Over half of all bitcoin trades are fake, according to Forbes analysis...which, granted, is better than the 95% reported previously.
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
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/
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
Meet the Military Contractor Running Fare Collection in New York Subways — and Around the World
https://theintercept.com/2022/10/03/cubic-military-public-transit-mta-omny/
Corporations Are Spending a Ton to Stop Low-Wage Workers From Unionizing
https://truthout.org/articles/corporations-are-spending-a-ton-to-stop-low-wage-workers-from-unionizing/
"In 2021, the typical paycheck for a full-time union employee was $194 higher each week than that of a full-time nonunion employee, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
GEICO Is Trying to Crush Workers’ Attempts to Form an Independent Union
https://truthout.org/articles/geico-is-trying-to-crush-workers-attempts-to-form-an-independent-union/
They need to get the Geico Gecko a Mr Monopoly hat.
Recent headlines from techrights.org:
"Open Source Initiative Controlled (Infiltrated) by Microsoft GitHub: Microsoft Bribes OSI to Justify GPL Violations Under the Guise of ‘AI’, Even Writes the OSI’s Material"
"Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) is Facilitating a Hostile Takeover by Corporations (Privatising Free Software)"
"No Protection for Linux Offered by the So-called ‘Linux’ Foundation"
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?
This is coolish...
https://www.decibel.vc/test-blog/penpot-a-new-era-of-design-freedom
But it troubles me that the Venture Capitalist site promoting this is Squarespace... Shows the inherent disconnect between people doing things for the right reason, and the people who, for their own self-interest, enable them to do so, diluting the ethics, and tending towards apologist open-washing.
I'm increasingly of the view that large publicly listed corporations (usually how VCs made their C) are incompatible with good ethics.
If you don't understand why this call really pisses me off, watch this: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abQCqIbBBeM and/or read this: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2019/08/14/why-paper-is-considered-state-of-the-art-voting-technology This is serious democracy-destroying bullshit, and more of us need to grok this.
System Fail 15: The New Normal [ @subMedia Video] - Watch & read here: https://enoughisenough14.org/2022/09/27/system-fail-15-the-new-normal-sub-media-video/ #antireport #SystemFail
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa