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Because Bitcoin especially (through the Tether fraud) and cryptocurrency more generally is a pyramid scheme, of course Wall Street and venture capital need it to go mass market. It's the

The work culture at rich tech companies (people read something upsetting in the news and want to discuss and 'process' it on company time) is so alien from most people's

Apple's AirTag is a revolutionary technology that lets you attach a $40 dongle to items to discourage you from losing them The invention of a costly free-range dongle with no

A thread on how record fundraising has crippled a bunch of Democratic campaigns, which also ties in to people's question "can candidates do anything useful with donations a week before

Be honest with me: does the bay leaf even do anything? I've been putting these things in soups my whole life and I could not begin to tell you what

When I first started Pinboard, it would take me upwards of two hours to update a forgotten TLS certificate in a cold sweat, but after ten years of annually forgetting

A funny/depressing thing about political ads being shown in Iowa is that each party accuses the other of wanting to strip away health care, in language so identical you have

This article on the return of door-knocking is particularly enraging since the evidence we have shows it's not an effective tactic for voter persuasion in either House or Senate campaigns.

I want to strongly speak out against this view, which I hear from too many directions. The idea that fascism arrives one week from today if we don't win some

Before we move on to Round 3 of the State Slate, I have a special fundraising request—the State Slate supplemental! Basically, the Iowa polls are extremely close, and there are

I'm seeing way too much overconfidence among people I thought were sensible about Trump's inevitable defeat. The president is as popular today as he was at the end of the

Her attacks on Zuckerberg notwithstanding, Ocasio-Cortez has paid Facebook at least $2.8M to run ads for her campaign, possibly the safest seat in America.https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1266172952481017859 One of very few politicians in