digital services tax.

So if he isn’t bothering with a trade deal, I guess Canada can bring back the DST?

Its even better than just that though. Letting Thiel, Luckey and crowd open up a crypto bank, and pretending like its real currency, means that all the bank deposit insurance pools / regulatory safe guards are inching open to the Billionaire shit-heads who intentionally crashed SVB specifically to get to this position. Standard tech practice of breaking things, obfuscating why things broke and then claiming to be the only ones smart enough to fix it, while stealing everything in reach and destroying otherwise stable industries. SVB? No, no, it wasn’t because Thiel encouraged all his tech bro buddies to pull money at once from SVB to trigger a liquidity crisis, noooo… it couldn’t’ve been income inequality and an aggressively destructive group of power mad tech bros acting without accountability… it was because the bank wasn’t using crypto! Trust us, we’re rich and contributing to your campaign!

So it’s not just the people who fuck around with crypto who are gonna find out. It’s anyone with savings, as the tech fascists are being given a path to steal all the money from any safety net that exists. Those crypto rug pulls are moving into position to drain things like the FDIC in the states, and things like CDIC/CUDIC in Canada… and similar funds in most jurisdictions that are following suit on this stupid approach.

I disagree with the defunding, as many of the programs supported by NPR and PBS are pretty interesting / educational – but to claim its just a ‘modicum’ of liberalism in regular media channels is a bit odd, especially if you look outside ‘just’ the ‘news’ (news sources are slanted towards right wing, definitely).

But if you look at things like netflix/most streaming services, or hollywood movies, or ‘leisure’ type shows in general, there’s far more than a ‘modicum’ of liberalism.

Well, with all those scientists putting documents in clouds like google / aws, and with those companies happily using that data to train their models, it’s totally plausible that they’ll announce potential breakthroughs before the scientists officially do… without crediting the source… making it seem like the LLM did a science.