New series alert: The Swedes

RT @[email protected]

This week, a Russian couple living in Sweden for the past 20 years were arrested, with the husband detained under suspicion of working for the Russian intelligence services. @[email protected] did some digging and made some interesting discoveries about their neighbours in Moscow.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/EliotHiggins/status/1596454164669906949

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) on economics training and the new open access Core textbook:

"How is it possible that a coterie of self-appointed court sorcerers to the world’s governments manage to keep their jobs despite being regularly, predictably, and catastrophically wrong?"

Answer: indoctrination

https://capitalaspower.com/2022/11/at-last-a-new-econ-101-textbook/

alright, so what was the contingency plan for like, 7 of the world's 10 richest men all going fucking goblin-mode at the same time.

at this point, between musk and putin, all it takes is jeff bezos running his next trenbolone cycle a little too hot and shit starts to break down for real

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Good advice for folks running open Mastodon instances in the US, regarding DMCA registration.

Doing this early isn't too much work or cost, but will avoid *much* more costly (time and $) problems later, especially if you have a large general-purpose and open instance https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1593819064161665024