👩🏿‍⚖️ Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed as First Black Woman on U.S. Supreme Court

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Ketanji Brown Jackson Confirmed as First Black Woman on U.S. Supreme Court. Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, making history as the first Black woman to ever join its ranks while leaving the ideological balance on the nation's highest court unchanged. (Laura Litvan / Bloomberg)

Kresge Foundation @kresgefdn

The momentous confirmation of Judge #KetanjiBrownJackson not only fulfills President Biden’s commitment to appoint a Black woman to the #SupremeCourt, it propels the administration’s commitment to ensure over time that the federal bench looks more like America.

Bloomberg @business

WATCH: The U.S. Senate confirms Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the U.S. Supreme Court https://t.co/mgNRUzBe8g https://t.co/NA3OElNKyU

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LEAKED MEMO: The New York Times has issued a Twitter 'reset,' urging reporters to 'meaningfully reduce how much time you're spending on the platform. NYT Executive Editor Dean Baquet said in a memo that Twitter is now 'purely optional' for staffers. Baquet said that the newsroom will provide support to journalists experiencing harassment. He added that Twitter attacks on colleagues are not… (Steven Perlberg / Business Insider)

Steven Perlberg @perlberg

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet has issued a Twitter "reset" for the newsroom, urging reporters to "meaningfully reduce" their twitter time and reminding them that tweets and subtweets attacking or undermining their colleagues are not allowed

businessinsider.comLEAKED MEMO: The New York Times has issued a Twitter ‘reset,’ urging reporters to ‘meaningfully reduce’ how much time they spend on the pla…Executive Editor Dean Baquet said that the newsroom would step up support for reporters experiencing harassment.

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Inside the Takedown That Shredded the Myth of Bitcoin's Anonymity. They thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity. (Andy Greenberg / WIRED)

Andy Greenberg @a_greenberg

Since 2020, I've been writing a book on how Bitcoin, once said to be untraceable, turned out to be the opposite. Today we're releasing an early, 15,000-word excerpt: Inside the crypto tracing case that took down the largest known child sex abuse site ever.

wired.comHow Bitcoin Tracers Took Down the Web’s Biggest Child Abuse SiteWelcome to Video’s customers thought their payments were untraceable. They couldn’t have been more wrong. The untold story of the case that shredded the myth of Bitcoin’s anonymity.

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Web3 is yet to take off despite the hype. So far, it's hard to discern mainstream uses for this technology… (Richard Waters / Financial Times)

Stephen Diehl @smdiehl

Superb piece from the Financial Times. Their coverage crypto has been consistently exceptional and actually brings clarity of expertise and perspective to this issue.

FT Technology News @fttechnews

Web3 is yet to take off despite the hype https://t.co/BX2tqQ1C3A

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Twitter's Edit Button Isn't Just a Simple Fix. It Could Be a Mistake. Twitter users may soon get their greatest wish: the ability to edit tweets. But unless the social network includes guardrails, users may come to rue that wish. There are lessons in how other social-media platforms designed their edit features. (Dalvin Brown / Wall Street Journal)

Surveillance Killjoy @hypervisible

Reducing the "harm" of typos vs. the ways this feature will certainly increase scams, harassment, and misinformation is a really poor tradeoff. wsj.com/articles/twitt…

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