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Melinda French Gates Slams Billionaires Who Aren't Giving Away Enough - Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/melinda-french-gates-slams-billionaires-not-donating-enough-giving-pledge-2025-12

The Late Bloomer Actor
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

I've spent enough time in Florida to know that it is a horrible place to live except during a few winter months (and even then, Florida is always a social and cultural nightmare.). So I would guess that these people have several "homes".
However, I would suspect that there are people out there who might consider this kind of concentration of $billionaires as a convenient kind of "targeting coordinates".
'‘The Mamdani effect’: wealthy New Yorkers show …

“Ze worden beiden onder meer verdacht van belemmering van de rechtsgang vanwege het lekken van de video.”
Hm, lijkt mij dat de rechtsgang juist belemmerd wordt als je deze video onder de pet houdt.
Ex-topjurist Israëlisch leger na vermissing opgepakt om lekken mishandelingsvideo https://nos.nl/l/2589005#UPDATE-899565…

Ex-topjurist Israëlisch leger opgepakt om lekken mishandelingsvideo
In dit liveblog lees je het laatste nieuws over de ontwikkelingen in Gaza en het bestand tussen Hamas en Israël.

The Billionaire Behind Trump's Deal for Universities (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/us/billionaire-marc-rowan-trump-deal-universities.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251004/p17#a251004p17

What are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol

"Land was Owned by Billionaires Who Didn’t Allow Access to National Monument – Now it’s Open"
#Environment
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.…

Land was Owned by Billionaires Who Didn’t Allow Access to National Monument – Now it's Open
The private ranchland blocked a 3.8-mile access road to a large National Monument in Montana, which will now be opened by the nonprofit.

Keir Starmer is the puppy a billionaire never had as a child.

A profile of AI contractor marketplace Mercor, which is valued at $10B and whose three 22-year-old founders are Thiel Fellows, each holding a roughly 22% stake (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/10/30/mercor-younge…

These 22-Year-Olds Are Now The World’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaires
With a new $10 billion valuation for their AI recruiting startup Mercor, the founders are the youngest tech billionaires ever.

No wine, chocolate, or coffee but we’ll still have billionaires (or maybe even trillionaires).
Worth it, no? https://mastodon.social/@Snoro/115490957176403898