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  i'm so happy to be done knitting this sweater because yay sweater, yay fruits of my labor! but also because as someone who knits almost exclusively at night, black yarn was the wrong choice #KnittersOfMastodon

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  Former House Financial Services Chair Patrick McHenry says the crypto industry "had an opportunity to legislate". Could've sworn that was Congress's job. #USpolitics #USpol #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  PSA: It’s journalistic malpractice to quote a tech super PAC claiming a voter mandate because its candidates won “29 of 32” general election races without checking how many of those races were competitive. (Pictured: Fairshake’s “victory”, where 81% of their money backed candidates who lost) #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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  now that i’ve had more than three hours of sleep i think it’s finally sinking in that in the next couple years i might get to write about hopeful things and not have every podcast interviewer end the episode with “well, on that cheerful note...”

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  Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In competitive races, their candidates got clobbered: nine losses out of 12 called so far, including Ohio, where crypto spent $64 million and still couldn’t beat Sherrod Brown. https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-results/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #artificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #midterms

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  Loss for conservative, Heritage-linked pro-AI group Alliance for a Better Future as Dem Adam Hamilton wins against Roger Marshall in Kansas Senate race. It was a relatively small outlay: just $81,000 for an ad promoting AI but warning AOC/Bernie will make AI regulations “for their benefit”. #USpol #USpolitics #midterms #Kansas

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  Results are coming in, and I’m tracking how crypto and AI super PACs’ bets are faring live on Tech Influence Watch: https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/results I’ll thread the industries’ biggest wins and losses tonight below 🧵 #USpol #USpolitics #midterms

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  it’s thoughtful to schedule Election Day during Discount Chocolate Week

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  Crypto- and AI-focused super PACs have poured nearly $250 million into this year’s elections. Tonight we find out what it bought. Here’s my guide to the races to watch, where the money went, and which results could embarrass the industry: https://www.citationneeded.news/2026-election-guide/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpol #USpolitics #citationNeededNewsletter

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  Binance hasn’t REcovered $6B+, it’s COVERING it (reimbursing customers from company funds). Some was frozen, but Binance is not likely to recover even half. Bad headlines like this are a big part of why I started covering crypto. Generalist reporters on deadline far too often end up repeating company spin. #crypto #cryptocurrency #journalism

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  The healthcare marketplace would like me, a self-employed person with no recorded disabilities who has never served in the military, to prove that I DON’T have insurance through an employer, the VA, or Medicare. Apparently I am meant to do this with things like a letter from my employer saying they don’t over me coverage?? “Dear me, I regret to inform us...” #healthcare

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  In July 2024, I reported that Coinbase appeared to be violating campaign finance law by making contributions while holding federal contracts. I filed an FEC complaint alongside Public Citizen. The FEC hasn’t acted. Since, Coinbase has given $60M more and landed another federal contract. https://www.washingtonsun.com/influence/coinbase-marshal-service-contract-political-contributions #Coinbase #USpol #USpolitics

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  North Korea’s timing was inconsiderate; I’m in the middle of an election night guide to crypto and AI super PAC spending (subscribe to get it before Tuesday!). But I wrote up a primer on the Binance hack, answering questions I’ve gotten about North Korea: https://www.citationneeded.news/its-always-north-korea/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #binance #NorthKorea #DPRK

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  Updated: Binance estimates its losses at ~$3B+, making this the largest exploit in crypto history — twice the size of 2025’s Bybit hack, now in second place. Binance blames a compromised devops laptop. North Korea, also behind Bybit, is the suspected culprit. https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/ #binance #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  I wrote up what we know about the Binance hack so far. By my best estimate, Binance is out $1.5–$3 billion after stablecoin issuers froze what they could. Changpeng Zhao is promising Binance will cover it, but he’s legally barred from running the company. https://www.citationneeded.news/binance-theft/ #binance #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  It looks like Binance is getting drained right now, across multiple hot wallets, for $2B and counting. Pretty normal for exchanges to migrate wallets, NOT normal for them to then swap to Tether and dump

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  government transparency is going just great

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

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  Last week, I went on Meidas Defense to talk about crypto as a national security problem. Sanctioned states’ crypto receipts are up almost 700%. Full interview: https://www.meidasplus.com/p/crypto-corruption-and-trump-unpacking Shorter cut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv8egQ0veWY #cryptocurrency #crypto

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  a sight for sore eyes #php

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  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” http://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/the-internet-goes-on-high-alert-after-discovery-of-8-compromised-tls-certs/ #eMudhra

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  i’ve been writing about crypto for a while now, but this new addition to the $TRUMP memecoin website fine print may be the most blatant “lol you suckers are our exit liquidity” i’ve seen so far (CIC Digital is just a shell company Trump uses for the $​TRUMP memecoin and some other projects; it’s wholly owned by Trump’s revocable trust) #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  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. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/ #crypo #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  This WSJ investigation exposes yet more Tether-related corruption at the White House, revealing that they paid Bo Hines' consulting firm millions as he was ensuring the Genius Act stablecoin law would benefit them. I needed a diagram. https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/crypto-law-trump-tether-bo-hines-45bcd95d #crypto #tether #USpol #USpolitics

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  fixed that for you #Wikipedia

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

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  “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.” https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/ #Wikimedia #OpenAI

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  doctor: the med you’ve been on your whole adult life has stopped working for your severe anxiety me: ok and the supplemental one isn’t doing anything either doctor: have you tried yoga

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  “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.” https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/openai-agents-tried-to-hack-wikipedia-tools-and-flooded-it-with-traffic/ #Wikimedia #OpenAi

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  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