#MoreChicaneryOpera #Chicanery
I keep reading about people standing up to ICE and all this strategy for ICE
#SuperHyperNormal This is NORMALIZATION of MAGA / GOP / Republican behavior in total.
People need to ask for BIG BIG changes. The entire GOP party / Republicans to resign and many to go to prison. "No More Chicanery" a WHOLE NEW style of personality and values in elected officials. We must make a huge leap forward to overcome the integrity damage / misunderstands since year 2013. Russia!
#israel #palestine : #war / #gaza / #humanitarianaid / #ngos / #uno / #chicanery
„Since the start of the war in Gaza following the October 7, 2023 attacks, Israel has been restricting the activities of NGOs and UN agencies tasked with helping Palestinians, refusing to issue work visas and hindering the movements of staff in the field.‟
Elon Musk Veers Into Clearly Illegal Vote Buying,
Offering $1 Million Per Day Lottery Prize Only to Registered Voters
Hugo Lowell: “Elon Musk says on stage at a town hall that 'America PAC' will be awarding $1 million every day until the election
to a registered Pennsylvania voter who has signed his petition.
💥Though maybe some of the other things Musk was doing were of murky legality,
🔥this one is clearly illegal.
Musk awarded the first $1 million this evening to someone at the town hall,
bringing the guy onto the stage and handing him a jumbo check, lotto-style.
Musk is essentially incentivizing likely Trump voters in PA to register to vote:
Petition is to support for 1A and 2A, so basically R voters.
But they also have to be registered to vote, so if they weren’t already, they would do it now.”
❇️See 52 U.S.C. 10307(c):
“Whoever knowingly or willfully gives false information as to his name, address or period of residence in the voting district for the purpose of establishing his eligibility to register or vote, or conspires with another individual for the purpose of encouraging his false registration to vote or illegal voting, 👉or pays or offers to pay or accepts payment either for registration to vote or for voting 👈shall be fined not more than $10,000
🧨or imprisoned not more than five years, or both…”
#israel #palestine #war / #gaza / #health / #ngos / #uno / #who / #chicanery
„The World Health Organization said Israel provided no explanation for barring its partner organizations from the Strip, where the health-care system has collapsed.“
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/10/18/israel-gaza-war-aid-hospitals-doctors/
Note: Out of privacy reasons most of the audio is cutted.
Video of last night: The Cops say "Viel Spaß" (Have fun) "Viel Erfolg" (Good luck) and laugh after.
https://barriohanni.noblogs.org/files/2024/09/a.mp4
#dirks #nightrest #barriohanni #hannibleibt #chicanery #sleeping #acad
Has an aggressive M&A gambit ever imploded as fast as Embracer's has? Counting on $2B in Saudi money was always a bad idea, but even worse when it was apparently the centerpiece of their strategy and now they're ruining multiple companies, and laying off hundreds of people across those companies.
🤡💩
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/29/24054659/embracer-eidos-montreal-layoffs-deus-ex
Zaslav is clearly considered a savvy operator in all the wrong circles, but those are the circles with the greed and power to make stupid things happen, so I guess we'll be seeing a DC - Star Trek crossover in the future. 😭
It's too early to judge KKR's ownership of S&S, but it's safe to say they dodged a bullet by escaping Paramount's clutches. JFC.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24010115/warner-bros-discovery-paramount-merger-streaming
Senior executives are rarely held accountable for big mistakes that can be blamed on staff or external partners, so while this news is surprising and refreshing, it also makes me think the AI articles are just the tip of an uglier iceberg. 🤔
#SportsIllustrated #AI #ZombieBrands #Chicanery
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/11/media/sports-illustrated-ai-articles-ceo/index.html
This would just be another stupid but funny Musk anecdote if Tesla hadn't been held up as an innovator for all other car manufacturers to follow, and the vanguard of EVs. JFC.
via @arstechnica
It's pure #chicanery and #knavery not to expect me to use my #pee #pee tube to close snorkellers' breathing apparati and laugh a febrile, tubercular squeal while they #Perish
The government of #Canada is addressing the free ride #google has had here (at the expense of the media) and Google is now punishing us. This is one more good reason to make #duckduckgo your default browser. #facebook (alias #meta) is playing the same game. #fediverse / #mastodon is the ideal solution for that #chicanery.
"And those essays are pretty much universally written by tenured professors at elite universities. They rarely grapple with just how tiny their portion of the educational experience actually is." @davekarpf covers a few things here, broadly related to AI foolishness, but this bit is an evergreen reminder to always be aware of the WHO behind the WHAT you're reading. Karpf is both self-aware and someone worth reading.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/bullet-points-on-the-social-trajectory
"The best way to reduce potential harms is to stop treating the technology like magic."
@davekarpf is quickly becoming one of my favorite thinkers on technology, and this level-headed take on failure modes wrt to "AI" is extremely insightful.
The more I learn about the reality of EVs, the less I'm convinced they're a viable solution to anything other than ensuring car manufacturers make a profitable transition from combustion engines.
@ampressman's look at the situation in Massachusetts leaves me wondering what impact this will have on electricity prices overall, and if it's really too late for hydrogen?
Also, maybe it's time to officially enlist in the @TheWarOnCars? 🤔
"It’s such a phenomenally pedestrian crisis compared to the absurd crypto flameouts we’ve gotten accustomed to in the past year. SVB didn’t bet it all on ape JPGs or invent some new derivative scheme that got out of control. It just… borrowed short and lent long." @davekarpf
The finance, tech, and VC worlds are not run by innovative geniuses trying to make the world better, they're mostly just bad poker players gambling with other people's money.
https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/three-thoughts-on-silicon-valley
"That’s how I expect Twitter will end. The finances are bad, the product is breaking down, the userbase is decaying. That downward slide will continue at a slow, steady pace. But what will finally break it is one of these financial time bombs self-detonating." @davekarpf
A clear-eyed take on the state of the bird, and how Musk's circus might end before the summer does. 💸
#Chicanery #Twitter
https://open.substack.com/pub/davekarpf/p/how-long-does-twitter-have-left?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android
#Corruption #Chicanery #ToryScumOut
Boris Johnson ‘nominates father for a knighthood’
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/mar/05/boris-johnson-nominates-father-for-a-knighthood?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
"What I like about the study of digital futures’ past is the sense of perspective it provides." @davekarpf via @niemanlab
This is such a good read that reducing it to one quote is a disservice. It's about the current AI hype train, but more importantly, it's about recognizing underlying clues that we've all seen this movie many, many times before.
"The [NLRB] ruled Tuesday that employers can no longer demand laid-off employees avoid publicly disparaging the company as part of their severance agreements, nor can they stop affected employees from disclosing the terms of their exit packages."
This could have revealed the true depth of F+W's financial problems in 2018 that ended in bankruptcy the following year, warning the staff and many freelancers who eventually got screwed over. 😡
