Jon Hargreaves

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/08/18/can-regenerative-finance-clean-up-crypto-dirty-image.html Concise piece outlining ReFi

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66336172 A 50 percent increase in trafficking of people reported in Northern Ireland in one year - kind of change that often reflects greater criminal organisation and new routes

https://cointelegraph.com/news/mineflation-cost-to-mine-one-bitcoin-in-the-us-rises-from-5k-to-17k-in-2023#:~:text=It%20now%20costs%20Bitcoin%20(BTC,resources%20Hashrate%20In Costs of mining Bitcoin in energy terms - a long way to go

Latest article on the Access Economy image from Flint v2 read here! https://medium.com/@elacity2822/the-access-economy-decentralized-identity-digital-rights-and-ownership-in-the-age-of-web3-23f7b1bbb4ce

New update from us! https://medium.com/@elacity2822/elacity-update-v1-8-da28fa50a047

Grassroots Economics Foundation has pioneered alternative economic systems since 2009 and today has supported over 80 communities to develop their own Economic Commons - expressing & exchanging value with Community Asset Vouchers (now on Celo)❤️ 🙏 @gitcoin: https://bit.ly/3YEcnVl (quadratically)

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/05/uk-experts-fear-losing-access-to-ice-age-mammoths-cotswolds-site-to-uae UK fears losing heritage to Abu Dhabi (some irony there)

https://www.science.org/content/article/neandertals-humans-may-have-had-long-childhoods More evidence that Homo sapiens and Neandertals co existed

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/humans-were-in-south-america-at-least-25000-years-ago-giant-sloth-bone-pendants-reveal Humans in Americas making decorations from giant sloth

If you going to Memel live it to the full … https://cryptonews.com/news/shiba-inu-barbie-meme-coin-shibie-to-sell-out-in-72-hours-or-less-with-under-200k-left-in-presale.htm

https://paragraph.xyz/@protocolized/protocol-protocol A great montage of movies which talk protocol, protocol

Looking forward to hearing the inevitable story of the time two different billionaires tried to take Thomas on vacations at the same time and wound up fighting over him like a divorced couple in a custody fight

Statue of the Week - 20 storey high and made from copper

Human trafficking criminal models take many forms but deception and exploration of addiction are much more common that outright coercion and kidnapping

Is the Huobi rumour real?

Crazy that you not only give away content you don’t own the domain - need to enable digital destiny

Scraping skins

Statue of the week

Looks like problems for OpenAI and World Coin in Africa

Right!

To play properly bad Ghost - George Michael Good Ghost - Andrew Ridgley

The winners Dick and Studs

We should spend a minute thinking of people who should not be ghosts. Not bad people (or even dead necessarily) just unsuited to ghost stuff. Bad ghosts: Dick Cavett Allen Kessler Harry Caray Janeane Garofalo Joe Buck Good ghosts: Norm MacDonald Fred Schneider Jimmy Piersall Studs Terkel Lil Bub

Is the WaPo trying to be eclectic?

Amazing how the dimensions on this metaphor are pretty accurate

A welcome to @pjgroove.bsky.social

I have been on Bluesky for a week I feel I have learnt a lot but Not fully sure what it all means … so thanks to any translators

https://youtu.be/FquNpWdf9vg Technology nostalgia circa 1987 and HyperCards … love the optimism

The fact that Elon Musk and his CHUD army seem genuinely surprised lots of people have stopped using Twitter: another way in which our current forces of evil are too foolish to realize they’re unmasking WAY too early in the game.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/31/23814050/sec-richard-heart-lawsuit-fraud-hex-pulsechain SEC Pershing crypto funds in Finland!

One thing the 90s got right was how horrific it is to answer email

I never really bought the foo fighter story where was the non grainy pictures and why did they always head for the USA. Something is nagging authentic about the whistleblower I might be losing it with age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQQxE66L3bA Right at the end a great frame for public goods, club goods and private goods

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/28/crypto-firm-wants-to-scan-your-eyeballs-worldcoin-privacy-ai To scan or not to scan

The land of of the free!

https://abcnews.go.com/US/homo-naledi-brain-size-humans-displayed-intelligence-new/story?id=99838407 Interesting that a small brained animal could have made etchings and insightful that a hashtag was one of the meaningful signs - not sure I believe it entirely

Do you think he deliberately wants to create a core of egalitarian and right wing behaviours on twitter to push left views off and encroach on those who remain in the middle

Also they see sex trafficking as an tracking movement and immigration issue from which they can enhanced powers for surveillance and control

https://twitter.com/mission_89/status/1684132721910591488?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Mission89 working against sports trafficking in Nigeria

Divers discover giant oarfish off coast of Taiwan, seen as symbol of impending disaster

take it easy

Coinbase is applying Multi-Party Computation (MPC) to simplify the on-ramp to web3, while also providing better recovery and stronger security in crypto wallets

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2023-07-27/sec-s-gensler-on-ai-stock-market-plans-and-crypto-video At least he is as clueless on AI and beyond as is for crypto this is becoming a problem for US innovation

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66320498 Feels more real to read about UFOs than porn star hush money and brings parties together

https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-regulatory-framework-bill-pass-house-congressional-committee Surely there is a gap between what is being debated and actions such as stopping fiat withdrawal on kucoin in U.S. and Binance in the UK