Binance hasn’t REcovered $6B+, it’s COVERING it (reimbursing customers from company funds). Bad headlines like this are a big part of why I started covering crypto. Generalist reporters on deadline far too often end up repeating company spin.
![Tweet by Binance @binance Oct 30 Binance has begun [begun highlight] recovering [end highlight] affected assets for users and continues to work with law enforcement, issuers, blockchain intelligence firms and industry partners to trace, freeze and recover additional funds. The company has already publicly committed to cover losses through company funds in the prior announcement. [begin highlight] Binance has already reserved over $6.34B of company funds to cover this incident. [end highlight] $5B of these funds are already held in the exact token assets that were impacted. We are completing the purchase of the remaining amount by buying token assets through market channels and OTC channels. We are doing this to match the format of the remaining token assets and address any asset shortfalls. This step can take longer because some tokens may have low liquidity and OTC settlement also takes time. We will share more progress as soon as we can. These figures do not include frozen or protec](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exrxvyu6bpoym6mbnctke5tn/bafkreig4pod35bway6d74len7bfv642auuqyupg62wkzmosg7cccpsnayu)
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My position is that god is male but he has a cloaca like Cardassians on DS9 fandom.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 7h agoI just want to note that I think that in at least some persons God has no gender is the obvious orthodox positions. I guess I'd say agender rather than nonbinary (though maybe the former entails the latter without vice versa) but still: I think it's heresy to say the Holy Spirit has a binary gender.
NEW: Facebook is hosting large numbers of AI videos depicting sexual abuse of young athletes by older coaches. We reported pages posting this material from a normal FB account -- and in response, were told by Meta that the content hadn't violated its standards. futurism.com/artificial-i...
Meta Is Refusing to Remove AI-Generated Videos of Coaches Inappropriately Touching Young Athletes When Users Report Them
Meta said AI videos on Facebook of coaches abusing young athletes didn't violate its standards. When we followed up, it changed its mind.
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It's a day early, but we already have an infrastructure issue causing a polling site closure in Maricopa County. Good time to remind folks that there are >100K polling sites in the U.S. and sometimes those sites have issues. It's not a conspiracy, just a power outage. It'll be back online soon!
NEW 🧵 on AI and productivity: Lots of people say this chart shows AI is now showing up in the productivity data. But I made the chart to argue the opposite: a trend that pre-dates AI + only shows up in the US doesn’t look like AI. Here’s how I’m thinking about the data and underlying dynamics:
HOLY FUCKING SHIT a whistleblower FBI agent in the Broadview 6 case is resigning and suing the DOJ because he said President Trump, Todd Blanche and Kash Patel forced him to charge @katmabu.bsky.social for political reasons, then tried to make him the fall guy. www.wbez.org/crime/2026/1...
Hi! Woke up to lots of new followers. I'm not the Haley Stevens of Michigan. I'm the Hayley Stevens from Wiltshire, England. Until recently I wrote a science blog about spooky stuff, now I'm studying for my MSc in Forensic Psychology. I'm deeply autistic, sarcastic, and do not endorse Mike Rogers ✌️
We dressed the kitten up like a wizard for Halloween and honestly, it looked pretty believable so I whispered to him, “You know, if there’s anything you can do…” And then I left it open ended because I don’t know what his powers are but I remain hopeful.
Biden bailed out the Teamster pension and in return they endorse a January 6th co-conspirator for Senate automate the trucks. all of them.
another rule of the NYT is that they are the world’s most gifted storytellers, even if the subject is stupid
for context, here’s how patrick healy (who conducted the q+a about why the times ran the alaska story) responded to my question about why they omitted new details of rape against the president in their story about the house judiciary dems’ report last week. spot the differences.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d agoNew — Editor Patrick Healy explains to me NYT’s omission of the new rape details shared by Beatrice Keul in their story about the new House Judiciary Dems report released this week:
i finally got to read this and wow is it a steaming pile of crap. there is one constant in everything the NYT does and it’s this attitude of “we are smarter than you and you are simply too stupid to understand our choices.”
Inside the Times’s Decisions on the Alaska Senate Race Story
Our investigation found that Democratic operatives were behind a plan to bring a potential spoiler into the Senate race.
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Her fiance follows "libsoftiktok", I believe that more than anything else twitter just fried their brain.
"I wanted to see if you wanted to fill in the silence, but you don't," has to be one of the more devastating things a person who hosts the annual Times Square New Years Eve Ball Drop could say to you
4. Blanchard remained in touch with Stevens throughout the weekend and expected her to attend the church service. He only found out from the news that she was at the service with Rogers and endorsing him.
3. “He was all distraught,” he said. “He was all strung out about Abdul. I let her know, he’s not a good influence.”
2. Blanchard said that Stevens’ fiancé, Jason Turkish, began chiding her at the dinner. “He was working her over. The way he was saying it was, ‘Everyone is disappointed in you, they did everything they could to help you and then immediately after you lose the primary, you endorsed him.’”
getting Chotiner'd by Anderson Cooper is like having a golden retriever maul you.
Stevens wasn't this bad during the primaries, right? this seems like a whole new level of breakdown.
republicans getting "haha sportsball" in the divorce makes sense, they've never seen a form of antisocial behavior they don't like
as a Sports Non-Understander who's never watched a game in their life i sometimes did the smug "haha sportsball amirite so boring 😏😏😏😏" when i was younger and more of an asshole. it's just a way to convey you're going to be an asshole about other people's interests you don't share
My friend in the Dept of Ed had to leave her job where she made sure disabled kids could access education, so these volitional subhumans could post like this
it's still so weird we got sports in the divorce.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTrump: "Who the hell wants to watch football? It's boring as hell ... I can't watch"
'no matter the results on Tuesday' this is pure cope and we're going to see a lot of it because the U.S. political press is shit.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 23h agoAs NYT poll portrays wide leads for Democratic Senate candidates, WSJ calls the past week “disastrous” for the party www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This is your brain. This is your brain on DC savvy political reporting. Any questions?
I hear Dem operatives going on about how kitchen table issues matter. They do. But why the huge and disproportionate surge in black and Latino turnout? Surely it has to do with assaults on civil rights and immigrants. Democracy may not matter much to Dem operatives; it matters to lots of Dem voters.