Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Today's news and jokes

















(From May, a look at the "water mafia" and various disastrous projects)







A write-up







NEW: When the Dutch drug kingpin “Chubby” Jos Leijdekkers fled authorities in Europe, he landed in Freetown, Sierra Leone, where he rebuilt his empire alongside the country’s ruling family, report Oliver Dunn & @josefskrdlik.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/reportage/wh...

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— New Lines Magazine (@newlinesmag.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 5:41 AM
("In coca-producing regions of Colombia, Peru and Bolivia, 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) sells for around $1,000 but, once in Europe, can sell for 80 times that amount.")















Read this. When you see former SOF guys claiming they are doing counter human trafficking it should run up every red flag you have. jackpoulson.substack.com/p/evangelica...

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— Jack Murphy (@jackmurphyrgr.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
(Insight into a disturbing subculture, very vivid writing)







(A long time coming, apparently: "In 2015, a former apprentice of his accused him of embezzling funds from the Shaolin Temple, while an anonymous letter claimed that he had several mistresses and funneled money to them. At the time, the temple denied all allegations and an investigation by Henan officials concluded the accusations were groundless. He remained the temple’s abbot.")







(Is the hope to announce a huge deal and then just claim the terms are vastly overstated/delay until a new administration forgives it?)







It's very alarming that this is happening at all, but especially happening in the context of government-ordered ID checks to use vast swaths of the internet www.404media.co/a-second-tea...

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— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 11:15 AM










(A correction was added, but does not admit that it was related to relying on an LLM)























(The article describes having to sell more at a smaller margin, and trying to goose sales by creating virality around live sales online)







you're gonna wanna make sure your game is as friendly to payment processors as possible, something like an online casino that connects 10 year olds to 45 year old roleplaying partners

— 𝙒𝙄𝙉𝙏𝙀𝙍 𝙠 (@winterk.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
(Is this true?)







People being incredibly enraged about Mouthwashing being 'delisted' from Itch when in reality the game has not been indexed for over a year as you can't actually download the game on Itch is... mmm...

— Bruno Dias (@brunodias.bsky.social) July 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
(Despite my best efforts to cull my follow list, I still regularly see people on Bluesky mindlessly reposting falsehoods)















(This is that joke about describing abusrdly improper conduct in the most innocuous way, right?)







happy anniversary to one of my favourite stories

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— Martin Dunlop (@martindunlop.bsky.social) June 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM








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