This has to be outlawed as immoral:
>The Times noted in a follow-up piece that Musk owns about 411 million Tesla shares, worth around $78 billion, and that he’d pledged 238 million shares for personal loans. Borrowing against their vast portfolios, as ProPublica has detailed, is how Musk, Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, and other ludicrously wealthy Americans have managed to legally avoid the lion’s share of income taxes.
QT: https://press.coop/@MotherJones/111914807702849827
#Neoliberal elimination of price controls, deregulation, and reduction of state influence in the economy, mostly via privatization and austerity, as an ideology for maintaining political power fits nicely with #postmodern rejection of the certainty of knowledge and stable meaning.
Elon Musk Fanboys Explain Why They Are Signing Up For Neuralink Human Trials
>“Pretty efficient way to put me out of my misery.”🤣
Ukrainian watchmaker fixes Newfoundland clock tower that hasn't told time in decades
What else can you expect from a "benevolent dictator" than to play innocent while his goons do his bidding?
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2023/10/19/congress/speaker-race-threats-house-00122416
“#Effective_altruism is a philosophy that aims to do as much good as possible,” explains Brian Berkey, associate professor of legal studies and business ethics at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, US. “It’s how to help ensure people’s time and resources are spent well in making the world a better place. Through empirical evidence, individuals can make more informed decisions over which charitable causes to support.”
#Trickle_down economics on steroids, that’s what it is:
Tim Gurner, CEO of the Gurner Group makes sure no one wants to work for his company.
“In my view, we need to see pain in the economy. We need to remind people that they work for the employer, not the other way around,”
The Chinese influence peddlers worked regular office hours, based on Meta’s analysis of the covert campaign. The unknown state-linked actors took regularly breaks for lunch and dinner, all done within Chinese timezones — despite the tricksters pretending they were located across the Western world.
😂
https://www.politico.eu/article/china-behind-largest-ever-digital-influence-operation-says-meta
What a spin doctor!
The real problem is not the #elite class gorging on stolen money and their self-serving “friends” in politics, but rather the “#professional class” that despite everything managed to get themselves an education and were lucky to find work as civil servants.
Fake “entrepreneurs” and their “yes men” pretending to care for the “little uneducated man” will save us all.
Disgusting🤮
BTW, I thought class divide is a term used only by “filthy Marxists”:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jesse-watters-makes-jaw-dropping-123319165.html
“[Wind River] actually changed a law, where you can now be prosecuted if you’re a U.S. citizen for committing rape on an Indian reservation, and there’s now a database for missing murdered Indigenous women,” he says. “So keep your fucking award. Who’s going to remember I won an award in 10 years? But that law had a profound impact. All social change begins with the artist, and that’s the responsibility you have.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/taylor-sheridan-yellowstone-interview-1235519261/
Just finished watching #JuryDuty on #AmazonPrime.
Very nice and entertaining *hidden camera* type of improv comedy.🥇
Retired #systemsengineering professional and #organizationalchange coach with decades of experience in the #military and #aerospace domains.
WRT #STEM, I'm primarily interested in the #Science and #Engineering of #Systems. My stance towards #Technology is opportunistic (will use whatever works best for the occasion) and I consider #Mathematics a necessary evil to get things done properly.
My experience with #computing technology starts in the late '70s on a room-sized IBM machine running FORTRAN programs from buckets full of punch cards, turned hard towards HPL BASIC on a much smaller HP 9825A "fully algebraic desktop calculator" with a miniature magnetic tape cassette where to store programs, and abruptly ended a few years later after a couple of months of "peeking" and "poking" in ASM on an even smaller ZX81 connected to a BW portable TV.
Even if I was reasonably good at programming the moment I got my first DOS/Windows PC to play with at work and surf on something called the #Internet, I fell in love with things like #writing, #drawing, and #exploring new ideas, that could now be done much better and faster with this new gadget, so I soon decided that being a #user, doing the #design and #testing while dealing with other #people to define #product and #process #requirements is much more fun than the actual #development of the #software product itself.
I'm very glad I found this Mastodon #community where we can "Question Others to Teach Ourselves". Please feel free to ask questions and argue with anything I say. Be sure I'll be doing the same. Nothing is sacred. There are no stupid questions, just BS answers.
Stay safe and be nice to others.
PJ