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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Citizen's Arrest Network hold Anglian Water to account, because no one else will⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The article is heavy on narrative but…did the CEO leave? Did they take him into custody? Kind of the important result of reporting on the arrest, which if something came of it is great. I assume it wasn’t reported because the CEO just left and they didn’t hold him by force and no one took him into custody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Georgia, Trump’s Cuts to Solar Projects Hit Some of His Voters | The Trump administration canceled a $7 billion program intended to help low & moderate-income families install rooftop solar panel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I trust the informed electorate will note that and adjust their future votes appropriately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mary E. Brunkow, one of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Medicine, has only 34 published papers and an H-index of 21.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The analytics are overblown, and coaches need to get back to the big picture. Stanford traded Hollins at the deadline for Wu, but picked up the player option on Candell for the 4th year. The performance bonus if they make the all-star team should provide enough motivation to ensure they don’t get saddled with a mid-career ball hog. Team chemistry will be key, hopefully during the preseason they can get it together and not have any niggling injuries interrupt. There is concern about the defensive strategy on set plays, their specialist Franco just had their contract waived and stretched under the current contract, so the team may look to the transfer market mid season when it opens, or potentially to move up in the spring draft to fill needs. Still can’t believe they traded Simpson and pay 2.7 per year for Johnson.

  Universities run by MBAs and academics operating like sports franchises.Meanwhile, they’re arresting students in campus for protesting genocide and fascism.

  Seems legit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JP Morgan staff told they must share biometric data to access headquarters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Getting nervous about the general public are we?

  Reap:sow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JP Morgan boss Jamie Dimon sounds warning on US stock market fall⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he’s toeing the line with the fact his org and a few other rich people call shots, and that they benefit from the current structure the US has on the world stage. Loss of fed independence, which any (fucking idiot as you say) can see is happening, will hurt either JPM or those they are beholden to so he does the PR bit for now while they reshuffle in the background aligning with new power and future advantages. Once they and theirs have adjusted, then the market will be allowed to crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z's can't afford to move out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was incredible some boomers couldn’t see that between college debt, and a radically different world of cost in housing to say nothing of food, transportation and energy costs, that their generation’s corporate permissiveness and privatization had collectively taken away what was so generously given to them by society.

  Corporate PR pushed the narratives to be fair, it was an early attempt to confuse or distract the clear end of the American dream for young Americans. Your college degree is worthless and your enormous loans are non-discharageable even in bankruptcy, and you need 10 years at median gross salary to buy a home. Meanwhile, salaries are now aggressively managed down or to a “market average” under the guide of equity but more to control paying for the value of work. The trap was laid and 30 years or so of Americans were slaughtered in it’s teeth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too short! More!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McKinsey: Global economic profit bounces back to an all-time high⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do these people ever think about the connection between finance and economics and real, underlying value?

  They make slide decks and persuade people who want to believe consultants can help and/or aren’t smart enough to see through the facade. The profit and business memecycles and bubbles are quick; by the time it’s flopped the consultants have not only long since moved on from accountability but also probably had 5 catchphrase meme pitch cycles since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BOTS - a biting, satirical commentary on how online discourse is weaponized to divide and sow chaos.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please tell me this is just a long trailer and not the whole thing?!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Credit scores drop at fastest pace since the Great Recession⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know that, though I would have assumed any scoring/ranking system that doesn’t take into account realities of history would systematically disadvantage minorities. Who/where did it come from? Chicago redlining? The good old South?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly 500 workers were taken in a raid at Hyundai’s battery plant. In a quiet Georgia town, the silence is deafening⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This raid happened days after a Korean presidential visit to the US with Trump to discuss trade negotiations, of which the US is looking for concessions, giveaways and fealty from Korea, as with other nations. Korea didn’t show up like a doormat and this was the calculated, premeditated response. The entire story is about international trade, manufacturing and economics, overlaid by broken US immigration practices.

  That is how this is economics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox Nightly now lets you access Microsoft Copilot from the sidebar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “let’s you”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At least I can enjoy stupid corporate leaders lapping up the dogfood they’re told to eat, except for the pain workers and real people suffer as a result of this yheft, trash and grift.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple isn’t a marketing company? Wow, if anything I would say that singularly defines what has made them successful. They put out solidly mid hardware, but are the best marketers in tech and always were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon Warns Microsoft: Company’s Use of China-Based Engineers Was a “Breach of Trust”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Quiet I can hear you while we’re auctioning off Bytedance/tiktok to US corporations. No hypocrisy to be found here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google plans to begin verifying the identity of all developers who distribute apps on Android, even if it's outside the Play Store, starting September 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember, it’s important that technology and advancement only be used by capital, never by the underclass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That flank. Sigh. I remember the turn after Occupy. It went from economics to being cool to just broadly bash men. I specifically remember outspoken, angry women at marches and protests and was like wait, where did the economics go? Like 60% of Republicans wanted wealth reform during occupy. It unfortunately coincided with really great–though apparently transitory–improvements in lgbtq rights. It was so weird to me that self-labeling “feminists” were suddenly talking like it was a zero sum game; for women to rise and improve and build and grow, men had to be put down. That is of course the language of someone seeking power, a charlatan, but it became quite normal. Even questioning the broad criticism of men wasn’t appropriate in “liberal” press or circles for a good decade. The whole "yeah but bashing men isn’t right/fair or clumsy” finally started working into the Atlantic, NYT and other large publications in 2023 but the damage had been done.

  It of course drove lots of men right to the tall radio, podcasters–and those were young adults then–i can’t imagine what it was like growing up since then as a young person with the normalization of some of this stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI can find cancer pathologists miss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  RFK

  Cancer causes autism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. They also rewrote national broadband funding criteria so starlink would win most of the state contracts for funding. If the states are stupid enough to take it, the Elon Musk will own their citizens internet. Colorado just announced Starlink won half of all the contracts and Amazon the other half(I didn’t even know Amazon provided Internet holy terrifying):

  You may experience difficulty connecting to some web domains and your homepage has been preselected for you. Your monthly history will be reviewed and unpatriotic web usage will result in detainment or deportation.

  Congratulations on your Freedom!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major password managers can leak logins in clickjacking attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like Craigslist; every ounce of energy out into veneer is energy not in the core product design and maintenance and also adds cost. Minimal, functional, excellent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wyoming launches first state-backed stablecoin on seven blockchains⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It be turbulent if you were in Wyoming and trying to compete against the stable coin of say…California. wonder which one most investors would choose?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RushTok backlash: Why sororities aren't letting prospects post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …exposure to what is effectively running a small buisness under the worst possible circumstances.

  That is the funniest damn thing I’ve read in a long time, so true. It’s like a zero star motel where the employees are the customers with burning man and some ted talks thrown in. If you get that into the black and manage to avoid a subpoena, you are ready to take a company public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google has agreed to pay $36 million fine for signing anticompetitive deals with Australia’s two largest telcos that banned the installation of competing search engines⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange how the powerful’s chosen candidates whose campaigns they fund have tended throughout history to not pass legislation the would have consequences for their funders. It almost makes me want to go out on a limb and say the system disproportionately benefits the wealthy at the expense of the poor who can’t just buy their way out of consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But for a few fleeting moments we did create a lot of value for the shareholders. Totally worth it to flush it all down the drain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Live Facial Recognition technology to catch high-harm offenders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How are they tackling the drivers of the downfall of society; the evaporating social safety net, and aggressively underpaying the employed thanks to oligarchs? Foreign wealth buying up real estate? Polluters poisoning the water, the air?

  Will these super expensive new measures go after and hold accountable at all, the wealthy?

  No? I’m shocked.

  Remember, crime is only for the poor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larry Ellison Just Quietly Became the Most Powerful Man in America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Going to outFoX Faux news

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump opens the door for crypto and private equity in your 401(k) retirement plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure only the best commercial real estate loan traunches will be packaged and included to the general public. Definitely no offloading of toxic assets to suckers here. The next financial crisis won’t be a crisis because the wealthy in the system, the banks, the insurers and private equity will have no skin in the losers. There will be no bailouts this time, “moral hazard” will be cited this time. “Investors should have known the Risks” will be the cry.

  Americans don’t even know how compound interest works, let alone how their current 401k works–if they’re among those who have access, or the minority able to save in them–let alone do they have the sophistication to evaluate real estate loan portfolios.

  Theft, grift, as expected.

  With the increase to SD retirement age that will be forced on people as “the only solution”–rather than the wealthy contributing-- this will make the permanent end of the US middle class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, he said torch. I assume butane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, and by manual approval it just would be the absolute lowest priority. Kind of like the automated message “we’re expecting higher than normal call volumes” as companies gently tell us their margins are more important than their customers.