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View More NewsMorning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green led by SOL +7%; BTC at $79.4k ETF inflow streak continues, ETH outperforms Pump hits another local high in revenue, adds HyperEVM Ansem and Cashcat hit major new ATHs as onchain levels up ACK’s ‘Argonauts’ sell out in 5 mins, see 1,600 ETH secondary action 📈 Robinhood Chain Levels Up as Memes and RWAs SoarRobinhood Chain is heating up, and it’s cat, dog and infrastructure plays driving the run.…
In brief Samuel Tunick told the New York Times he hopes his defense establishes that the government has no claim on people’s data. He said he learned during proceedings that federal authorities had quietly flagged him as a suspected terrorist. Tunick faces up to five years over a GrapheneOS duress passcode that wiped his Google Pixel during a January 2025 border search. A GrapheneOS user who has been charged with obstruction over his use of the smartphone operating system’s duress password feature has said he hopes his defense draws a line in the sand.“I just hope to send the message…
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What follows is an excerpt from The Status of Scholarly Standards in Sociology, by Ashley T. Rubin, Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Professor Rubin’s report was published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Research Blind Spots and Intellectual Narrowing Sociology shows a heavy emphasis on some topics and not on others. Some topics’ popularity have declined over time…
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