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Which Bitcoin Wallet?
January 4th, 2017Update: Going with Electrum To the people who support Cryptogon with Bitcoin: Please see the Support page for the current Bitcoin address. Thank you. — I hadn’t looked at my Bitcoin wallet in a while and I just noticed that a couple of anonymous someones sent me some coin. The blockchain has grown far beyond […]
How Is the Facebook Android App So Diabolical?
January 2nd, 2017Update: How Facebook Learns About Your Offline Life I found this, but it doesn’t mention the “hot mics” issue that is obviously real: How Facebook Learns About Your Offline Life — Can anyone explain this one? During Christmas, I was over at a house with a bunch of family members. My brother in law’s girlfriend […]
The One About Amazon’s Floating Warehouses
December 29th, 2016My guess about this one is that it’s a joke—something like Elon Musk’s tunnel boring tweets. Assuming that it would be physically possible to float hundreds of tons of merchandise over a city (forget about the FAA for a moment), what would the economics of that look like? In any event, Jeff Bezos will probably […]
NATO Auditor General Found Shot Dead
December 28th, 2016The link below appears to be the only source for this story in English at this time. Via: Express: POLICE in Belgium are probing the death of a high ranking NATO official after his body was discovered in his car with a gunshot wound to the head. According to reports, Yves Chandelon, the 62-year-old auditor […]
Trump: “The United States Must Greatly Strengthen and Expand Its Nuclear Capability”
December 22nd, 2016Via: Guardian: US President-elect Donald Trump called on Thursday for a strengthening of America’s nuclear weapons programme, throwing into doubt longstanding efforts to reduce its arsenal. On Thursday, Trump tweeted: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.” It was […]
California’s Birthrate Falls to Lowest Level on Record
December 22nd, 2016Via: Los Angeles Times: California’s birthrate dropped to its lowest level ever in 2016, according to data released by the state’s Department of Finance. Between July 2015 and July of this year, there were 12.42 births per 1,000 Californians, the agency said this week. The last time the birthrate came close to being that low […]
Berlin Attacker’s Wallet Found in Truck
December 21st, 2016Mmm hmm. Via: USA Today: German authorities scoured the country Wednesday for a Tunisian asylum seeker who is being sought in the truck rampage through a Christmas festival here that killed 12 people and injured 48. Investigators don’t know if there is more than one perpetrator at large. The new suspect emerged after police found […]
Trump Picks Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State
December 13th, 2016Via: BBC: President-elect Donald Trump has confirmed the chief executive of Exxon Mobil, Rex Tillerson, as his choice for US secretary of state. In a statement, Mr Trump praised Mr Tillerson, 64, as among the “most accomplished business leaders and international dealmakers” in the world. Mr Tillerson is said to have a good relationship with […]
#familyreasons: Prime Minister John Key Named as Ideal Candidate to Head International Monetary Fund
December 6th, 2016Unbelievable. Alternate tag: #mrleesgreaterhongkong Via: New Zealand Herald: Outgoing Prime Minister John Key has been tipped as a potential candidate to head the International Monetary Fund, an appointment signed off by US President Barack Obama. An article on MSC Newswire says Key’s background in international finance would make him an ideal candidate to replace Christine […]
‘The Bizarre Hillary Clinton Conspiracy Theory That Led a Man to Open Fire in an Italian Restaurant’
December 5th, 2016The shooter appears to be a failed actor. IMDB: Edgar Maddison Welch Via: Independent: A Washington pizzeria is the home of a child sex abuse ring that includes people including Hillary Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta, reports claim. Those reports are entirely baseless and there is no actual evidence that the Comet Ping […]
