Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I think most of a mainstream economics education is really just about training you not to think about obvious things.

Over half of all bitcoin trades are fake, according to Forbes analysis...which, granted, is better than the 95% reported previously.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2022/08/26/more-than-half-of-all-bitcoin-trades-are-fake/?sh=668e7a876681

The amount of trading volume in bitcoin is unknown, with estimates varying by up to an order of magnitude. In short, no one knows what's true in regards to bitcoin, or any other crypto-token, except that it's clear that a lot of fakery is going on.

If you're into crypto and you don't know who the sucker is, you're it.

RT @Gabriel_Pogrund@twitter.com

EXCL: Two more of Liz Truss's most senior advisers entered No10 on loan from chief of staff's lobbying company in "unprecedented" deal

Last week Downing St failed to say Fullbrook Strategies — lobbyist for rogue Libyan PM, PPE firm — had others inside https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/two-senior-truss-aides-are-paid-through-mark-fullbrook-s-lobbying-firm-whrw2pgd6

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Gabriel_Pogrund/status/1576258757708828672

Great film. Amazing how established this looks for a ten year old project.

Meet Illa: A 10 Year Old Forest Garden Tour -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiyP9NYEMX4

#gardening #forestgarden #permaculture

Just FYI a gay dude born in a Japanese internment camp went on to participate in just about every major social movement from the 1960s to 1990s and co-wrote a book with Buckminster Fuller and babysat MLK Jr's kids and generally lived a life of fun and crime and yet no one has made a single movie about the guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi_Kuromiya
I especially enjoy his Fuck the Draft ad, which could be sent to a select group of "mother__s" if you ordered 5 or more posters.
#KiyoshiKuromiya

RT @IGD_News@twitter.com

#Alabama prison officials are attempting to break a strike by thousands of prisoners across the state, in what one described as, a "revolution taking place right under your noses." We talked to abolitionist @jaybeware@twitter.com about the strike and its importance. https://itsgoingdown.org/alabama-prison-strike-report/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/IGD_News/status/1575328276653821952

RT @kitelineradio@twitter.com

#ShutdownADOC2022 ⚡️ URGENT PHONE ZAP ⚡️ On 9/29, Robert Earl Council (aka Kinetic Justice) was assaulted by guards and placed in solitary at Limestone CF as retaliation for exposing the ADOC & participating in the AL prison strike. Call and DEMAND Robert Earl Council’s Release!

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kitelineradio/status/1575881876153434112

Imagine we're heading into WWIII and you're just some average person living in South America, or Africa, or SE Asia and you hear this speech 👇 , what are you going to think? Are you going to want to take this guy's side in the coming conflict, or their opponents?

https://twitter.com/FiorellaIsabelM/status/1575987665085702146

And don't get it twisted, I'm no fan of this guy, even a little -- but seriously, where's the lie?

Does anyone remember the coup in Ukraine in 2014? Does anyone recall one of the coup gov't's ministers going on TV and enthusing about "cleansing the country of Russian-speakers"? Does anyone remember the 14,000+ civilian deaths in the break-away oblasts from 2014-2022, the result of Ukrainian shelling of residential areas? Does anyone remember anything from more than 6 months ago, or is it just me?

Truly, we live in the dumbest timeline.

I wonder how many people r aware of the fact that Crimea was its own country for about 4 years after the fall of the Soviet Union. I wonder how many people remember that they had their own constitution & elected gov't. And I wonder how many people know that Ukraine's military invaded in '95, tore up their constitution, and straight up took them over. Anybody? Does anybody know any of this history? Not in the US, that's for sure, & it feels like not in Europe, either.

Truth: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=S2XTGteritE or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2XTGteritE

Hello @conservancy - been spending a bit of time in the WordPress (GPLv2+) plugin/theme ecosystem & am amazed how most have "pro/premium licenses" (they use that term) on their code *in addition to the required GPL license*. They're all 'open core' rather than FOSS, from what I can see, contravening the GPL with an additional license. Is this something you're already aware of? Am I right that its a widespread contravention of the GPL? If so, is anything being done to redress it?