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Drake Just Silenced Janice — And Made Billboard History If you've been anywhere near a radio this week, you've probably already heard it — that slippery, Auto-Tuned hook sliding through your speakers before you could change the station . Drake's Janice STFU , the lead single from his new album ICEMAN , has officially debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 , and the story behind that chart position is genuinely worth talking about. The debut gives Drake his 14th career Hot 100 number one, officially breaking his previous tie with Michael Jackson for the most chart-toppers among solo male artists in the chart's 67-year history. That's not a small thing. Michael Jackson spent decades as the undisputed king of that particular record , and the timing here couldn't be more interesting — because Jackson himself has been mounting a remarkable comeback on those very same charts. The Michael Jackson biopic Michael has been a massive box office succes...

Stablecoins & Geopolitics:  Tether Goes to Tbilisi The world's largest stablecoin issuer is partnering with the Georgian government to launch GELT — a digital lari token — and the implications for the hobbyist ecosystem are genuinely exciting. If you have been watching Tether quietly expand its footprint beyond its flagship USDT , this week handed you a headline worth bookmarking. Tether, the world's largest stablecoin issuer by circulation, announced plans to launch a government-supported digital token bound to the Georgian lari, officially dubbed GELT . The announcement — posted this past Monday — came with statements of support from Georgia's Prime Minister, the head of the central bank, and a member of parliament. That is a remarkable level of institutional endorsement for a privately issued digital currency token, and the digital asset community has every reason to take notice . Georgia is not just a scenic country tucked between the Bl...

Media & Celebrity:  Hunter Biden's Accidental Week of Self-Sabotage He sat for two of the most unusual interviews in recent memory — with Candace Owens , and then with Soft White Underbelly . He answered questions politely . That's about the most charitable thing anyone can say about how it went. If you've been scrolling YouTube this week and noticed the same face appearing in two very different thumbnails, you're not imagining things. Hunter Biden — son of former president Joe Biden , convicted felon, recovering addict, and now something of a strange media fixture — sat for not one but two lengthy interviews in the same week. One was with Candace Owens, who until recently spent years publicly mocking him . The other was with Soft White Underbelly, a YouTube channel run by a man named Mark Laita , who has built a large and devoted following by interviewing people in difficult circumstances with a style best described as unfiltered . If you're not ...

Ohio's Got a Billfold and a Backstory Ohio just made history, and it did it quietly — the way Ohio does things . On May 22, 2026, Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague announced the Buckeye Billfold initiative , which will enable Ohio residents to make payments to state agencies using a digital wallet, including those made with digital currency . Ohio is now, by its own account, the first state to successfully authorize and promote statewide agency use and acceptance of digital asset payments . Congratulations, Buckeye State. Pull up a chair. We have questions. Let's talk about the mechanics, because this is where it gets interesting — and where a lot of headlines are going to get it wrong . When making a payment, whatever digital currency you use will then be converted to U.S. currency . That's the part that deserves a slow read. Ohio isn't actually holding your Bitcoin , your ETH, or whatever asset you use. The state isn't becoming a digital as...

If you ever needed proof that civilization has peaked, look no further than the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli , where local officials have reportedly decided that Wednesdays are now a complete musical dead zone . That’s right. No singing. No dancing. No public music. On Wednesdays , the island apparently transforms from Mediterranean paradise into the world’s most aggressively enforced dentist waiting room. Honestly, it’s the most shocking attack on rhythm since your uncle tried karaoke after three limoncellos and turned Stayin’ Alive into a hostage negotiation. However, Stromboli is famous for its volcano. ( The mountain literally erupts on schedule more reliably than most classic rock drummers from the 1970s .) So maybe officials thought the island already had enough natural percussion. “Do we really need bongos,” they asked, “when the earth itself is dropping bass?” Still, banning music on Wednesdays feels oddly specific. Why Wednesdays? Did somebody finally snap...

Your Attorney Is Using ChatGPT and Charging You $400 an Hour On lawyers, language models, and what happens when you try to pay your retainer in Polkadot Let's have a frank conversation about your attorney. Not your attorney specifically — perish the thought — but the general category of person who passed one very long multiple-choice exam, hung a sign, and is now billing you $400 an hour to have a chatbot draft your LLC operating agreement. Welcome to the modern American legal system, where the fox is not merely guarding the henhouse ; the fox has subscribed to an AI platform and is monetizing the chickens at a premium rate. The dirty secret of small private practice is that most  non-legacy attorneys are operating without the gilded infrastructure of BigLaw . No paralegal army. No secretary who quietly fixes their grammar. No $800-a-month legal research database keeping them current on case law . Westlaw and LexisNexis charge fees that would make a h...