Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

from the down-under-and-upside-down-policymaking dept Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically stupid idea—the kind of policy that sounds reasonable in a tabloid headline but crumbles under any serious scrutiny. Over and over […]

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Is it Time to Use the Equity in your Home to Build Wealth? – Guidance Financial Services

With interest rates starting to fall, is there an opportunity to utilise the equity in your home for investment purposes, and accelerate your wealth creation? It’s something we’re certainly evaluating with several of our clients, so I thought I’d share with you today our current thinking.  Thanks for joining us on another financial autonomy episode. […]

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Ethereum’s evolution threatens Bitcoin’s top store of value position

Ethereum is steadily positioning itself as a stronger contender to Bitcoin in the race for dominance as a store of value, according to analysts at VanEck. This shift is driven by the growing adoption of digital asset treasuries (DATs), which increasingly favor Ethereum and Bitcoin among global corporations. ETH treasuries Initially, Bitcoin was the primary choice for digital […]

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Censorship and stolen puritanical valor

Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday or Tuesday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, Jess Conditt, a reporter who’s covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the […]

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