"despite the prejudice".

People who don't get this(screenshot) likely think Brokeback Mountain is about cowboys, and Blazing Saddles is about a former railway worker who rose to be a sheriff of a small town.

Explore how history's most ruthless rulers kept populations pacified, from Genghis Khan to modern dictators. Discover the surprising strategies that win hearts, minds—and sometimes even support—under oppressive regimes.

#WarGraphics #Podcasts

Check out this Podcast: How Tyrants and Terrorists Win Hearts and Minds

https://player.fm/1BltzCh

@SatuUnelmia 😜

Mega conspiracies kinda ma jam 🤫

Future reference - no conspiracy surrounding E = Mc² though 😂 although it does have 3 interpretations the obvs one the energy/coffee/ one & one more iykyk 😆🤫

Meanwhile, Shein executive chair Donald Tang told The New York Times this week that if de minimis is eliminated, Shein would “find different ways to satisfy our customers.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/13/us/politics/biden-tariffs-chinese-goods-clothing.html

Also ICYMI

Friends don't let friends use #Temu

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112328159496720477

@SpaceShanks wb buddy hope alls good or as good as can be 😉🫡

Temu and Shein has prompted plenty of soul-searching within Amazon. In fact, the two companies are enough of a threat that Amazon was planning to launch a special section of its website that would also use the de minimis loophole to import stuff from China.

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/112688308450881544

closing de minimis won’t kill Temu or Shein. Temu has anticipated the closing of the loophole by changing its strategy

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/temu-breaks-with-direct-from-china-strategy-in-threat-to-amazon

Lawmakers have been complaining about the use of the loophole—known as de minimis—for more than a year. In the spring, the administration started cracking down on it

More here:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/u-s-escalates-crackdown-on-trade-rule-behind-shein-and-temu

It’s no surprise that President Joe Biden isn’t a TikTok fan: He’s not really the target demographic. But what the president signaled today that he also isn’t a fan of Temu or Shein

Biden administration is taking new steps to close the import duty loophole that has allowed both shopping services to flourish in the U.S

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/what-bidens-temu-and-shein-crackdown-means-for-amazon

Not surprisingly, shares of Temu parent PDD fell 2.4% on Friday

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/temus-biggest-bargain-its-parent-companys-stock

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accidentally sending a bunch of people the wrong email about Musk's financial backing - and then aggressively demanded the recipients delete it.

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“Are You Saying No to Elon Musk?”: Scenes from the Slash-and-Burn Buyout of Twitter

how Musk’s “goons” instilled fear and uncertainty among the rank and file, while his inner circle employed hardball tactics in a touch-and-go transaction.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musk-twitter-buyout

@Jorro

Tip: turn gemini app activity off - or everything is kept for google to use - when off only last 72hrs is kept

Via

https://myactivity.google.com/product/gemini

in most cases future chats won’t be seen for human review

How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-stop-your-data-from-being-used-to-train-ai/

According to Google’s privacy hub for Gemini, these chats, when that setting is on, may stick around for three years and will be viewed by humans.

/nosanitize

https://support.google.com/gemini/answer/13594961#right_to_object&zippy=%2Cwhy-is-human-review-of-my-gemini-apps-conversations-feedback-and-related-data-required

@Dane @Vilamundi not so fast

Stonehenge tale gets ‘weirder’ as Orkney is ruled out as altar stone origin

https://counter.social/@ecksmc/113131654310379134

Stonehenge tale gets ‘weirder’ as Orkney is ruled out as altar stone origin

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/sep/05/stonehenge-tale-gets-weirder-as-orkney-is-ruled-out-as-altar-stone-origin

Weeks after revelation that megalith came from Scotland, researchers make surprise discovery

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Think a wee stroll down the park is in order