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Quite the oopsie!
This seems to have happened on Friday while BTC was recovering elsewhere so not sure how it interacted with the wider market
Cryptic error sees South Korea’s Bithumb give away over US$40 billion
Bitcoin ‌prices briefly slumped 17 per cent on the cryptocurrency exchange after the transfers but later recovered.
www.scmp.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:41 AM
things that make you go hmmmm
February 6, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Check the full thread
Nancy Mace has an auto responder for comments containing the word “drugs”.
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
I like these roasts!
Is my essay making a clear argument?
YouTube video by Anthropic
www.youtube.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:44 AM
Looks like LARPing to me. So freaking pathetic.
February 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
pretty strange. past week-ish or so, i've been frustrated by claude code token usage which seemed higher than usual but today seems much lower...

note: only anectodal / empirical observation
February 5, 2026 at 3:44 AM
wrecking ball keep swinging
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell - CIA
www.cia.gov
February 5, 2026 at 1:15 AM
lmao

(from @matt-levine.bsky.social's letter)
February 4, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Let’s call it what is instead of fumbling with words.

Imperialism
Implications of an “Americas First” Foreign Policy
Podcast Episode · Exchanges · 03/02/2026 · 27m
podcasts.apple.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:17 AM
Beautiful receipt.

From www.citationneeded.news/issue-100/
February 4, 2026 at 5:40 AM
Reposted by PostCandide
My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.
February 4, 2026 at 12:02 AM
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 AM
funny how each time crypto has a leg down, some accounts come out of the woods like
February 2, 2026 at 12:49 AM
There must be some dead fishes in the water
Binance bitcoin bailout
February 2, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Reposted by PostCandide
A lot of the current AI-agents-scraping-the-web debate is re-running aspects of the 1990s "web agents" / "intelligent agents" debate (and arms race & lawsuits). I haven't seen exactly what I have in mind collected anywhere, so putting a few things in this thread. 1/n
February 1, 2026 at 8:57 PM
One wonder which of the other ouroboros deals are or not a commitment...
February 1, 2026 at 4:03 PM
who could have known? 🤦
Hong Kong to repeal bus seat belt rules over ‘deficiencies’ in law
Law only applies to new buses registered from Sunday, the day the seat belt rule took effect.
www.scmp.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 AM
When I think about liquidity, this is never far away (from Ma Dalton by Morris and Goscinny, 1971)
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Bit late but this was interesting, both for the history of the company and a reminder of the sidewalk/ring privacy issues.
How Wall Street Ruined the Roomba and Then Blamed Lina Khan
This week's bankruptcy of iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum, is about more than a robot cleaner. It's about monopolies, Wall Street, and economists leading America on a path of destruction.
www.thebignewsletter.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Weak sauce piece, no-analysis worded as prescriptive.

Also ignoring and talking past the just-a-few-day-older FTAV piece which is funny.
Intervention will not reverse yen weakness
Loose fiscal policy no longer makes sense now that Japan has escaped deflation
www.ft.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:31 AM
L'arroseur arrosé
January 28, 2026 at 2:26 AM