Molly White

Newsletter: A Trump crypto adviser’s firm took millions from Tether while he shaped stablecoin rules in their favor, a Senate probe targets Commerce Secretary Lutnick’s not-so-former firm, and crypto’s biggest super PAC plays it safe. www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

someone at Polymarket is drafting a tweet about how their users accurately predicted the Brazilian election result within one point

Dutch intelligence obtained a Russian hack of Kushner's phone and then hacked it themselves to find:

“If every piece of software is a door, AI makes it exceptionally easy to turn turn the knobs of every door to see if it’s unlocked ... Not only are some of the locks easy to pick, in some cases the door is wide open or there’s a giant hole in the wall.”

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

“The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. ... ‘That is extremely in the ‘this should not be possible’ category,’ Valdorda said.”

Ladies, gentlebeans, eggs, ghosts, goblins I present to you our collective failure. Almost real time statistics on how stubborn @jcsalterego.bsky.social is to our heartfelt advice. jerryno.idunno.bot

Chris, running to help get us the goods. Also his coverage is great and well-worth supporting.

So many people who don't write don't understand this, but it's so real.

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

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If you have no clue about crypto, @molly.wiki does a great job breaking it all down. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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FYI, @molly.wiki is excellent on crypto news.

Nice to see Tesla reclaiming from OceanGate the cutting edge of new and embarrassing ways for the very rich to kill themselves.

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

TECH INFLUENCE WATCH (@molly.wiki) 👀 $526.6 million from tracked cryptocurrency and AI industry companies & individuals 🤨 $352.1 million "on hand"—held by crypto- & AI-focused committees. 🫠PAC spending: $179.8 million spent directly on federal elections this cycle influence.citationneeded.news

every d&d podcast has quietly agreed that the bane spell requires somatic, material, and tom hardy components

the tech industry is about to invent books

“You are infringing on the time and brainpower of people by pushing "your" content that little/no of your brainpower went into” is such a banger

“Wikimedia’s volunteers are the ones who come in first contact with, and clean up the mess left behind by AI agents. ... Wikimedia’s volunteers have stayed resilient so far in tackling emerging challenges on our platforms, but we also want to say: it doesn’t need to be this way.”

“While OpenAI admits to agents behaving ‘unpredictably’, they must also acknowledge their responsibility to monitor and prevent these risks,” Wikimedia said. “AI companies are not doing enough to secure their systems and protect the public from the harm they cause.” arstechnica.com/security/202...

this is what hypertext was made for

saw a great tip about using a dog training clicker to mark where you mess up a take in an audio recording, because it generates a nice clean pattern in the waveform that makes it easy to spot works great, but my dog is going nuts