Currently in Portland, #Maine . I’m facing southeast! #aurora #Auroraborealis #NorthernLights

More than half of US chip workers are at least somewhat likely to quit in the next 3-6 months, compounding the industry’s labor challenges

New training programs are a promising start but not currently on track to fill the shortfall, per a McKinsey report bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

🚨Some personal news: I'm incredibly excited to finally be able to publicly announce that I am writing a book on the geopolitics and weaponisation of undersea cables!

- Out with Polity in 2025.

so great gist.github.com/callebtc/67da3…

Nearly 40% of U.S. renters don’t believe they’ll ever own a home, up from 27% last year, per Redfin.

BREAKING: Thousands of reports of Northern Lights coming in from multiple locations across Europe. A severe G4 geomagnetic storm is currently affecting Earth. Truly the most stunning aurora show in years. Currently visible as far south as northern Italy.

agree. refuse 1984 orwellian Newspeak like 'non-custodial wallet', that's just a wallet. Newspeak is designed to undermine clear thought, normalize establishment controls. reject and keep using real language.

Bitcoin ETF Flow - 10 May 2024

GBTC Outflow $103m

Zambia’s Currency Plunges to Record Low as Drought Saps Economy

Nation has been involved in drawn-out debt restructuring
IMF to consider request to increase financing to Zambia

Source: Bloomberg

Just like that, it’s gone

Democracy is often an illusion

'Hands on Lightning', lightning focussed sessions are here led by @BitShala_org community volunteers!

Come play with lightning network⚡️. Enough reading about it. Every Tuesdays 8 PM IST.

📅 Tuesdays
🕗 8PM IST
🔗discord.gg/KNd4BK7zXs?eve…

Here’s Loïc Kassamoto + @bitcoinbenin doing the critical work of freedom money education in Benin

This is a country that has suffered under French monetary colonialism for more than 100 years, with the CFA devalued by > 99% against the franc/euro in that time

Bitcoin is an escape 🇧🇯

Great to see that my research article in Communist and Post-Communist Studies is now open-access:
Coercive Labor in the Cotton Harvest in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and Uzbekistan: A Comparative Analysis of State-Sponsored Forced Labor
online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article/5…

Everyone is tracked, but built-in racial profiling features target Uyghurs. Police can filter for data on 'specific types of passersby' including 'Uyghur ethnicity.' Next week, we're publishing a detailed report on this and what it reveals about China's Uyghur detection tech.

Next: 23.1 sat/byte $2.95
1h: 20.0 sat/byte $2.56
6h: 13.6 sat/byte $1.74
12h: 13.6 sat/byte $1.74
1d: 13.6 sat/byte $1.74
3d: 12.2 sat/byte $1.57
1wk: 11.9 sat/byte $1.53
Min: 9.9 sat/byte $1.27
Block height: 842,895
Mempool depth: 72

Airstrikes by Myanmar’s junta on a monastery where opponents of military rule were gathering has killed at least 16 people, including a child #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar rfa.org/english/news/m…