What's remarkable about this article is that there's no mention of the police.
No mention of a charge, an investigation, an arrest, even an interview
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I know absolutely nothing about Lula except that i saw someone share a clip on insta of him in celebration kissing a trans woman politician on the cheek and oh my god is that a radical act for a politician in 2026 so lets fucking go
It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
Literally enlisting people in using growth hacking tactics *against* the networks themselves. I don't know that this is replicable, I don't know how this changes down the line against an adversary who might be even more brazen in their interference, but it worked this time.
At one point he had a Whatsapp group with 10 million people in it, coordinating action. Which I didn't even think whatsapp was infrastructurally designed to support. And yes, whatsapp is of course a meta network, but the strategy was to be everywhere, to act redundantly, to be unbannable.
major overhaul as hell seeks "cohesive branding experience" for users
- original sin is now "sin classic"
- venial and mortal sins are now "sin lite" and "sin premium"
the devil is reportedly looking to expand the seven deadly sins into a subscription model
The thing about being a nazi collaborator is that it doesn't matter if you did it for incredibly nuanced reasons that made sense in your head, and you agonised for long hours over it. It doesn't matter because you're a nazi now.
Convening a focus group of 30 people who have no idea what's going on and no expertise on basically any topic and just turning them loose. "Fuck me up," I tell them. "Just give me all the dumbest stuff you've got."
found out that my mother in law decided she was aggressively pro trans rights literally by going, I don't know anything about this but everyone who is against trans rights is also against free school lunch, the issue I know and care a lot about, so this must be the correct way to feel about this
Yes, you are taxing away money, and therefore power, from Billionaire playpens like Meta and Twitter, companies that have long since become csam and disinformation factories, and putting that towards significantly more socially useful activity that billionaires don't think they need.
Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry β that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research.
Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.