Friendly reminder that Boris Yeltsin shelled Parliament back in 1993

Ffs, the response to the LA Riots in '91 happened two years after Tienamen.

Nevermind the police response to Occupy Wall Street and BLM.

Imagine a scenario where an American government deployed armed soldiers into the center of a city to suppress a civilian revolt against the government.

A thing that has never happened before.

If they can keep the oil flowing, more power to them. Cuba needs a strong ally right now.

We’ve formed a committee to look into it

Strongly believed that Jim Watkins was Q, although there’s enough of a gray area given how many different accounts claimed to be Q at any given point.

But who he was involved with is probably gonna be harder to work out.

Damn, who would he be involved with? Who who who? If only there were clues…

Hey, just apropos of nothing, anyone know who Ghislaine Maxwell’s dad was?

“Hey you stupid fucking libs, what if Epstein = Russia? You like that? Idiots.”

“I’ve got four years college experience and another six years of part-time work experience.”

“Do you know how to use the Flibbidty Widget?”

“No. Where would I have learned how to use that?”

“Only our company. We have a proprietary system that revolves entirely around this custom piece of hardware.”

“So…”

“We are only hiring people with five years experience. Sorry.”

Gotta spend money to make money.

I’ll admit $33k/year is on the low end, but in a country where the average income is $4800 that’s still pretty good.

The entire point of the Internet’s infrastructure design was for it to be highly distributed.

The textbook explainer for the existence of the internet was (at least) two fold:

• Provide a high speed communication between research universities for conveying large amounts of digital data

• Devise a system of redundant communication such that any major node going offline would not cripple the international data infrastructure (specifically with an eye towards major natural disasters or nuclear wars).

But the evolution of the system, from a boutique international data exchange for government enterprises to a business-heavy commercial data system to a retail facing SaaS model degraded both original goals.

Data is no longer supposed to be public and freely traded. It is jealously guarded as a commodity controlled by a handful of privatized tech giants. And due to the continuous, voracious digital harvesting performed by these tech giants, more and more of the information needs to be siloed, encrypted, and otherwise shielded. This clogs the vast redundant network with overlarge choke-points designed to filter out unwanted traffic and shield the identity/data of its users.

This isn’t a “US bad” problem. This is a “don’t be stupid, stupid” issue.

The stupidity is a directly result of how the US private sector repurposed tools layout out by the international public sector. Unregulated solicitations and chronic system intrusions by malicious actors aimed at a naive retail user base, combined with the gluttonous privatization of research data, has inverted the core function of the network.

And because of the Tragedy of the Commons, there is no single actor who can fix the problem through their own virtue. You can’t unfuck this chicken with a Meshnet or through voluntary individualistic commitments to ideological principles unbound from the central rules of network communication.

You need the heavy hand of national scale regulators and industry scale redevelopment to re-engineer how the root layers of the internet function if you want to get back to its original design.

Or… if we’re moving in the direction it seems that we’re moving… we’re going to end up with a wholly proprietary loose confederation of Walled Gardens that look more and more like the Anarcho-Capitalist model of civil government (ie, The Network State).

selling secrets to the Israeli government on the side

I don’t think it was on the side. The Israelis, the Brits, and the Americans were his primary clientele.

Bob Barr’s father - one of the OG CIA guys under Dulles - was the guy who recruited him out of school. And Robert Maxwell was deep in with MI5 when he started seeing Ghislaine.

Wasn’t Epstein with Mossad?

Nonsense. North Korean movies have famously been pretty good.

I mean, fingers crossed.

Republicans have a long and storied history of fighting unfairly. And this will definitely put the fear of God in them

If you’ve got standards, sure.

But “Paddington 2 is just as good as Tron 3” leaves me questioning your rubric.

Right has the far better perspective.

Two compelling critiques of the latest Zootopia film.