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The analysis found that Trump MemCoin investors lost $3.8 billion

The analysis found that Trump MemCoin investors lost $3.8 billion

🔥 Discover this insightful post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Crypto,Government & Policy,$trump,Donald Trump,memecoins ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Nearly 1 million people lost a total of $3.8 billion after purchasing President Donald Trump's MemCoin, according to cryptocurrency analytics firm Nansen. The New York Times reported that Nansen's analysis is based on publicly visible transactions on the blockchain, which show that 988,905 accounts had lost money on memecoin as of the end of June. That represents about two out of every three Trump buyers. On Sunday, the Trump dollar was trading at $1.69, down about 98% from its high of $75.35.…
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Small penis rule – Wikipedia

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Strategy used to evade libel lawsuits The small penis rule is an informal strategy used by authors to evade libel lawsuits. It was described in a New York Times article by Dinitia Smith in 1998: "For a fictional portrait to be actionable, it must be so accurate that a reader of the book would have no problem linking the two," said Mr. Friedman. Thus, he continued, libel lawyers have what is known as "the small penis rule". One way authors…
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How to avoid spoilers online and in chats

How to avoid spoilers online and in chats

🔥 Check out this trending post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Shhh! ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: With multiple streaming The services you can choose from and the entire history of film and TV you can delve into, you'd be forgiven for not keeping up to date with the latest movies and shows. This is where spoilers can hit you.Whether it's a twisty thriller on Netflix or the season finale of a show on Apple TV, there will be times when you're not ready to watch something and yet don't want the plot to be spoiled…
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Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Daily links from Cory Doctorow

✨ Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Zuckerberg's increasingly bizarre war on whistleblowers: Under no circumstances should you rush out and read the book that prompted Mark Zuckerberg to demand $111m and eternal auctorial silence. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Flame warriors; Cryptography and casinos; TSA v dying 95 year old woman's adult diaper; Neoliberalism and Brexit; Beyond solutionism; How Thiel cheated with his Roth; Inequality's stabilizer; Palm Pilot school; Gillmor on PR flacks; "How I Edited an Agricultural Paper; Conservative judge chokes liberal judge; Hollywoodnomics; Rubber fingertips…
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Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

✨ Explore this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Amazon,Amazon Web Services,mechanical turk 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: These may be the last days for Amazon Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new clients. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after "careful consideration," adding: "Existing customers can continue to use the service as usual. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to introduce new features." In other words, Amazon is not completely shutting…
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Starring the Computer

Starring the Computer

🔥 Check out this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Starring the Computer skip navigation 0 | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z Acer Acorn Acorn A5000 • A Mind to Kill - Season 1, Episode 3, "Gameboys" (1994) Acorn Archimedes • Bergerac - Season 8, Episode 11, "There for the Picking" (1990) • Capital City - Season 1, Episode 2, "Insider Trading" (1989) • Dark Season - Season 1 (1991) • Doctor Who - Season 25, "Silver Nemesis" (1988) • Howard's Way - Season 4, Episode 10, "Publish & Be Damned" (1988) • Howard's Way - Season 4, Episode 11, "Screwdriver" (1988) • Minder - Season 9, Episode 7, "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Retiring" (1993) • Murder Story (1989) • Paddington (2014) • Rancid Aluminium (2000) • Strapless (1989) • Watt on Earth - Season 1, Episode 1 (1991) Acorn Atom • Micro Men (2009) Acorn BBC Master • Choose or Die (2022)…
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There is a global network of fungi under your feet. This is the first complete map

There is a global network of fungi under your feet. This is the first complete map

🔥 Check out this must-read post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,Mychorrizol Over ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: underground On the surface is an extraordinary underground fungal network of almost unimaginable size. An international team of researchers has produced, for the first time, a global map of this vast mycorrhizal network – the system of fungal hyphae that form mutually beneficial partnerships with plants across the planet. Researchers estimate that the network extends a total distance of about 110 quadrillion kilometers, nearly a billion times the distance between Earth and the sun. The results were published in the journal…
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The Plight of the Martian Farmer

The Plight of the Martian Farmer

🔥 Read this trending post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Programming note: The newsletter now has over 1,000 subscribers! Thank you! It has been a joy to write, and your subscriptions help buy me time to research future posts in my signature style, where I just download and read endless papers like a dinosaur. If you know someone else who would enjoy reading these posts, please let them know!Share Mars For The Rest of UsA photo taken inside Biosphere 2 in March 2025The first impression you get when visiting Biosphere 2 is that it would…
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What are beneficial fish oil supplements? Here’s your crash course

What are beneficial fish oil supplements? Here’s your crash course

🚀 Discover this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Health,DHA ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), Omega-3 fatty acids, found abundantly in oily fish such as mackerel and sardines, are thought to improve cognitive function by supporting connections between brain cells. However, it has not been conclusively proven that DHA taken as a supplement actually reaches the brain or provides measurable benefits against dementia.Against this backdrop, a research team at the University of Southern California School of Medicine published the results of a large, two-year clinical trial involving older adults at risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.…
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Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna

Show your hands honor for the strange power they bring you – Aresluna

🚀 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Marcin Wichary 18 June 2026 / 7,700 words / 38 playgrounds On designing finger-friendly interactions A hundred or so years ago, there was a problem. People were simply typing too fast. I know what you’re thinking: they were typing too fast for the primitive typewriters of that era. But contrary to popular belief, typewriters were never that primitive. You could type really fast on even the first popular typewriter, and the QWERTY layout was actually designed to allow you to do just that. No, people were typing too fast for…
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