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>what we call Democracy in the NYTimes is actually oligarchy, and what we call Populism is actually Democracy
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El Salvador looks to become the world’s first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender
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@skells @11112011 FB was already fried once for electioneering over cambridge analytica. They did it again but this time for democrats and got pinged again for partisan moderating (veritas) just like they got pinged yet again this time carrying water for pfizer and fauci (veritas.) CNN also got pinged for executives admitting they made it the company's job to tank Trump more than report news (veritas again.)

problem is they're playing the innocent until proven guilty game. which is what courts use, but not what security teams use. if you use positive and negative empiricism, the negative arc looks absolutely fucking horrible right now (there is no proof of guilt, but there is a massive supply of actions being done that innocent people don't do)
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@11112011 @skells kind of one of those "gee whiz i wonder why your entire house has been scrubbed with bleach all the sudden" kind of things.
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@skells @11112011 i thought it was interesting how they all had that weird staccato pattern, esp. georgia having that weird F bump happen more than once. The amount of non-compliance with oversight was also not confidence inducing. And the amount of resistance to compliance with the audit (ex. trying to destroy evidence minutes before handing it to auditors) isn’t confidence inspiring.

In Salinas v Texas the court basically ruled you’re allowed to hold non-compliance and nervous responses as a sign of guilt.

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institutional power = proximity to money printer

"Whatever the complexities are on both the GameStop and AMC dramas, the subreddit has become a powerful force and, to hedge funds and institutional short-sellers, a menacing one. Its political ethos is fascinating because it is, at once, vague, heterodox, trans-ideological, defiant, hilarious and anti-establishmentarian. However one tries to define it, it is far more than merely mercenary. It has a purpose beyond profiteering and is driven by collective action, which are two of the factors that make it so unpredictable and uncontrollable and therefore alarming to institutional power"

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PUTIN SAYS WE MAY CONSIDER SETTLEMENTS IN NATIONAL CURRENCIES AND EUROS FOR OIL AND GAS
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I've been thinking: right to repair is a necessary band-aid right now because things are getting way out of hand, but wouldn't it be nice if the economy as a whole were to prioritize designing things which were simple, easily repaired and intended to last a century ?

> gf sends meme
> share meme on fedi
> most faved/boosted post

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when planning a project, don't forget to make it exactly twice as large in scope as is necessary. that way you can get bored and abandon it exactly at the halfway mark

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technology is 'cool' yes, but i feel like bathing all human-occupied areas in passive radar that recognizes and tracks everyone 24/7 to create a volumetric heatmap of exactly how you are sitting on your chair right now... isn't really y'know... it

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