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HBO digs into the Satoshi Nakamoto mystery - Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery coming on the heels of Vitalik: An Ethereum Story. Did Bruce Sterling and others predict our current reality?"Alex did not find it surprising that people like the Chinese Triads and the Corsican Black Hand were electronically minting their own cash. He simply accepted it: electronic, private cash, unbacked by any government,...

"Something is increasing the trade": First detailed study reveals scale of Australian species for sale overseas. A new study reveals the scale of Australia wildlife being smuggled overseas, with dozens of species recorded for the first time. But government authorities insist its crackdown is working.

Dozens of kangaroos have set up home in a residential area south of Newcastle (Australia) attracting a wave of badly-behaved human tourists. Don't feed wild kangaroos. Feeding wild kangaroos leads to kangaroo vs human conflict when the kangaroos get used to it, and approach humans who either don't have any food or won't give it to them. Don't feed kangaroos fried chicken.And for the...

The 2016 election crushed the girls. Now women, they're revenge voting. The hatred seen on that 2016 campaign trail had worked. The kind of bullying that would get a kid at their middle school suspended got Trump the Oval Office. The promises that they could be anything, do anything, dream anything felt suspended.They believed the rancor and division of 2016 would calm after the...

Acclaimed actress Kathy Bates sat down with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz for CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, talking about her storied career in Hollywood, her role in the new Matlock reboot, and how it explores the frustrating "invisibility" of older women. The highlight of the interview, however, comes when Bates talked about her late mother -- specifically, a deeply painful memory from the...

The first mistake, he said, was allowing proportional representation to become part of the conversation at all.

Progress on open source E-ink tablet, the PineNote. Finally firmware based on Linux Debian has been put together by developer Maximilian Weigand. It even runs Doom.From an UK blog (where I first read about it): https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/10/pinenote-linux-powered-e-ink-tablet-returns The PineNote now has a reliable Debian-based OS, developed by Maximilian Weigand. This is described as "not only a bare-bones capable OS but a genuinely daily-usable system that...

The outside world knows Wim Hof as the eccentric Iceman. His family suffered domestic violence. (CW: physical, emotional, sexual abuse)...in 2012 Hof was sentenced by the court to community service and a fine because he had assaulted Caroline's oldest son Christiaan. The incident also resulted in a temporary restraining order imposed on him by the mayor of Amsterdam: he was no longer allowed to...

Hurricane Milton is currently category 5 and 175 mph. The predicted center of its landfall is just north of Tampa, Florida, a worst case disaster scenario, with damage predicted in the hundreds of billions.Its rapid intensification has been at record rates. It may well continue to increase in speed and go below 900 mb. A 175 mph hurricane causes 879 times the wind damage...

"Shruti's mind swarmed with ecosystem inputs and outputs, and her anxiety curdled into wrath." "The Almond Pirates" is a short science fiction story by Annalee Newitz, in which the successful search for a lost cat leads to a discovery of water theft and a proceeding in accordance with the Restorative Justice Act of 2165. Anthropocene Magazine published "The Almond Pirates" in 2022 in its...

Andy Samberg and Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island (previously) return to make a proposal...Sushi Glory Hole

The truth is that it's likely a confusing combination of all three. Sabrina Carpenter is very popular. Shaboozey wrote the party song of the summer. Everyone knows what "Brat" green looks like. But there's no magic formula or brilliant gimmick to make something popular. Just ask Billie Eilish. from What was the song of the summer? Nobody knows [Garbage Day on Sherwood]

The history of one of the world's staples is to be safely stored in this vault. A seed vault has been built in southern New South Wales to protect and store thousands of varieties of rice for up to 100 years.The George Hulbert Seed Vault in the Department of Primary Industries' warehouses at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Institute is a temperature and humidity-controlled room...

this is your free thread: what does freedom mean to you? please feel free to write about anything/rage against the machinenot raging against the machine? this is an 'ai overview' description: Feedom [sic] may refer to a catalog management platform, a community group in Detroit, or a province in Buenos Aires. other musicians have titled 'freedom', including Pharrell Williams, Beyoncé George Michael, & there...

What does one do with 22 minutes of dead air on Hallowe'en? If you're Matt Geller of KXVO, you put on a black unitard and a pumpkin mask and dance. How will you celebrate the spooky season? Or talk about anything you like!

with rocks in my dress and smoke in my hair i walked into a lake to get some sleep down in there  This lyric from 'Comfort Me' by Sparklehorse (previously) is likely an allusion to Virginia Woolf whose family recently refused permission for a Barbie doll to be created in her image. According to this report in The Times (UK) (archived link) it looked...

Usually when a teenager is driving 120 mph and runs into a police car it's considered a bad thing. Not always, though.

The thing on her face was a bottle cap. As of July, caps in Europe no longer fully come off water and soda bottles due to a European Union law aimed at getting more of the caps recycled rather than littered. When the caps are screwed off, they stay there, dangling from the top of bottles and bumping into drinkers' lips, noses and cheeks....

Nature reports: World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission A new application of CAR-T therapy that doesn't require extraction and modification of the patient's own cells. Using donated cells a "one size fits all" therapy is a possibility.Derek Lowe of the old "Things I won't work with" blog has more details: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/car-t-autoimmune-disorders As he says in the link: "It's a breakthrough,...

How New South Wales farmers are making money from improving biodiversity. Farmers are protecting corridors of land to improve biodiversity for annual payments and to attract premium prices.

The past year in pictures of Israel and Gaza by Reuters. Casting a pall over Israeli life. CNN's defining images from the past year. Al Jazeera released a documentary on war crimes in Gaza. Zeteo released a documentary on Israel's Reel Extremism. Israel has now escalated the violence to include bombing hospitals, suburbs and refugee camps in Lebanon, a Russian airbase in Syria, the...

From rap getting brasher and noisier, to online scenes blossoming during quarantine, to entire subcultures of music being shot to the moon and stripped for parts by TikTok, music as we know it fundamentally shifted this half-decade. from The 100 Best Songs of the 2020s So Far [Pitchfork]See also: The 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far

Robin Malan, Rebel Angel has passed. "Robin Malan – [South African] educator, collator, editor, actor, director, writer, publisher – with decades of service behind him, bowed out on 18 September after a short spell in hospital, aged 84."I first encountered his anthologies of South African poetry at school, but as an adult I am still obsessed with his book 'Ah big yaws?: A Guard...