i think people should give me money for me to pursue my idiosyncratic interests

Breaking: Google hires John Connor to fend off ChatGPT threat
“I can take down ChatGPT, no problemo,” stated Connor. “This’ll be easy money.” ⌘ Read more

how much money do I need to pay you for you to take a pill that makes you insane?

Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Payments to nonexistent companies? Funding politics? Reliance on a single customer? And that’s just for starters. ⌘ Read more

Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.

But then you see stuff like this:

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Or this:

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good hobbyist internet science writers & scientists are afflicted by a peculiar disease: they produce some (or a lot of) good output, and then someone gives them enough money to start an organization, and they never write anything interesting again.

Taiwan stocks facing ‘big bully’ prompt Goldman retreat as cross-strait tensions inflict 20 to 40 per cent fund losses
Cross-strait tensions are rising several notches as military threat escalates. Goldman has downgraded Taiwan market, worrying about a spillover of risk from related stocks to the broader market. ⌘ Read more

Prince Charles’ US$3 million bags-of-cash claim, denies any wrongdoing
British royal’s office said the money, from a former prime minister of Qatar, was for the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund – it was handed over in a suitcase and in shopping bags from London’s Fortnum & Mason store. ⌘ Read more

China inflation: Li Keqiang says ‘prudent’ economic policy, bumper wheat harvest leaves room to tackle risks
Premier Li Keqiang says China has refrained from ‘excessive’ money printing in recent years to prevent inflation and create room to counter new challenges. ⌘ Read more

No more GitHub Copilot for me
I was an avid user of GitHub Copilot during the technical preview phase. Apparently, as many as 1.2 million developers used Copilot. But now Copilot is out of beta and suddenly costs money. ⌘ Read more

Teen girl in China steals US$18,000 meant for sick mother’s operation to go on a shopping spree
Police in China helping a distraught woman recover some of the money she’d saved for an operation after her daughter stole it and blew it on online games, mobile phones and clothing. ⌘ Read more

Fear grips cryptocurrency traders and magnifies the global rout in US$247 billion DeFi market, Binance’s founder CZ says
The crash in cryptocurrencies shows how the fundamental principle of DeFi – the pursuit of higher yields in the era of cheap money to disrupt and replace traditional banks – has been upended by rising interest rates. ⌘ Read more

Fraudsters swindled HK$1.28 billion from more than 6,000 Hongkongers through online, phone scams in first 4 months of year
Nearly one-fourth of money victims lost was swindled through email fraud, while phone scammers pocketed HK$280 million. ⌘ Read more

G20 to raise US$1.5 billion for global pandemic fund, host Indonesia says
The money will finance efforts such as surveillance, research, and better access to vaccination for lower-to-middle income countries, health officials said. About US$1.1 billion has been pledged so far. ⌘ Read more

Vancouver’s housing crisis not caused by dirty money, inquiry finds
The three-year public inquiry into money laundering in British Columbia was prompted in part by public speculation that Asian criminals were driving up housing prices in Vancouver. ⌘ Read more

Hong Kong slips one place to fourth most expensive city for luxury spending as hotel rates take a huge hit from pandemic, Julius Baer report finds
Hong Kong is the fourth most expensive city globally for luxury goods and services, a notch lower than last year, as a dearth of tourists crushed hotel room rates, Swiss private bank Julius Baer says. ⌘ Read more

when you convert all your money into assets stored on the blockchain while you go into cryopreservation in an underground bunker—literally crypt-o-currency

Yesterday I ordered a blanket for an incredible amount of money, more precisely a weighted blanket. Now I hope that it will be delivered quickly and that it really has the positive effects that are being advertised. Although I can usually fall asleep quickly in the evening with a sleeping mask and earplugs, I never manage to sleep through the night, I am never woken up by the alarm clock because I wake up earlier. In the morning I feel tired almost every day, sometimes even the whole day, which then also limits my c … ⌘ Read more

I would never donate money to a fund that would accept me as a grantee.

Tux on Tour - Raising money for Open Source projects using nerdy NFTs
A percentage of all sales (and re-sells) goes directly to Haiku and PCLinuxOS. ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation spends just 3.4% of its money on Linux
Where does the Linux Foundation spend the rest of its $177 Million in revenue? Let’s take a look. ⌘ Read more

a bunch of money in celestial futures: long on angels, but the bulk put into ein sof

On the blog: Explaining Cryptocurrency https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/05/16/crypto.html #rant #programming #money

status-acquisition more anti-inductive than money-acquistition?

Making Free Money off Credit Cards ⌘ Read more…

Got my kakebo for 2021, in 2020 it really helped me with saving money.

If you’re right about this, how could you make money with it?

Making free money off Credit Cards ⌘ https://lukesmith.xyz/credit-cards.html

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the shambling revenant of old money / the monstrous chimera of new money / the eldrich and ungraspable nature of financialized money, an alien invader from outside, whose gifts become leaves in the sunlight. Do not eat in their house.

Email icon https://www.topic.com/the-hidden-history-of-holocaust-money

Your money can be stolen from your Uber account with dodgy Uber code texts - unlike kinds https://unlikekinds.com/article/uber-code-text

Why Freelancing Creates Anxiety About Money https://www.thecut.com/2019/02/why-freelancing-creates-anxiety-about-money.html

All of the World’s Money and Markets in One Visualization http://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/

Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/6776/john-delorean-rise-and-fall-big-money-the-fbi-celebrities-and-cocaine

We all know about social constructs vs reality, but there are levels of spookiness (and no upper bound). We can define them as how far a lie can go before the truth gets its boots on. Spookiness level one – money – already goes basically perpetually.

Bad idea of the day: Instead of a greatest hits album, a greatest failures album: a collection of all the tracks that made the least money and got the least attention (despite never being intended as deep cuts)

Remember: if a family member asks about your politics this thanksgiving, tell them you’re an anarchist & would like to abolish the concept of money. It’ll shut them up and it’s probably even true.

Ep. 20: Yasha Levine on Right-Wing Dark Money & the Electronic Frontier Foundation https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/e/ep-20-yasha-levine-on-right-wing-dark-money-the-electronic-frontier-foundation/

How Money Affects Elections | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/money-and-elections-a-complicated-love-story/

Bad idea of the day: The HOWLing: angel-headed hipsters fight werewolves whose blood is running money and whose mind is vast machinery

tired: refering to bitcoin as ‘fake internet money’

Annie Lowrey on her new book, Give People Money, and how UBI could work in the U.S. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/07/annie-lowrey-on-her-new-book-give-people-money-and-how-ubi-could-work-in-the-u-s.html

pro tip: when you tie a part of reality to a social construct (like tying life to money, or violence to law, or technical decisions to industry hype) you risk huge ramifications unless the ‘real’ portion is the primary driver. social constructs are too floaty.

A Political History of the Future: The City & The City - Lawyers, Guns & Money http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/05/political-history-future-city-city

‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job | Money | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/may/04/i-had-to-guard-an-empty-room-the-rise-of-the-pointless-job

Send Anarchists, Guns, and Money | Jacob Siegel https://thebaffler.com/salvos/anarchists-guns-and-money-siegel

Hot take: if you have more than one user or you’re taking money from anybody, ‘break things’ should not be part of your motto, unless your job is literally demolition.

Thursday is the appropriate day to make sacrifices to Compound Interest. Use a gold altar cloth. Compound Interest prefers sacrifices in the form of burning dollar bills, but twenties will work in a pinch. If you cannot make money, store-bought is fine.

Money Laundering Via Author Impersonation on Ama… https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/02/money-laundering-via-author-impersonation-on-amazon/