Greg Spradlin @spradlig@qoto.org

What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy.

Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc.

Some call it the "Network State."

I can’t be an all-in admirer of the Catholic Church, but I do have to hand it to Pope Leo. As a world leader in our fraught times, he is doing so much to stand for justice and forward-thinking (for his institution). https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/02/pope-leo-first-lay-woman-top-position-vatican-maria-montserrat-alvarado

Finance: Fortune | If S&P Dow Jones rewrites its listing rules, SpaceX and Anthropic will benefit—investors won’t

“If I were the head of the California retirement fund, or the New York retirement fund, or one of these multi-billion-dollar retirement funds, I would just pick up the phone and call Vanguard and Fidelity to make me a new index that doesn’t include these companies."

https://fortune.com/2026/06/02/spacex-index-funds-new-listing-rules/

#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

Seek no merit, ere we retire Monkees.

gnu order

#LinuxRockbands

Normally this would be catastrophic for an IPO, but because of index rule changes, the major indexes will be forced to buy at WHATEVER SPACEX ASSERTS they are worth. What's worse, as insiders dump the stock, increasing the float, the indexes are going to continue to be required to buy, no matter what the price. There are no market forces at work here. It is literally a holdup. The most brazen heist in modern market history.

Lots more here: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116671524970656406

#SpaceX #SpaceXIPO

"I can see how most people would be bullied into submission by a threat like that." Will Freeman created https://DeFlock.me to track the locations of ALPR surveillance cameras. When Flock Safety came after him with legal threats, EFF helped him fight back. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/get-flock-out-here

RE: https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116671384158248700

Alt-Text for the linked post:

By Sir Escanor

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI
replacement plan has a problem.
Two problems, actually,

One: the token costs for running
AI agents are now exceeding what
they were paying the employees
they fired.

Two: when the tokens run out, the
AI stops. Just stops. No continuity.
No workaround. Just a spinning
wheel where your workforce used
to be.

You fired humans to save money
and bought a subscription that bills
you into a corner.

The employees you let go knew
what to do when things broke.
The AI just Invoices you for the
outage.

And then there's the permission
problem nobody wants to talk
about.

To do its job, the AI agent needs
access. Full access. Your systems,
your patents, your contracts, your
future plans. Everything you spent
years building, handed over to a
process that has no loyalty, no
discretion, and no skin in the game.

You didn't hire a replacement.
You gave a stranger with no soul
the keys to everything you own.

Enjoy.

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More on this incredible ripoff. Literally the crime of the century.

Help get the word out.

https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116626003797827177

#SpaceX

In simple terms. SpaceX is a meme stock whose fundamentals in no way justify inclusion in index funds. NASDAQ rules have been changed so that it will be included. As a result 401Ks and IRAs will automatically buy the stock, effectively giving this worthless company your money. It is the greatest grift of all time.

#SpaceX

I knew this looked familiar…

Nobel Peace Prize-winning psychiatrist and 35 other Drs say #Trump is “mentally unfit” to serve as POTUS
https://open.substack.com/pub/deanobeidallah/p/nobel-peace-prize-winning-psychiatrist?r=741t&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Today, #Bartók's 'Concerto for Orchestra' and #Brahms with Hadelich from #Barcelona https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/bartoks_concerto_for_orchestra_and_brahms_with_hadelich_from_barcelona/92503/ #wch

@RealJournalism What should shock decent people is how many of their neighbors support this Christo-fascist Whit Nationalist regime.

god I hate proprietary software in the best of times but all this sparkly AI button shit is really pissing me off

@samlitzinger
Once more with the tour of midwestern coffee shops and understanding the conservative voter.

These are idiots who made bad decisions. We do not need to understand their thinking. Their bad ideas do not need to be reported on.