@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-26 18:55:46
REALLY? Putin's Last Breath: "Zombie Missiles" Falling on Ukraine as Russia Runs Out of Options?: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/really-putins-last-breath-ampquotzombie.html
@Dragofix@veganism.social2025-11-13 20:28:52
Want to make America healthy again? Stop fueling climate change #America
@kctipton@mas.to2025-12-11 08:43:16
South Carolina measles outbreak is 'accelerating,' driving hundreds into quarantine https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-south-carolina-quarantine-utah-arizona-us-rcna248435
@pre@boing.world2025-11-22 10:39:50
Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
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Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
@cdarwin@c.im2026-01-19 21:15:29
Nothing brings tech titans together like taxes.
This week, as the specter of a California “#billionaire #tax” ballot initiative gained momentum,
the moguls grew furious.
The outrage reached a fever pitch on X,
where the following scenarios were predicted, should the initiative be approved in Nov…
@benb@osintua.eu2026-01-23 14:57:13
Zelensky 'counting on' more US air defense missiles, security guarantees following meeting with Trump at Davos: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/23/zelensky-counting-on-more-us.html
@stargazer@woof.tech2026-01-24 22:50:28
"I have always believed in deeds, not words."
As the ongoing Russian attacks keep crippling our infrastructure (as seen from a cold unpowered home with a failing cell connection), I am left with few options. One of them, ruminating before sleep on a strange recurring phenomenon. If not careful, we become what we fight.
We're not infallible. It's the values we keep, the tradeoffs we make to succeed that shape us.
Be vigilant. Watch yourself.
And stay sa…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-12-10 15:06:05
In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/intel…
@patrickquin@furry.engineer2026-01-19 00:20:14
https://e621.net/forum_topics/61584
I’m with savage orange, MkLXIV, and moderator/dev Aacafah. Certain people with relatively large followings on BlueSky, with at least one openly calling for “shaming” (read: harassment) of anyone who uses e621, are vastly, vastly misreading the motive of
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-29 17:28:09
No, @…, emphasizing the safety of vaccines is not a strawman. For everlasting fuck’s sake.
Come back to planet Earth, where:
- scare-mongering about vaccines is running rampant,
- right-wing propaganda is intentionally fueling that fear for profiteering and political gain,
- parents are very clearly afraid of the vaccines themselves right now,
- diseases like measles are making a return because of that fear, and
- people are dying as a result.
Your post is a non-sequitur. Whatever stick you have up your butt about lockdowns or whatever this post was about, please keep that stick in your butt and out of vaccine safety discussions. https://mastodon.online/@dennmans/115631732594437886