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Short thoughts, notes, links, and musings by Molly White. RSS

please address any concerns about late newsletters to the office manager

Atlas, a mostly black pit bull/husky/german shepherd mix, lies on Molly’s lap on the couch with his head covering her entire laptop keyboard

did vitalik just invent communism?

The key difference is that instead of focusing on "wealth", we are going one step upstream and focusing on the generators of unbounded wealth concentration - diffusing not dollars, but the means of production.

out of context graphs from Vitalik Buterin ’s latest blog post

Left: percent of coins directly allocated to insiders in newly launched cryptocurrencies, ~2009-21. Right: THC concentration in marijuana, ~1970-2020.

Chris Person speaking my language with this morning's bonus Aftermath blog about split keyboards

the keyboards that you buy at the store simply will not suffice, are not specific and perverted enough to accommodate my aberrant typing

though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios

Including results for chest freezer temp
Search only for chest freezer tempe
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A chest freezer in Tempe (or anywhere) should ideally be set to 0°F (-18°C) or below for safe, long-term food storage, though some searches reveal disturbing news of human remains found in a freezer in Tempe, Arizona, which is unrelated to standard appliance use but highlights extreme scenarios. When buying or using one, look for features like a wide temperature range, especially if placing in a garage (garage-ready models), and use an external thermometer to confirm it holds that consistent 0°F.

the great cookieing of 2025 is complete! 550 cookies in 10 varieties

10 trays of cookies. Clockwise from top left: Andes peppermint cookies, coconut snowballs, Russian tea cakes, heart thumbprints, hazelnut caramel linzers, lemon thumbprints, Vietnamese coffee brownies, birthday cake truffles, more Russian tea cakes, cranberry orange icebox cookies, ginger molasses cookies

A box filled with a variety of all the cookies, with Hershey's kisses scattered throughout

A card reading "Christmas cookie menu" in red and green type atop one of the boxes. It has photos of each of the cookies to identify them

Four cookie boxes wrapped in large red ribbons

one of the best things about linzer cookies is that they come with built-in treats for the chef

A tiny ~1" cookie shaped like a stocking, which has been cut out of the linzer cookies visible on cooling racks in the background

planning baking for holiday cookie tins, asking questions like: if i make lemon curd x days in advance, i need to make y extra cups of it to still end up with ½ cup for cookies on the 24th. thank goodness i took multivariable calculus

Ruthie, a shorthair white and grey tabby cat, lays under a fluffy navy blanket on a bed with white and pink chevron striped sheets. Only one ear is visible, the other is tucked under the blanket.

Q: How much do you need to spend on mattresses for it to get mentioned in a DOJ press release about your $11 million crypto theft?

A: $638,000, which I did not realize was a plausible mattress budget

Even after losing most of the $11 million, RINSCH still did not spend the remaining funds he had stolen on White Horse. Instead, he used the money to speculate on cryptocurrency, and on personal expenses and luxury items, including at least $1.7 million on credit card bills; at least $3.3 million on furniture, antiques, and mattresses; at least $387,000 on a Swiss watch; and at least $2.4 million on five Rolls Royces and a red Ferrari.

furniture and antiques, including approximately $638,000 to purchase two mattresses and approximately $295,000 on luxury bedding and linens; (v) approximately $2,417,000 to purchase

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