“ … But ultimately, we will always choose Earth. We will always choose each other.”

~ Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch

I no longer wish to live in a country where performative cruelty has become the guiding principle of government

We posted to Twitter (now known as X) five to ten times a day in 2018. Those tweets garnered somewhere between 50 and 100 million impressions per month. By 2024, our 2,500 X posts generated around 2 million impressions each month. Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years

Even EFF is Leaving X

4 Takeaways From Our Search for Bitcoin’s Creator

They've nailed Satoshi Nakamoto (probably). But the famously sloppy bitcoin code has lots of bugs.

Here’s what we found suggesting that Adam Back invented Bitcoin.

It has been 17 years since a nine-page white paperappeared in an obscure corner of the internet and ushered in the world’s first cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has grown from a curiosity to a mainstream fixture of the financial landscape. Yet the identity of its inventor has remained unknown, concealed behind the now-famous pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

I spent more than a year digging into Satoshi’s identity, sifting through thousands of decades-old internet postings. With the help of computer-assisted reporting provided by my colleague Dylan Freedman, I amassed a body of evidence pointing to Adam Back, a 55-year-old British cryptographer. Mr. Back denied that he was Satoshi, and chalked it all up to a series of coincidences.

Here is what we learned

Leaks reveal the inside story of Trump’s decision to attack Iran

The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan published a richly detailed account of how Trump weighed the attack

New details about Epstein’s lenient plea deal and jail term emerge from DOJ files CBS News

Confidential report found former home affairs boss Michael Pezzullo was ‘reckless’ in engagement with Liberal powerbroker

Previously unreleased report obtained via freedom of information battle says Pezzullo exceeded ‘boundaries of normal public service practice’

USA Trade Online

Welcome to the new version of USA Trade Online – A new way to envision International Trade: “The official source of U.S. merchandise trade data from the U.S. Census Bureau. You can create customized reports. Search by HS and NAICS, geography, time, US trade region (district, state, or port), and measurement values. Reports can be saved and exported using your email and a PIN. An account is not needed to search. Checkout our tutorial or click here to go back to the International trade website. [h/t Jennifer Boettcher]

WSJ: The High-Tax Wealth Flight Continues

Wall Street Journal, Editorial Board, The High-Tax Wealth Flight Continues(March 27, 2026),

As Democrats across the country seek to raise income taxes, the IRS on Friday released new data on state income migration that is a reality check on their ambitions. Even after the pandemic, high-tax states continue to lose tens of billions of dollars in taxable income to low-tax states.
The latest IRS data includes the adjusted gross income (AGI) of tax filers who moved between and within states between 2022 and 2023. Not surprisingly, overall migration ebbed from record highs in 2020 and 2021 during the Covid lockdowns. A mortgage lock-in effect and rising interest rates also resulted in fewer people moving.
Yet states with the highest taxes continue to lose the most income to other states. California lost on net $11.9 billion, mostly to Texas, Nevada and Arizona. Other big losers include New York ($9.9 billion), Illinois ($6 billion), Massachusetts ($4 billion), New Jersey ($2.6 billion), Maryland ($1.8 billion) and Minnesota ($1.5 billion)….

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Chez vous - 4 Takeaways From Our Search for Bitcoin’s Creator

After 15 years, I’m leaving Trump’s America and coming home to Australia. It feels like an escape