Will FedNow affect crypto prospects, do you think?
The vast majority of the money George Santos raised earlier this year appears to be linked to Chinese-Americans with strong ties to Guo Wengui.
Almost all of these new donors are connected to a group that indicted Chinese financier Guo Wengui created with right-wing agitator and ally Steve Bannon, called the New Federal State of China (NFSC). The Hark Herald singled out a number of these donors, almost all of whom contributed the maximum amount to Santos—$3,300 per election—despite never previously giving money to any federal candidate.
The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can
With military spending at record highs, many contractors have hiked the cost of numerous simple items. (Video)
Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.
Talks at the UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) have produced an agreement for the global shipping sector to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero “by or around 2050”.
Carbon Brief explains the key sticking points at the 2023 IMO talks in London and what nations ultimately agreed on emissions targets.
Is there something significant about the $1870 mark that's making us a stablecoin here?
An ESG Loophole Helps Drive Billions into Gulf Fossil Fuel Giants
Bonds linked to the world’s biggest oil company have ended up in ESG funds, highlighting a major flaw in how the sector is regulated.
Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows
Better farming techniques across the world could lead to storage of 31 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide a year, data shows. That amount is not far off the 32 gigatonnes gap between current planned emissions reduction globally per year and the amount of carbon that must be cut by 2030 to stay within 1.5C.
I think people on Twitter (especially on smartphones) and people watching TV have very different attention spans in the first place.
A new study found that a CEO’s political ideology was correlated with the decision of whether to leave or suspend operations in Russia following the 2022 invasion.
Views for Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show have dropped 86 percent since its launch
His first show brought in over 26 million “video views,” which is a Twitter metric that records a view as anyone who watches a video for more than 2 seconds. While the metric’s reliability has been questioned, it has nevertheless declined significantly since the show’s launch, with Carlson’s most recent show only getting 3.8 million video views, marking a drop of 86 percent.
There's a pretty famous thought experiment about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument
Merger talks between Postmedia and Toronto Star owner fall apart | CBC News
Talks to combine two of the biggest newspaper publishers in Canada have fallen apart.
The disease was diagnosed in the Australian rules footballer Heather Anderson, who died at age 28 in November, a paper outlining the postmortem analysis said.
Could be interesting in the long term: https://phys.org/news/2023-07-quantum-physicists-unconditionally-digital-payments.html
If I'm remembering right, @kbrot believes the Nasdaq is likely to correct around 10% in the next few months following its huge gains in the first half of the year, and eth could retest $1400 or lower around October.
Maybe a weird question, but has anyone tokenized Steam redemption codes?
Just because they're inland, I think.
High temperatures could lead to 235,000 ER visits and 56,000 hospital admissions for heat-related conditions annually.
As a kid, the big twist in Hordes of the Underdark blew my mind.
"The world has failed to understand the social nature of diabetes and underestimated the true scale and threat the disease poses."
How the health community deals with diabetes in the next two decades will shape population health and life expectancy for the next 80 years. The world has failed to understand the social nature of diabetes and underestimated the true scale and threat the disease poses.
If the bull starts several months earlier than expected, does that affect the height of the blowoff top?
I feel like most of what I've seen about him for the past year and a half is people dunking on his lengthening cycles theory.
Does the bitcoin/ethereum rainbow have any value in predicting market behavior?
Amazing game. I only have one complaint about it but unfortunately it's a huge spoiler.