Rurik is at his best dunking on his old bosses:

To be fair, I didn’t expect the Kremlin to be behind Pool though. But I should have. The Kremlin exclusively does business with grifters, charlatans, hoaxers, criminals and ethnic criminals. Without exception. ... They supported Bernie Sanders. Anyone who has worked at RT or who remembers their coverage of the 2015-16 primaries and elections will confirm it to you. Hell, they offered me a job back then shilling for Bernie and I told them to shove it (I supported MAGA at the time). The reason why they supported Bernie is because he’s an old Trotskyist who used to literally support the USSR. That’s probably where they picked up the Pool contact because he was an Obama-supporting Occupy Wall Street activist at the time and RT was having a field day with that whole street circus, which ended up birthing the SJW movement as we know it, by the way.

You mean people started defrauding the metrics behind BVM??? shocked, simply shocked.

Given they're a non-problem statistically, the rightful remedy is platitudes, or any other non-productive LARPing that makes people shut up and move on to more productive things, like looking for cat pictures online.

It's telling that all of the new right has correctly diagnosed the problem of the managerial order, but do not yet remotely grasp the incentives involved that always turn it to shit, and therefore how to fix it. The book people should talk about is "Moral Mazes". Ultimately, appointed bureaucracies are a complete disaster. Management should be elected by shareholders, and being a shareholder ought to be a condition of election. In general it's the same problem with our political order -- far too many are enfranchised to make decisions for which they have no skin in the game, and so decide to plunder (as it has no consequence on their future but a positive one).

To of course serve more cancerous ads, and I'm sure to sell sensitive information to the blackmail agencies.

As per usual, the regulators have gone rabid.

Algo Slop dunked. Maybe the social shitheads will go back to doing the only thing anyone ever wanted them to do in the first place and show you updates from people you deliberately follow. What a concept.

They're still sore about the south doing the same to stop their carpetbagging

More from the "I don't understand what fungible commodity means" department

Yet another from the "this is what war is actually like" file. Coming soon to a country near you!

The "most moral army on earth" model is what every state on earth wishes they could do, and will do their utmost to realize.

Good reason to never have private repos on Github. Only use it as a mirror of a local Gogs install.

Huge if true. Guy had incredible determination.

This and the Ray Epps stuff suggests the FIB was wrangling for a frame-up from top to bottom. PATCON never ended, it just got a different name.

The old guard of neocons are clashing with the younger generation that actually believed all their nonsense about decolonization and race communism being awesome. As such they are less than fans of Israeli shenanigans. I suspect the inevitable outcome will be them trying to Color Revolution the USA for not being race communist enough.

It is of course, a proposal of the Russians, those innovators in Tyranny. USG is enthusiastically on board.

I suppose we'll find out whether Peter Duesberg was right about HIV soon.

20 years too late. I suspect this is only because Google got smacked with antitrust. Kind of funny, as the practical outcome will be to strengthen Google's standings in the browser war, as now the Mozilla foundation's means of funding is explicitly illegal.

Very bad idea. I support their measures to remove the preferential treatment and immunity their miners and extractors have enjoyed, but outlawry is moronic. I suspect this is nationalization through the back-door:

Morena and its coalition partners have approved a key exception to the proposed rules meaning that open-pit mining and fracking can be authorised “in rare cases determined by the federal Executive… due to their strategic importance for national development.”

So yeah, force sale of everything and then reissue permits. I'm sure DF will sink in their fangs as part of the deal.

Peronism, which is to say Hitlernomics. In short, "Compassionate Conservatism". We'll get to experience year 24-28 of the Bush II reich. In Officer Harris' defense, that's the likely outcome of the Oranjereich II as well.

UAF invasion of Russia proper was apparently to kibosh a peace deal. Meanwhile, the messaging from the Kremlins remains totally disconnected from reality; they have once again been betrayed by their esteemed western partners.

There is literally nothing short of a nuclear first strike carried out by NATO that would get Moscow to grow anything resembling a spine. They’re cool with the invasion of Russia in Moscow, but it will take them some time to figure out how to spin this development in the media.

There are certainly some holes in both the "Ukraine did it" and the "Murrica did it" narrative, but ultimately it was funded by the USG either way.

I doubt it. Nevertheless, the unrest shows no signs of abating just yet.

Par for the course

Incentivization of unreliable renewables over more important concerns like EROI and robustness of transmission infrastructure. SOP, boondoggles uber allez

Which is to say the vast majority of it over the last 5 years. Like the USA, the Russkies tend to do the right thing, but only when all other options have been exhausted.