Favorites June 1 2021
Starting out with some wild stuff:
Trump has been telling a number of people he’s in contact with that he expects he will get reinstated by August (no that isn’t how it works but simply sharing the information).
Donie O'Sullivan @donie
Well, that's insane. Also, the Qanon crowd are big fans of the Myanmar coup.
Biden gets this too, that demonstrating empathy for people who disagree with you makes for good politics, but it very much cuts against the fashion nowadays.
Ezra Klein @ezraklein
Yea, although it should be noted that part of this was Obama actually took relatively conservative positions rather than just 'being empathetic' with people who disagreed with him.
I feel like there are certain Senate Democrats who are also guilty of this.
Sarah also said this situation had big "Quote from man stabbed" energy.
almost certainly they're demanding pay in Bitcoin.
making cryptocurrencies illegal would solve a lot of these ransomware attacks.
Mike Dorning @MikeDorning
Looks like it’s the same deal as the pipeline ransomware last month.
Yglesias called Cryptocurrency “a huge positive technology shock to the crime sector."
I may be late to this video, but if you haven’t heard this, it’s pretty neat.
