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Monday, 4 February 2019
quote [ “Quadriga’s inventory of cryptocurrency has become unavailable and some of it may be lost," the founder's widow said in documents obtained by CoinDesk. ]
Dude with the only password for a cryptocurrency exchange dies, $190 million of users' money completely inaccessible.
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Sunday, 3 December 2017
quote [ Peteski pete·ski / `pētskē / This isn't happiness™ #thisisnthappiness thisisnthappiness.com ]
Yeah, it's an Instagram page. But I like the self-hating fatalism on display.
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Saturday, 25 November 2017
quote [ Puh-rum-pum-pum-pum, people.
It’s very easy: So long as you don’t hear “The Little Drummer Boy,” you’re a contender. As soon as you hear it on the radio, on TV, in a store, wherever, you’re out. ] I hate Christmas music with a passion. You can submit your win/loss (and let's be honest, it's gonna be a loss) here.
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Monday, 30 October 2017
quote [ The former House speaker feels liberated, but he's also seething about what happened to his party. ]
A sympathetic look at a horrible man.
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Thursday, 19 October 2017
quote [ Several long-serving DNC members who opposed Tom Perez’ election as chair were removed from key posts on the eve of the party's Las Vegas meeting. ]
Surprised? If you are, boy have I got some other establishment routines to sell you.
"Unity is our greatest strength and Donald Trump’s worst nightmare." --Tom Perez, back in April
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The Ecology of Freedom -
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
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Tuesday, 3 October 2017
quote [ Data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive. ]
But hey, Chicago has the strictest gun laws in the country and look at their murder rate! You can't legislate evil!
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Wednesday, 16 August 2017
quote [ “Since money is changing pockets in the same pair of pants, there’s an incentive for the production company and the cable channel to agree on what might be something of a lowball figure,” Handel said. “Because it’s all just money being transferred within the same corporate parent.” ]
Comic writer and show producers make money off the show through licensing fees. They're claiming that AMC is lowballing their licensing fees since the show is both produced and aired internally.
Article in extended. Somewhat relatedly, RIP Person of Interest, which was killed because CBS didn't want to pay licensing fees anymore.
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Thursday, 10 August 2017
quote [ It's unclear whether the Consumer Product Safety Commission will finally pass a rule requiring all new saws to have an active injury prevention monitoring system built into them. ]
Guy invents way to stop getting your fingers cut off from a table saw. Nobody adopts the method, so he starts selling it on his own and lobbies for more regulation. Conflict of interest? Sure. But also a pretty smart idea.
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Wednesday, 2 August 2017
quote [ Davino Watson was imprisoned as a deportable immigrant for 1,273 days, despite having U.S. citizenship. Now a court says he is not eligible for $82,500 in damages he was awarded...ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money — because while his case is "disturbing," the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer. ]
The good old ICE/justice combo, arresting citizens for deportation, then refusing to compensate for their mistakes. But hey, since we didn't think he was a citizen, he didn't have a right to a lawyer!
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Friday, 12 May 2017
quote [ The U.S. has the worst rate of maternal deaths in the developed world: Sixty percent of the 700 to 900 deaths each year are preventable, including that of neonatal nurse Lauren Bloomstein. ]
Breeders aren't really my thing, but this is atrocious.
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