After that, #Congress decided in bipartisan fashion that it had had enough of special counsels sniffing around the #ExecutiveBranch. Barack #Obama pledged to look forward & not backwards, not only closing the door on prosecutions for executive lawbreaking but also failing to hold accountable those responsible for the 2008 financial crisis & the ensuing #GreatRecession.

#US #law #accountability #power #plutocracy

Since 2009? Who remembers the #GreatRecession?

Tipping into #Trumpcession? Driven by tariffs, corrupt “deals” of self-enrichment, broligarch patronage, spiteful and delusional economic mismanagement?

Last month was the worst January for layoff plans since 2009
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/last-month-was-the-worst-january-for-layoff-plans-since-2009-challenger-131244531.html

Last month was the worst January for layoff plans since 2009: Challenger

Layoff announcements ballooned in January, hitting the highest level for the month since 2009, according to a Thursday report from the global outplacement...

Yahoo Finance

@siklist Good question.

@Waterfox should be able to import things and if you're on #Linux all you need is to sync the subdirectory at $HOME/.config/ with any tool you want.

  • @fuchsiii does sync her stuff with @nextcloud as it has the #Nextcloud #Bookmarks sync option and she's using multiple devices, OSes and browsers at the same time.

  • Personally, I do backup, sync and restore my stuff to by personal mini-server at home via #SSH onto an encrypted drive.

Tho my default browser is @torproject / #TorBrowser and that is best used on @tails_live / @tails / #Tails which can also do manual syncing via SSH on the local network.

  • I've not bothered to setup an #OnionService because it's beyond what I personally need but some folks do need it.

But what pisses me off is #Mozilla's tone-deaf ignorance of LITERALLY EVERYONE that uses #Firefox that they need to STOP #Enshittifying NOW!

Cc: @mozilla_support

#Enshittification #privacy

#America is losing blue-collar jobs – something that last occurred during the early #Pandemic and the 2008-09 #GreatRecession. Employment across trades and industry is DOWN -123,000 since early 2025, and has declined nearly EVERY month since FEBRUARY," www.rawstory.com/gop-26748543...

GOP pollster shares damning ch...
GOP pollster shares damning chart about Trump's economy

A GOP pollster shared an eye-popping chart about the state of President Donald Trump's economy on Tuesday. Trump campaigned on a promise to revive the American manufacturing industry, primarily by imposing tariffs on imports from foreign countries and U.S. trade partners. However, Trump has lost con...

Raw Story

Don't worry, Millennials. Psychoanalyst Carl Jung said life really begins at the age of 40.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/carl-jung-shadow-work

David Dayen at The American Prospect has a decent explainer article The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think. It gets into the so-called "private credit" mechanisms being abused to inflate this bubble, and why they are so dangerous. This stuff used to be called "shadow banking" because private entities that are not chartered banks are essentially providing banking services to other private entities. What happens if there's a panic and the equivalent of a bank run? Who knows!
Silicon Valley and Wall Street are in sync: conjuring up sketchy credit deals that are pointing us toward another financial crash.
...
“We have sealed the deal on another financial crisis—the question is size,” said one former congressional staffer.
#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #AIBubble #grift #CasinoEconomy #FinancialCrash #GreatRecession
The AI Bubble Is Bigger Than You Think

It’s not just OpenAI that looks overhyped. There’s a whole mountain of sketchy financial engineering underneath.

The American Prospect

Economics expert pinpoints the exact moment in 2012 when 'America went to hell'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/americas-2012-vibe-shift-ex1

"In this way, the #datacenter financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an #AI deal. ... And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the #GreatRecession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed."

#nvida
#economy
#ChatGPT
#stockmarket
#risk

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/10/data-centers-ai-crash/684765/?gift=36MUroklPHjSVbIeXUwSvQsooBxgQR5sumVtCMWVMsE

Here’s How the AI Crash Happens

The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.

The Atlantic

With almost 60% of the working age population currently employed, and 5.145 million added to the population in the last 12 months, one would hope the 12 month #employment gain would be at least 3 million. But it was less than 2 million. The post-#COVID recovery does not look like the post-#GreatRecession recovery.

Thank you #BLS for still providing credible data.
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-population-ratio.htm

Lawrence: 'Irreversibly stupid' Trump's biggest tariff 'humiliation day' has yet to come

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