Newsletter: Bitcoin is down 50%, several prominent industry figures have been uncovered in the Epstein files, Trump’s facing a probe into his family’s $500M deal with the UAE, and crypto super PACs spend their first $6 million in the midterms. www.citationneeded.news/issue-101/

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when i am president i will

Josh Vlasto is simultaneously one of the leaders of the pro-AI industry super PAC spending in support of Jackson, and the spokesperson for the Fairshake pro-crypto super PAC spending against Peters.

From February 11–18, the Fairshake cryptocurrency super PAC network has spent over $2 million to back current Alabama Rep. Barry Moore in his Senate campaign. This is the largest PAC expenditure to date for the 2026 midterms. www.followthecrypto.org/2026/electio...

Crypto super PAC Fairshake has spent more than $1.5 million on ads against Illinois District 7 candidate La Shawn Ford in his Democratic primary. Ford has denounced the spending as "blood money". www.followthecrypto.org/2026/electio...

From February 12–17, the Fairshake crypto super PAC network spent $1.5 million to support Democrat Christian Menefee in his primary race against Al Green in District 18 (incumbent in District 9). Fairshake has deemed Green "actively hostile" to crypto. www.followthecrypto.org/2026/electio...

“Hey boss, are you sure Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, and people aren’t just misspelling ‘Flamingo’ on Google?” “Don’t be ridiculous. Of course Flamigo is more popular than Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, and Snorlax. Send the email.”

Wow

not only do you not have to watch you can log off and not read any of the posts about it you can read a book about wizard detectives bake a cake hug your dog paint a picture go to bed early get a drink with a friend plan your garden start a jigsaw puzzle knit a scarf do some stretching take a bath

This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses. Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.

the blizzard put a bit of a damper on my regularly scheduled late February gardening daydreams but i persevere

"The rule of thumb is typically 'cheaper, better, faster' in terms of technology. But blockchains are not cheaper. They're not really faster. And the user experience is not better." – ETH Denver founder John Paller (via @decrypt.co)

1. On January 23, Crypto.com donated $5 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's primary Super PAC. (The donation was first disclosed in a FEC filing Friday night.) Less than 1 month later, on February 17, the Trump administration intervened on Crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes federal lawsuit.

there's a discworld humble bundle to get 35 of the books with a $16 minimum contribution

live free or die

Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super...

Here’s where the cryptocurrency industry stands, early into the 2026 election cycle: • $288 million: Total cryptocurrency industry spending • $221 million: Cash on hand with pro-crypto super PACs • $100 million: Additional committed funds • $3 million: Already spent by pro-crypto super PACs

Newsletter: With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete, the cryptocurrency industry has moved at least $288 million toward the midterms in a desperate bid to keep Republicans in control of Congress. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super...

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power." The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited

as time goes on this sounds less like a warning that Democrats would destroy the country and more like a threat

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

Michael Alfonso, the Trump-endorsed “America First” son-in-law of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has some SEO challenges to overcome in his race for Wisconsin’s 7th District

you know it’s the depths of winter in New England when “mid-March” sounds like a distant, almost mythical time. when my librarian told me that’s when my books would be due back it’s like I caught a glimpse of spring.

My dream is for all the people who were doing tireless work at the CFPB to end up in Congress. One step closer!

so, what do you do for work?

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

if only there were people out there with good ideas who needed funding

Supporters of Barr from the crypto sector: Crypto​.com, Robinhood, Coinbase, Andreessen Horowitz. So far, he's the candidate who has received the most direct support from crypto companies and executives.

I found the old 35mm slide for the cover for Neuromancer and had it scanned in for your pleasure. Enjoy!

The fact that these sentences always end with "... which we will cram with more work for them" and not "... so we moved to a four-day workweek" really illustrate the hollowness of some AI evangelists' promises that AI will deliver us to some kind of post-work utopia.

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Their "more efficient" process than having writers write: • AI identifies possible stories • Reporters do further reporting and produce notes • Another person uses AI to generate a story from the notes, then rewrites/"tweaks" • Another person fact-checks/edits • Reporter reviews

Kevin O’Leary has been awarded $2.8 million in damages. I imagine collection may be an issue.

if anyone is going to take up "rebel canning" i hope it's Bovino

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Okay fine we're doing a little origin story thread: how did I become a horse game consultant and what does that even mean? 🧵

oh my god who could have ever predicted this in a million years (Politico was one of countless outlets, including CNN, Reuters, and others, that repeatedly propped up the lie that Republicans had done a miraculous good faith 180 on antitrust reform and monopoly power, something that was never real)

do you think they were twirling their moustache while writing that memo?

I have a friend who said, of Starfleet Academy, that this took them out of it - that seeing a person in a wheelchair in the 32nd century seemed unrealistic, since medicine in Star Trek "should be able to cure whatever was wrong with them." That's not the case, for any number of possible reasons.

i wonder why frozen cubes of lemon juice aren’t really sold in supermarkets

About to start this if anyone is interested in joining.

video game horse expert

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easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

Because most of the biggest thefts and disasters thus far have been human error which must be eliminated in favour of AI, which is capable of much funnier error