Walter Hickey

@walthickey

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Weird Al is selling out massive arenas, doing 20 costume changes a night, and keeping all his tickets under $200

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weird al's still got it https://www.billboard.com/music/features/weird-al-yankovic-tour-billboard-cover-story-1235991234/

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“Bank-level wealth requires bank-level security thinking" https://sherwood.news/crypto/the-alarming-surge-of-wrench-attacks-in-crypto-puts-owners-on-edge/

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A deeply fascinating story up on Sherwood today about the jawdropping rise in "wrench attacks" affecting crypto owners https://sherwood.news/crypto/the-alarming-surge-of-wrench-attacks-in-crypto-puts-owners-on-edge/

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How The Lord of the Rings saved New Zealand's tourism industry – twice!

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The University of St Andrews has developed a new tool to quickly identify poisonous books For years, a primary way to make an emerald green book cover was soaking it in arsenic and copper, which will poison you. Some libraries just put all their green books from a certain era into a forbidden shelf out of an abundance of caution. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jun/06/tool-to-identify-poisonous-books-developed-by-university-of-st-andrews

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GPS orbits 12,550 miles above the Earth Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, China’s Beidou — the issue they all have is given the distance, GPS is easy to jam. That's bad if you want to make drones common. So Xona Space Systems wants to build Pulsar, a constellation of 258 satellites in low Earth orbit that would be 12,000 miles closer. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/06/1117978/inside-the-race-to-find-gps-alternatives/

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this brand new ✈️737 • Flew from Boeing in Seattle > Hawaii > Guam > Zhoushan • rejected due to tariff • Flew back to Guam, chilled there for weeks. • Gave up, returned to Seattle 4/19 • On Friday, left Seattle! • was JUST accepted by Xiamen Air 🥲 https://sherwood.news/business/tracking-one-boeing-737s-journey-through-the-us-china-trade-war/

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interesting story up on Sherwood about two more companies joining in on Strategy's playbook of buying bitcoin https://sherwood.news/crypto/strategy-kicks-off-the-week-with-usd110-million-bitcoin-buy/

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Fascinating survey out of Pew about where people want energy, with huge news for nuclear: ☢️ using sophisticated equipment to coax protons out of rocks in order to boil water ↗️59% (‼️) ☀️using more radiation from a nearby star to produce electricity ↔️77% 💨large airfoils to crank turbines powered by the inherent energy of Earth’s atmosphere ↘️68% , 🦖 carboniferous debris of ancient plant life, ↔️ at sub 50%

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this is wonderful!

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Wanted to take a moment to introduce myself! Huge shout out to my friend @kaufman for telling me about this place. I'm a journalist and author, I've spent my career at the intersection of data, culture, and markets.

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hello! I'm very excited to be here!

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