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Inside: SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/04/15/soc…

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There's just TWO DAYS left in the @Kickstarter for the audiobook of my anti-finance finance thriller about #SiliconValley scams, *Red Team Blues*. #Audible won't carry my audiobooks because they're #DRM free. Crowdfunding makes them possible!

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SVB bailouts for everyone - except affordable housing projects: Even the shareholders got billions.



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My weird hobby is taking pictures of #signs, especially "vernacular" signs, handwritten and odd. The best kinds of signs tell you what *other* people think *you* are thinking, or what you don't understand. I've nabbed over 4,600 of 'em:

flickr.com/search/?user_i… 1/ A sign reading 'Pull on han...
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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I think you learn more about the world by delving into others' misconceptions than you learn from their factual understandings. 3/
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"Tread," a $3000 "smart" treadmill from @OnePeloton, is a deathtrap. 125,000 Treads have been recalled after the devices injured 72 people and killed a child.

bbc.com/news/business-…

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Say what you will about Peloton's safety engineering, but never fault the evil genius of its strategists. The company responded to the news by bricking the Treads in the field and demanding $40/month "subscriptions" from owners to continue using them.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/technolog…

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The pretense here is that the subscription comes with safety software that means that you treadmill will not maim you or murder your children.

This raises an obvious question: why not just put that software into all the existing Tread devices for free?

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The control unit of a Ski lift gondola in Austria was exposed to the internet, allowing you to start/stop/reverse it and even configure the steel cable tension! 😮 #internetofshit Article: (German) golem.de/news/patscherk…
"secure"?!🤔
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