Thu. 07/22 - Venmore You Venknow

Your payments for dog walking and, er, “love hotels” via Venmo are now no longer subject to global scrutiny, neutron stars have wee tiny mountains, smaller than predicted, pool parties by the hour via Swimply, and former Colombian guerrillas tour you through the beauty of the jungle they still inhabit.

Links:

• Venmo drops the global social feed that could make your payments visible to strangers (The Verge)
• The Venmo App You Know and Love Now Has a New Look and Feel (PayPal Newsroom)
• Venmo payment records reveal a vast network of young women received money from Rep. Matt Gaetz’s associate, the accused sex trafficker Joel Greenberg (The Daily Beast)
• Gaetz associate Joel Greenberg scheduled to be sentenced in August (CNN)
• We Found Joe Biden’s Secret Venmo. Here’s Why That’s A Privacy Nightmare For Everyone. (Buzzfeed)
• Venmo Will Now Let You Hide Your Friend List Because We Found Biden’s Account (Buzzfeed)
• Thanks to Venmo, We Now All Know How Cheap Our Friends Are (New York Times)
• Modelling neutron star mountains paper (F. Gittins, N. Andersson, and D. I. Jones)
• Gravitational waves from star-eating black holes detected on Earth (The Guardian)
• An ‘Airbnb for Pools’ Is Making a Splash This Summer (Wall Street Journal)
• Swimply
• Oklahoma City homeowners cashing in on the ‘Airbnb for your pool’ (The Oklahoman)
• Is There a Urine Detector for Swimming Pools? (ThoughtCo)
• Tourists In Colombia Can Now Take Jungle Hikes With Ex-FARC Guerrilla Guides (NPR)
• FARC Wants You to Come Stay in the Jungle—Voluntarily (The Daily Beast)
• Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)

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