Notices by GhostOnTheHalfShell (ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai), page 8

@economics_that_works
It is an abdication of basic fiduciary responsibility. The GFC was a product of the auditor sector, giving up, analyzing the financial instruments that led to the crash.

They basically didn’t want to appear stupid and when the instruments became impossible to value, they just gave up and copied the assessment other people made.

In the current case, the market doesn’t even care about basic solvency. This is a completely different level of impunity and irresponsibility.

@economics_that_works

Alan Greenspan was credited for the phrase, irrational exuberance. The current economy experiences such a level of impunity that that there is no rational criteria being applied everything is just taken at face value.

Every element of the economy has forsaken it’s critical faculty, a level of fiduciary and economic negligence that cannot go unpunished and I will argue is of a piece of the epstein economy

The question you need to ask about Gavin Newsom, is if you can see him hanging out with epstein and the boys or not.

That’s the only question you need to ask of yourself

RE: https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116103238898838055

@sarahtaber

It really does suggest that more women should get into farming, right?

@douglasvb @ai6yr @cvvhrn

Well, that’s one way to keep those kind of assholes from speeding

Oh hey middle class Americans are selling plasma to make ends meet. Apparently, when plasma centers open up in a neighborhood, crime goes down and payday lending declines. It’s almost like if people have enough income that the world becomes a better place.

But let’s talk about how Ai is going to change work where the 12 richest people in the world controls the entire fucking economy, and there’s nothing we can do about it because it’s inevitable

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americans-sell-plasma-inflation-middle-class-expenses-economy-rcna258390

23 min

Probably the most genuinely cool development in a very long time

https://youtu.be/suCEKLCCgzw

You may have seen the news that Zuckerberg wants to deploy facial recognition in Meta glasses.

I think they deserve a nickname as to all the products these demented morbidly wealthy demonic psychopaths push o to thre world:

Pedo-cams and pedo-products

Epstein network devices

So people may have seen the news that Anthropic fired a senior AI executive because she objected to the development of AI girlfriends, because they say anything about it is discriminatory against men.

The epstein tech bros have made it their purpose to indoctrinate misogyny into engineering, demanding the emergence of an engineering culture to confront it,

..

The fact that men are being victimized by AI girlfriend should not go on remarked.

If anyone even needs to think about the emotional and developmental harm inflicted by developing, presumably an artificial emotional relationship with a piece of software controlled by men who are sadistic, ruthless, fascist totalitarian assholes. And they’re going to get young men or men in general hooked on these girlfriends.

If Johnson isn’t going to call for Lutnick to resign, then I have a recommendation for Johnson.

But then why stop at Johnson?

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5734021-house-speaker-defends-lutnick/

@inthehands

Yes, I would be more aggressive and say let’s get to the business of a shut down right now. It seems like the work stoppage not long ago made corporation squirm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116044162481646573

I’m shocked, shocked!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@IveyJanette/116042361398569356

I’d like to suggest that Democratic governors can set up their own shindig.

RE: https://turtleisland.social/@Tistudio/116042783285128067

@pluralistic

What I love about that image is it looks like the source material you would fashion an illustration from

RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@TJ1001/116036025565090182

Now is the time to tear down the billionaires annd obliterate their wealth/surveillance platforms.

They should feel lucky we only to/their wealth and bring it back down to earth. But it’s too far they cannot go unpunished. They must lose everything and they must face the courts in jail. They do not belong in society.

@dalias

I had wonder how and why they were receiving such, but it’s quite clear that one form of protection has to come from a Federated resource to manage abusive sites and individuals

@blogdiva

EV are not “green” in the way that has been publicized.

The problem is resource & energy use, not whether it’s internal combustion or electric.

We have to understand that shifting to a different kind of supply chain is a version of using less of something in one area, causing a rapid expansion of something equally destructive in another area

@benroyce @blogdiva

I repeat and will continue to repeat the only way to step off the path of destruction is the immediate reduction of all energy use, and resource use. The equation that you and I get told repeatedly is a false one..

Renewables come with a permanently destructive permanently, toxic permanently, life ending legacy.

In order to build it, we have to kill the planet.

@benroyce @blogdiva

And I will add to this comment that I have placed myself in a situation where I do not drive my car except for maybe once a year out of necessity to visit family during Christmas because the alternatives are not available to me now.

The cheapest most efficient world saving effort is to get rid of cars and to be able to feed ourselves from our regional watersheds. The important thing to do is to change to it, not obsess about EV or solar panels.