Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai)

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

@Nonilex

I want to start finding out who these people are the people in ICE the guys in masks. Are there any hackers out there like anonymous that could find that out? It’s about time we start seeing names and faces.

They need to be ostracized.

@economics-that-works

This is a crisis of competence, just as the Great Depression was a crisis of competence. The super rich brought this on the nation on the world.

And they’re sick depraved immoral set of values and ideologies based on immorality or forming this generation’s national crisis.

If you have been calling your representatives voicing your anger towards the war being waged on us from the White House. It’s time to bump it up a notch.

#politics

@economics-that-works

“Hedge funds have trillions tied up in this kind of strategy,” he said. “As things spiral, they’re being forced to sell anything they can — even good assets — just to stay afloat . . . if the Federal Reserve doesn’t step in soon, this could turn into a full-blown crisis. It’s that serious.
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Nick Lawson, chief executive of investment group Ocean Wall

All the assumptions of investment are stood on their heads. ..

#economics #politics

@economics-that-works

Safe Haven status requires a certain amount of soft power credibility.

The money behind project 2025 and the nut jobs in Silicon Valley have obliterated it.

(Paywalled)

https://www.ft.com/content/0005e091-930d-46ff-9e81-8591704a9282

#politics

@economics-that-works

Oh goodness, the billionaires have figured out that their total control of the US government is not going the way they thought it would. Billionaire founders of Home Depot cry over the catastrophe their economic strata financed

(Paywalled)

https://www.ft.com/content/56b9c745-22f7-4494-b790-37be4c61f6ae

@pluralistic

#TeslaTakedown is proof that a population pissed off enough overcomes the collective action problem.

Tesla take down is the best antidote to #enshittification

So spread that woke mind virus, that any company that gloats about its profits has just established it’s too big for its britches and needs to suffer a bit of popular taxation in the form of losing customers.

Nothing like 100% tax rate of total revenue loss.

Permanently.

2 min

So does smoking cause yodeling or vice versa?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG3kfV8qcuw

@JessTheUnstill @ajsadauskas

Not only would it be glorious, it would be the marketplace in action.

What corporate America and what billionaires need to learn is a good solid lesson in market economics. They’ve lost touch with it because they’ve been able to gain the system so much in their own favor.

They need to be reminded of what a market is like.

@inthehands @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

America’s racism was still there after World War II, even though women and people of color worked the factories to supply the war effort.

It’s why I think the movie “don’t be a sucker” is so interesting. Two years after the war ended the Department of war thought it was necessary to remind people not to let fascist sentiment be emerge in the United States. They had to fight the Cold War… so peace and love

@inthehands @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

In an atmosphere that lacks a sense of solidarity, personal skin in the game will have to carry protest over that hurdle. The demographics of people showing up people who paid into a pay-as-you-go system losing it to the contempt of billionaires face economic ruin. It’s the opportunity to build solidarity.

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@inthehands @MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

When people understand that there’s no escape. Losing Social Security and Medicare might just suffice.

@MisuseCase @StillIRise1963

You know, white people need to show up because solidarity rather than a shield. taking the lesson that harm to one is a harm to all.

Just listen to these billionaire fuckheads. Only a person who presumes he’s entitled to hundreds of billions of dollars every year entitled to it can say something like GFY to his company’s customers.

His attitude is shared amongst the wealthy. This is the culture.

Men in black meets the matrix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkcAGvXrRw8

@inthehands

No, I was gonna tell you how I actually start fires with wet wood, I’ll let your answer slide. 🤪