Lionel Menchaca
lionelgeek.bsky.social
Lionel Menchaca
@lionelgeek.bsky.social
Oh, and as a bonus, Trump, RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz get to blame Autusm on women who took Tylenol during pregnancy.

Their incompetency is staggering.
Matt Davies, Newsday
September 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Hey Vivek. Too late. Strategy's already way ahead of you.
Bitcoin-treasury company Strive, co-founded by Vivek Ramaswamy, will acquire Semler Scientific, a medical device company that has a bitcoin treasury, for $1.34B (Ateev Bhandari/Reuters)

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September 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Microsoft, Google, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto plan a public glossary of state-sponsored hacking groups to ease confusion over the spread of unofficial aliases (Reuters)

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June 3, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any AI regulation for 10 years (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

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May 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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Alex Mashinsky has been sentenced to twelve years in prison for his Celsius fraud, which culminated in the mid-2022 collapse of his US-based cryptocurrency lending firm with customers suffering losses of more than half a billion dollars.
May 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
58 wallets made $10M+. Nearly 800,000 lost money out of an analysis of 2M wallets.
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought the $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764,000 wallets have lost money and 58 have made over $10M each, totaling ~$1.1B in profits (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)

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May 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission" (Tim Starks/CyberScoop)

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May 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Did you know he already saved 258 MILLION lives? 🤣 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLwb...
Mike Waltz Leaves the Group Chat for a U.N. One & Trump’s Town Hall Gets Racist | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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May 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Excellent analysis from Molly White. If you really want to understand the crypto industry, I highly recommend following her.
April 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Hooray Jerome Powell! Thanks for staying true to your job.

And no, that doesn't mean lowering interest rates because the president wants you to... www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
Trump Lashes Out at Powell, Says ‘Termination Cannot Come Fast Enough’
The central bank leader had warned Wednesday that the Fed could face a difficult trade-off as tariffs raise prices and weaken the economy.
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April 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre (CVE Foundation)

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April 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Trump's trade strategy causing more confusion? At this point: Sure, why not? www.wsj.com/business/aut...
Trump Gave Automakers a Tariff Break. It’s Causing More Confusion.
Industry executives are stumped on how to claim the U.S.-content deduction, leaving in limbo billions of dollars in potential savings.
www.wsj.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Pretty much.
April 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
And rich people across the state cheer while private schools write their updates that explain they'll soon be raising tuition fees by $10,000 per student. www.kbtx.com/2025/04/12/t...
Texas House passes $337 billion budget, cutting property taxes, funding school vouchers
The budget is the only bill the Texas Legislature is required to pass before the session gavels out in June.
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April 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Pretty much.

Stupid meme aside... which experts are worth listening to re: of tariffs/economics/economy?

Two for me are @garyseconomics.bsky.social and @amysiskind.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
LOL.
February 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...
Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral
The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
www.404media.co
January 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Yes, #DeepSeek stores your data on servers in China. Here's my post on the topic: www.forcepoint.com/blog/insight...
Is Your Data Safe in DeepSeek?
It’s been an eventful few days for DeepSeek.
www.forcepoint.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
So... is what I'm seeing on Facebook is real or true? Maybe. Facebook's 'fend for yourselves' misinformation strategy.
Zuckerberg says Meta will restore "free expression" on its platforms, including by replacing its fact-checking program with Community Notes, starting in the US (Bruna Horvath/NBC News)

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January 7, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Apple Intelligence launches outside the US—now available in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, the UK and South Africa: www.macrumors.com/2024/12/11/a...

#artificalintelligence
Apple Intelligence Officially Launching in the UK, Canada, and Four More Countries Today
Apple Intelligence is officially launching outside of the U.S. for the first time today, as a result of the features gaining expanded language...
www.macrumors.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:54 PM