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  Binance has just filed to dismiss with prejudice its defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal, which it filed in March after the Journal published various reports about a possible DOJ investigation into Binance over violations of sanctions against Iran. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-102/#binance #Binance

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  sometimes you just have to admire the work ethic of some scammers. i can barely keep up with a couple text message chains but this guy had 60+ people convinced they were in a relationship

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  The Clarity Act cloture vote has failed by a 49–50 margin; well short of the 60 votes needed. No Democrats crossed over to vote for the bill, and three Republicans voted against. Senator Collins’ (R-ME) NO vote on Clarity was the most surprising today. She was defending the bill to constituents as recently as last week. My guess is she did not believe the bill had a chance to pass, and was more worried about defending a yes vote as her re-election prospects look slimmer. #crypto #cryptocurrenc...

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  Newsletter: The supposedly “unprecedented” ethics restrictions in the industry-written Clarity Act exempt Trump’s crypto businesses and leave enforcement to his loyalists. Senators must vote no on cloture tomorrow. https://www.citationneeded.news/clarity-act-ethics-charade/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #ClarityAct #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  me and my runaway zucchini patch beg to differ

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  Coinbase must be concerned I'm at risk of running out of material

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  • NVIDIA DGX Spark (AI-focused PC) • Gemini Spark (AI agent) • Meta Muse Spark (LLM) can someone please inform these companies that there is more than one noun available to them #AI

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  it's funny to me that the non-RGB versions of computer hardware now sometimes go for ~$20 more than the RGB

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  made some tiny stamps out of lino scraps to make labels for my jam jars #printmaking #linocut

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  make bad art

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  A Wikipedia editor put it well: "You almost want to pat them on the head and say 'Yes, of course it will' in the same way you'd tell a small child that Santa Claus will be delivering their presents."

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  crypto billionaire Justin Sun has posted an extremely long, extremely weird Twitter post detailing a previous relationship with Chinese actress Jing Tian, suggesting she reneged on a $50 million agreement to use her eggs to have a child with a surrogate (screenshots machine translated) #JustinSun

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  well that sucks. apparently the ALA/Freedom To Read Foundation have trademarks on the phrase "free people read freely", which i use in a lino print i made into stickers a few years ago. i got the phrase from a 2023 speech by librarian and former ALA leader Tracie D. Hall. i didn't think to check if it was trademarked because, lol, what a wild thing to trademark. turns out the trademark had been granted two months before i made the print. it's no big deal from a business persp...

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  well that sucks. apparently the Freedom To Read Foundation filed a trademark application for the phrase "free people read freely" a year and a half after i made the original lino print that i've made into stickers/etc. it's no big deal from a business perspective — i don't sell these stickers for much more than they cost, because it's an important message that i want to help people share. i've probably given away at least as many as i've sold, which i guess is...

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  when you send me vaguely lawyerly-sounding emails in hopes of threatening me to take down my reporting, and demand i "preserve all potentially relevant records, including ... search-engine submissions"

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  enjoying imagining the discussion among editors in which they determined if this ought to be pluralized as Spider-Mans, Spider-Men, or Spiders-Man

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  This article is a great deep dive into some of the shady characters behind World Liberty Financial — Justin Sun among them, despite his recent efforts to distance himself from the project. (He likely hoped this interview would help, and it is a little friendly, but rightly points out his shadiness.) https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/justin-sun-world-liberty-lawsuit-trump-crypto-herro.html #JustinSun #WorldLibertyFinancial #USpol #USpolitics #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  Click any node or connection in the Trump crypto empire map to open its panel and view explanatory annotations and citations. Toggle the income overlay to see financial-disclosure figures from the most recent filings. Search for entities, or filter by category. https://map.citationneeded.news/

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  My newest Citation Needed project made an appearance on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver! It’s a work in progress, but you can see the new interactive version of my map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures at https://map.citationneeded.news/. The map contains hundreds of business entities and links to the Trump family (with more being added!), augmented with data from the president’s most recent financial filings to estimate how much money is flowing in. It will be queryable by other researc...

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  the garden is really picking up steam

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  Newsletter: The Clarity Act cryptocurrency market structure bill may well be dead, as the crypto industry has spent $200 million to get a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass and a president too corrupt to sign anything that might meaningfully limit his grift. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-107/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  alcoholic trying to get sober after a relapse tells Google's "Health Coach" about it. it tells them to drink every hour and messages them to make sure they're drinking as soon as they wake up.

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  Just had to patch a bug on the Tech Influence Watch Michigan House District 13 election page, stemming from Shri Thanedar reporting -$1.1 million in receipts. Why is Thanedar reporting negative receipts? He put $3.7 million of campaign funds into crypto. https://theintercept.com/2026/07/17/shri-thanedar-crypto-donavan-mckinney-michigan-aipac/

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  fascinating economic discovery from Fidelity: houses actually are cheaper now than in 2020!* * if you denominate them in an arbitrary asset that has appreciated over that time frame next up from Fidelity: groceries aren't getting more expensive!** ** if you denominate their price in World of Warcraft gold #crypto #cryptocurrency

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  Trump’s most recent financial disclosure reveals more than $1.4 billion in income from his crypto-related ventures alone, and even that’s an incomplete picture. https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/ #crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics #CitationNeededNewsletter

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@brentharrell/116839456301154302 i'm not sure what it means that i took this quiz and didn't get myself

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  maybe they outsourced to ChatGPT the job of checking there haven't been any other projects with names like terra/luna that would evoke extremely negative reactions #ai

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  very cool illustration of ranked choice voting and how it worked in Maine’s gubernatorial Democratic primary via Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/Maine/comments/1ua4e7n/sankey_diagram_of_the_democratic_gubernatorial/) #USpol #USpolitics #MEgov

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  Newsletter: The crypto industry spent the spring buying primaries, an octagon at the White House, and — they hope — a market-structure bill by the Fourth of July. https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-106/ #Crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics

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  Setting aside the absurd premise of this op-ed, I love that the writer felt the need to hedge with "not that has been reported" "No one's reported that one of the most famous popstars in the world dated a man who at the time was a random oyster farmer from Maine, BUT IT IS POSSIBLE" #USpol #MESen #WSJ