I never said it wasn’t weird. I just don’t think that there’s any reason for the public to believe that weirdness is the operative principle here. I think there’s good evidence that media institutions have shown themselves to be particularly disreputable in the slow but continuous American crack-up.

I assume journalists do this stuff all the time. Maybe more on the editorial side, but as a non-journalist, I don’t particularly care what part of the organization is tasked to do the consent-manufacturing. This assumption is based on my observations of journalism in the run up to the Iraq War.

That’s why I’m running for governor: to lower costs, to hold special interests accountable, to end the tax giveaways to billionaires while working people struggle, and to push for an economy that actually works for families in Ohio. No one in this state will be invisible to me.

might just rival SBF for the biggest bag fumble of all time. I guess the thing about crypto is the way to make money is skimming from the true believer morons, but the people who end up running crypto "companies" are the same true believer morons

yeah, it couldn't be more obviously a mania if you called the company FRAUD

Never understood this business model. There is no income generated by these tokens. It is entirely dependent on the price going up. Basically a ponzi scheme being shored up by loans which eventually have to be repaid by selling the underlying asset.

"Tether’s gold buys last quarter accounted for nearly 2 per cent of total gold demand and were equivalent to almost 12 per cent of central bank purchases" www.ft.com/content/37f8...

oh and it turns out *5.6 percent* of Tethers in circulation are backed by bitcoin. fuckin hell man www.ft.com/content/086f...

"Bitcoin’s loss of spending power since an October 6 peak would be the equivalent of an annualised 900 per cent inflation rate."

lol www.ft.com/content/a18c...

unfortunate timing for this uncharacteristically ill-judged Dan Toomey piece www.youtube.com/watch?v=exoN...

Yale JD’s whole shtick is that he’s smarter than everyone else and the RCC is really the only game in town for religious nerd cred.