really, really wonderful one today from
@mpmcsweeney
"I help J unfold his long metal table and tell J that the soup smells like his best work. I hope so, he says."
person: hello
my brain:
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
don't bring it up
me: ok so it's like cash but on the internet right and
SCOOP: Uvalde and Uvalde Police have hired a private law firm to fight against being required to release body camera footage and other records related to school shooting
Files could be 'highly embarrassing,' involve 'emotional/mental distress,' it argues
Ted Cruz said on The View that his wife Heidi laughed when Trump smeared her as ugly during the 2016 primary, and his dad laughed when Trump suggested he was involved in JFK's assassination
Would you read a piece of your own and a piece you love and then I publish the recording(s) on a semi-regular podcast and also I pay an honorarium to performers? Asking for a friend, I'm the friend, I want to do this
So it's midnight, and I can finally reveal some really cool PERSONAL NEWS: starting today, I will be serving as
@TheBlock__
's managing editor! Excited to get back to covering the industry full-time as part of an awesome and talented team!
Today is my last day at
@coindesk
and I'm feeling many emotions about it, but suffice to say that apart from the handful of scumbags I've encountered in the space, I love you all
It just died? Wow. I didn't know that. You're telling me now for the first time. Bitcoin led an amazing life. What else can you say? It was an amazing currency, whether you agreed or not, it was an amazing currency that led an amazing life. I am actually saddened to hear that.
This morning, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany described state-level guidance intended to curb the spread of the coronavirus at Thanksgiving as “Orwellian,” contradicting local authorities and arguing that such proposals were un-American
Crypto Twitter doesn't seem fun anymore. Informative sure, and, currently, essential for keeping up. But it increasingly reads as a vendetta-driven place, and that is sad to see.
@alicewetterlund
@drmistercody
@cmclymer
Sanders campaigned vigorously for her in 2016, which Clinton publicly thanked him for. Now that he's beating her ideological allies, she's badmouthing him. It's pretty transparent.
@Timcast
Gotta wonder if the chief magistrate of the country hadn't spent an entire month downplaying the severity of the situation and saying it would magically go away, there might've been time to prepare and build a support system
Very excited to start writing a monthly-ish column for
@dailydrunkmag
about video games and storytelling, which is really an excuse for me to get back into emulating again
Bob Saget visited UMass in 2006 and told one story about a sex video sent into America's Funniest Home Videos, some couple crashed through the glass slider while having shower sex and continued banging on top of the bloody glass. RIP.
I'm sad about this. I'm sad about
@coindesk
's Consensus -- an event I spent years working on, since its inception -- having to go virtual. This means no Blockchain Week. I'm sad that the world's on fire and that, in the U.S., the worst is still to come. Be safe, everyone, please.
UPDATE: The Block's primary concern is the health and safety of all event participants and as a result, is considering alternate dates in the fall for The Block Summit.
Thank you to all of our participants and sponsors. Email summit2020
@theblockcrypto
.com for a full refund.
This is why it’s important to rely on good sources. CNBC, Reuters, and more reported instantly on a clearly dubious press release as gospel fact. Meanwhile, our team hit Walmart customer service lines, checked for red flags in the press release, and searched email registrations
Hey crypto friends, I'm officially opening the gates to op-ed/contributor submissions for our end-of-year Outlook 2022 series. If you're interested, please reach out at mmcsweeney
@theblockcrypto
.com. Thanks!
I have many feelings and a few thoughts about the
@CoinDesk
acquisition deal, the end of the
@DCGco
era, the intense highs and intense lows of that period, how it nearly killed me. I hope
@Bullish
proves to be a proper steward of a website for which many people sacrificed much.
1/ So, in light of everything that's happened recently with CoinDesk, it seems like a good time as any to reveal that my name isn't Stan Higgins. It is, as my Twitter handle/screen name suggests, Michael Patrick McSweeney.