Notices by Dave Fenichel (nek@hear-me.social)

@inthehands
It should give a lot more people pause and lower their confidence in a free/fair market, to see the latest apparent propping-up. After all the volatility why is the value holding so ridiculously steady at the inflated $249 price today? It couldn't have anything to do with Musk's powerful new possession of every citizen's private financial records. Good thing conspiracy nuts are rare.

@inthehands
"a sell candidate"
https://www.fool.com/investing/2025/03/22/tesla-buy-sell-or-hold/

Right now, people with a lot of capital and market power seem to be working very hard with microtrades no doubt, to keep the inflated valuation artificially stable at $249

@inthehands @dave_andersen
Yes, I'd welcome suggestions to consider, for after I get my refund.

@inthehands @dave_andersen
As it turns out Ally Invest may not be reasonable. They pulled $400 from my checking account and then immediately froze the new account and denied my access to it. They sent me a cryptic email which states "We need you to contact Ally Invest Client Services. Your Ally online access is currently disabled, and you may not be able to log in or transact in your new Invest account(s) ending in xxx." When I called, the person who responded to the Interactive Voice Response bot for new account assistance had me verify my DOB and phone, then quizzed me on items from my resume, prior addresses, and locations of people I do not know. Then he told me I am under Maintenance Review, and they'll hold on to my cash for as long as they like while conducting it. So now I too am in the 'Annoyed' camp, am likely to demand my funding back, and to look elsewhere for investment services. I already tried Robinhood and Betterment and they had some hoops I found almost as annoying to jump through, which is how I ended up with Ally.

In case you missed the great piece on turning the tables on the parasites who are using #disruption to run this whole shooting match, from @pluralistic

“The US companies that could be disrupted thanks to the Trump tariffs are directly implicated in the rise of Trumpism...”

[A SUPER list of #counterdisruption tactics linked out, there]

"That's how you hurt Musk – not by being performatively aghast at his Nazi salutes. You kick that guy right in the dongle...”

#teslaTakedown #overthrowMusk

https://pluralistic.net/2025/03/08/turnabout/#is-fair-play

The #USTREAS payments processing codebase was altered. The data removed, the destruction of Musk's copy not a part of the court order temporarily halting #DOGE access, nor does the order require restoration of the pre-hijack code, afaik. #Musk illegally inserted a private server into the Office of Personnel Management system and there've been no consequences nor mitigation for that yet, either.

#Boston: Down with fascists and broligarchs

https://www.universalhub.com/2025/down-fascists-and-broligarchs

> Pro-democracy protesters marched up Cambridge Street from the Parkman Bandstand on Boston Common to the JFK Federal Building at the far end of Government Center.

There was also a #StopTheCoup protest against the obliteration of the Constitution's separation of powers, by #ExecutiveOrder.
Links to both.

@HistoPol
Couldn't begin to tell how many times it's happened to me. It might not be worth anything but my recent experience is that Fedilab is a more stable/reliable android client and does realtime caching to a drafts folder until I finally hit 'send'. I've had up to three different clients installed at one time so I could effectively compare them.

@HistoPol
"TikTok Ban Fueled By Fealty to Israeli/Saudi/Emirates Global State-Terror/Military Alliance to Provoke Pretextual Nuclear War Against Iran, Not Fear of Chinese Economic/Military Dominance" might have been a more clarifying headline, if not entirely wieldy. The beef of it might require booklength context, but yes.

TikTok Ban Fueled by Israel, Not China

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/tiktok-ban-fueled-by-israel-not-china

> Congressional insiders spill the beans on how the law was passed

There is no place in the known universe for those engaging in #holocaustDenial nor those such as #SkyNews who by crafting false narratives or #disinformation amplify it.

https://mstdn.social/@kathimmel/113487257401439808

“Now that the seal is broken on scraping #Bluesky posts into datasets for machine learning, people are trolling users and one-upping each other by making increasingly massive datasets of non-anonymized, full-text Bluesky posts taken directly from the social media platform’s public firehose — including one that contains almost 300 million posts...”

#privacy #bigData #xitter #yourNameHere #infosec

https://www.404media.co/bluesky-posts-machine-learning-ai-datasets-hugging-face/

Mike Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
#politicalcartoon #reallocation #demolitionOfDemos #predation #parasitism #theBeast #antipublic #GOP #MAGA #plutarchy #oligarchy #feudalism #endOfEnlightenment #late_stage_capitalism #latestagecapitalism #misanthropy #deflection

@BrianJopek
I like to use @resistbotatwork to verify registration status periodically (and also to distribute petitions to elected officials, and amplify them among friends). Text to 50409, or DM by one of Messenger/Telegram/Instagram to 'resistbot'. I just send the keyword 'check' and it finds my registrar & displays my status. Nagless donationware.

@br00t4c Anyone who says that vouchers and charters are good for education or communities is a public-loathing, tax-evading anti-education disinfologist.

@br00t4c Anyone who says that vouchers and charters are good for education or communities is a public-loathing, tax-evading anti-education disinfologist.