@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-24 22:25:57
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sšnchez’s embattled Socialists
suffered a heavy defeat in Sunday’s regional election in Extremadura,
slumping to their worst-ever result
as the far-right Vox made strong gains,
dealing another blow to the party amid mounting corruption and misconduct allegations.
@UP8@mastodon.social2025-11-24 18:16:38
🏙️ Mamdani Can Learn From Latin American Municipal Socialism
#politics
@pre@boing.world2025-11-23 15:57:01
A panel on bitcoin treasury companies.
Because investment law makes it hard for institutions to buy bitcoin in their funds. You can't own BTC in you tax free ISA. So some companies that do hold bitcoin, notably microstrategy, became proxy investments. If you can't hold BTC you could maybe own a company that owns BTC instead.
Microstrategy started because it's ceo realized it's dollar treasury was being debased by dollar printing. So tried buying BTC instead, with fantastic success.
Copycat companies proliferated. They boomed and then busted. One panelist calls that a grift. A way to memeticly pump share price.
A line can be drawn between profitable companies just storing their profit in bitcoin Vs those raising debt to buy without having a profitable business.
Imagine a world transiting from using seashells for money to using gold coins. A company gathers seashells from investors to buy gold coins, which will do better than sea shells. Trouble is the next step where the company pays back it's investors with... More seashells.
If you own shares in the company, you do not own bitcoin. You'll just get more old fashioned bank money.
Still. It's worked as marketing, more people being convinced BTC has value.
If you do buy a treasury company, check it's bitcoin not "digital assets" including shitcoins.
#bitfest #bitcoin #bitcoinTreasuryCompanies
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2026-01-22 15:32:00
Analysen: Zwei bis drei Millionen sexualisierte Deepfakes von Grok generiert
Die Kritik an den KI-generierten Deepfakes von Grok war groß, das ganze Ausmaß war bislang aber unklar. Nun haben zwei Organisationen erstmals nachgezählt.
@ebinger@bildung.social2025-11-23 07:40:41
Großer Bedarf an sozialer Hilfe in #Heilbronn
https://www.swr.de/swraktuell/baden-wuerttemberg/heilbronn/…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-01-22 11:45:40
NYT and CCDH analysis: Grok created and shared 1.8M sexualized images of women between December 31 and January 8, after Elon Musk promoted the feature on X (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html
@fgraver@hcommons.social2025-11-22 17:47:40
The Right Can’t Figure Out What to Do With Zohran Mamdani https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-democratic-socialism-trump-conservatives/
@davej@dice.camp2026-01-23 06:57:26
How the #Aboriginal #flag ended up on a spaceship in the future: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/art…
@ErikUden@mastodon.de2026-01-23 04:46:24
Das schädlichste für die linke Bewegung ist nicht, dass sie nicht zusammenhalten, sondern das legitimer Diskurs und Kritik als Spaltung und fehlende Solidarität dargestellt wird.
Wenn die Grünen eine Software der Polizei erlauben, welche laut Gründer das Ziel hat Kommunisten zu töten, dann aber Kritik daran als unsolidarisch abgestempelt wird, ist der Begriff vollkommen verdreht.
Unsolidarisch sind Sozialkürzungen, Waffenlieferungen und Aufrüstung! Unsolidarisch war der Versuch d…