If they're buying BOINK I imagine they'll lose rather more than 1.2m 😅 View quoted note →

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Conference prep

The book Reddit has been waiting for 😂

Sky News

Ex-romance scammer tells how he conned dozens of women to fund

Reports of romance fraud are on the rise in the UK, with victims conned out of more than £88m last year. Chris Maxwell tells Sky News he duped up ...

So true! 🇮🇹🫶 View quoted note →

You say it like that's a bad thing 🗽 View quoted note →

I suspected this could be popular on Nostr

The Machine War | Noah Kumin | Substack

Technology, Religion, Literature, Gossip. Click to read The Machine War, by Noah Kumin, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

The Finance Franchise is a brilliant paper on how modern finance and money creation actually functions. "From this perspective, the financial system operates essentially as a franchise arrangement in which the public is the franchisor, while the private institutions that dispense its full faith and credit are effectively its franchisees."

The Finance Franchise by Robert C. Hockett, Saule T. Omarova :: SSRN

The dominant view of banks and other financial institutions is that they function primarily as intermediaries, managing flows of scarce funds from ...