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Friday, 28 March 2025

Former Facebook executive exposes tech giant?s alarming failings | 60 Minutes Australia

quote [ Sarah Wynn-Williams reveals the secrets about the upper management of Facebook?s parent company, Meta.*The Insider (2025)*? ]

Sounds about right.

Not right, wrong on a few levels.

[SFW] [politics] [+3 Informative]
[by R1Xhard@1:49amGMT] [5 comments]

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Summers Says Trump Policies Could Shake Confidence in the Rule of Law

quote [ It takes decades to grow a forest and a few minutes to burn it down. ]

A very loud 3 minute sound bite, to me, who misses the pundits that used to post on SE. Difficult to make sense of the world nowadays. Hit continue to destination button.
[It's a Youtube with timestamp that SE doesn't like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diITRaJgRqQ]
[SFW] [politics] [+3 Informative]
[by yunnaf@3:59pmGMT] [16 comments]

Friday, 21 March 2025

From Statecraft To Soulcraft

quote [ Like it or not, the central political question of our time may well be about the good life ? and who gets to define it. ]

For Yunnaf. Think this did a good job of explaining humans craving meaning and belief systems which are provided by all the wrong parties in the agnostic age ? apart from the class struggle that is. Also: I miss cb361. Also: extended.

[SFW] [politics] [+1 Interesting]
[by Paracetamol@7:21amGMT] [0 comments]

Wednesday, 19 March 2025

Joseph Stiglitz on Trump, tariffs and democracy

quote [ we have a President who is actively trying to roll the clock back on the limited advances that we have made in inequality, inclusion, and diversity. So, you, you know, you sort of felt a little bit over my lifetime and made a little progress, much less than I had hoped. But then, to see this roll back is like, how can I say it? ]

SE used to have well informed political posters. In view of their absence, I feel in necessary to offer a calm listing of some of our misfortunes, what is notably missing are all the serious judicial malfeasances. I used to learn a lot from those civic minded posters (including steele) and feel this must be in the SE record.
[SFW] [politics] [+2 Insightful]
[by yunnaf@7:51pmGMT] [1 comment]

Sunday, 9 March 2025

?Startup Nation? Groups Say They?re Meeting Trump Officials to Push for Deregulated ?Freedom Cities?

quote [ The architects of projects like Próspera are drafting legislation to create US cities that would be free from federal regulations. ]

Freedom, in a corner of the city
[SFW] [politics] [+2]
[by ScoobySnacks@6:06amGMT] [2 comments]



Saturday, 25 January 2025

Neuters

quote [ This is an alternative frontend to Reuters. It is intented to be lightweight, fast and was heavily inspired by Nitter. ]

Great thing it has a search function as well. Nitter is almost dead by now, though 1 instance still works by using proxy accounts.

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[SFW] [politics] [+3 Informative]
[by Paracetamol@8:57pmGMT] [1 comment]

Thursday, 23 January 2025

Dark web PHP dev Ross Ulbricht released from prison?

quote [ Ross Ulbricht received a presidential pardon for his crimes related to the Silk Road. Let's take a look at the tech stack behind the Silk Road website, which... ]

So in some other-related news.

[SFW] [politics] [+1 Informative]
[by R1Xhard@10:11amGMT] [3 comments]

Tuesday, 14 January 2025

Supercut of Americans flooding to RedNote in the wake of the TikTok ban

LMAO. Well if it isn't the unintended consequences of their actions.
[SFW] [politics] [+2 Funny]
[by steele@1:36pmGMT] [5 comments]

Friday, 20 December 2024

Donald Trump Hosts Surprise News Conference In Florida | Drone Sighting

quote [ US President-elect Donald Trump hosts a surprise press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Florida.Speaking at Mar-a-Lago 36 days before his return to the White House,... ]

So does anyone get "They Live" vibes from all these drones and such?

[SFW] [politics] [+1 Funny]
[by R1Xhard@12:43pmGMT] [2 comments]

Friday, 8 November 2024

?Yeah Capitalism Is Bad?But What Can We Do??

quote [ Perhaps the most common comment I get is some version of "yeah capitalism is bad, but what can we do about it?" I figured it was about time I made a dedicated video to answer that question. Let's read a little theory! ]

Things are quite bad, but you are not without options. Highly recommended that you check out that list in the description, the 3rd option, PSL, is doing quite well, hell they work with the Peace and Freedom Party.
[SFW] [politics]
[by ooo[......7@11:49pmGMT] [5 comments]



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