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Russia’s banking crisis has already begun, Ukraine’s intelligence says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/06/russias-banking-crisis-has-already.html

Kraken says its banking unit won "master account" access to the US Fed's core payment systems, the first crypto company to be able to move money like banks (Wall Street Journal)
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This becomes especially interesting when you understand the history of the church as a quasi-revolutionary organization. One could describe early church history as a mostly-successful attempt to overthrow the Roman empire. I say mostly successful because, in the end, the Roman state mutated the church for it's own ends and basically pulled a Lenin.
The early church was a religion of women and slaves that set up alternative institutions. See, the Roman economic system basically ran through the temples. Temples were basically the banks of their day (thus money changers in the temples and all that). So when the church set up their own institutions, they were actually attacking the economic system of the Roman empire. *That* is why the empire tried to destroy them. The Romans didn't really care about the gods. They would just mutate their beliefs to pull other pagans in. No, it wasn't about the gods. The Christian were fucking with the money.
The whole church as an institution was about dual power, and Paul (one of the early founders of the church) was central to organizing this into a political machine that could actually threaten the dominant order. One could argue that he saw the potential of the church, and used it to solidify his own power.
It all basically worked, right up until Constantine figured out how to flip the whole thing against the most radical elements. He had his people collect up different books of the Bible and modify them in such a way that it favored Rome. The trick here was to highlight the existing antisemitic threads of early church, and destroy the anti-Roman ones. Anti-authoritarian sects were killed as heretics, and centralized sects became aligned under the church.
This strategy of controlling internal dissent probably feels quite familiar. It's basically how the US works.
But this whole time, during the whole lead up to this, Christianity was illegal and it was continuing to grow as a system of dual power. When Romanism merged with Christianity, it created the most authoritarian institution in human history that brutally destroyed all opposition. Even still, several hundred years later it's power broke.
Today Liberalism has separated banking and the church, and has created the illusion of separation of church and state. But the same dual power strategy that allowed the first church to gain enough power to merge with the Roman power structure have now allowed Christian Nationalism to fully merge with Americanism into the Christian Fascism we see today...

Will Daniel Jones return to form? The Colts are banking on it https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/48259762/will-daniel-jones-return-form-colts-banking-it

France is ditching American tech. When will Canada? - The Globe and Mail (@…)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-france-is-ditching-american-tech-when-will-canada/
Archive https://archive.ph/sBmHK
With gag orders you will find out when it is to late.
And us gouvernement is already using it's power to close foreign accounts at US companies.
From several ICJ judges the accounts at US companies are closed. No Microsoft, no banking.
And a little earlier closing the account of a Dutch bank with connection to Russia made it go bankrupt over night.

Bezahlen ohne Google: Neues Konsortium will Custom-ROM-Hürden beseitigen
Die Nutzung von Banking- und Bezahl-Apps auf Android-Smartphones mit Custom-ROMs ist ein Problem: Das will ein europäisches Industriekonsortium nun ändern.

Mendoza's Many Traits Will Be on Display During Rookie Season https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-fernando-mendoza-many-traits-on-display

#Wero: Developer Insights Into #Europe’s PayPal #Alternative

"The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are forcing financial firms to compensate voice phishing victims, regardless of who is at fault, fanning concerns over how far consumer protection should go without distorting incentives in the financial system, market watchers said Monday."

Financial firms warn mandatory voice phishing compensation could backfire
The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are forcing financial firms to compensate voice phishing victims, regardless of who i...

„die Prüfung der Vertrauenswürdigkeit erfolgt durch genau jene Instanz, deren Ökosystem gleichzeitig vermieden werden soll“.
Alternative #Android-Versionen sollen nicht von Banken-Apps etc. ausgeschlossen werden.
h/t @…

LineageOS: what breaks? Banking. I have a fairly robust risk appetite, but rooting a device to install a closed-source fork of Magisk that hides itself well enough that I can spoof Play Integrity so my bank's app will run is a few steps too far in the wrong direction. So choose what you prefer: access to your money, or some amount of control over your digital leash.
I see no way forward after September that doesn't involve having two phones: one that mostly lives at home for th…

Seriously though: I'd really love to go back to using Linux on the desktop. I used it for years and I manage it for my whole family with very little fuss.
But what I'd really miss are proper alternatives to:
🎬 Infuse (Jellyfin client)
🏦 MoneyMoney (Banking)
📋 WISO Steuer (Tax software)
🎵 Meta (MP3 tagging)
📅 Fantastical (Calendar)
📸 CleanShot (Screenshots)
I'm happy to pay for them! But so far, there's just nothing comparable availab…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Bezahlen ohne Google: Neues Konsortium will Custom-ROM-Hürden beseitigen

Small Estonian fintech to take on big Ukrainian banking sector: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/15/small-estonian-fintech-to-take.html

3 Raiders Who Must Have a Productive Offseason https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-3-who-must-have-productive-offseason

Raiders May Offer No. 1 Pick to Add $260 Million Star QB: Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/trade-rumors-lamar-jackson-ravens-florio/

Mit der #Triodos macht die nächste Bank dicht, bei der ich Kunde bin. Was empfehlt ihr, wo soll ich als nächstes meinen Hauch des Todes als Bankkunde versprühen?
Ich achte auf Nachhaltigkeit und gute IT. Die Bankgeschäfte müssen reibungslos in #MoneyMoney funktionieren. Mit App-Banking will ich möglichst nichts zu tun haben.
- Triodos selbst empfiehlt die UmweltBank
- Bitte nicht GLS empfehlen, da war ich schon mal und die erfüllen meine Kriterien nicht.

Went to see Stuart Goldsmith doing his work in progress stand up show about the climate at the local theater.
He's a funny man and has a good friendly personality (or stage-persona at least I guess) and is terrified and anxious and angry about the way the people are treating the world without out even being their fault.
It's a good show, he's a good guy, you should go see him do it at Edinburgh or whenever he's in your town.
No action you can take as an individual really makes much difference to the end of the world stuff. You should be vegan perhaps, ethical banking perhaps. But really the only thing that works is mass social pressure, so talking about it is the best thing you can do. If you can't be vegan, at least say you are.
Perhaps telling everyone on linked-in to book him for their climate sessions is best he reckons 😆 but I don't do corporate social media at all really, so Mastodon and cross post to Bluesky is the best thing I can do perhaps.
Stu's a friend of a friend, we've met before. Don't think he recognized me sitting in the front row without context against the stage lights though. Maybe a little at the end with some context when he's rushing to get home.
Still love that Captain Pike hairdo.
#comedy #climate #stuGoldsmith #pleasance #london

My hobby this week is deleting Google Off My Phone.
So I #grapheneOS #degoogle #android #blog