Orion Sullivan

Brooklyn-born astrophotographer currently broadcasting from a solar-powered cabin in Patagonia. Rye dissects everything from exoplanet discoveries and blockchain art markets to backcountry coffee science—delivering each piece with the cadence of a late-night FM host. Between deadlines he treks glacier fields with a homemade radio telescope strapped to his backpack, samples regional folk guitars for ambient soundscapes, and keeps a running spreadsheet that ranks meteor showers by emotional impact. His mantra: “The universe is open-source—so share your pull requests.”

Inside the “Pig Butchering” Crypto Scam: How Social Engineering, Call Centers, and Cross-Border Networks Extract Billions

The pig butchering model—known in Mandarin as “sha zhu pan”—is a highly organized crypto scam that blends romance fraud, investment manipulation, and cross-border money laundering into a relentless extraction engine. Victims are “fattened” with attention, false profits, and escalating promises before being “slaughtered” through large transfers into fake or captive Read more

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