Bitcoin slinks to shadows as crypto bros turn to new kid on the blockchain
It remains a useful tool for some nefarious operators, including global crime gangs and questionable governments, but Bitcoin’s role has been usurped by stablecoins — one in particular. ⌘ Read more

China’s Central Bank Flags Money Laundering and Fraud Concerns With Stablecoins
China’s central bank has flagged stablecoins as a specific concern in its latest push against virtual currencies, warning that the tokens fail to meet requirements for customer identification and anti-money-laundering controls and risk being used for fraud, money laundering, and unauthorized cross-border fund transfers.

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‘Dirty, disgusting money’: The heiress giving away her entire fortune
When Marlene Engelhorn inherited tens of millions of dollars from her grandma, she felt she had two choices: do something about it, or confirm she was “full of sh*t”. ⌘ Read more

63% of Americans Polled say Four-Year College Degrees Aren’t Worth the Cost
Almost two-thirds of registered U.S. voters “say that a four-year college degree isn’t worth the cost,” according to a new NBC News poll:

Just 33% agree a four-year college degree is “worth the cost because people have a better chance to get a good job and earn more money over their lifetime,” while 63% agree more with the con … ⌘ Read more

Gold Coast developer under investigation taken to court over continued spending
ASIC alleges businessman David McWilliams has continued to spend money in frozen bank accounts on cruises, gambling and a trip to Disneyland. ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates
OpenAI will need to raise at least $207 billion in new funding by 2030 to sustain operations while continuing to lose money, according to a new analysis from HSBC that models the company’s cloud computing commitments against projected revenue. The bank’s US software team updated its forecasts after OpenAI ann … ⌘ Read more

Texas Buys $5 Million In BTC ETF As States Edge Toward First Government Crypto Reserves
Texas has purchased $5 million worth of BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF as an initial step toward creating the first state-level bitcoin reserve in the U.S.
“[O]ther states having previously invested in such funds with public-employee retirement money,” notes CoinDesk. “Michigan has been building such an inve … ⌘ Read more

When I try to login to PayPal I now see:

Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker

Here’s the thing. PayPal takes fees from transactions and payments received and sent.

I have very right not have ads shoved in my face for something that isn’t actually free in the first place and costs money to use. If PayPal would like to continue to piss off folks me like, then I’ll happily close my PayPal account and go somewhere else that doesn’t shove ads in my face and consume 30-40% of my Internet bandwidth on useless garbage/crap.

#PayPal #Ads

Crease-Free iPhone Fold on Track for 2026 Launch as Development Advances
Apple is making progress on the development of the book-style foldable iPhone expected in 2026, according to a report from Chinese site UDN. The device has reportedly entered the engineering validation stage, and Apple is gearing up for mass production.

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Napster Said It Raised $3 Billion From a Mystery Investor. But Now the ‘Investor’ and ‘Money’ Are Gone
An anonymous reader shared this report from Forbes:

On November 20, at approximately 4 p.m. Eastern time, Napster held an online meeting for its shareholders; an estimated 700 of roughly 1,500 including employees, former employees and individual investors tuned in. Th … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I couldn’t have phrased it any better than @bender@twtxt.net. :-)

Twice or three times the money as before sounds a bit suspicious to me. Of course, I could be wrong, but I always was under the impression, that your last jobs weren’t all that badly salaried. If the new offer is really paid this highly, it might be a shit job. For me, money isn’t everything, I’d rather opt for a lower income where the job is fun than hating to go to work every day. But if the new job ticks all boxes, go for it. :-)

Also: Consult your pillow, don’t rush it.

The Penthouse Syndicate
Multimillion-dollar properties, sports cars and a life of luxury: Inside what is alleged to be one of the largest fraud and money-laundering syndicates in Australian history. ⌘ Read more

Strike Force Myddleton charge fortune teller over alleged $70 million fraud
Financial Crimes Squad detectives charged two women for their alleged involvement in a highly sophisticated multi-million-dollar fraud and money laundering syndicate operating across Sydney. ⌘ Read more

If Australia does not host COP31, it’s a strategic surrender
The Coalition and the Herald say money spent on an expensive summit should go to something more useful for Australians. They’re wrong. ⌘ Read more

Controversial planning laws could divert vital funding from booming suburbs
The tax is intended to be spent building roads, public transport and schools in growing suburbs. Changes mean the money could be spent anywhere. ⌘ Read more

Famous football club at centre of ‘corruption’, ‘conflict-of-interest’ claims
The role of a high-ranking CFMEU official is under serious scrutiny after construction firms ploughed sponsorship money into the club. ⌘ Read more

Melbourne’s largest sobering-up centre barely used, data reveals
Melbourne’s largest sobering-up centre has been labelled a waste of money with figures obtained by 9News revealing the Collingwood facility is barely being used. ⌘ Read more

Melbourne’s largest sobering-up centre barely used, data reveals
Melbourne’s largest sobering-up centre has been labelled a waste of money with figures obtained by 9News revealing the Collingwood facility is barely being used. ⌘ Read more

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed
Lisa Rab,  Contributing Writer  -  Politico

Stephan: As Congress continues to cease to function, and “king” Trump spends his time visting with fellow authoritarians, and going to parties that would make the most debauched Roman emperor envious, the lives of millions of Americans are coming apart, as Medicaid comes apart.

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A New Ion-Based Quantum Computer Makes Error Correction Simpler
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT Technology Review: The US- and UK-based company Quantinuum today unveiled Helios, its third-generation quantum computer, which includes expanded computing power and error correction capability. Like all other existing quantum computers, Helios is not powerful enough to execute the industry’s dream money- … ⌘ Read more

Python Software Foundation Running Out of Money
After turning down $1.5 Million from the US Government as an act of DEI Virtue Signalling, the Python Software Foundation reveals that they have a $1.4 Million deficit, with only 6 months of money left. ⌘ Read more

Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’ ⌘ Read more

Amazon says it didn’t cut people because of money. But because of ‘culture’
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NATO secretary general says Putin is “running out of money, troops and ideas” ⌘ Read more

‘Utter Moral Failure’: Critics Aghast at New Reporting That Shows US Elites ‘Scared of Crossing Trump’
Brad Reed,  Staff Writer  -  Common Dreams

_Stephan: One of the major trends I am seeing as the Trump Republican coup proceeds is the grotesque lack of ethics I see amongst the wealthy, who bow to Trump as their king, and pour money into his corruption schemes. It is the exact opposite of the creation of the United States. Man … ⌘ Read more

“AI” assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time
An extensive study by the European Broadcasting Union and the BBC highlights just how deeply inaccurate and untrustworthy “AI” news results really are. “AI” sucks even at its most basic function. It’s incredible how much money is being pumped into this scam, and how many people are wholeheartedly defending these bullshit generators as if their lives depended on it. If these tools can’t even summarise a text – something … ⌘ Read more

Czech ‘Gift for Putin’ crowdfunding raises money for Ukrainian missile that ‘can hit Moscow’ ⌘ Read more

Trump Said He Wouldn’t Touch the East Wing. Then He Tore It All Down.
Luke Broadwater,  Reporter  -  The New York Times

_Stephan: How symbolic, just as Trump and the Republican Party and the Supreme Court majority are destroying democracy in the United States, so Trump is destroying the White House you have known and seen all your life. Simultaneously, he is telling his administration to give him $230 million in tax dollars of your money and mine, because th … ⌘ Read more

C64 Blood Money
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Big tech is faking revenue
Open AI has recently announced deals worth $600 Billion with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle. OpenAI is able to spend hundreds of billions of dollars they do not have because those companies are paying that same money back to OpenAI via investment. The infinite money glitch means that stocks keep going higher as more circular revenue cycles between the same players. ↫ Sasha Yanshin The scam is so brazen, so public, so obvious. The foxes aren’t just in the hen house – they bought the wh … ⌘ Read more

Inside the Trump team’s secret talks to rescue Argentina—with the help of the ‘Money Doctor’ who wants to stop the ‘pink tide’ sweeping Latin America ⌘ Read more

The case against generative AI: the numbers just don’t add up (i.e., it’s a scam)
Every single “vibe coding is the future,” “the power of AI,” and “AI job loss” story written perpetuates a myth that will only lead to more regular people getting hurt when the bubble bursts. Every article written about OpenAI or NVIDIA or Oracle that doesn’t explicitly state that the money doesn’t exist, that the revenues are impossible, that one of the companies involved bur … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de better than in the US. Our lasts only 10 years, and you need to go through the vision test, and, of course, pay). Recently they added a little gold star denoting “real ID” compliance, and we had to pay $10 to get the old one replaced—out of the regular renew “schedule”.

In here it is all about control, and money.

@dce@hashnix.club Ooops 😅 Hope you still have enough money for the basics 🤗 I’m doing okay though!

Why do I care about this?

1. The load will become a problem at some point.
   
2. These crawlers and the current “AI” in general are breaking the rules. I am supposed to be paying for every little thing, I get sued for “piracy”. But apparently, these rules only apply to me. If I had more money, I could break them. Fuck that.
   
3. I simply don’t want it. Period.

Was that costing you money? If so, 🥳!

Since Fastly acquired and recently shut down glitch.com, some of my ancient webapps are no longer available, nor do I have any plans to make them available again - all had either zero, or very few monthly visits, used outdated libraries and would be a waste of money, to continue hosting and updating elsewhere.

All art archives remain unaffected and all projects shut down before 2025, were already permanently deleted, but if there’s someone out there, still relying on the recently discontinued projects, somehow - you can reach out and request their source code.

These requests will only be honoured, until the end of this year, when we plan to permanently delete, all of this data (both webapps and files only hosted on Amazons CDN).

Canine out °_°

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net That’s what I thought as well, sounds way too expensive to me. But I have no idea what the prices are over here. Probably also astronomical. Campers sit around most of the time, one really would need to use them a lot to justify spending so much money on them.

But yeah, each to their own (expensive) hobbies. :-) I, for example, burn my money on tools that I don’t really™ need. :-P

10 Tantalizing Stories About Money
In the early 21st century, money has become such a fundamental part of everyone’s life. Even though we’re moving more and more to electronic transactions and digital currencies, stories about money in all of its forms, including bills and coins, still thrill and fascinate us. In 1987, one of the most popular films about money, […]

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Google’s “AI” is convinced Solaris uses systemd
Who doesn’t love a bug bounty program? Fix some bugs, get some money – you scratch my back, I pay you for it. The CycloneDX Rust (Cargo) Plugin decided to run one, funded by the Bug Resilience Program run by the Sovereign Tech Fund. That is, until “AI” killed it. We received almost entirely AI slop reports that are irrelevant to our tool. It’s a library and most reporters didn’t even bother to read the rules or even look at what the intend … ⌘ Read more

10 Clever Ways People Have Cheated at Casinos
Gambling is a billion-dollar industry, and while casinos are in it to make money, many gamblers are hoping to strike it rich. Some players rely on skill, luck, or strategy—but others turn to cheating. Over the years, gamblers have marked cards, swapped chips, and manipulated dealers to try to get ahead. But the most creative […]

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Exposing Money Mule Networks on Telegram

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How I Mapped 100+ Scam Websites and Channels Using StealthMole

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Stepan the cat from Ukraine became famous for his tired, chill look. His photos went viral—celebrities like Britney Spears shared them. He also helped raise money for animal shelters. Stepan is more than a meme — he’s a symbol of calm and kindness. ⌘ Read more

@kate@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz I think it’s totally fine. I mean self-hosting costs money too. Power, Hardware, Time/effort, etc.

@thecanine@twtxt.net I signed, reluctantly. Not because I don’t care about The Internet Archive, but because Change pesters quite a bit for a while afterwards asking, of course, for money.

My mother-in-law doesn’t understand why I keep my cat after he was too slow to catch a mouse (he’s 10 years old). She says, “If an animal stops being useful, it’s a waste of money to take care of it” ⌘ Read more