"Spain has arrested one of its top police officers after €20m (£17m) was found hidden in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the country’s largest-ever cocaine bust. Óscar Sánchez Gil was until recently the head of the fraud and anti-money laundering division of Spain’s national police force in Madrid."

the Guardian

Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20m found in walls of his house

Investigation into country’s largest cocaine bust reveals cash in home of former head of anti-money laundering

My old ThinkPad has been running pretty well as a full node with Electrum server etc. since I set it up. The only thing I haven't gotten to work yet is automatic boot unlocking with Tang and Clevis (which works fine with our rack servers in a private location). It's one of those things that are so tedious to debug and fix, that I hardly ever find the motivation for it. We do have extended power cuts on this island at least once or twice a year, and sometimes they're too long for the UPS to keep everything running. But it's also nice to be able to reboot remotely for kernel upgrades and whatnot.

Trump believers, make you some extra money:

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And the rest of the nation state maxis can also put their (fiat) money where their mouth is:

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Aside from whatever opinion you have on political parties or politicians, here's a neutral fact to consider: The NY Times just called the result, and at currently 224 vs 277 votes, these numbers almost exactly mirror the Polymarket odds from directly before the election. All legacy media were wrong about how close of a race it was, while markets (including normal bookies) predicted the result with almost perfect accuracy.