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No true culture warrior worth his salt admits to reading The New York Times. Very Online conservatives refuse to read it because they think it hates Jews. Very Online progressives refuse to read it because they think it hates trans people. So intense is their loathing, it seems, that some of these hashtaggers cannot even tolerate the company of those who do read the Times. This includes one @claireyfaerie, who recently told Bluesky followers: “My parents have a [New York Times] subscription. Whenever I go to visit them and see the paper sitting on their coffee table, I remember the…
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from the oh-no-communists dept Words used to mean things. The MAGA GOP strategy lately seems to be pulling a page from the 1980s playbook…
The exchange said it is the first crypto company to offer European customers both traditional U.S. equities and tokenized versions of those assets on…
Asset manager Neuberger has launched its first tokenized fixed-income fund through Securitize, offering an actively managed high-yield strategy across four blockchains, Ethereum (ETH), Solana…
In brief Citi expects to launch digital asset custody later this year, starting with Bitcoin. The service will let institutional clients access traditional and…
Bitcoin miner Canaan reported a net loss of $88.7 million for the first quarter of 2026, as falling Bitcoin (BTC) prices squeezed margins and…
In brief Japan’s ruling LDP party has put forward a proposal framing on-chain finance as a way to protect yen sovereignty. It seeks clearer…
They’re at it again: Yesterday, the unions representing the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) workers reached an agreement with the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the state…
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Pump.fun remained Solana’s largest revenue generator in the first quarter of 2026, pulling in $124.7 million, more than a third of the network’s $342.2…
In brief Attackers minted 1,000 eBTC on Echo Protocol’s Monad blockchain deployment before borrowing and moving funds across chains. Echo Protocol said a compromised…
from the bad-ideas-from-terrible-people dept We’ve talked a lot about how Americans have somehow accepted the fact that our voice networks are now saturated with…
From Brooks v. Lowes Home Centers LLC, decided yesterday by Judge Jerry Edwards, Jr. (W.D. La.): In resolving a prior motion in this case,…