Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)

@nf3xn @steter @Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff

Yeah, they already did that with Grok.. It is spewing right wing white genocide conspiracy now right?

@nf3xn @steter @Christian_Freiherr_von_Wolff

Chat CEO. This may be their idea of AGI. Because it will be or let’s let’s just say it will output statements about as recognizably “ intelligent” as the shit that comes out of his mouth.

Which is to say lies, hate in word salad form

@FantasticalEconomics

With car sales that I don’t think are ever going to recover this will be a great exercise demonstrating that the stock market has absolutely nothing to do with economic reality.

But the money floating around in billionaire pocketbooks now and the financial shenanigans that get up to especially with crypto and all the money flooding into AI I would not be surprised if they are playing a Shell game with a lot of it

@economics-that-works

12 min

The constant drip drip drip drip of the cost of living crisis.

Gary Stevenson has risen to notoriety because he's called a spade spade.

Wealth is driving poverty. The cost of living crisis is a product of spiraling wealth disparity on many different levels.

Simple wealth disparity means the rich can simply outbid a working class person for a house. Pernicious disparity occurs with monopoly.

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/05/12/why-millennials-gen-z-feel-broke-despite-rising-net-worth.html

#economics #politics

@janisf @economics-that-works

I’m currently working on a video essay who argues taxing the rich is useful, but it falls far short of actually bringing wealth disparity back to earth.
The net worth of the super rich and super huge corporations that are the basis of their net worth they’re largely unreachable.

And I argue that we can do much more to choke off the Niagara of money flowing into their hands in the first place. At that point the tax shelters don’t really matter so much.

@economics-that-works

7 min
😂 I love the incoherence of techno fascists.

if you’re gonna argue getting rid of intellectual property laws, make my day. Anarchists everywhere would love that idea.

IP law has been ruined by the super rich. It’s a tool to line their pockets rather than a reasonable protection for the effort to create something.

But now, because they want to control all information, IP should go.

They are psycho murder bandits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrNSVq-09rU

@economics-that-works

The other thing to say about the tech, fascists’ destruction/privatization of government function is to always remember Peter Thiel’s infamous quote “ technology is an alternative politics”.

The vacuum of lawlessness makes them the law.

They destroy the government and they claim all the resources government normally manages because they are replacing government.

This is the process and being inflicted on us.

@dlakelan

“ Just imagine asking an isolated hunter-gatherer whether the societies envisioned by Marx or Hitler seemed more similar or more different.”

I just scanned a few paragraphs and this is already looking to be an awesome article

4 min

So-called free market fundamentalists say socialism or communism doesn’t work as they taken a look at fascism lately?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FTwOBUF_qY

#politics #economics

@br00t4c

One day, billionaires and conservatives that made this hellscape of atrocity and abomination will wake up to the righteous retribution of people all over the world.

The ninth circle of hell is a paradise too good for them.

Everything about conservatives is a crime. There is nothing redeemable about them.

@GrimmReality

I’d like to remind people that the governor of California didn’t say peep while ICE in full military gear marched in with what seemed to be an entire division of military equipment to arrest a single kid who had posted the identity of ICE officers, which is not even illegal.
He put up posters saying these are ICE agents, if you see them don’t interact with them.

The governor of California, in fact, all governors should be calling out the national guard to stop these operations.

11 min

I’m inclined to be sympathetic to this, but the real problem are the corporations and the companies of billionaires. That said, if you want to make sure the places you visit aren’t ass hats, it’s worth checking this out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eonvSeewVjA

#uspol

@Su_G @petergleick

Land use is a second leg of climate change. And if there’s any criticism to aim at climate modelers, it’s their fetish for CO2 and their distain of the consequences of land use..

The only thing that climate modelers seem to care about with biomass is the amount of carbon in it. They don’t seem to give a shit about the climate management functions of the living planet itself.. except the Amazon.

Kill the land, kill the climate.

5 min

Usually very skeptical about outfits like Forbes, But the YouTube channel stuff seems to be what I would consider to be not very skewed reporting.

Amongst the list of woes facing Tesla, including Elon Musk are the tariffs, which is going to slaughter the car in industry in general.

The empty shelves are beginning to show up and they will be here for months

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmcizoas4Zk

#economy

The world is watching and we are watching.

Fascism is moving quickly. It might be time to protest in front of federal buildings one sort or another.

The people need to shut everything down until this stops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nsDdhHGto

#uspol

It seems to me that the university that handed over the list of staff with the Jewish background to the White House, violate some people’s privacy rights.

It also happens to be a trial balloon to see what the WH can get away with.

That’s pretty darn horrifying

Edit — Link to post

https://fediscience.org/@petersuber/114388819157534596

@academicchatter

#uspol

@n_dimension @inthehands @cryptadamist

I don’t quite discount either that the volume of stocks in that company have various options put on them that could potentially nose up the stock price for some time, probably until the options run down. That would be the most generous interpretation I could drum up from my peasant ignorance

@inthehands

I had some more questions based on some questions about how did daily price is actually established.

So for instance, stocks are purchased in lots: 1 stock or 1000 stock or 20,000 during trade.

I don’t know quite what establishes stock price. What’s considered the market price can never truly represent the total value all that outstanding stock represents. It’s just not calculable.

Games manipulating prices for crypto, for instance are played all the time.

@cryptadamist

Tesla down almost 6% today

They are hanging on at $227

I guess some option was exercised and that counts for the ephemeral spike.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/tsla

How many people would show up to tomorrow’s rallies and every rally henceforth simply on what happened to Kilmar Garcia? Over a government that renditions a father guilty of no crime and openly defies the courts to stop this atrocity?

April 20 the insurrection act will probably be activated. national guardsman will be deployed or attempt to be deployed, pursuant to it along with the military.

We have two futures, Auschwitz or we take back our world from billionaires.

#uspol