#FollowTheMoney 🧵 6/n This is important: in contrast to most other Central Bank, which simply sit out losses, the Bank of England has an indemnity arrangement requiring the Treasury to cover its losses. This has resulted in £38-£40 billion going in effect from taxpayers to private banks in 2023, and same this year. Adding a second hashtag: #SEEtheOligarchy
FT article only for subscribers, I know (i get it through work). Here screenshots of key passages.
Brits ask “A penny for your thoughts?” and Americans respond with “Just my two cents”. At current exchange rates ($1.00 = £0.80) this means Brits are receiving 1.6p of American thoughts for just 1p. In this paper we propose an alternative asset pricing model for the marketplace of ideas, considering—
Democratic rights have become a Big Tech trade secret. Google imposed a gag order on city officials elected by the public, warning them that they must not tell the public anything about the Google project, particularly how much public water Google was taking. Using a slew of aliases to buy land, getting secret tax breaks, getting electricity at less than half of what ordinary people pay, being sold public land for less than half the market value, all in secret, this is how Big Tech rolls.
No-one (?) would seriously say “With AI, people can make awesome Eclipse images whenever they like! No need to learn how, or wait for one to arrive!” But for many activities, AI types often do in effect argue “Why learn to do anything/have any experience that someone else—or a machine—can do better?”
Despite all their hype in AI, we found that Transformers do not outperform #Cellpose for cellular segmentation tasks: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.06.587952v1
Alexander Demidenko, a Russian man who helped hundreds of Ukrainians return from Russia back to Ukraine after the start of the full-scale war until his arrest in October 2023, has reportedly died in pre-trial detention.
https://t.co/AntzZmzDUN
You could easily fund ten honest scientists with the grant money stolen by Ranga Dias.
Elon Musk never wanted to build the low-cost car, according to Walter Isaacson. He wanted the design team to focus on the robotaxi, but they eventually convinced him to do both. Now he’s overruled them again.
If the board really cares about Tesla, they’d use this to oust Musk.
"[the] computer that provided hundreds of charts for Joan Quigley, the [President Ronald and Nancy] Reagans' astrologer, who determined the timing of important events in the Reagan presidency such as: the take off times for Air Force One for important trips, the timing of all presidential press conferences, the signing of numerous anti-nuclear treaties with the Soviet Union."
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102746921
WHAT THE FUCK
Colombia is firing an Assistant Professor who taught human rights and public health courses for teaching that Israel is a “colonial settler state” (aka a completely reasonable position backed by mounds of scholarship). https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/04/04/mailman-professor-abdul-kayum-ahmed-to-receive-letter-of-nonrenewal-following-claims-of-political-indoctrination/?fbclid=IwAR3LHKK47UQBTR49YBx9uQfj0v0Co6WXuXDvzgHidanAi_BDBHBnrpXBqmE_aem_ATYYaKKz2XnoxPY2DNeH0hual_DYozCnSLVOQtZQ-S43LUgtltbsCzRADomo8NNyIBE
Today I published a state-by-state guide to all of 2024's state supreme court races.
Abortion, voting rights, & other civil rights issues keep coming down to who voters put on bench... & they're electing 82 judges this year.
No excuse to not know! https://boltsmag.org/your-state-by-state-guide-to-the-2024-supreme-court-elections/
NASA has selected 3 teams to develop the Lunar Terrain Vehicle (LTV) - Intuitive Machines, Lunar Outpost and Venturi Astrolab.
The 12-month feasibility task-order will be followed by down-selection to one vendor.
Rover-as-a-Service - vendor is responsible for DevOps and , transportation to the moon’s south polar region.
Key req'ments – carry 2 suited astronauts, remote controlled uncrewed operation, robotic arm, operate in extreme temps at the lunar South Pole.
War is failure.
Moral failure, diplomatic failure, democratic failure, systems failure.
War is what failure looks like. https://mastodonapp.uk/@georgepotter/112208562115386469
“It would be untrue to say that we are not afraid of Putin and threats to us”, says Russian exile news site Meduza’s editor-in-chief Ivan Kolpakov. Read my interview with him on Scoop! https://www.scoopmagasin.se/artiklar/english/meduza
Report into MS breach is out: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/CSRB_Review_of_the_Summer_2023_MEO_Intrusion_Final_508c.pdf
I had a tweet in 2021 saying MSTIC should not use the Nation State Notification process to hide breaches from the public.
That was a reference to the Affirmed Networks breach - aka Azure for Operators - listed in this report. They hid it.
The website for Azure for Operators at the time had Satya’s face on it.. that breach, which they refused to share details about, apparently led to this one.
Assam’s land sale ban between Hindus and Muslims may be unconstitutional – but it's happening anyway
Scroll found that the bar on inter-faith land sale has already been unofficial policy in Barpeta district since 2019.
#assam #land #communalism #hindutva #BJP #BJPStates #IndianMuslims #india
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.