How a Town Famous for Xenophobia Fell in Love With Immigrants
“We now want as many immigrants as possible,” said Bernard Thompson, the mayor of Hérouxville, Quebec, a onetime supporter of the town’s anti-immigrant code.
The Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, became one of only two nations in the world to adopt Bitcoin as a cryptocurrency. Eight months later, almost nothing has changed.
Crypto was an alternative to the CFA franc, which gives France effective control of the economies of more than 180 million people in its former colonies.
Critics say the Bitcoin transition was a gimmick to hype up interest in CAR’s own cryptocurrency, which failed.
One of the World’s Poorest Countries Put Its Faith in Crypto – Why?. By Ben Hunte at Vice World News.
My favorite part of George Santos’ self-defense is where he says he never claimed to be Jewish, he just said he was “Jew-ish.” Oy.
Jackie Hoffman steals “Glass Onion.”
Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent. “Tech barons’ lip-service to democracy and pluralism was always conditional on preserving their own positions at the top.” By Thomas Zimmer at The Guardian.
“Karens for Hire”—slogan, “We Karen so you don’t have to”—promises “to harness the power of accomplished complainers in the service of beaten-down customers, abused tenants and anyone else with a dispute that outstripped their own capacity to carp.”
Cutting through customer service doom-loops by calling in a ‘Karen’
Steve Hendrix writes this for The Washington Post as a lighthearted story about a plucky startup seeing a problem and fixing it. Doing well by doing good. American entrepreneurial spirit at its finest.
But this is also a story about American society being fundamentally broken.
The Real History Behind ‘The Woman King’ | The Agojie Warriors of Dahomey. By Meilan Solly at Smithsonian Magazine.
The movie’s depiction of the Agojie army of elite women warriors is true-to-life. But Dahomey in real life was a brutal, imperial autocracy and enthusiastic supporter of slavery and the slave trade.
We liked the movie—much better than “Black Panther,” which I thought had too much superhero folderol. “The Woman King” was about 30-45 minutes too long, but most movies today are.
A secularised Jewish American thinks about celebrating Christmas. As a secularized Jewish American, I relate.
Ben Werdmuller: Christmas, the eighth night, and me.
I’ve had essentially no personal encounters with anti-Semitism in my own life—that I’m aware of.
Matt Stoller: Private Equity Gave Your Bank Password to Hackers
Francisco Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital Corp own LastPass. They raised prices, and then fumbled security. You had one job guys!
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At this point, it’s time to recognize that ownership and management of software firms by private equity is itself a security risk.