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MOROCCO (1930) dir. Josef von Sternberg explorerrowan.tumblr.com/post/648416613…
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16 Apr
If there's one thing we've learned during the lockdown, where the stock market soared even as economic activity (making and buying stuff) cratered, it's that the finance economy is totally decoupled from the real economy.

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Seen in that light, the Gamestop and other meme-stock/stonks bull runs were just more of the same: the movements of the market's fickle, questing line are based on random chance and manipulation, like the movement of the ball on a roulette wheel.

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It's a casino.

It's a rigged casino.

It's a rigged casino whose existence depends on money-laundering, fraud and other crime.

Which is the only explanation for Your Hometown Deli, a sandwich shop in New Jersey that went public in 2019 and boasts a market cap of $100m.

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16 Apr
Did your data get breached by Facebook in its vast, ghastly, 500,000,000 person valdez? The lovely folks at @digitalrightsie are suing Facebook under the #GDPR for money damages and they'd like to sign you up to be part of the lawsuit.

digitalrights.ie/facebook/

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You're eligible if you live in the EU and your data was leaked. And, thanks to the GDPR, your participation in the legal action could result in Facebook being on the hook for real cash damages.

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A successful mass-action against Facebook with monetary damages will be a game-changer. That's because the data that Facebook gathers on us is very nearly worthless, and the company's vast profits depend on even more vast collection and cheap, reckless, sloppy data-handling.

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15 Apr
Let’s all watch as the world goes to the devil! Metropolis (1927) dir. Fritz Lang wilwheaton.tumblr.com/post/648565715…
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14 Apr
Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The FCC wants your broadband measurements; Murder Offsets; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for…

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I'm appearing at the FITC conference on next Tuesday!

* Panel: "Intersection: Seeing Our Failures from the Future"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…

* Keynote: "Interop: Self-Determination vs. Dystopia"
fitc.ca/presentation/i…

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The FCC wants your broadband measurements: Big Cable doesn't want us to confuse the issue with relevant facts.



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