Air to Ground Message: PRINTER BACAME POSSESSED AND WOULD NOT STOP PRINTING THE NECROMONICON POWER RESET/TRACKING Area: Killeen, TX, USA Type: Airbus A220-300 A: #aa816c0b876 F: #f2c4f4503c4

Oh I'm very very very interested in watching this when it comes out

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d ago

The fact that Sam Bankman-Fried cooperated with this movie and Amazon includes this line in the description makes me extremely suspicious of the motives here: "Was it fraud, or did his risky bets simply spiral out of control?"

Breaking news: The Earth is getting rounder agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

After the Clarity Act failed a key vote earlier this month, I spoke to over a dozen people about why. Some of them pointed to the president's crypto businesses and the looming midterm election. Others said the process had issues from the start. Here's my post-mortem. www.coindesk.com/news-analysi...

How months of work on the crypto Clarity Act all fell apart

Interviews with industry participants and legislative aides paint a picture of a blown bill-writing process, with sources pointing to nearly every facet of the bill's development and the debate around...

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When I was in college the business school had a class that taught students to wear conservative blue or gray suits. The business school then had a job fair and any student wearing blue was barred from even entering, regardless of whether they had interviews lined up. It was a whole thing

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2w ago

what's the most insane hiring shibboleth you've ever heard, non-coffee edition

It's already getting windy. My hat has staged an escape attempt

Mark Yarm@markyarm.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wait till all the nor'easter posts this weekend.

Journalism, even as it is being destroyed, is such a specialized field that it will be almost impossible to see how it gets eaten away. It’s already happening, obviously. AI summaries are eating away ad rev. Websites are obsolete. Less and less people read. But in a sense it’s still thriving.

Air to Ground Message: DISPGND CNTL SAYS A CONSTRUCTION CREW WITH AN AUGER ACCIDENTALLY CUT A BUNDLE OF ABOUT 400 ATC CABLES...OOPS. Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA Type: Airbus A321neo A: #a73d46088f6 F: #f65c3225273

I'm sure this will go great and everyone's just going to have a good time

Squirrels on suicide missions have knocked out power to Castle Rock, Colorado twice this week. Our investigation has revealed a century of squirrel attacks covered up by the pro-squirrel media.

I was too young to really know about 9/11; I was 6 when it happened and my parents naturally didn't really tell me about it. But I knew my Sikh neighbors didn't leave their apartment for weeks, that how we saw my mom off to the airport changed, that so much changed. Anyways. Permit me a moment.

[checks bsky] > Former President Joe Biden's son Hunter is launching a memecoin on the Coinbase-backed Base network yeah sure why not

losing my mind that this just dropped while @lopatto.bsky.social is on a thru hike

Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff.bsky.social · last mo.

how is this real

the clock is expired and nobody has touched the ball. this is ridiculous!

There's really something just so cool about landing at a major international airport and immediately getting on a train line to city center

The new releases on United include @benmckenzie.bsky.social's Everyone Is Lying to You for Money doc

Me: Oh that's crazy I wonder which crypto news org they were impersonating > CoinDesk Okay then

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 2mo ago

When you target security researchers with malware, getting caught and written up is honestly one of the less unpleasant possible outcomes: techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/s...

Q: Does the administration have any plans to accumulate sizable amounts of bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies? TRUMP: Certainly, it's been talked about

SEC suddenly publishes "Reg Crypto" proposal, days after canceling the open commission meeting they originally planned to share it www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

SEC Proposes New Regulation Crypto Assets

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NPR - Federal regulators have launched a review of so-called "mention markets" on prediction market sites, where bettors wager millions of dollars on the word choice of everyone from President Trump to soccer sportscasters. www.npr.org/2026/08/13/n...

Feds probe 'mention markets' amid White House Kalshi controversy

Betting on what people say is becoming an increasingly popular category of prediction market sites. Now, federal officials have opened a probe examining whether those markets are a magnet for manipula...

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NEW: The SEC has canceled tomorrow's open meeting to propose releasing Reg Crypto www.sec.gov/newsroom/mee...

Lots of jaw-dropping lines in this report but truly nothing prepared me for that final graf

Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 2mo ago

holy fuk www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/b...

Air to Ground Message: NO INFO AS OF NOW WE HAVE A BUNCH OF PAX THAT WERE AT A CYBER CONFRENCE IN LAS THEY WERE ABLE TO JAM OUR WIFI AND BROADCAST THEIR SIGNAL Area: Liberal, KS, USA Type: Boeing 757-200 A: #aadee4f6c99 F: #fdcd8d51430

The U.S. Senate has filed cloture on the Clarity Act, setting it up for an initial vote almost as soon as it returns next month www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

U.S. Senate opens first stage of crypto Clarity Act voting to give bill a chance next month

The majority leader opened the multi-stage process the Senate follows when trying to get a bill over its 60-vote hurdle, so it's still got a shot in September.

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The Senate will not vote on the crypto market structure bill before going on its August recess, dimming hopes of this legislation becoming law in 2026 www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

Senate won't vote on crypto Clarity Act before its summer break

The U.S. Senate won't go on its August recess just yet but it will not vote on the Clarity Act this month, dimming hopes that the bill can become law this year.

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Trying to map out what might happen with Clarity on a purely procedural basis www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

Clarity Act: Here's what could happen with the crypto market structure legislation

The Senate has not yet indicated if it will advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, and with its summer recess looming, here are the possible outcomes.

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The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals filed its mandate in USA v Sam Bankman-Fried today, after ruling against the FTX founder's appeal in mid-June storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried loses appeal of criminal conviction on fraud, conspiracy charges

The onetime FTX CEO did not persuade a panel of judges that his trial was unfair, the appeals court panel ruled Friday.

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Green Beret Gannon Van Dyke has filed what seems to me to be a fascinating motion to dismiss the case against him (he's the guy charged with betting on the Maduro raid on Polymarket) drive.google.com/file/d/1KU51...

absolutely unbelievable footnote on this one, for those of you who also appreciate putting the best jokes in the footnoes

Matt Levine@matt-levine.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The “financial revolution” Money Stuff promised never materialized. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

If you saw @lastweektonight.com's episode on Trump, crypto and the Clarity Act and want to know what the bill's status is now, I wrote a thing about that www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

2 weeks left for Clarity: State of Crypto

The Senate leaves town in two weeks. Here's what needs to happen for Clarity to advance before then.

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