To force the mining of the Straits of Hormuz, which will raise the price of oil enough to prop up Russia.

Krasnov was told to raise the price of oil to over $100/ barrel. Mother Russia needs high oil prices to fund the war.

So, pressure for Iran to mine the strait is coming from both adversary and ally. Poor Ukraine.

Infuse is not free. It’s not Open. Its devs are a bit obscure.

But, hands down, it’s the best option for tvOS. It’s the only subscription I pay for.

As always, with any questions about Political Economy:

Follow The Money

Hog Emperor of Maracas

Depleto III

The Lies Must Flow

buy the whole set

Well, in this timeline, it’s the Onion version of Dune.

ALL HAIL WEIRD AL

Hm, enormous corpulent worm? Maybe

Was he an asshole? Or was he writing a commission with malicious compliance? For a historically verified asshole?

The swallows and dragonflies object.

Poor icefoxx only has negative, arrogant, or edgelord comments in their history. I hope they get some help.

In the meantime, the Voyager app has user tagging, which I deploy instead of blocking when I can.

So, Pinker Than Thou, eh?

c/nominativedeterminism crosspost?

Epstein said that he was D’s best friend for 10 years. Said he was charming and could sell anything. Then said he used that for evil as he trashed all his friends and wives in a pattern: build trust, draw people in, and pop a nasty betrayal.

The recording is doing the rounds on social media again.

Where’s that petition to revoke his citizenship at, anyway? Would be a nice elbow to the head.

FlashMob there is exhibiting a common bias that the only reason to keep traditional group display behaviours around is if they’re religious. This means they are probably from a settler state where colonialism relied on suppressing local culture.

Sorry bud, comparing the haka to animal noises is not “tone”, so fuck off with the disingenuous bullshit.

Now that you mention it, the lunatic fringe right wing that calls every social benefit or progress “communism” is a little bit correct.

The state, and private ownership of the means of production, withers away the more we have things like retirement benefits and weekends and universal healthcare and livable welfare payments.

Each increase in public services reduces the profits of the owner class. As we deal with the oligarchic stages of late capitalism there will probably have to be a lot of nationalizing, or monopoly breakups. Eventually, as governments take on more and more ‘essential’ services, including housing, public ownership becomes normalized.

So, assuming continuing “progress” in economics away from capital worship, and that we survive both energy overshoot and rapid A.I. development:

Co-operatives etc. will eventually take over as the most common economic organization, globally. Co-ownership in many variants. Nationalized industries and assets will likely devolve into more local control. Traded and private companies will have to adapt to less opportunity to skim surplus labour, and innovate more. Fewer rentier activities for passive income will likely be a common policy in many regions. Many will do just fine as gig workers with automated administrative systems, and that time freedom will come to be normalized.

U.B.I. in some forms will be a bridge in a lot of regions, I expect.

[note: this scenario does not appear to be the current timeline for much of the world… work to be done]

Boyle uses low budget guerilla film techniques for feature films sometimes. 28 Days was the first feature shot on consumer tape cameras, Canon X1 I think, and they compensated by using a lot of them at once.

Most expensive scene was an empty bridge in London at 5:30AM, IIRC, and they only had a few minutes to pull it off. Lots of cheap cameras gives you options, if you can work with resolution and lens and colourspace issues.

Your recent comment history is a series of bitter one-liner quips designed to drag people down.

Do you mean the oligarch owned media?

Other citizen-oriented media is better for a broader “allowable discourse” around what big money is up to.

Everyone seems to forget the Libor scam/conspiracy. Trillions.