Fine, but what do you actually do?

"Co-investing with the private sector" = "Creating a rentier economy" = "Voluntarily entering indentured servitude". Alas, it has come to this.

I say not only should the Georgia ballots be hand counted, the tally should be kept on an abacus.

Who would have thought people as intelligent as Trump supporters could be conned?

MNpaleofuture.bsky.socialOct 5, 2024 2:14pm

I FOIA’d the FTC for consumer complaints about Truth Social and users are getting scammed out of so much money

Truth Social Users Are Losing Ridiculous Sums of Money to Scams

Read the complaints submitted to the FTC by users of Donald Trump's social media platform.

62% over six years for the dockworkers comes out to 8.4% a year. This is beginning to feel like the 70s again. Inflation coming?

Why does the mike have to be so big? This seems like pure affectation.

Lunch with the FT this weekend, Silicon Valley gadfly Meredith Whittaker. The potemkin market for AI investments, and the coming giant monopolies therein.

Trump is now hawking a $100,000 watch. I wonder if any laws would be broken if, say, a Russian oligarch bought one of these? www.washingtonpost.com/elections/20...

‘Don’t wait’: Trump promotes limited-supply $100,000 watches

The Trump-branded watches are the priciest product Trump has hawked amid a presidential campaign featuring other unusual for-profit enterprises.

How did shopping malls come to be called malls? I mean, the original mall was Pall Mall, whose name comes from the croquet-like game pall-mall, where you use a mallet (malleus=hammer) to hit a ball (palla, old German) through a hoop in an alley. I guess the modern ghost mall is pretty suitable.