DCA

7B

[Positively Knicks @PositiveKnicks]

Nah this is nice. The Players' Tribune gave NYC Mayor Mamdani their camcorder to film his POV from the parade.

[Gameplan Creative @GameplanChicago]

Converse All-Stars print ad. 1990.
@NBA

[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

AFTER 400 WEEKS OF $50 DCA…

- CASH: $20,000
- GOLD: $38,864
- BITCOIN: $148,707

THIS IS WHY I STACK BITCOIN

NOTHING BEATS IT OVER TIME.

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

DID YOU KNOW🚨: Cricket's chirp are consistent with air temperatures. By counting the chips in the span of 25 seconds, dividing by 3, then adding 4, then it will equal the temperature in Celsius.

[Paul Brown @0xQuasark]

DMT is weird.

Nobody can say that they fully understand it.

I mean, just listen to Shane Mauss after his 20th DMT trip, when he kept seeing the same purple woman. And then his friend did too...? 🧐

How do you explain that?!

[Brian Armstrong @brian_armstrong]

This Illinois law is remarkably bad - it will end up hurting the state, kill jobs and push innovation out of the state.

Coinbase has 1,517,628 customers (aka voters!) in Illinois.

If you think this is bad policy, sign up at @standwithcrypto and let your representatives know

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

1st amendment arrests have begun in Minnesota, now anyone who disagrees with any part of what ICE is doing can be detained. This administration will stop at nothing until they fully control what free speech is.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

🚨 ILLINOIS ENACTS MOST AGGRESSIVE BITCOIN TAX IN THE 🇺🇸 US

Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed Illinois’ new Digital Asset Tax Act into law.

Starting January 1, 2027, Illinois will impose a 0.20% tax on the gross value of digital assets exchanged, transferred, or stored for customers.

In practice:

• Buy Bitcoin? Pay the tax.
• Transfer Bitcoin? Pay the tax.
• Store BTC with a custodian? Pay the tax.

Move $1 million through a bank wire, ACH transfer, brokerage account, or traditional custodian and Illinois takes nothing.

Move that same $1 million as a digital asset and the state takes $2,000.

The tax applies regardless of whether there is any profit, income, or capital gain. It is levied simply because a digital asset is being exchanged, transferred, or stored.

Critics argue this creates a first-of-its-kind regime that singles out blockchain-based activity while leaving analogous banking, brokerage, custody, and payment services untouched.

The law targets the service layer of the digital asset economy. While trading for one’s own account is excluded, businesses facilitating exchange, transfer, or custody for customers must collect and remit the tax, with customers ultimately liable if it is not collected.

The Crypto Council for Innovation warned that Illinois is becoming a national outlier by adopting a transaction-based tax on digital assets that has no comparable equivalent for stocks, bonds, derivatives, bank deposits, or traditional financial transactions anywhere else in the country.

Industry groups say the law is a powerful incentive for entrepreneurs, startups, and investment to leave Illinois for more competitive jurisdictions.

Perhaps most surprising is the timing. Illinois only recently adopted the Digital Assets and Consumer Protection Act (DACPA), a framework many viewed as a constructive approach to blockchain innovation. This new tax represents a sharp reversal.

The question now is whether other states follow Illinois’ lead, or whether this becomes a case study in how to drive an emerging industry elsewhere.

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

NEW: Illinois Governor Pritzker has signed a 0.2% tax on crypto transactions into law including transfers between personal wallets, with the Crypto Council for Innovation calling it "the most punitive digital asset tax in the country."

[Ted @TedPillows]

Nasdaq compared to the US M2 supply is now even more overvalued than the 2000 dot-com bubble.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Congratulations to Mexico for getting universal health care! 🇲🇽

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Spraying roundup on weeds in the cracks of your driveway is kind of silly. Boiling water will do the same job better.

Pour it straight onto the weed and down into the crack. The heat ruptures the plant on contact and it wilts within the day. A stubborn deep-rooted one might need a second pour, but that's the whole method.

Roundup's own label tells you to keep it out of storm drains. And a driveway is basically a funnel straight into one. Every rain carries whatever you sprayed down the gutter and, in most towns, straight into the nearest creek with nothing in between.

Boiling water kills the weed and stops at the weed.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

Updated list of net worth.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Learning financial literacy

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

NINETY. hours. every. week.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

Buying SpaceX's $SPCX IPO last Friday would have already outperformed holding $ETH over the past five years.

[Night Sky Today @NightSkyToday]

ALERT🚨: A devastating report reveals that Earth has lost 50% of its wild animal population in just 40 years, driven by unsustainable human consumption and habitat destruction.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

For more than 20 years, Norwegian neuroscientist Audrey van der Meer has investigated how handwriting shapes the human brain.

In a landmark 2024 study published in Frontiers in Psychology, her team used high-density EEG caps to monitor brain activity in students while they either wrote by hand with a digital pen or typed on a keyboard.

The difference was dramatic. Handwriting produced a powerful, synchronized burst of neural activity across widespread regions of the brain, linking areas involved in memory formation, sensory processing, and deep learning. In contrast, typing the exact same content caused this rich cognitive network to largely shut down. Because typing uses repetitive, uniform keystrokes, it demands little spatial or cognitive effort, leaving key learning centers quiet and disengaged.

These neurological differences have a direct effect on how we process and remember information. Earlier research by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer at Princeton University reached similar conclusions. Students who took notes by hand consistently outperformed those using laptops on conceptual understanding tests. Handwriting forces active listening, critical thinking, and real-time summarization, while typing often leads to verbatim transcription with minimal processing.

Our brains function as part of an embodied biological system. Replacing rich physical actions with effortless digital keystrokes may deliver short-term convenience, but it comes at the expense of deeper cognitive engagement.

The solution is simple and timeless: pick up a pen.

[Van der Meer, A. L. H., et al. (2024). Handwriting versus typing: A neurophysiological comparison of brain activity during learning. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1234567]