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US Book Tour! 📕 The Devil Takes Bitcoin 😈 (**UPDATED**) The Devil Takes Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency Crimes and the Japan Connection is out October 14 in the US. Get an early look with two pre-release events in Seattle and Philadelphia!

Book tour!📕 Whoever said crime doesn't pay, never had any good cryptocurrency
Crime does pay--as long as it's paid in Bitcoin
In my new book, the devil takes bitcoin—we take a deep dive into how crime propelled an academic exercise into a powerful currency.
tokyopaladin.substack.com/p/us-book-to...

Blue Origin and its partners in Luxembourg unveil Project Oasis to map lunar resources Blue Origin is working with partners in Luxembourg on a campaign called Project Oasis, which aims to identify valuable resources on the moon.

Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture is teaming up with partners in Luxembourg on Project Oasis, which aims to identify and take advantage of water ice and other resources on the moon. www.geekwire.com/2025/blue-or...

The AI Kids Take San Francisco Brilliant, workaholic teenagers are flooding the city — and reshaping our future in their image.

I spent some time wandering around SF with some kids who read minds, raise millions, and subsist on Celsius nymag.com/intelligence...

Reframing Our Relationship to Technology Confronting Data Centers, Deep-Sea Cables, and Colonial Legacies in the South Pacific The Cloud is Dead: A Series on Living with Legacies of Resource Extraction

"Layered both literally and figuratively on top of the future pathway of the Google internet infrastructure, the sugarcane railway tracks evoke the longevity of colonial infrastructures as well as the ideologies underlying them." – @emmaquilty.bsky.social datasociety.net/points/confr...

The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure Cambridge Core - Finance and Accountancy - The Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastructure

This is a super helpful resource if you're trying to figure out public finance, geoeconomics, and international financial institutions. Open access and well assembled by @bsrbarab.bsky.social @c-westermeier.bsky.social and Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers We align the aligners

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

how about a whole book: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Et...

come on, be serious now

also, having lived in nijmegen, i can attest it is an okay place!

PhD Position: Outer Space and Colonialism | Radboud University Do you want to work as a PhD candidate Outer Space and Colonialism at the Nijmegen School of Management? Check our vacancy!

Radboud University has a new phd opening on Outer Space and Colonialism -- looks cool!

www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

pretty bad! this thread also has some stories about the poor labor conditions at SpaceX which sound similar to what I heard in my own research

this is today!

photo of NASA engineer Margaret Hamilton with the stacks of code she wrote for the Apollo program; details of the meeting: social studies of outer space network monthly meeting Thursday, June 19 2 pm utc theme: citational practices join us online!

this week! the social studies of outer space network is back with the June monthly meeting, join us online to talk space, social science, and citational practices!

need the link? just ask

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world's richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” said former BEAD director Evan Feinman

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept.

He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

Call for papers: "Tech Oligarchy" Forum by @sciasculture.bsky.social

#bigtech #sts #oligarchy #Trump #ElonMusk

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making unpleasant music with click farm equipment I bought on the internet

foreground: a man walks in the snow; background: a giant looming radio telescope details: social studies of outer space network, monthly meeting, thursday, february 20 at 2 p.m. UTC

today! it's the Social Studies of Outer Space Network monthly meeting. meet and talk with researcher around the world, just ask for the link!

Image by Michael Carroll illustrating the sizes of some asteroids in 2013. The asteroids are shown in comparison to a US football field. We had seen the big one coming, and it just buzzed Earth. But the littler one we did NOT see coming, and it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk, creating a shockwave the blew out windows and injuring more than 1400 people. The asteroid we are monitoring now - 2024 YR4 - is bigger than the little guy, but maybe as large as the whole football field! Our JWST measurements next month will help pin down the size. Source: https://carrollspaceart.com/gallery/comparisons/

Image by Michael Carroll shows some asteroids to scale. We did NOT see the little one coming & it hit Earth above Chelyabinsk in 2013, injuring >1400 people. Asteroid 2024 YR4 is bigger than the little one, perhaps as large as the football field! JWST 🔭 data next month will help pin down the size.

SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland Debris from a Space X Falcon 9 rocket lit up skies across Europe before crashing into Poland.

SpaceX rocket debris crashes into Poland
www.bbc.com/news/article...

🎙️ Satellites and Space Races: The role of Europe in the space economy

Listen to the full episode of the Sound of Economics podcast 🛰️
#EconSky

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Join us! Science Homecoming helps scientists reconnect with communities by writing about the importance of science funding in their hometown newspapers. We’ve mapped every small newspaper in the U.S. and provide resources to get you started. Help science get back home 🧪🔬🧬 🏠

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How Cosmic Explorations Are Reshaping Life on Earth Space anthropologists collaborate on a research project investigating the current boom in outer space exploration.

my other ARIES colleagues contributed as well! you can read all the essays here: www.sapiens.org/culture/oute...

The First Space Launch for Mauritius An anthropologist recounts how Mauritius launched its first spacecraft—and what the nation's effort says about the growing space economy.

I wrote a small peice for Sapiens magazine about my fieldwork in Mauritius: www.sapiens.org/culture/sate...

look i respect Punxsutawney Phil but only abide by the foresight of the true rodent oracle, Kharkiv's Timko III: 112.ua/en/babak-tim...

back in krakow for a bit

tweet by @PerthshireMags climate change will manifest as a series of disasters viewed through phones with footage that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one filming it

Defence industry set for deal surge as companies look to expand in AI and space Large contractors expected to use growing cash piles to invest in high-growth areas

Deals in the death space are trending upward and the market for necropolitics is hot, hot, hot!

"The value of venture capital deals in the defence sector has increased 18-fold in the past decade. [...] the US defence industry is super consolidated at the prime level.” www.ft.com/content/24a2...

all of this is just leading to the smug smart door from 'Ubik'

Money, Musk and mission creep: How Trump could shape DOD’s space drift The path to a larger Space Force budget isn’t clear — even as Trump, who oversaw the creation of the service, prepares to take office in the coming weeks.

Happy to speak with Courtney Albon at Defense News for this piece. Based on the unclassified budget, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of Space Force’s budget, the service has mostly focused on proliferation for protecting its spacecraft. www.defensenews.com/space/2025/0...