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[dmidmitrich]

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[robertreich]

This much is clear. CBS is being “murdered,” as Scott Pelley calls what’s happening, not because of economics but because of politics. Economically, “60 Minutes” is a gold mine. Politically, Trump thinks it’s dangerous as hell because it tells the truth about him and his regime, and wants it killed. It’s important to see all this as a systematic effort by Trump to silence the truth about what he’s doing to America. Trump’s increasingly corruption — rife with crony capitalism, corporate welfare, and payoffs to the powerful — is producing an increasingly corrupt economy in which everything depends on bribes and personal deals made by the biggest Republican loyalists and grifters, oligarchs and plutocrats, billionaires and multibillionaires, and monopolists. When political and economic deal-making become personal transactions — when greed and payoffs replace trust — what happens? Authoritarianism replaces democracy. And an economy collapses, as it did at the end of America’s first Gilded Age, in the Great Crash of 1929, leading to the Great Depression. One day we will look back on the murder of “60 Minutes” as one of the travesties of Trump’s despicable reign. In the meantime, thank you Scott Pelley for telling the truth. Thank you, former “60 Minutes” producers, correspondents, and staff, for telling the truth. And now, what do we do in the interest of the truth? We boycott CBS.

[doggosource]

[lordoftables]

[doggirl-girlcock]

I adore the one floppy ear and one pointy ear. So precious.

[doggosource]

[lordoftables]

[doggirl-girlcock]

I adore the one floppy ear and one pointy ear. So precious.

[bowlby4]

[freedomfighter515]

1969 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS

[s-usans-blog]

Golden Retriever

[livelovelaugh-777]

[brilandsupperclub]

[hotdyke-hardstyle]

Victoria De Angelis at Roma Summer Fest (2019)

Niente Da Dire | video: maneskinofficialfanclub

[hotdyke-hardstyle]

Victoria De Angelis at Roma Summer Fest (2019)

Niente Da Dire | video: maneskinofficialfanclub

[probablyasocialecologist]

If (or when) Bitcoin is no longer a thing, ASICs [Application-specific integrated circuits] cannot be put to work to find cures for cancer or calculate future weather conditions on Mars. ASICs can only mine Bitcoin. When they’re burned out, usually after 18 months or so, they’re scrapped. For every 100 ASIC units coming off the factory conveyor belt today, only three will go on to guess the number correctly. Retired ASICs create around 37,000 tonnes of burned-out electronic waste every year; more than the Netherlands produces. For every one transaction entered on the Bitcoin blockchain today, the equivalent of two iPhones worth of e-waste was produced. And most of this burned-out kit is being shipped illegally to its final resting place in South Asia or Africa. The waste machines are often contaminated with so-called forever chemicals such as polyfluoroalkyl substances. Their use as a non-conductive coolant fluid is popular among Bitcoin miners. When improperly disposed of though, cancer rates and thyroid disease rocket. The chemicals’ persistence also causes environmental problems – forever.

Peter Howson, Let Them Eat Crypto: The Blockchain Scam That's Ruining the World

[valeriyapex]

Did you know the NerdNOS Metal Edition makes the perfect Bitcoin price ticker for your desk?

Many “premium” Bitcoin tickers charge $100+ just to display the price.

This one is all metal, shows the Bitcoin price, and hashes at 100–150 GH/s at the same time.

[valeriyapex]

What started in the back of a cell phone repair store with a few GPUs turned into one of the largest hosted mining operations in the country.

A lot changed. The standard did not.

This is Simple Mining.

[valeriyapex]

If you could ask me anything right now, what would it be?

[valeriyapex]

I’ve been loving Q4 so far… wow #