Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a Democrat: “Donald Trump just fired my dear friend Dr. Carla Hayden — the Librarian of Congress — via email. This is disgraceful. The Library of Congress represents some of the best America has to offer. Equal access to learning for all.”

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind . . . Alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” ~Frank Wilhoit

Republicans Silent as Trump Refuses to Commit to Upholding Constitution

Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn’t know whether he needs to honor the nation’s founding document. None replied

Judges have a warning about Trump’s rapid deportations: Americans could be next

How Pablo Escobar Hid His Billions From the FBI

The pay off
Who holds Trump Coin? Here’s where the top backers are likely based.
The majority of top holders of Donald Trump’s memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad

President Trump is poised to accept a luxury jet costing $400 million as a gift from Qatar. It’s to be used as Air Force One and then transferred to the Trump administration poised to accept ‘palace in the sky’ as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sure appears to be corruption in plain — and plane — sight.
Last week Donald Trump announced that a $5.5 billion golf course and Trump resort would be built in Qatar. This week Qatar gifts the President a luxury jet that he can keep when he leaves office. This is corruption in its rawest form. It’s not only breathtakingly corrupt, it’s manifestly illegal, no matter what permission is received from a cowardly and compromised Department of Justice.
It has to be retrofitted to match Air Force One’s safety and security standards, so that it can’t be shot down by a surface-to-air missile. It’s unlikely they’ll be able to retrofit this plane before Trump’s third term. Good luck to the intel agencies with dismantling every panel in the 747 that Qatar is giving Trump to check for bugs and trackers.

Qatar: Same country that bankrolled bailout loan to Kushner family. Unearthed records show that AG Pam Bondi, who authorized Trump’s luxury plane gift from Qatar, was previously a lobbyist for Qatar, receiving over $100,000 monthly.

The jet worth $400M will be overhauled by L3Harris, used as Air Force One and later transferred to Trump’s presidential library foundation
WH & DOJ claim this is not a bribe

How can you call for 20 percent of Generals to be fired for lack of efficiency in the Pentagon and then ask for $150 billion MORE for a Pentagon budget that is now over $1 trillion?

Rep. Rob Menendez @RepMenendez May 10
No matter what this Administration tells the American people, the law is very clear: Members of Congress have a legal right to enter any DHS detention facility to conduct oversight without prior notice – something I’ve done twice this year without issue.

Gen Z’s ‘conscious unbossing’ should be a wake-up call for businesses
https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-consciously-unbossing-avoid-management-roles-preserve-mental-health-2025-4

NY lawmakers add disclaimer to AI chatbots: They aren’t human
https://gothamist.com/news/ny-lawmakers-add-disclaimer-to-ai-chatbots-they-arent-human

Massachusetts voters approved a 4% surtax on the ultra-wealthy in 2022.
Since then, the number of millionaires in Massachusetts has jumped by 38.6%.
Wealth taxes don’t kill innovation or drive the wealthy away.
NOT taxing the wealthy costs us all.

Judges have a warning about Trump’s rapid deportations: Americans could be next
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/10/donald-trump-immigration-deportations-due-process-00339319

The ranking member of the House Oversight Committee is investigating whether the GSA has given preferential treatment to a tech startup linked to some of President Donald Trump’s most influential Silicon Valley allies, including Peter Thiel.

Google to pay Texas $1.4 billion in data privacy settlement

Former Palantir workers condemn company’s work with Trump administration

Could Apple Exist Without Its Ties to China? Probably Not.
The world’s most valuable company has become so reliant on Chinese suppliers and sales that it would be worth half as much or less without them.
Published May 1, 2025 Updated May 2, 2025
Several years before Donald J. Trump entered politics, Apple and its partners built massive factories across China to assemble iPhones. Mr. Trump first campaigned for president by promising his supporters that he would force Apple to make those products in America.
Nearly a decade later, little has changed. Instead of bringing its manufacturing home, Apple shifted some production from China to India, Vietnam and Thailand. Almost nothing is made in America, and an estimated 80 percent of iPhones are still made in China.
Despite years of pressure, Apple’s business is still so dependent on China that the tech giant can’t operate without it. Moves by the Trump administration to change Apple’s behavior risk damaging the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. And any serious effort to move Apple’s production to the United States — if that is even possible — would take a titanic effort by both the company and the federal government.
In the four days after President Trump announced taxes on Chinese exports of 145 percent last month, Apple lost $770 billion in market capitalization. It regained some of those losses after Mr. Trump gave consumer electronics manufacturers in China a temporary reprieve.
On Thursday, Apple reported $24.78 billion in quarterly profit, a 4.8 percent increase from a year ago, a result of strong sales of apps and services and a new, lower-priced iPhone, which the company introduced in February. China was the only region where it didn’t increase sales during the quarter.
An Apple spokesman declined to make any company executives available for this article. During a call with Wall Street analysts on Thursday, Tim Cook, the company’s chief executive, said Apple had more than 9,000 suppliers in the United States and planned to open a factory in Houston to make artificial intelligence servers.

The 6 strongest materials on Earth are harder than diamonds https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/strongest-material/

The Architect Trump’s Agenda Is Shaped by Project 2025 Author, Not Elon Musk
the Trump loyalist – Vought spent several years working for a Gramm protégé, Jeb Hensarling, then served as executive director of the Republican Study Committee, a right-wing caucus. It was the “center of conservative gravity in the House,” Hensarling says. He recalls Vought as a “true believer” with a “mastery of details of really arcane budget processes.” Vought left Congress in 2010 and went to work as vice president of Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation. There he took up another of Gramm’s favorite pastimes: calling Congress gutless. A current CFPB staffer, testifying in a court affidavit, described conversations with senior officials at the bureau who said Vought’s plan is to turn the agency into a single room with “five men and a phone.” (Administration lawyers have denied this was the goal and said the downsizing effort has been lawful.)
In a series of essays for Red State, the commentary site run by conservative radio host Erick Erickson, Vought railed against congressional Republicans for, as he saw it, failing to block President Barack Obama’s agenda. This position played well during the heyday of the Tea Party, when many conservatives suddenly became deficit hawks. Vought was ready to make the case for big changes. “We are past the point of incrementalism,” he wrote in 2011. “We don’t have the time to fiddle at the edges. We need elected officials free of calcified political assumptions of what is possible that reveal only their own level of accommodation with the liberal welfare state.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2025-russell-vought-doge-musk-trump/

Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer

Apple Hits Google’s Battleship

HEALTH

The Acid King Inside Story of LSD Chemist William Leonard Pickard
For more than two decades, authorities believe, Leonard Pickard was a major player in the LSD underground. In 2001, while sitting in a federal prison, he told his story for the first time

Psychedelics may boost mental health by dampening inflammation
Psychedelic drugs like MDMA and psilocybin may help treat depression, anxiety and other mental health conditions by reducing the number of inflammatory cells around the brain
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2479069-psychedelics-may-boost-mental-health-by-dampening-inflammation/#Echobox=1746748855

How Being Watched Changes How You Think
​We live in an era of constant surveillance. Psychology research shows how this might change how we perceive the world—even unconsciously

Structural knee MRI findings are already frequent in a general population-based birth cohort at 33 years of age. To evaluate the incidence and severity of knee magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and their associated lifestyle and health factors in a relatively healthy subset of a general population-based birth cohort.

Groom of the Stool – The worst job in history?
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Groom-of-the-Stool/

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THE OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE ACCOUNT IS BULL POSTING ABOUT #BITCOIN– WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE
Bitcoin! is legal.  All the fuddy duddy folks at your money management company will need to recommend it for your retirement portfolio or they will be considered negligent, and hopefully get fired.
People are under valuing this: the strategic bitcoin reserve announcement is huge for moving the overton window, the actual US government promoting bitcoin. This provides a new ultimate reference for sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, mutual funds to add bitcoin allocations.

The big takeaway from the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve?
The US, issuer of the world’s reserve currency, just validated #Bitcoin as a credible, neutral reserve asset. The magnitude is hard to overstate. A global reserve asset shouldn’t be worth the same as Amazon. Soon, it won’t be.

After WW2, the world was decimated. The US was the only industrial power left standing. Europe and Japan were in ruins. The world needed to rebuild, and the US took the lead. How? The US funded global reconstruction with efforts like the Marshall Plan and Bretton Woods.
We are witnessing the unwind of the WW2 economic order.
What’s happening now is much bigger than tariffs. For nearly 80 years the US exported dollars while importing goods & debt. That system is failing.
What’s next? A move back to a neutral reserve currency. Got #Bitcoin?

America will be the Bitcoin superpower of the world.
The Golden Age of America has BEGUN!

$1 TRILLION STANDARD CHARTERED SAYS THE USA SHOULD SELL ITS GOLD TO BUY MORE #BITCOIN
– Standard Chartered, a major global bank with $1 trillion in assets, recently suggested the U.S. should sell its gold reserves to invest in Bitcoin, aligning with the bank’s bullish outlook on the cryptocurrency, as evidenced by their prediction of Bitcoin reaching $500,000. Gold served its purpose for centuries, but Bitcoin is superior in every way.. scarcer, more portable, and impossible to confiscate. The first nation to pivot fully to BTC wins the next financial era. The greatest trade of all time might be unfolding right now.

Must Watch Toxic American Bitcoin Saturday

WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS TOLD PRESS YESTERDAY #BITCOIN “DESERVES SPECIAL TREATMENT” “BTC IS MORE SECURE, DECENTRALIZED, AND DOESN’T HAVE AN ISSUER.”

Trump signs executive order establishing crytocurrency reserve, but for now apparently only using coins currently held by the government.

‘We’ve decided Bitcoin is scarce, it’s valuable’ for US strategic reserve — David Sacks
Regarding ETH, SOL, XRP and ADA, “The president just mentioned the top five cryptocurrencies by market cap, so I think people are just reading into this a little bit too much,” said Sacks.

$110 BILLION VANECK SUGGESTS 6 WAYS FOR THE USA TO BUY MORE #BITCOIN
Possible budget neutral ways to acquire BTC:
1) Exchange Stabilization Fund (ESF)— net $39B position. Self-funded, not congressionally approved.
2) Revalue Gold reserves (requires Congressional action)
3) Reduce the Fed’s permissible surplus (requires congressional approval. but doesn’t require specific on use of proceeds). For background: pre-2015, Fed had limitless surplus, then lowered to $10B (highway bill),
then reduced to $78 in 2018.
4) Lobby IMF to include BTC in SDRs (last review 2022, next in 2027). Phased integration like CNY in 2016?
Likely no congressional vote would require lobbying from lawmakers.
5) Bitcoin Bonds – u.s. Treasury issues bonds priced above par, with a small portion of the proceeds used to buy Bitcoin and the remainder financing government operations. The Bitcoin would be held as collateral
and returned to bondholders in-kind upon maturity, potentially alongside principal repayment in dollars (would likely require congressional approval as “material change” to structure of US debt.
6) Sell the 1.433 Billion pounds of Cheese stored in Missouri caves. Estimated value = —$2 to 4B. (Most of the cheese is privately held, but USDA can sell excess dairy without congressional approval.)
7) % of DOGE savings? unclear if general savings like this fit the bill.

No Plan Yet to Sell Gold to Buy More Bitcoin, But Treasury Will Decide: David Sacks
Treasury and Commerce secretaries will explore buying more Bitcoin in a “budget neutral way,” but such conversations have not happened yet, says the White House’s crypto czar.

Michael Saylor Bitcoin 2024 Keynote Speech (With Slides)

Michael Saylor Hints US Will Buy 1 Million Bitcoin For Strategic Reserve

SEC says Memecoins are not securities and that it won’t regulate them,
setting up millions of Americans to lose their life savings.

GOP Vote To Remove Debanking Oversight After Promising To Fight Debanking
Viral discussions on Operation Chokepoint 2.0 had the potential to reform a broken financial system. Instead, it birthed a disinformation campaign designed to save big tech from enforcement action while selling out consumers.

Got Bitcoin?
Lagarde reports that the digital € will launch in October:
–They will track every payment
–They can block purchases
–Automatic taxes
–Without cash, you depend on the ECB
They will sell you “convenience”, but you will lose freedom. And you will be happy.

trump

#InternationalWomensDay reminder that Republicans are trying to cancel the votes of 69 million women by passing the SAVE Act.

Trump voters shocked that a person who had six bankruptcies is destroying the economy.

The 7,000 IRS agents fired by Trump and DOGE appear to have mainly been employees who worked in the Large Business and International (LB&I) division, which audits companies with more than $10 million in assets and high-income individuals.

Trump has now spent more than half the weekends since his inauguration back at Mar-a-Lago, at immense expense to U.S. taxpayers and Florida law enforcement.

Trump is Krasnov and Doe 174.

How many young Americans died in WWII to save the world from fascism. Now the Germans are going to do it because our own president won’t. You can’t make it up. In a shocking twist of fate, *Germany* steps into the leadership vacuum created by Donald Trump and pledges to spend $536 billion to revamp its military and economy in the cause of fighting fascism and dictators across the globe.

This is 41-year-old Donald Trump in Moscow in July 1987 after being invited by the USSR Ambassador.
What do you notice?
There is some speculation that this trip was the start of a KGB effort to recruit Trump to be a Kremlin asset.
Former KGB officials, including Yuri Shvets, have claimed that Trump’s 1987 visit was part of a broader strategy by Soviet intelligence to develop relationships with influential Americans.
Just two months after his return to NY from Moscow, Trump paid almost $100,000 dollars for full-page ads urging the US to abandon its foreign aid to its allies and demanded they pay for their own security or fend for themselves.
Sound familiar?
In the 2000s, the Trump Organization sold numerous properties to anonymous shell companies, some linked to Russian and post-Soviet oligarchs.
In 2008, Trump sold his Palm Beach estate, Maison de L’Amitié, to Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev for $95 million, a number almost 2x its market value.
Follow the money. If it wasn’t for the Russians who baled him out he would be selling peanuts at Mar-a-Lago

“Our kids don’t need to know that our president is a rapist”
Yes the fuck they do.

Fascist Trump Pentagon flags 26K to 100K photos for DEI deletion, including war heroes and photos of the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb: the Enola GAY.

Private equity firms are being allowed to loot the New Deal-era housing program thats supposed to offer low-interest mortgages. Private equity is funneling the program’s money into investments jacking up rents – and offering no mortgages.

The Trump administration plans to cut over 80,000 employees from Veterans Affairs, according to an internal memo.

Trump unenthusiastic about changes to daylight savings time right now.

Trump Is Gutting the National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence
National parks just had a record-breaking 331 million visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while they fire rangers, close visitor centers, and cut public safety. This will not go well—we love our parks.

MUSK

Elon Musk is literally a fucking nazi. If you need a list, here it is

DOGE Is the Deep State
A shadowy group of unelected figures reshaping the federal government to their own benefit from the inside? Sounds familiar!

[He said Musk heads DOGE — oops!] Lawyers use Trump’s speech before
Congress in suit against DOGE
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lawyers-trumps-speech-congress-suit-doge/story?id=119477540

Watch The Exact Moment John Roberts Realizes He Whored Himself Out – Above the Law

Elon Musk’s plan to cut the Social Security Administration’s staff by 50% would cause 37,000 more Americans to die each year waiting to receive their disability benefits while the average wait time to collect these benefits would jump to 412 days. That is beyond unacceptable.

IRS Chief Vows Revenge After Being Ousted by Elon Musk’s DOGE: “I’m just trying to do my goddamn job. They have no idea who they picked a f—king fight with.”

FAA SAYS THURSDAY SPACEX EXPLOSION DISRUPTED NEARLY 240 FLIGHTS
Musk’s SPACEX needs to compensate the public & airlines for flight delays of 240 flights.

FAA workers threatened with firing if they ‘impede’ Musk’s SpaceX federal deal

Elon Musk is rumoured to have lost over $151 Billion in worth as a result of Tesla’s stock price crash. This effectively slices his wealth in half.

When Elon Musk started recruiting for DOGE in November, he described the work as “tedious” and noted that “compensation is zero.” But WIRED has learned that some DOGE staffers are drawing six-figure salaries from the agencies they’re dismantling.

Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program

AI

Pentagon to give AI agents a role in planning, operations

For all of the press coverage of AI, don’t look now but Meta just lost its motion to dismiss copyright case for alleged concrete harms from stripping copyright info off pirated books to train LLaMA.

Walgreens Fridge Fight Bodes Poorly for Future of Retail

Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved
A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable.

Politics / HEALTH

PRIVACY REDACT Pretty neat service that allows you to selectively or fully delete your history from 30+ sites: The only platform that allows you to automatically clean up your old posts from services like Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Discord, and more, all in one place.

Glenn Doucette
Another FAFO moment. The County in Kentucky that produces Jack Daniel’s Whiskey voted 5-1 for the orange bloviator: The LARGEST purchaser is the Province of Ontario but they only pay for it once it’s sold. They are sending it ALL back with no payment: Jack Daniel’s just laid off over 650 employees.

Documents show American taxpayers spent $6 BILLION to develop the key ingredient in Ozempic — but after lawmakers repealed pricing rules, Americans are now charged Ozempic prices up to 11 times higher than the price in other nations.

Congressman Al Green @RepAlGreen Mar 6
Today, the House GOP censured me for speaking out for the American people against @POTUS’s plan to cut Medicaid. I accept the consequences of my actions, but I refuse to stay silent in the face of injustice. #WeShallOvercome
10 OTHER DEMOCRATS VOTED TO CENSOR AL GREEN

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