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by nextstep 5y ago
The CIA works through a network of contractors and assets they cultivate over many years and through many layers of intermediaries. There are many levels of involvement beyond directly working for the agency.
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Yanis Varoufakis has read Debt, he talks about it often and he and Graeber spoke together many times. https://twitter.com/yanisvaroufakis/status/13015406941594869...
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Exactly. The tallest building in the world (Burj Khalifa) is built in an environment where labor has too much power and human life is too highly valued to build anything complex or ornate. Lol.
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Google is this for almost every internal tool and process. The only difference is most never reach step 5 (quitting), so imagine how toxic that culture is.
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Pretty weak conclusion to this post. Yes, the US spends way more on healthcare (as share of GDP) than any other industrialized nation, but cheaper blood glucose monitoring is not going to put a dent into that price tag. Basically every ot
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Dreissig* I speak German to Siri everyday and she never has this issue with setting alarms. Maybe it’s a dialectical difference?
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Probably a fake leak. Imagine seeing something like that and taking seven seconds of footage.
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There was a semi-successful attempt at this in the 70s in Chile, but it was stopped by the CIA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn
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I wonder if this loophole for institutional investors to buy crypto on the stock market will be enough to turn around Coinbase’s slipping share price.
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Having done the same move from the US (to Western Europe) I have come to the same conclusion. The United States is by and for the corporations; there’s a large enough bourgeois that think the system is meritocratic or in any way lives up t
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That’s great, except most of the targets’ “crime” was simply being a thorn in the side of powerful politicians in their country.
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Very interesting essay. I didn’t realize the narrative of Stardew Valley was about a struggle against a large corporation.
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This is about normal for the US, but quite high for anywhere else in the developed world. This long weekend had more gun deaths in the US than most developed countries have in a year. The only countries that have US-levels of gun violence
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Calls to cancel Canada Day after graves found(theguardian.com)
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There’s a lot of “ideological boilerplate” being thrown around in these comments. @dang maybe you can step in and moderate the responses? This right-wing propaganda seems to be triggering a flamewar.
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But also not surprising because despite the decades of restrictions which have limited Cuba’s ability to import medical supplies, they have one of the best medical systems in the world.
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Jillian C. York’s book “Silicon Values” has a chapter about this “electronic apartheid”. For all of the big social media companies, the content moderation for both Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories is handled by the Israeli o
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Or humor apparently
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Why are people downvoting this? It’s true.
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If I’m misunderstanding the math here, can someone please explain this (instead of just downvoting me )? The numbers from Forbes show him roughly doubling his wealth since 2006.
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Where’s the inconsistency? When he made this claim (2006), his net worth was around 50 billion. Now it’s around 100 billion. He’s somehow managed to double his net worth AND get media coverage that he’s given away half his wealth.
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>> “In 2006, I pledged to distribute all of my Berkshire Hathaway shares — more than 99% of my net worth — to philanthropy. With today’s $4.1 billion distribution, I’m halfway there.” So that would imply his net worth is half what it
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by nextstep 5y ago
Wow, thank you for sharing. I think I’ll stick with Google for now because they’ve never done anything morally questionable.
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They might just mean to a general, American audience.
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Aah I see what you mean
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>> Except everyone publishing software today that isn't a game developer is targeting the web. What? Even your example (Creative Cloud) has an iOS and iPadOS app.
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This erosion of the collective belief in this social contract is true for much of the western world as well, where wages have been flat for 40+ years while productivity skyrocketed.
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The War on Drugs is a powerful tool the US uses across the globe to pressure unfriendly nations and to keep tons of cash off the Pentagon’s official books. No reform of American drug policy will be possible as long as the CIA and other age
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America is turning into a lottery society(theguardian.com)
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I would nightly recommend ”The Jakarta Method”, published last year, and a very personal telling of the CIA’s support of the mass-murder program in Indonesia in the 1960’s (and then how this tactic was reused in a few other coups in Latin A

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