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The Heartbreak Prince

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Security researcher Alexander Hagenah has released TotalRecall, a tool that extracts and displays data from the Recall feature in Windows 11.

https://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall

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@HistoPol @campuscodi The movie, same as you

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Oh man, GREAT news in my neighborhood:

MBTA issuing an RFP to redevelop #CambMA Alewife Station's decrepit 7-acre 2700 space garage!

https://bankerandtradesman.com/mbta-set-to-offer-alewife-station-for-redevelopment/

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@bikepedantic They're gonna claim the neighborhood can't handle the traffic because the train station is redundant

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The Acolyte looks like a fan movie made by larpers for YouTube and I am 100% ready for it

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The thing that reminds you it's Disney is the guy with the gentrified locs

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Okay I like it

It feels sorta like Secret Invasion

Their assignment was to do the best they can with about 1/4 the time and a tenth the budget and a script that's being written on the fly - and they did a good job, somehow!

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He's killmonger as a jedi

He even has a yellow lightsaber

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The phrase "neighborhood amenities" is a crime against society perpetrated by municipal planners and their drinking buddies, real estate developers

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"'Infrastructure' sounds like it's a requirement. Let's call them 'bonus features'" - the misanthropes in charge

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The Central Bankers of the world will say two things plainly*:

  1. They believe in the "independence of the central bank" from democracy: in absolute, unaccountable, private control the power to design and modify monetary policy

  2. They believe in using this power to advance the ideological agenda that they believe established and maintains US/Western hegemony: namely, upward wealth redistribution resulting in ever-increasing wealth inequality.

*on a friendly stage:
https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/conferences/2023/international-symposium-on-central-bank-independence/#

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It was a dishonest defense, because the Fed in its wisdom could have put the onus on Congress, and was choosing instead to dial up middle class misery and increase wealth inequality

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Jerome Powell's comments above come within a few weeks of his testimony to Congress that rate hikes (resulting in accelerating inequality) were necessary

You might remember because of his contentious exchange with Elizabeth Warren in defense of layoffs in which he repeatedly defends putting people out of work as the Fed's "only" recourse (assuming a future in which Congress does not alter its approach to taxation)

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Given the Fed has the power to independently and unaccountably fiddle with monetary policy, the Fed has as much power to say "No, we're not going to act, you should fix it on your end" as it does to say "Yes we'll handle that for you"

What it chooses to do is in fact: a choice. If you don't believe it's an ideological choice: you're not understanding why Central Bankers want to remain independent. (It's because they don't want democracy interfering with their agenda, these are their own words)

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Israeli official to prosecutor at The International Criminal Court:

"You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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@notwithstanding @randahl I would dispute that, yes. You are working really hard to justify racist and Islamophobic claims

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To be clear I think this essay basically concludes that while it may not be completely accurate to label Biden a fascist, it's more accurate to say that he is one than to say that he isn't. The ideas that historical fascists fused together to define their movements preexisted fascist armies and survived their destruction: to the extent that while fascist armies lost a military conflict, fascist philosophy won the 20th century

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One of the more maddening seasonally recurring arguments of the 2020s is "you're the fascist!" "no, YOU'RE the fascist!"

This video doesn't offer a direct answer to the community's discussion today except that it does offer a critical, scholarly understanding of the ideology, and watching it all the way through will bolster your confidence while making your argument

https://youtu.be/1T_98uT1IZs

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Zoom's CEO is telling everyone that he wants to invent AI "twins" that you can send to your Zoom meetings on your behalf, which is a startlingly honest assessment of the value of a Zoom meeting

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A lot of day traders underestimate the power of not trading every day

Like, today, for example, is a wonderful day to not trade and to just watch and cackle

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