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Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label(honest-broker.com)
6 points by celtoid 3y ago|1 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
Voyager Labs and Cobwebs Technologies are both linked to foreign intelligence, specifically Israeli intelligence. NYPD and foreign intelligence are an uncomfortable mix, imo.
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by celtoid 3y ago
> I don't see how that is relevant. It's relevant. "We have all been sold the fiction that when we buy a stock, we have become proud owners of a great American corporation. Our investment is funding that Company and Americ
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by celtoid 3y ago
> Are stock in general a ponzi-like scheme? As a matter of fact, it sort of is. Look up Cede & Co and the Depository Trust Co. "While private-company stock is still directly owned by shareholders, nearly all publicly traded equi
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by celtoid 3y ago
Thank you for this. If the paper is right, it should be celebrated as a scientific achievement but instead, we got a boatload of national security state propaganda about ufos instead.
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“Who is Coreweave and where is their money coming from?” [video](twitter.com)
3 points by celtoid 3y ago|1 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
> Casual spying on citizens is new to Western governments Five Eyes are old hands at spying on their citizens. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON
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by celtoid 3y ago
You're describing commerce, a practice as old as humanity. Capitalism is a relatively recent development with very specific traits.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Socialism and communism are two different things. It's sloppy thinking to conflate them.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Capitalism is just another form of concentrating power. It would seem the problem with all systems is in distribution of power.
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by celtoid 3y ago
The Lincoln quote you referenced really blew my mind the first time I read it. No president before or since has encapsulated the issue so clearly. "It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of po
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by celtoid 3y ago
Einstein never mentions communism. The essay's topic is socialism.
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by celtoid 3y ago
The combine of government/corporate control of information isn't so great either. “Interlocking directorates, revolving doors of personnel and financial stakes and holdings connect the corporate media to the state, the Pentagon, d
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by celtoid 3y ago
This observation seems to hold true no matter the time or place: "Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the incr
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Why Socialism? (1949)(monthlyreview.org)
270 points by celtoid 3y ago|645 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
"You give a guy a license to steal, you've got to expect him to use it." -Bruce Sterling
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by celtoid 3y ago
Funny how Elon blames one of the greatest defenders of the Israeli government for his ills while using Israeli company AU10TIX for verification of Xitter's users. [0] [0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/8&
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by celtoid 3y ago
I concur. I only use ProtonMail in the browser on mobile devices. Funny how they fixed the 'blank email' bug everywhere but in the app.
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by celtoid 3y ago
The exception to the corollary: "A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution."
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The Airbnb Bubble Popping Will Pop the Housing Bubble(oftwominds.com)
100 points by celtoid 3y ago|160 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
Both volumes scanned and offered as PDFs [0]. [0] https://www.newalexandria.org/archive/
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Book of the Week – Mushrooms, Russia and History(blog.lib.utah.edu)
1 points by celtoid 3y ago|1 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
It looks great! I joined.
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by celtoid 3y ago
> "Musk is pretty clearly against this government" Musk is a military and intelligence contractor. He makes bank on the government. Look at his actions, not his words.
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by celtoid 3y ago
Rather than some vague "right" being proffered in a blog post, I prefer to exercise my right to not use Twitter since a very toxic oligarch has taken it over.
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Aimed at Protests, Surveillance Contractors New Owners Expand Spy Tech Portfolio(unicornriot.ninja)
2 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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by celtoid 3y ago
"Slavery is still constitutionally legal in the United States."[0] [0] https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-1209-13...
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by celtoid 3y ago
This is great! Thank you.
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Why I Wrote PGP by Phil Zimmerman 1991 (updated 1999)(philzimmermann.com)
2 points by celtoid 3y ago|0 comments
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Verifying your identity on Twitter will require taking a selfie(pcmag.com)
68 points by celtoid 3y ago|69 comments

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