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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people
— but one thing that it definitely isn’t is a get-rich-quick scheme.
Since its debut on the public tickers back in early June,
SpaceX shares have sunk from a high of over $225 to a dismal $110 today, as compounding failures and overvaluation fears take their toll.
Overall, SpaceX is down nearly 30 percent compared to its opening stock price of $150
— and all those day-one rubes are now seeing re…

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They've Lost
Elon Musk's most loyal acolytes are licking their wounds as SpaceX stock continues to hit new all-time lows.

Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

Good afternoon #BikeNYC #BikeTooter. Gorgeous day out there, make sure you've got your official #NYC garbage bin before the June 1st deadline!

Appalling standard of Primary Care in this article.
My experience is a lot better. Efficient web-led system but GP sees us if indicated/in doubt.
However there's little continuity: a big practice and a different GP (or pharmacist or health care assistant) each time. At my age I expect a named GP. One problem is the GPs are all part time (good salaries).
It seems some NHS GPs no longer ‘see’ patients, they process them

It seems some NHS GPs no longer ‘see’ patients, they process them
Unable to get seen or fighting for months just to get basic health care, this is the reality for some with NHS GPs nowadays

Trump nominates FCC general counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 (Ella Lee/Financial Times)

Trump nominates FCC general counsel Adam Candeub to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit; Candeub, a longtime Big Tech critic, has long sought to challenge Section 230 (Ella Lee/Financial Times)

My wife and me both have commitments during the day. So we just did a 2h cycling to our beautiful reservoir and back. It went really well and it felt good to be on the bike.
Especially as it's not so hot any more.
Enjoy your weekend!
#cycling #BikeTooter

My lengthy promotional tour for Markdown continues unabated! The latest stop? Getting to join David Pierce and @… for this wonderful look back at markdown's history on The Vergecast. I hope you'll give it a watch: https://www.…

aus der spaziergehforschung:
"Walking as Embodied Research: Drift, Pause, Indirection"
https://www.routledge.com/Walking-as-Embodied-Research-Drift-Pause-Indirection/Ernsten-Shepherd/p/book/9781032039688