Author: trent
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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity | WIRED
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How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity Once, drug dealers and money launderers saw cryptocurrency as perfectly untraceable. Then a grad student named Sarah Meiklejohn proved them all wrong—and set the stage for a decade-long crackdown. via WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/27-year-old-codebreaker-busted-myth-bitcoins-anonymity/ Meiklejohn’s hundreds of purchases, bets, and seemingly meaningless movements of money were not,…
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The Ghost of January 6th Haunts 2024 | The New Yorker
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The Ghost of January 6th Haunts 2024 The impending Biden-vs.-Trump rematch already has one dominant theme. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/the-ghost-of-january-6th-haunts-2024 To his original Big Lie about the “rigged election” in 2020, Trump has added ever more lies. He now calls January 6th “a beautiful day” and the nearly thirteen hundred defendants arrested in connection…
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Gaza Is Starving | The New Yorker
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Gaza Is Starving The chief economist of the World Food Program explains how the scarcity of food may tip the territory into famine. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/gaza-is-starving I’ve been doing this for the past two decades, and I’ve been to all kinds of conflicts and all kinds of crises. And, for me, this is…
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100 Notable Books of 2023 – The New York Times
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100 Notable Books of 2023 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/11/21/books/notable-books.html Each year, we pore over thousands of new books, seeking out the best novels, memoirs, biographies, poetry collections, stories and more. Here are the standouts, selected by the…
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The Overlooked Crisis in Congo: ‘We Live in War’ – The New York Times
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The Overlooked Crisis in Congo: ‘We Live in War’ Six million have died, and more than six million are displaced after decades of fighting and the ensuing humanitarian crisis in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, drawing in neighbors, mercenaries and militias. An upcoming election is inflaming tempers. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/17/world/africa/democratic-republic-of-congo-elections.html They joined…
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The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump | The New Yorker
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The Year We Stopped Being Able to Pretend About Trump The story of 2023 wasn’t the search for another Republican leader—but the Party’s embrace of the one it already has. via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/2023-in-review/the-year-we-stopped-being-able-to-pretend-about-trump In a Christmas Day social-media post, his message to his opponents was “MAY THEY ROT IN HELL,” followed by the…