Always fun to have members of congress threaten you with prison: https://leefang.substack.com/p/house-democrat-threatens-twitter
The fascist war machine is not happy. Gonna need you to stop pointing out their secret propaganda efforts if they're going to get a senile 82-year-old Biden sworn in for a second term.
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I started a channel open before I left for work this morning. Estimated confirmation was two blocks. Got home seven hours later. Just two blocks left to go. 🤔
New book dropped today
Last year I started digging into the IMF and World Bank a little bit and was surprised that there were so few approachable books on the topic
This led me to keep digging, which led to a massive rabbit hole of archived essays and reports, interviews, and discontinued books going back 70 years all the way to the creation of the institutions at the end of WWII
What I started to realize as I learned — which became the thesis of the book — is that the IMF and World Bank actually exploit poor countries, they do not help them
This has mostly been achieved by working with dictators and corrupt officials to plunge emerging market countries into debt they can never pay back
Western lenders get paid back plus interest, and benefit from a massive economic engineering where entire societies are re-architected to suit the needs of rich nations instead of achieving industry and sovereignty
The Bank and Fund are known as charitable or maybe as flawed but necessary
In reality their operations are straightforwardly neocolonial, and they help subsidize the way of life in the West by depressing wages and looting resources in the global south
The book was a huge wake up call for me, I hope you can find it useful too
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https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Repression-Exploitation-Development-Gladstein/dp/B0C1JK6MG7
If you didn't quote my man Bruce Cockburn, I'll be disappointed. https://youtu.be/Gfcfdt0jcWs
You're at the wrong bank, then. I'm getting 3.75% at Ally.
Which is, like, a few cents per month difference, because why would I want to hold too much fiat. But, still.
Oh, great. I suppose Biden will now be arresting all of us for being Russian agents…
Nice. If someone makes up a batch of these and wants to do a sticker trade, HMU.
RIP, Ryuichi Sakamoto. 😢
Ever wondered how exactly SHA256 works? Check out this cool step-by-step visualization! https://sha256algorithm.com/
Never prouder to call myself a Taylor Swift fan than when this story broke: https://www.theblock.co/post/226981/taylor-swift-ftx-shaquille-oneal-lawsuit
I love Nelson's work & found it very inspirational when I first encountered it in the 90s. But, sadly, carefully-architected systems don't seem to succeed in practice as well as ones like, well, nostr. Xanadu might have been better than the web we got. But we never got Xanadu; we did get the web.