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rashomon nesterović retweeted
"You are wrong if you think that the Communists are enamoured of violence. They would very gladly dispense with violent methods if the ruling class agreed to give way to the working class. But the experience of history speaks against such an assumption."
- Joseph Stalin, 1934
it's funny that "Democratic Socialism" as something distinct from "Social Democracy" (both far from what communists mean by socialism) has been tried very few times, and its clearest living practitioner was called a dictator by mamdani + is being Authoriarian-ly locked up in NYC
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BREAKING: Employers worldwide are pulling back on AI as they navigate a flood of errors and low-quality work that sap employee time, raise privacy and security risks, and drive up costs, per the Guardian.
the main themes in the article are the large numbers of human agents involved, the use of Patriot Act tools to fulfill the Patriot Act's always intended purpose of furthering new COINTELPRO, and the integration of modern surveillance technology with the former
ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations is engaged in far-reaching spying against left-wing activists that rivals the FBI and CIA crackdowns on the Civil Rights and anti-war movements. buff.ly/0thFwce
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Crypto is doing the opposite of what maxis wanted: spreading the dollar.
DoubleZero co-founder Austin Federa says stablecoins has become one of the best things for US national security to come out of finance in 30 years
"Should we, as crypto people, be sad about how integrated the markets have gotten? And how much crypto is now just finance?"
"A lot of the people who are like, the US dollar is bad, we should have Bitcoin be the national reserve currency, genuinely did not understand anything about how nation state economies work."
"I think that crypto has been one of the best things for US national security to come out of the financial industry in 30 years."
"It's because we have dollarization continuing to expand internationally, at a time when the US has more currencies pushing back against it than it's had in our lifetime."
"Bitcoin in general, you want it paired with the strongest fiat currency, which is the US dollar."
"Even if you are a Bitcoin maxi who thinks Bitcoin is the only currency you should be holding, you should be really happy that more of the traditional US dollar denominated financial sector is participating in Bitcoin."
Bitcoin's Bear Market Ended Months Ago nitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1DxLdZBWk…
🎵gonna be voting
going to vote all abouuut you
getting to vooote you
getting to hope you vote meeee 🎶
rashomon nesterović retweeted
Global Sales Growth Depends Heavily on China, With US and Japan Sales Declining Amid Rising Prices, Counterpoint Says
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⚡️ Mayor Zohran Mamdani's NYPD is poised to sign a three-year, $750,500 no-bid contract with Israeli surveillance firm Cognyte for FalcoNet, an AI-driven device that mimics a cell tower to track phones and can be mounted on police cars and drones or hidden in a backpack, the New York Daily News reported.
Cognyte won a tender to sell intercept spyware to Myanmar's state telecom weeks before the 2021 military coup, Reuters previously reported. Meta banned the firm the same year, saying its customers used fake accounts to target journalists and politicians in Kenya, Mexico and Indonesia.
The firm is part of an Israeli surveillance industry that grew big as a result of the military's monitoring of Palestinians, whose phone calls Israel's Unit 8200 has intercepted and stored by the millions, including to carry out genocide in Gaza and enforce a brutal illegal occupation in Jerusalem and the West Bank.
we must dismantle the bipartisan lie that the nuclear program is the sole or even primary issue. when i gave a speech on this last year i referenced stuff like neocon history/PNAC, oil industry nationalization, & circumvention of the SWIFT system. but im sure there's other angles
rashomon nesterović retweeted
Recently, through the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, Congress lifted the cap on public housing conversions by 100k units, paving the way for housing authorities to move many more complexes out of the conventional Section 9 system nationally.
rashomon nesterović retweeted
En France, des livreurs Uber Eats s’organisent pour refuser collectivement les courses les moins rémunérées, en utilisant plusieurs téléphones.
Une stratégie qui pousse l’algorithme à augmenter les tarifs jusqu’à atteindre 15 € ou plus par livraison. 😳
rashomon nesterović retweeted
Is L.A. mayoral candidate Nithya Raman a capitalist?
"I'm a capitalist and I'm also a Democratic Socialist...we need to make sure capitalism works without harm to workers... to poor people."
She says the DSA is a "big tent" but she disagrees with members who call to abolish police, prisons and the Senate.
Interview via @InsidePolitics on @CNN
rashomon nesterović retweeted
Target got caught raising prices on shoppers just for walking into its stores.
Now its baskets carry a Bluetooth tracker.
That tracker talks to Target's ceiling lights, over 2 million of them linked to its app.
With the Target app on your phone, the basket's path can be tied to you.
In People v. Target Corporation, a 2022 California judgment bars Target's app from raising prices "solely based on a user's geographic location."
KARE 11 found the same 10 items cost $262 more inside the store than in its parking lot.
It's bigger than Target.
Three states have already banned grocery prices built on your personal data.
You can't switch off the basket's tracker. But look the item up on Target.com before you pay. If it's cheaper there, Target will match it, even 14 days after you buy.
🎩 Kash Khan
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rashomon nesterović retweeted
Grupos fascistas atacan a los manifestantes en Rouen ante la pasividad de la policía. La escena se repite en varias ciudades francesas, donde han agredido a varias personas junto a los agentes antidisturbios y no han sido detenidos.
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Imagine saying this when people can go check the historical receipts
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