Happy new year?

I WANNA BE FRIENDS WITH DRAKE - My new music video - About to break 200K views after one week. Let’s get it to a million together! Retweet and send to all your friends please! 🤓🤓🤓youtu.be/93sebutnTEw

Grateful for all the positive feedback on my new special and for all the people who have watched it. No one wanted to make this special so I self-produced it. We are at 183K views and rising. Watch now: youtube.com/watch?v=4Xo3Fq…

When parenting goes right:

Today is the 75th anniversary of Victory Over Japan Day. Here a 98yr old George MacDonell describes what the day was like for he and other POWs who were freed by US pilots quillette.com/2020/08/15/on-…

10 Structures of Problems 1. Smashed Watch. There are so many issues at once that fixing one has no benefit unless you fix others too. [thread]

(1/7) A few years ago, a Chevron whistleblower quietly left a package at the @AmazonWatch headquarters with no name or return address. Dozens of DVDs were inside.

The internet remains undefeated.

In today’s Washington Post, my grand unified theory of what America’s foreign policy should be: 'Progressive Realism’ washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/1…

In a video posted on Twitter on Christmas Eve, the finance minister was shown sitting by a fireplace in a sweater with a gingerbread house and a little Christmas tree, drinking eggnog, asking people to stay home. Except he wasn't there at all. He was o... nzherald.co.nz/world/ontario-…

i’m sorry that your warrantless surveillance regime was built on the assumption that people would always need intermediaries to transact

Very interesting look by Thomas @Edsall at some social and economic forces that have helped radicalize some on the right. nytimes.com/2021/01/13/opi…

Source: "Cognitive Biases Potentially Affecting Judgment of Global Risks", a chapter in Global Catastrophic Risks intelligence.org/files/Cognitiv…

1/ Human rights activists use #bitcoin discreetly. Meron Estefanos is one of them. She is supporting refugees from #Eritrea, who have been kidnapped, raped and tortured. She says, dictatorships can be brought down with #Bitcoin Full episode 👉 bitcoinundco.com/en/bitcoin-eri… Support 👇

"This Machine Greens" - Bitcoin Documentary - Online Premiere (1st Showing) youtu.be/b-7dMVcVWgc via YouTube

The promise of #Bitcoin isn't that it will make a handful of investors rich. It's that it will make a planet full of people free from arbitrary actions by govts & central banks. Fodé Diop | Sovereign Engineer's story is as powerful as the #blockchain tech he works on. reason

How it started / how it’s going

Come for the money, stay for the revolution! x.com/nickgillespie/…

Iwi fights plan to shut urupā and marae in 'gated community for the wealthy' stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/3005… Good on you, Mook. Fight this kind of bullshit.

A liberal case for cryptocurrency nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope… Preach it, brother!