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Nonilex
@Nonilex@masto.ai  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

#Trump is finishing what the British started. Despite promises that the #WhiteHouse would be unaffected by the addition of a $230 million #ballroom, the #historic #EastWing has in fact been demolished. The images of the site are so jarring that the #Treasury Department has reportedly ordered its employees to stop taking photos of it.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/treasury-tells-employees-not-to-share-photos-of-white-house-ballroom-construction-1d4f2c49

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@Nonilex@masto.ai replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

…If the destruction of the #EastWing is a shock, the #money that’s paying for it might be even more of a #scandal. The #WhiteHouse, eager to assure Americans that their tax dollars have not been diverted for a #vanity project, has emphasized that the #ballroom is being financed by individuals & major #corporations. Instead of going through a process to obtain & disburse federal funds, #Trump simply asked companies his admin is supposed to be #regulating to write checks [ #bribery / #extortion].

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Aral Balkan
@aral@mastodon.ar.al  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Oh, why am I spending my morning looking through the source code of a Chrom(ium) extension that clicks OK buttons repeatedly, you ask?

Because I have about 1,000 transactions from Stripe from our Gaza Verified Emergency Appeal to reconcile in Xero and apparently the galaxy brains at Big Business, Inc., think that making you click a button 1,000 times is just fine, actually.

Fucking capitalists can’t even do capitalism right.

*smdh*

#xero #capitalism #usability #design #BigTech #business #accounting #money #bullshit

Screenshot detail of code: 

function match_statement(matched, statement){
    //get reference id from xero
    var id_set = null;
    var set_spans = matched.querySelectorAll('.c0 .details span');
    if(set_spans.length > 0){
        var i;
        for(i=0; i < set_spans.length; i++) {
            if(id_set=set_spans[i].textContent.match(id_set_regex)){
                id_set = id_set[1];
                if(id_set){break;}
            }
        }
    }
    if(!id_set){return false;}

    var id_rec = null;
    var rec_spans = statement.querySelectorAll(".statement.no-shadow div.info div.line-details span");
    if(rec_spans.length > 0) {
   …
Screenshot detail of code: function match_statement(matched, statement){ //get reference id from xero var id_set = null; var set_spans = matched.querySelectorAll('.c0 .details span'); if(set_spans.length > 0){ var i; for(i=0; i < set_spans.length; i++) { if(id_set=set_spans[i].textContent.match(id_set_regex)){ id_set = id_set[1]; if(id_set){break;} } } } if(!id_set){return false;} var id_rec = null; var rec_spans = statement.querySelectorAll(".statement.no-shadow div.info div.line-details span"); if(rec_spans.length > 0) { …
Screenshot detail of code: function match_statement(matched, statement){ //get reference id from xero var id_set = null; var set_spans = matched.querySelectorAll('.c0 .details span'); if(set_spans.length > 0){ var i; for(i=0; i < set_spans.length; i++) { if(id_set=set_spans[i].textContent.match(id_set_regex)){ id_set = id_set[1]; if(id_set){break;} } } } if(!id_set){return false;} var id_rec = null; var rec_spans = statement.querySelectorAll(".statement.no-shadow div.info div.line-details span"); if(rec_spans.length > 0) { …
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Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Looking at this graph shared by Hank Green. I know it's not exactly the same, but I can't stop thinking of this clip from Naked Gun.

Sources:
- Hank https://youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk?si=ksTTefTG_Tipeh1S
- Naked Gun https://youtu.be/QPqAcOnEBUI?si=jw41bcoqRduO-Vp0&t=15

#ai #economy #bubble #tech #money #LeslieNielsen #nakedGun #bloomberg #nvidia

Leslie Nielsen playing the cop in Naked gun, he hands some money to a crook, who hands some money to him, who hands that money back to the crook... who... (this goes on for a while)
Leslie Nielsen playing the cop in Naked gun, he hands some money to a crook, who hands some money to him, who hands that money back to the crook... who... (this goes on for a while)
Leslie Nielsen playing the cop in Naked gun, he hands some money to a crook, who hands some money to him, who hands that money back to the crook... who... (this goes on for a while)
"How Nvidia and OpenAi Fuel the AI Money Machine"

Money transfers from and to Nvidia by other thech companies. Looks like they are all circulating the same money between themselves in loops.
"How Nvidia and OpenAi Fuel the AI Money Machine" Money transfers from and to Nvidia by other thech companies. Looks like they are all circulating the same money between themselves in loops.
"How Nvidia and OpenAi Fuel the AI Money Machine" Money transfers from and to Nvidia by other thech companies. Looks like they are all circulating the same money between themselves in loops.
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Ricós
@enriquericos@mastoart.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Looking at this graph shared by Hank Green. I know it's not exactly the same, but I can't stop thinking of this clip from Naked Gun.

Sources:
- Hank https://youtu.be/Q0TpWitfxPk?si=ksTTefTG_Tipeh1S
- Naked Gun https://youtu.be/QPqAcOnEBUI?si=jw41bcoqRduO-Vp0&t=15

#ai #economy #bubble #tech #money #LeslieNielsen #nakedGun #bloomberg #nvidia

Leslie Nielsen playing the cop in Naked gun, he hands some money to a crook, who hands some money to him, who hands that money back to the crook... who... (this goes on for a while)
Leslie Nielsen playing the cop in Naked gun, he hands some money to a crook, who hands some money to him, who hands that money back to the crook... who... (this goes on for a while)
Leslie Nielsen playing the cop in Naked gun, he hands some money to a crook, who hands some money to him, who hands that money back to the crook... who... (this goes on for a while)
"How Nvidia and OpenAi Fuel the AI Money Machine"

Money transfers from and to Nvidia by other thech companies. Looks like they are all circulating the same money between themselves in loops.
"How Nvidia and OpenAi Fuel the AI Money Machine" Money transfers from and to Nvidia by other thech companies. Looks like they are all circulating the same money between themselves in loops.
"How Nvidia and OpenAi Fuel the AI Money Machine" Money transfers from and to Nvidia by other thech companies. Looks like they are all circulating the same money between themselves in loops.
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William Lindsey :toad:
@wdlindsy@toad.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

"The politics of evangelicals are overwhelmingly conservative. Though a minority, they punch far above their weight politically, with reliable votes, full coffers, and lockstep political ideology, pulling the nation ever further toward a straight, white theocracy.”

~ Ibid.

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism
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@wdlindsy@toad.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

“Beyond our zealous faith, the other Great American preoccupation—the one we're most famous for, the one that makes our streets proverbially paved with gold unless proverbially paved with strip malls—is money.

It would be a great mistake to think that money and faith live in separate realms. Faith can be the biggest cash cow of them all.”

~ Ibid., p. 33

#Trump #CharlieKirk #FreeSpeech #evangelicals #WhiteChristianNationalism #capitalism #money #God
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Nathaniel Gregory
@Faithslayer202@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Understanding the fantasies that make up #libertarian understanding of #money is key to understanding their cosplay worldview of the singular, atomized man.

https://realprogressives.org/mnc-podcast-ep/episode-347-libertarianism-vs-reality-with-brett-scott/

#Politics #Democrats #Republicans #Liberals #Conservatives #Vote #Election #DemocraticParty #RepublicanParty #DonaldTrump #Trump #JDVance #Vance #JoeBiden #Biden #KamalaHarris #TimWalz #Democracy #US #USA #ElonMusk #Musk #Fascism #Fascist #BernieSanders #AOC #FraudSquad #Progressive #MMT #ModernMonetaryTheory

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Preston MacDougall
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp last month

@dangillmor It’s only a ‘no win’ situation for #Disney because “the notion that choosing integrity means losing” is automatically interpreted to mean “the notion that choosing integrity means losing (money).”

We can #SaveAmerica if more people stop associating #winning with making more #money.

#WordsMatter #Resist #USpol

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kelleynnn
@kelleynnn@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last month
#capitalism #fashion #clothing #fiberarts #money #debt #mentalhealth
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-29-how-fast-fashion-keeps-people-poor/
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kelleynnn
@kelleynnn@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp last month
#capitalism #fashion #clothing #fiberarts #money #debt #mentalhealth
https://prospect.org/economy/2025-08-29-how-fast-fashion-keeps-people-poor/
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Stuff I found
@stuffifound@pixelfed.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Trickle-down economics" is a hoax

#anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #billionaire #billionaires #dollar #dollars #money #aud #usd #nzd #cad #srd #activism #socialism

If you were given $1000 per day, you would earn $365000 per year, putting you in the top 3% of the country, and it would still take over 2700 years to reach $1 billion. This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
If you were given $1000 per day, you would earn $365000 per year, putting you in the top 3% of the country, and it would still take over 2700 years to reach $1 billion. This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
If you were given $1000 per day, you would earn $365000 per year, putting you in the top 3% of the country, and it would still take over 2700 years to reach $1 billion. This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
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@stuffifound@pixelfed.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Trickle-down economics" is a hoax

#anticapitalism #eattherich #feedthepoor #billionaire #billionaires #dollar #dollars #money #aud #usd #nzd #cad #srd #activism #socialism

If you were given $1000 per day, you would earn $365000 per year, putting you in the top 3% of the country, and it would still take over 2700 years to reach $1 billion. This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
If you were given $1000 per day, you would earn $365000 per year, putting you in the top 3% of the country, and it would still take over 2700 years to reach $1 billion. This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
If you were given $1000 per day, you would earn $365000 per year, putting you in the top 3% of the country, and it would still take over 2700 years to reach $1 billion. This is why billionaires shouldn't exist.
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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Infants born to people who received $1,000, no-strings-attached, were nearly half as likely to die as infants born to people who got no cash, according to a report published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Cash cut mortality in children under 5 by about 45%, the study researchers found, on par with interventions like vaccines and anti-malarials."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/18/g-s1-83197/infants-health-cash-aid-kenya

#PublicHealth#GlobalHealth #money #finances #income#ChildrensHealth#ChildMortality #research#SDOH

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Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:
@bicmay@med-mastodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

"Infants born to people who received $1,000, no-strings-attached, were nearly half as likely to die as infants born to people who got no cash, according to a report published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Cash cut mortality in children under 5 by about 45%, the study researchers found, on par with interventions like vaccines and anti-malarials."

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/08/18/g-s1-83197/infants-health-cash-aid-kenya

#PublicHealth#GlobalHealth #money #finances #income#ChildrensHealth#ChildMortality #research#SDOH

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Sarah Perez 💙
@Sarahp@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Zuckerberg says people without AI glasses will be at a disadvantage in the future https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/zuckerberg-says-people-without-ai-glasses-will-be-at-a-disadvantage-in-the-future/

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@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
@Sarahp

Zuck will be dead in the future and still not be able to see.

#Money#Insanity

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯
@cryptadamist@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

the former head of research at #coindesk - someone who spent most of a decade deep inside the crypto industry as a true believer - has written a long form piece titled "Money By Vile Means" about how the crypto industry has become something deeply evil, fucked up, and wholly dependent on the government systems it once sought to disrupt.

"From libertarian ideal to cynical state capture, I debunk the myths of #Bitcoin and reveal its dark reality."

https://www.compactmag.com/article/money-by-vile-means/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #uspol #eupol #money #finance #economics

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⚯ Michel de Cryptadamus ⚯
@cryptadamist@universeodon.com  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

the former head of research at #coindesk - someone who spent most of a decade deep inside the crypto industry as a true believer - has written a long form piece titled "Money By Vile Means" about how the crypto industry has become something deeply evil, fucked up, and wholly dependent on the government systems it once sought to disrupt.

"From libertarian ideal to cynical state capture, I debunk the myths of #Bitcoin and reveal its dark reality."

https://www.compactmag.com/article/money-by-vile-means/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #uspol #eupol #money #finance #economics

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Ecologia Digital
@josemurilo@mato.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#PIX is the future of #money!
"I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what #cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024.
Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-invented-the-future-of

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Ecologia Digital
@josemurilo@mato.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#PIX is the future of #money!
"I can’t help noticing that Pix is actually achieving what #cryptocurrency boosters claimed, falsely, to be able to deliver through the blockchain—low transaction costs and financial inclusion. Compare the 93% of Brazilians using Pix to the 2% of Americans who used cryptocurrency to buy something or make a payment in 2024.
Oh, and using Pix doesn’t create an incentive to kidnap people and torture them until they give up their crypto keys."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/has-brazil-invented-the-future-of

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Adrienne Harper
@Meander1995@chaosfem.tw  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Update to this #TransMutualAid .

Found out why they won't be paying me until next Friday. They pay for the previous week's work. Since I was still in recovery last week, I don't get paid this week.

So I'll be needing #money to make ends meet and afford the upcoming sperm banking annual renewal fee. And rideshares to and from work in the heat.

#MutualAid #trans #update #transbian #transgender #transfemme #transfem #transgirl #transwoman #girlslikeus #financial

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The Japan Times
@thejapantimes@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago

A rise in physical attacks on digital-asset holders says a lot about the trade-offs of a cashless society. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/07/11/world/crypto-crime-is-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #cryptocurrencies #money #crime #hackers #bitcoin

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