#AtlasNetwork pops up again re far right Christianity, a partnership made in hell.
“In order to understand why people who call themselves #Christians also oppose #government welfare, public schools, gun control & action on #climatechange, I decided to follow the #money.
What I discovered was an unholy alliance between evangelical Christians affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation’s Seven Mountains strategy and a league of ultra-wealthy libertarians who operate a complex, #international network of #rightwing think-tanks – many of which fall under the umbrella of a group known as the ATLAS NETWORK. https://chrysstevenson.com/tag/atlas-network/
Some enterprises, in the wake of #xz, are focusing on their metrics for #opensource dependencies they ingest..... rather than investing money, developer time, or other resources* to directly support maintainers.
But as I mentioned to a friend recently:
If downstreams do not provide at least as much support as a motivated attacker would, we're likely to continue to get these kinds of outcomes - & to be deceived, as attackers shape their efforts to trick the metrics.
Just got a fraud alert text from Chase. “MCAFEE” charged $0.11 to my credit card. It was probably some sort of trial balloon transaction to see if I would flag it before the spammers racked up a bunch of charges.
This sort of theft is financial vandalism that we all pay for. It pisses me off.
I only know her through conversation, she never mentioned this gofundme to me, I happened across it through a Twitter link on her profile. It hasn't had any support until today when I shared through lemmy. Thank you all.
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
Postolnikov, the nephew of #AleksandrSmirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir #Putin, has not been charged w/a #crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing #PaxumBank threatened legal action for reporting the contents of leaked docs.
The #ESFamilyTrust was funded for the first time on 2 Dec 2021.
#TrumpMedia then received the #loans:
$2m on 23 Dec 2021, & $6m on 17 Feb 2022.
The loans came in the form of convertible promissory notes, meaning ESFamilyTrust would gain a major stake in #Trump Media because it was offering the #money in exchange for TrumpMedia agreeing to convert the loan principal into “shares of Company Stock”.
In total, the doc showed that the trust transferred $4.8m to #Postolnikov’s acct….
The reason for the #ESFamilyTrust’s creation remains unknown. Aside from the #money that went to #TrumpMedia, the trust’s statements show the trust has directly invested money w/only two other companies: $10.8m to Eleven Ventures LLC, a #VC firm, & $1m to Wedbush Securities, a #wealth management firm.
"For the second year running, luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault is the richest person in the world, ranking number one on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list.
Trump's #lawsuit claims that Litinsky & Moss, who were both contestants on Trump’s reality-TV show “The Apprentice,” mishandled an attempt to take Trump Media public several years ago, allegedly putting the whole project “on ice” for >1½ yrs.
[how much you wanna bet he trying to find a way around the 6 month lock up provision?]
"Trump is spending a good chunk of his donations on his legal bills. The Times ran an amazing report about this on Wednesday. Of nearly $85 million in donations, almost a third, $27 million, has gone to legal bills. Hey, at least this time around, he’s apparently actually paying them.
Trump will have money. There’s no use pretending he won’t."
"But $400 sneakers and $60 Bibles are not signs of strength. They’re signs of weakness. Panic. Desperation. A guy who’ll sell anything that isn’t nailed to the floor. ...
So let’s avert our gaze from the people who’d walk across hot coals for Donald Trump (while he stood off to the side, pleading bone spurs) and think instead about the ones who are slowly peeling off."
"They’re out there too. And they’re starting to see what you and I have so obviously seen for years: a twisted, desperate huckster who’s never cracked a Bible in his life and whose only religion is hustling the suckers who are born every minute."
In an industry not known for providing minimally adequate customer service, Intuit continues to provide the worst customer service of all, by a truly astonishing margin.
@adriano@KeithAmmann I use #GnuCash for my small one person company. It serves my needs very well. No need to rent it, no need to buy it. Download it, and #freedom to the user. And #donate, if you like it. You can donate in #feedback, #money, or both.
Vietnam Sentences Billionaire to Death for White Collar Fraud
The trials of Tru'o'ng Mỹ Lan and 84 others are part of an anti-corruption campaign led by the head of Vietnam's Communist Party....