Friedrich Moser

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Wall Street And Crypto Are At War Over Who Gets To Rob You The crypto industry’s attempt to become unregulated banks is encroaching on Wall Street’s trillion-dollar interest-rate grift.

🚨NEW: Banks have made $1 TRILLION off paying you almost no interest on your deposits, while those same banks have been getting paid huge interest by the Federal Reserve.

Now crypto is citing that grift to try to create its own grifty alternative.

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100% agree.

and, not to forget: foreseeable humidity and precipitation 😉

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We are now 26 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files

I hope people still remember.

genau so fühlt es sich an!

@arminwolf.at wenn man nur auf die gesellschaftlichen Errungenschaften schaut, ja. Der neoliberale Turbokapitalismus trägt aber durchaus das seine dazu bei, das Fundament der Gesellschaft zu erodieren: den sozialen Zusammenhalt.
Ich empfehle sehr, sich das Jahr 1873 mal wieder genauer anzusehen.

Why should it?

But I would look first into who is holding US bonds.

you think it's a troll? we in Europe don't. And if any American thinks we won't defend ourselves, they are wrong. If there are any partners on your side of the Atlantic left, they better speak up now. Because the silence is deafening.

ist das derselbe Typ, der uns in die arge Abhängigkeit vom Russengas geführt hat?

my point was, the law was to protect the weaker members of society against abuse of the powerful. They were like: independence of cyberspace! Anarchy!
I could not understand how someone could be so naïve.
These were CCC folks and similar advocacy groups.
Only Max Schrems understood it.

not just in the US. I remember well my discussions with folks in Germany and Austria after the release of my film A GOOD AMERICAN (prequel to the Snowden story) who refused any regulation of the digital space. I told them: if you don't regulate, you get law of the jungle. They didn't get it.

❗️Das Bekennerschreiben der linksradikalen Gruppe “Vulkan”, die sich zu dem Anschlag auf das Berliner Stromnetz bekannt hat, scheint aus dem 🇷🇺Russischen übersetzt worden zu sein.

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Meanwhile, actual research (rather than techbro AI propaganda) shows Chatbot use degrades human brain function and causes statistically significant rates of mental illness & suicide.

What to Watch in Africa in 2026 From a high-stakes election in Ethiopia to a brewing crisis in South Sudan.

In 2026, high-stakes elections are scheduled in Ethiopia and other African countries, Sudan’s and South Sudan’s crises may converge, and instability in the Sahel will likely continue to spread to anglophone nations.

Burgenland. Austria. Winter and vines.

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mmd! 😂

Isn't it just anither sign that Joe Rogan is Team Musk?

"Putsch" is the German word for "coup d'etat"... just saying... will make for nice political ads, I guess

I think Europe should re-invent itself. Fast. #UnitedStatesOfEurope

actually I heard that already some months ago.

"Wag the Dog" 2.0

"Albania, Albania... " I gotta re-watch 'Wag The Dog'. Thought at the time it was a satire about Bill Clinton, but seems now like it wasn't.

@noupside.bsky.social time to fight back, isn't it?
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actually it's very easy - one just has to assume the opposite of the infos coming out of the Trump administration, to be on the right side

The Authoritarian Stack How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Anyone interested in the rise of techno-authoritarianism/broligarchs and why they're targeting Europe, I've stumbled on this great resource. Use it. authoritarian-stack.info cc @francescabria.bsky.social