Goed dat het AD/ED over Peter Thiel schrijft. Hij is minstens zo gevaarlijk als Musk, maar de mainstream media schrijven weinig over hem en zijn bizarre ambities.

'Duitsland overweegt de inzet van de surveillance-software Palantir, wat tot protest leidt. "Palantir is geen neutrale it-dienstverlener, maar een bedrijf met nauwe banden met Amerikaanse inlichtingendiensten en duidelijke geopolitieke belangen".

Vendredi 8 août 2025

#Gaza

"Votre silence sera étudié à l'école par vos petits enfants"

#Palestine #Génocide #ToustesComplices #Année2025

Noch 60 Tage, dann wird das Fensterprogramm der Version 10 abgekündigt, d.h. es gibt keine weitere Sicherheitsupdates mehr. Oder Sie werfen noch ein paar Münzen für den erweiterten Support ein.

Sie müssen dann auf die Version 11 oder etwas Besseres upgraden.

Da nehmen Sie doch am Besten #Linux!

Wie das funktioniert? Fragen Sie eine LUG in Ihrer Nähe!

Infos dazu gibt es unter https://endof10.org/de/places/

Worauf warten? Die Zeit drängt. Nur noch 2 Monate Zeit zum Umstieg!

#endof10 #lug #lpd

"“The IMF’s maximum credit to Argentina… is projected to reach 1,352% of the country’s quota in 2026. This would be the Fund’s largest exposure in absolute terms in its history.”

Before we get to the meat of this story, let’s begin with a wee refresher. On April 11, as readers may recall, Argentina’s faux libertarian President Javier Milei gave a televised address to the nation. Flanked by his senior cabinet members, Milei told the Argentine people that his government had finally lifted the currency controls that had plagued the economy since 2011 so that people can once again buy dollars unhindered.

Economic stability, he said, had finally returned to the country — all thanks to another, ahem, IMF bailout, Argentina’s 23rd since becoming a member of the fund in 1956.

The latest $42 billion injection — $20 billion from the IMF, $12 billion from the World Bank and $10 billion from the Interamerican Development Bank — was intended to artificially prop up the peso in the months leading up to mid-term elections in October. But the peso is already in freefall, and the elections are just two months away."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/less-than-four-months-after-imf-bailout-and-lifting-of-currency-controls-argentina-is-back-in-crisis-mode.html

#Argentina #Milei #IMF #Neoliberalism #Austerity #Debt #PublicDebt

Any time someone in tech says that their software or AI is “democratising creativity”, they desperately need to be reminded:

A notepad costs about 50p.
A biro costs 26p.
A set of twelve colouring pencils costs about £15.
A second hand acoustic guitar can be had for under £50.

None of these things require electricity, an internet connection, or any bloody monthly subscriptions.

They don’t want to “democratise”, they want to privatise. They want to be the landlord and you to be the tenant.