b
b
0
0
0
Show content
@ajroach42 not sure what you read today, but this insider trading / war profiteering stuff has been getting called the “depravity economy” https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/betting-on-iran-war-insider-trading-concerns-prediction-markets-60-minutes/
1
0
1
b
b
0
0
0
repeated
Official Kakistocracy Jester 🪓
OGJester@pnw.zone
Mamdani balanced the budget overnight by taxing the rich.
Seems like there’s a lesson there; I don’t know.
1
1
1
b
bMaybe one thing that’s nice about popular horror is it elaborates very specific circumstances of revulsion which may still be generic.
There’s a lot of directly experienced horror that gets experienced in disparate registers, and I think that feels uncanny and alienating to one another.
0
0
0
b
bWhen being paid, interesting activities become doldrums.
Nonetheless the crushing, constant necessity of acquiring money— and therefore being subjected to waged labor— produces (among other things) a general deadening of enthusiasm & hope. This (among other things) flowers into unspeakably vivid bitterness & alienation.
0
0
0
b
bRE: https://infosec.place/objects/62b5ed87-e72d-41f6-a6f7-60fdc18f9ed1
0
0
0
b
bThe Red Scare worked so well that otherwise fairly intelligent US writers are saying “neighborism”.
0
0
0
b
bDo not worry about the future. Don’t imagine anything.
RE: https://convo.casa/@b/115829592977569611
0
1
0
b
bI’ve truly learned that the best I can hope for from this world is that sometimes shit is extremely, extremely, extremely funny
0
0
0
repeated
CBS News again being given what appears to be first access to confirmation that Trump ordered the strikes on Venezuela:
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pak4k3vxv6nv5wmnlh5qbdnw/post/3mbivthffls2c
0
2
0
repeated
Esperanta Vortaro
vortaro@bots.petras.spaceEnglish: 'Treaty.'
Esperanto: 'Kontrakto, traktaĵo.'
0
1
0
b
bDo not worry about the future. Don’t imagine anything.
RE: https://convo.casa/@b/115829592977569611
0
1
0