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In his testimony to the US Senate last spring, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized that his company doesn’t sell user data, as if to reassure policymakers and the public. But the reality—that Facebook, Google, Twitter, and other social media companies sell access to our attention—is just as concerning. Actual user information may not change hands, but the advertising business model drives company decision making in ways that are ultimately toxic to society. As sociologist Zeynep Tufekci put it in her 2017 TED talk, “we’re building a dystopia just to make people click on ads.” ... Google and Facebook figured out how to commodify "reality" itself by tracking w…

Bitcoin has now closed its third red monthly candle in a row, meaning BTC/USD is now the furthest away from its stock-to-flow model estimates in more than two years. Data shows the world’s biggest cryptocurrency fell 40.36% in Q2… the biggest quarterly plunge in over three years. Plan B said the next six months will be “make or break” for the stock-to-flow model, adding: “Even for me it is always a bit uneasy when Bitcoin price is at the lower bound of the stock-to-flow model.”

Bitcoin.org has blocked U.K. visitors from downloading Bitcoin Core software, as well as the whitepaper authored by Satoshi Nakamoto. It comes days after a British court ruled in favor of self-proclaimed Bitcoin creator Craig Wright. He had accused Bitcoin.org and its current operator Cøbra of copyright infringement for hosting the BTC whitepaper in the U.K. Cøbra elected not to mount a defense in order to protect their anonymity — and was also ordered to pay interim legal costs of £35,000 (about $48,600.) The judgment is the latest salvo in Wright’s assault on people who dispute his claim of being Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto.

PROGRAM: Flute Partita in A minor, BWV 1013 by Johann Sebastian Bach (Transcribed by Valter Despalj) -Allemande (3:06) -Corrente (8:40) Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001 by Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. by Manuel Barrueco) -Adagio (12:44) -Fuga (16:38) -Siciliana (21:19) -Presto (24:25) Un Dia de Noviembre (27:36) by Leo Brouwer Gran Sonata Eroica, Op. 150 (32:17) by Mauro Giuliani Sonata in E major, K. 380, L. 23 (41:39) Sonata in D minor K.1, L. 366 (46:28) by Domenico Scarlatti Nocturno (48:55) by Slavko Fumic Encore - Asturias (53…

Hyperinflation is happening and we’re heading into Depression not recession.

I was searching for a digital piano.... and Google showed me all the local sellers.... I then clicked on the Shopping tab and realized that Google is the new Amazon. Has anyone else noticed this? What does this mean for Amazon.com going forward? Do you think Amazon is scared to death of Google entering its "shopping" space?

This is what happens when you take "just-in-time" inventory to the extreme at the nation level

Why do Android phones mysteriously exchange 260MB a month with Google via cellular data when they're not even in use? https://www.theregister.com/2020/11/14/google_android_data_allowance/

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Amid an outcry about Federal Reserve officials owning and trading individual securities, an in-depth look at officials' financial disclosures found three who last year held assets of the same type the Fed itself was buying, including Chairman Jerome Powell. None of these holdings or transactions appeared to violate the Fed's code of conduct, but they raise further questions about the central bank's conflict of interest policies. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/17/fed-officials-owned-securities-it-was-buying-during-pandemic-raising-more-questions-about-conflicts.html

Remember: the world’s biggest problems are the world’s biggest business opportunities. You can start a company that serves a small group on day 1 but aim to positively impact a billion people within a decade.

NZ Fund’s KiwiSaver Growth Strategy fund, which had investments worth just over $350 million at the end of December, had around 5 per cent of its money in bitcoin, Grigor said. that's around 17.5m they've invested in bitcoin in case you are wondering....

SCARAMUCCI: BANK OF NEW YORK HAS ANNOUNCED THEY WILL BE DOING INSTITUTIONAL CUSTODY BY THE 1ST QUARTER OF 2022

Hilarious that Worldcoin is just an ERC-20 token. It touts itself as a "fairly launched" coin but requires one of the most premined cantillon altcoins -- ETH -- in order to use it? It makes zero sense. It's just more money printing. It's also premined itself. Founders keep 20% "for development". Would you take a retina scan for free Worldcoin? 130,000 people and counting have so far

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