Ethereum’s highly anticipated 2.0 upgrade is poised to bring the network ever closer to fulfilling its original vision to be a “world computer” that plays host to a parallel, decentralized financial system. At Invest: Ethereum Economy on Oct. 14, we will address the ramifications for investors as decentralized finance takes the crypto world by storm. In a run-up to the event, our two-part CoinDesk Live: Inside the Ethereum Economy virtual miniseries on Oct. 8 and 12 introduces trending narratives we will break down at the main event: Why all the hype behind yield farming and food-inspired tokens? Should investors take them […]
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VENICE—If two hours of shaky footage of a sex-starved 34-year-old Dennis Hopper eating, drinking, and smoking as 55-year-old Orson Welles grills him about everything from communist Catholics to the difference between sex and love or magic and miracles sounds like a great movie, then Hopper/Welles, which debuted at the scaled-down Venice Film Festival on Tuesday, is for you. For everyone else, it borders on painful. The footage comes from a 1970 archive of a dinner party in L.A.—after Hopper flew in from New Mexico, where he lived in what sounded an awful lot like a hippy commune. It was meant for […]
Decentralized finance (DeFi) started out by imitating the regular financial world, but the way its pieces can be mixed and matched has become so easy that new entrants are starting to get strange. Yearn Finance (YFI), YAM, Spaghetti, Based, whatever today’s variant is – the “Weird DeFi” cohort keeps growing. Yearn.Finance seems to have been a key shift in the market. It’s effectively a robo-adviser for yield in a smart contract, but something about it got creative juices flowing. Weird DeFi started earlier than this. But the broader crypto world first noticed it with YAM, which seems to be a serious […]
Donald Trump’s acceptance speech Thursday night, a deranged Fidel Castro parody of maniacal gaslighting proportions, could not be mistaken for an American president’s. In his bizarro unreality, 180,000 dead and rising is public health. Divisive hate mongering is law and order. Historic unemployment and inequity is strength. Police brutality is a race war. Protests for civil rights are anarchy. Still he attempted to inject himself into the American tapestry of Lincoln, Jackson, and even Roosevelt, of course making zero correlation between their actions and his own in office. That’s because Trump has employed the only strategy he knows: Fake it til […]
The aliens aren’t coming—they may already be here! Or, at least, that’s what recent news suggests the U.S. government suspects. Just this past week, the Pentagon announced it was creating a new task force to look into the existence of UFOs that may have been witnessed flying around and over U.S. military bases. That development was spurred by a New York Times report that, despite previous statements to the contrary, the Pentagon has been carrying out a covert program—dubbed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, which was tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence—to investigate American pilots’ encounters with mysterious aerial […]
Try having a debate about religion. Go ahead. I’ll wait. How did it go? Poorly, I bet. For whatever reason, religion is often “off the table” when it comes to the serious examination of its impact on society. If one does attempt to debate religion’s place in the world with the devout, it often unravels into combative condescension and eventually ends with clenched fists topped off with a ridiculous non-statement like, Well, you just got to have faith! What does this have to do with a religion that worships a Flying Spaghetti Monster? Everything. The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster […]
SEOUL—We know that North Korea’s Kim Jong Un is a very prickly sort of dictator, mercurial, narcissistic, and with very little sense of humor. (Remember when his hackers tore up Sony in retaliation for the 2014 Seth Rogen comedy The Interview?) But such vanity and pride may be a key source of vulnerability. “‘The Devil Kim Jong Un Has Murdered His Own Blood Brother,’ runs the headline printed on waterproof vinyl paper.” At least that’s what some North Korean defectors here believe as they wage what must be some of the most asymmetric warfare ever: their balloon-borne leaflets up against the […]
For the 4th of July The Drudge Report highlighted four websites on its front page. Breitbart, The Gateway Pundit, Zero Hedge and the far left website Axios. Advertisement – story continues below What’s that about? Drudge has been moving towards the left the last few years. Today it is unrecognizable for most of its readers. TRENDING: Two Women Activists Hit by Car on I-5 Outside Seattle — Suffer Serious Injuries After Hitting Windshield and Front Grill …..Video Source link
Alaska has never been considered a battleground state on the national level: Since becoming a state in 1959, its three electoral votes have gone to a Democrat only once, in 1964. Alaska’s single U.S. House member, Rep. Don Young, has been in office for all but 15 years of Alaska’s entire history as a state. At least one of its Senate seats has been represented by a Republican, either the late Sen. Ted Stevens or someone with the last name Murkowski, since 1968. Its most notable figure ever on the national political stage was a certain “hockey mom” turned governor turned […]
Donald Trump’s address at the West Point Military Academy has been dissected and analyzed by hundreds of wannabe online neurologists concerned by the supposedly ‘deteriorating health’ of the US commander-in-chief. At one point during his speech to US military academy graduates on Saturday, Trump used both of his hands to lift a glass of water, while at the end of it he descended the ramp extremely carefully – too carefully for some. These two “distressing” incidents were enough for the vast crowd of Trump detractors to declare the US leader unfit for service, propelling the #TrumpIsNotWell hashtag into top trends and […]
One of the peculiarities of online dream analysis, at least for those of us without advanced psychiatry degrees, is its tendency to get specific. On a dream interpreter like Dream-Meaning.net, where users can search imagery for its precise meaning, ambiguity is an afterthought. The image of a diaper, for example, broadly symbolizes “childish or dependent attitudes.” But the entry also breaks down into 14 subgenres, such as “Wearing Diaper” (feeling ashamed about needing help), “Getting and Receiving Diaper” (mommy issues), “Holding a Diaper With Leaks” (problems or conflicts with children), and “Soiled Poopy Diaper” (a “positive sign” that pet projects will […]