Researching for this video was truly inspiring. The more I discovered about Putin's economy, the more clear it became what a disastrous situation Putin is in.
It is not just the refineries on fire — it is a complete meltdown of the entire Russian economic system.
And the good news is: It is only getting worse.
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There is something deliciously subversive and satisfying in being able to reframe all of the things that people around you insisted you should be ashamed of, things that you saw in yourself for years, and realize those are the very same things in which you find peace, comfort, and strength in.
It's that moment of pulling the curtain aside and seeing that the Wizard is no more than a small and fearful little charlatan pulling levers.
This morning:
Can’t log into my laptop. Too many attempts. Reboot to log in.
It was the goddamn Windows PIN that one enters when the lighting is bad and Windows Hello doesn’t recognize your face!
Why did they have to fucking name this PIN? It’s not a freaking number! It has letters!
If the #GarnetFire does get into #CrownValley then it's going to burn for quite a while as that's a wilderness area. There was a fire through part of that area a few years back and there's a ton of standing dead trees plus a bunch of brush that's grown in.
It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to clean out all that brush but it'd be way better if that was done every few years with controlled burns in the fall just before major rainstorms.
Alas.
@SlicerDicer @feld @thomasfuchs
If their growth were in line with their non-AI growth, most of the stock value that I'm pointing to would not exist. Microsoft has seen some growth in Azure, but it's also offset by decreases in Windows revenue (their previous cash cow) and the fact that a lot of Azure migrations are replacing on-premises Windows deployments. Google and Meta have largely saturated the markets that they were in.
It's also worth noting that this bubble isn't the first one to cause growth in these stocks. They were just coming down from the metaverse / mixed reality / AR bubble. Microsoft's Hololens, Apple's Vision Pro, and Meta's... whatever, where all going to be the next iPhone: the thing that you could sell to a large proportion of the population who can afford expensive gadgets. The stock-price increases from those expectations didn't go away, they were just rolled into the AI bubble.
@artemis Some folks I think are too caught up in an identity as “a protester” or “an activist” and so we (which I say bc I also fight against this tendency in myself” see a goofy-ass protest and struggle to reconcile what we are seeing with what we want to imagine ourselves being a protagonist in.
It doesn’t have to be like this — it’s totally ok to either not go to the goody thing and instead participate in a complimentary other rebellious activity, and also ok to go to the goofy thing just like many of us also regularly go to goofy-ass fuck shit like sporting events, 4th of July parades and pop concerts
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