After pressure from the cryptocurrency lobby, the House of Representatives passed the CLARITY Act—a bill that would allow sketchy cryptocurrency ventures to appear legitimate by receiving approval from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Now the Senate Banking Committee is looking for public input on its own version of the CLARITY Act.
Tell the Senate to support strong regulations for cryptocurrency instead.
@neuralreckoning @dougmerritt @albertcardona @curvenote @pbloem It's a tricky balance - readability and functionality... I really do like the readability of pandoc-augmented Markdown that is adapted so you can insert LaTeX (at least for equations) and standardizes how you do figures and citations; but it's cobbled-together and non-standard. I would love to see a stable and standardized way to do what you can do that way, b/c I think it gets the balance right, more-or-less -
My footnotes are just blah blah[^2] and then I have a footnotes file that has paragraphs that look like this:
[^2]: This is my footnote...
My figures are inserted like this:
{#fig:smelly alt="This is some alt text"}
...then referenced like so: ...as shown in Figure [@fig:smelly].
My headers are like:
## Header for a Level 2 Subsection {#sec:2.1}
and I can reference them with: You can see this in Section [@sec:2.1] as well as...
Anyway, I think it gets a good balance of readability and functionality; plenty of support for autonumbering and crossreferencing; and you can use standard bibtext file and bibliography formats - which you can also tweak easily enough.
But definitely there are drawbacks. It isn't a real standard - you have to cobble together plugins for Pandoc to get everything you need working. And I also haven't gotten good-looking HTML out - just PDF and ePub. But I haven't tried that hard to get that HTML output. You can totally change the templates and I suspect it's a 1-2 weekend project to make something that looks clean - I'm thinking something like the official Rust language book here https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ - nothing more complex.
Via #DailyKos @ 5:55pm ET on Aug 2, 2025
On July 10, the #SEC filed suit against #BrantFrostIV and his company, #FirstLibertyBuildingAndLoan, alleging Frost ran a #PonziScheme that defrauded retail investors — mainly older religious conservatives — and some #Georgia, #Alabama, and #Maine politicians who had invested with Frost after receiving campaign contributions from him.
Big publicly traded companies are hedging their public AI enthusiasm by quietly disclosing it as a material risk in financial filings. They warn investors that return on AI investment may never come, or that regulatory and competitive pressures could undercut progress. It is smart self‑defense, but also shows a gap between marketing and sober risk assessment.
TL;DR Many S&P 500 firms list AI as a risk in SEC filings
Some warn AI ROI may never materialise
Regulatory oversight and “AI washing” enforcement increasing
Disclosures reflect cautious tone beneath bullish public messaging
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/15/sec_risk_factors_ai/
#AI #SEC #RiskFactors #CorporateGovernance #security #privacy #cloud #infosec #cybersecurity #risk #finance
4 House Dems are calling on the SEC to investigate whether publicly traded cos that operate immigration #detention centers have violated fed securities laws thru no-bid contracts with ICE.
“We believe that it's imperative for the SEC to adequately oversee the timely & accurate disclosure of material info from these cos.”
It's crucial to amplify the #TrumpRegime's corrupt schemes, Trump's grift, #Republicans' complicity...
#Bribery #Corruption #ICE #SEC #Protest #USPol https://migrantinsider.com/p/lawmakers-to-sec-investigate-private
BNY Mellon’s Senior Executive Vice President J. Kevin McCarthy sold $1.969 million in company shares, according to an SEC filing, but retains a significant stake.
#YonhapInfomax #BNYMellon #InsiderTrading #SEC #ShareSale #JKevinMcCarthy #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=73846
Cryptos are NOT Magic!
"As powerful as blockchain technology is, it does not have magical abilities to transform the nature of the underlying asset."
- SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/speeches-statements/peirce-statement-tokenized-securities-070925
FYI @cryptadamist
Solana-based ETFs in the US have attracted $78 million in just one month, reflecting surging investor interest in altcoin investment products and staking reward structures.
#YonhapInfomax #SolanaETF #REXShares #StakingRewards #SEC #AltcoinInflows #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=71754
hope people realize that #ICE, the federal law enforcement agency comprised mostly of people who failed out of becoming police or other law enforcement, now has a budget that is ~50% bigger than all the rest of federal law enforcement (#FBI, Bureau of Prisons, #DEA, Marshals, #ATF, #SEC, #IRS, etc) put together.
the unaccountable guys in the masks who abduct people off the street are now probably the best funded law enforcement agency in the history of the world, maybe other than China's internal police.
why bother complying with all the onerous rules that regulate the selling of securities to the public when you can just sell them “tokens” instead?
SpaceX and OpenAI are privately held companies that have disclosed virtually nothing about their businesses to the public (which they would be required to do before selling "shares" instead of "tokens" to mere mortals).
you’re looking at the death of 100 years of more or less successful financial regulation. all the rules put into place after the great depression are pretty much kaput.
But #Trump & key players in his admin have taken a view that these agencies should be under direct supervision of the WH & Trump has fired officials who say they are legally shielded from dismissal in most cases.
Amanda Fischer, policy director and chief operating officer at #financial reform advocacy group Better Markets, said any #DOGE involvement in #SEC rulemaking raises serious concerns about potential #ConflictsOfInterest & #political #influence overriding staff expertise.
…To be sure, the #SEC is led by a presidentially appointed chairman who guides the agency's #regulatory agenda, making it rare for the agency to depart drastically from White House priorities….
But the SEC, like other #financial regulators, has long been treated as #independent from the WH — both through #legal protections & decades of norms…. The agency has traditionally limited communications w/the WH over rules to avoid political interference, or the appearance of it.
But sources… said #DOGE's involvement in crafting new #policy has rankled some #SEC officials, raising concerns over whether a #Trump initiative should be involved in the core work of an agency long seen as #independent.
Under the #Biden admin, the SEC adopted the #SPAC & private funds #regulations to protect investors from potentially unscrupulous claims by investment promoters & prevent the unchecked buildup of risks to financial stability in the private funds sector.
The efforts, which have not been previously reported, are part of a broader #deregulatory push by the #Trump admin, which has said it wants to spur economic *growth* [#fraud] by slashing government #oversight.
In a February executive order, Trump directed #DOGE officials at #FederalAgencies to identify #regulations the admin may seek to eliminate for any of a range of different reasons, such as imposing "undue burdens" or costs on businesses.
#DOGE officials at the #SEC, who have so far focused on cutting costs, have in recent weeks sought meetings with staff to explore relaxing what some companies have described as burdensome & unnecessary #regulations, including reworking #Biden-era rules adopted last year on so-called Special Purpose Acquisition Companies, #SPAC, & requirements that private investment advisers confidentially disclose more data so regulators can better spot systemic risk….
Exclusive: DOGE now targeting #SEC policy, eyes #SPAC rules
#Trump's #DOGE initiative has pushed the US #markets watchdog to loosen #WallStreet rules around blank-check companies & confidential reporting by private investment funds….
#law #regulations #fraud
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/doge-now-targeting-sec-policy-eyes-spac-rules-sources-say-2025-07-01/