Jack Cunliffe

Binance to Compensate Users Affected by Crash in Wrapped Ether, Staked Solana and Ethena’s USDe Wrapped tokens crashed as Binance's infrastructure buckled, making it harder for market makers to stabilize prices.

www.coindesk.com/markets/2025... - it's wilder than the wild west could even imagine.

Hahaha, yes.

"The public are sick of voting for tougher sentences and getting the opposite."
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To put it mildly, Robert Jenrick is a complete imbecile who does not know what he is talking about:
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On my god I hate writing theoretical papers. You have to read about 3 books and 10 papers just to write one sentence. Give me a dataset and a specific research question any day

Dangerous elderly people sign

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog “Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭

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Awesome stuff

Steam Hosted Malware Game that Stole $32,000 from a Cancer Patient Live on Stream Scammers stole the crypto from a Latvian streamer battling cancer and the wider security community rallied to make him whole.

this story has everything. Streaming to survive cancer. Steam scams. Crypto. Behold 2025 and all its horrors

It's almost as if, before the Gaza famine was officially recognised, it was a story, as media organisations could generate controversy by hosting Israeli government spokespeople and our own rightwing blowhards, insisting it was all a fabrication. Now that it can no longer be denied ... no story.

Submitted my PhD 10 years ago today. Still quite proud of it. etheses.lse.ac.uk/3257/

About time too. The MCS lot breezed through uni a few years ago, and there's nothing since!

One of the most vile antisemitic conspiracy theories of post-1989 Romania has been resurrected on TikTok and is amplified by AUR senator Sorin Lavric.
The screenshot shown a recent FB post by Lavric linking to a video showing a 2004 interview of Paul Goma. 1/

An eye-watering 34% increase in illicit drug consumption between 2023-24. Even more concerning, drug expenditure also actually decreased over that period. In other words, illicit drugs are getting cheaper.

Time for a radical rethink about our heavy reliance on supply reduction.

YouTube video by Știrile zilei. Pe scurt, de la Recorder INTERVIU: Ce rămâne după Ion Iliescu

An interview with historian Mihai Burcea. Arguably the best analysis of Ion Iliescu's life and political career currently available.
Subtitles via machine translation work reasonably well.
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Fusing concept to theory: identity fusion’s potential role in crime research - Theory and Society Developing theories, evidence, and methods that could help to reduce crime is foundational to crime research. Here we present an interdisciplinary framework that can shed light on old theories and ope...

Whether it’s gang violence or helping a stranger, group bonding shapes action.

Time to reframe how we understand social ties in criminogenic & prosocial contexts. Read the article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚨 New paper out: What if extreme criminal and prosocial acts shared the same root cause?

We explore how identity fusion—where personal & group identities merge—can help explain violence, loyalty, & desistance.

Say what you want about the 'Old Masters' but they were pretty rubbish at painting babies

Everything is absolutely fucked, isn't it?

Microsoft says AI system better than doctors at diagnosing complex health conditions Firm says results of research create ‘path to medical superintelligence’ but plays down job implications

I have three questions.

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9 years since a seagull shat on me and @mariskavdhorst.bsky.social on the way into a summer school lecture, in the immediate aftermath of the Brexit referendum.

It's a good look:

It is the greatest app available

Ad display, white on blue, promoting student clubs, societies, and associations. "Did you know club members have a 19% higher chance of getting an 'A' grade?"

Casual inference, university-style

Faroe islands. Pretty pretty good

Very true. Got this from a mate who was there:

Oh man, this is close to my heart! I want to get a personal speed camera to catch cars nailing down our road. We live on a small residential street near a park and I swear people do 50 down it. A 20 zone and sheep bumps, please!

Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.

New: Researchers published a massive database of more than 2 billion Discord messages that they say they scraped using Discord’s public API. Released publicly so anyone can download www.404media.co/researchers-...

Also of some note that Nicusor Dan didn’t tack to the right between the rounds and didn’t dance to Simion’s tune. Not all mainstream parties supported him and not all strategists were happy with him, but Romanians voted for him over the radical right today.

"as Swiss, we don't have feelings, we have money"

No one banging on about it anymore: