Winter Trabex / is on Nostr

Freelance Journalist working for Granite Post News and Associated Press in New Hampshire. Opinions my own. She/her.

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2024-06-13 14:26:13

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Investors eventually get impatient or disillusioned, and that's when the rails start falling off.
For AI, the deathknell will probably be municipalities saying you guys are using way too much water, so cut it out.

2024-06-13 14:19:56

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I remember looking into NFT games when those were a thing, briefly. It was all about getting people on discord, continually hyping them up, getting them to pay their money, and then delivering....something. Not very good something.
One of those was CryptoZoo, WWE wrestler Logan Paul's attempt at scamming people.
Learning about that made me want to stay away from tech trends forever.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/logan-paul-announces-buy-back-nfts-cryptozoo-rcna132390

2024-06-13 14:13:11

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The amount of libertarians prosecuted for financial improprieties stemming from crypto use is more than I can count.
The irony, perhaps, is that crypto started out of a distrust of government currency only to prove such currency is more stable and easier to use.
If crypto enthusiasts wanted to make a use-case example for self made currency, they've failed. What we got instead was One Coin type scams.

2024-06-13 14:09:06

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Bitcoin is also incredibly antiquated technology at this point. The only reason to do anything with it is to gain money from nothing.
I'm not certain how anyone would liquidate large amounts of it except by money laundering practices.

2024-05-08 16:18:49

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journalist here. It's reporting 101 to get both sides of the story. That happens too often in political situations where one side obviously isn't telling the truth.
I guess "fairness in journalism" just means being fair to people with authority and power.

2024-04-06 00:19:55

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Does this poster have anything to do with the James Clavell books? I enjoyed the old miniseries from the 80s with Toshiro Mifune and Richard Chamberlain.

2024-03-29 18:27:11

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I once got a peek into the Detroit Tigers front office. It was overloaded with bureaucrats and paper-pushers, people who probably did stuff they thought was important but whose job probably wasn't necessary.
For reference: the Tigers have had historically bad offensive production for years now, which included signing veterans into long contracts, and then continuing to play those veterans even after they washed up in the middle of their terms.

2024-03-28 19:55:38

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Man, I am super not surprised. Misogyny among conservative voters is really strong.