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‘Olaf Scholz, Angela Merkel’s finance minister, who oversaw BaFin, told the parliamentary inquiry that he bore no direct responsibility for what had taken place under his watch. Later that year, he became the Chancellor of Germany.’
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‘“In finance, globally, you have a situation where the only effective police are the Americans,” Paul Murphy told me. “Our regulators—they’re out to lunch. Incompetent, mainly.” He added, “What you’ll find, say, here in London is that you can be a crook, stealing money from people around the world. As long as you’re not stealing from people in Britain, you can do anything.”’
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/how-the-biggest-fraud-in-german-history-unravelled
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‘Asked by a Dominion lawyer if he could have prevented Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani from continuing to spread falsehoods about the election on air, Murdoch responded, "I could have. But I didn't," according to Dominion's filing.’
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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Where do spiders go during a Minnesota winter? Right here, obviously.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/02/24/there-be-spiders-under-there/
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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
do you think newspaper comics are the art form with the highest ratio of abstract sentiment to actual day-to-day amusement?
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Trump Reportedly Ordered White House To Attempt Crack Down On Jimmy Kimmel - HuffPost
“Donald Trump was reportedly so livid over Jimmy Kimmel’s TV jokes that White House officials tried to get the late-night host censored on orders of the then-president.
Rolling Stone reported on Sunday that there were at least two phone calls to a top Disney executive to demand action against Kimmel in 2018.”
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Well *this* is shiny; a brand new Project Fugu 🐡 showcase site from our friends on Chrome! Try out the search and filtering:
https://developer.chrome.com/fugu-showcase/
/via @tomayac
jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
similar to the experiences of a friend of mine, a retired computing prof. the new UI is *worst* than what they had, and that was not wonderful
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‘Asked by the BBC if the bill could jeopardise Signal’s ability to operate in the UK, Meredith Whittaker said: “It could, and we would absolutely 100% walk rather than ever undermine the trust that people place in us to provide a truly private means of communication. We have never weakened our privacy promises, and we never would.”’
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and I am old enough to remember how to ‘click-dial’ a number without actually rotating that pulse dialer
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