Kris Sargent, MD @kristofor@social.cleverlibre.org

hahahaha

Case in point: @mmasnick is more influential on the Fediverse now than he ever was on Twitter.

What’s he doing?

He’s present, active, and conversational. That’s pretty much it.

Other than being an early adopter, there’s no special sauce.

I'm not writing an entire blog post about how stupid a US TikTok ban would be because this is all that needs to be said:

If the Chinese government is in your threat model, don’t install TikTok on your device. Otherwise, your actual problem is surveillance capitalism.

Love how the f*cking Republicans are all, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time!”

But when it comes to their Cheeto Jesus going to the slammer, they turn into far left prison abolitionists

Your periodic reminder that bailing out Silicon Valley Bank cost more than the entire US food stamp program, and happened overnight with zero debate.

A banger of a post from Matt Stoller on the failure of the Fed to regulate banks:

"Independence just means the Fed will do what the banks want, not just in bank regulation and supervision, but in organizing the entire economy through monetary policy. That era needs to end."

HT @pluralistic
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/fire-the-fed

"Unlike other Western economies, the Icelandic government let its three major banks - Kaupthing, Glitnir and Landsbankinn - fail and went after reckless bankers. Many senior executives have been jailed" - BBC
#Iceland

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35485876

I don’t think Charles Apple made it over this way, but he shared a great meme that I feel I must share with you.

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter reconnaissance for an attack on an alleged North Vietnamese-controlled village at My Lai.

As the ground attack developed below, Thompson realised he was in fact witnessing something something else:

A massacre.

He decided to act. /1 🧵 #history #histodons

The whole discussion about banning TikTok is incredibly frustrating to me, as it seems like a fairly blatant 1st Amendment violation that *also* completely destroy whatever (slight, and always mostly rhetorical) moral high ground the US had on this sort of thing: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/16/yes-the-us-government-threatening-to-block-tiktok-violates-the-1st-amendment/

1. Fox News' @JesseBWatters@twitter.com told millions of viewers that Silicon Valley Bank "donated $74 million to Black Lives Matter."

Similar claims went viral on Twitter

Some "facts" are too good to check

The actual amount that SVB donated to BLM is ZERO

Follow along for receipts 🧾

But anyway, I'm sure Putin will stop at the annexation of T̶h̶e̶ ̶S̶u̶d̶e̶t̶e̶n̶l̶a̶n̶d̶ Crimea. We should have a meeting in Germany to negotiate a Ukrainian Concession. I hear Munich is nice this time of year.

This was an actual argument made about reasons for the SVB failure in the Wall Street Journal. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/13/silicon-valley-bank-woke-right-wing/

Spotify: 25000 people listened to your album, we’ll never tell you who they are and how they found you! Here’s $1.74.

Bandcamp: 30 people bought your album and left a comment! Here’s $250.