Hans
Education professional - connectivist
- Art of the Deal
- the need to be seen as the hero ..
- The container ships coming from China are nonexistent and the passenger planes coming from Canada are empty. Donny, you're doing a heck of a job!
- Running out of others to blame yet?
- This part
- A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
- Inherent in this ICE quota is a sense of indifference nypost.com/2025/01/28/u...
- This is not a bug, this is a business model. Nobility gives way to monetization, and monetization gives way to enshittification. But the true cost is a worse society. www.persuasion.community/p/enshittifi...
- NYT: “Trump plans to send migrants to Libya” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/u...
- of all countries ...
- Buckle up. I suspect this is going to be a shit show
- Happy to play the hero or the victim, but never the villain.
- The FAA halted the work of an outside panel of experts scrutinizing its management of air traffic control, a previously unreported move made after a fatal airliner crash near Washington raised questions about the agency’s abilities to keep the skies safe.
- Libertarianism...
- President Trump said that he wanted federal law enforcement agencies to work on restoring Alcatraz, now a museum, to a functioning maximum-security prison.
- #1 tourist attraction in San Francisco - but hey, become more like Idaho.
- “Do not mock us.”
- What? There is a line?
- "Trump has always been an ignoramus who masks his intellectual shortcomings with bombast and declarations of his own brilliance, but his rambling nonsensical responses in these latest interviews should set off alarms." — @playtyperguy.com
- .... and here is an overview of the enablers ignoring alarms
- Since 2011 or so, Hungary has been what is known as a “hybrid regime”—not a totalitarian dictatorship, but not a real democracy, either. Is the same thing happening in the U.S.? nyer.cm/YxWG7w0
- To put Hungary in context - here is the ranking based on V-Dem's data.
- The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.
- Le roi, c'est moi
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- Statue of Liberty would look more in place in Canada right now. 10play.com.au/theproject/a...
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- One could learn a lesson from the past, when people with autism were identified with a black triangle inscribed with the word Blöd, meaning stupid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_co...
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- How many American car manufacturers can be bothered to build right hand drive cars?
- An autism "registry" culled from private medical records could potentially violate federal privacy laws and runs the risk of abuse. It also harkens back to a time when disabled people were labeled, segregated, and excluded. We won't go back.
- Back to 1926? www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/ima...
- Trump on the steep drop in international tourism to the US: "It's not a big deal"
- It's not a problem. It's a small problem. It's a problem, but not one we can solve. It's a problem, but not mine to solve.
- Let's all join together
- This is what Google maps shows in Australia - a polite recognition of the special needs of MAGA in brackets.
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- As a Fox news presenter, Hegseth is well versed in playing the drama triangle, positioning himself as the stoic defender of Trump's agenda, against those mean whistleblowers.
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- Just as Boeing should have stayed in its engineering culture of Seattle, so should Tesla have stayed in the progressive problem solving context of California.
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- In the end, it's about hoarding data www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
- Odd, how the United States doesn't have enough money to give sick veterans healthcare, impoverished seniors Social Security, or hungry schoolkids lunches, but it does have enough money to pay a Central American dictator millions to torture American residents in his brutal concentration camp.
- The UK tried the 'Rwanda solution' but realised it cost Australia £1.6 million per refugee. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
- As we learned in Australia, offshore detention is an expensive and dodgy business www.sbs.com.au/news/podcast...
- “The government is not a car company.”
- As Brexit demonstrated, voters are very slow to change their views, and even then more likely to be resigned than change course.
- They should be more concerned
- DOOCY: Deporting American citizens to Central American prisons -- is it legal? LEAVITT: Well, it's another question that the president has raised. It's a legal question that the president is looking into.
- Doocy better be careful -
- Van Hollen: "If the president gets to shred the Constitution and ignore the Supreme Court in this case, it is a very short path to the president ignoring court orders in other cases. So every American should care about this."
- Who could have known this would happen? www.newyorker.com/culture/cove...
- New records reveal that Marjorie Taylor Greene bought thousands of dollars in stock right before Trump’s tariff pause announcement caused markets to surge.
- Initially, politicians create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for themselves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshitt...
- Maybe Australians are inspired by all the 'winning' www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
- German example of what would happen if immigrants would be sent back ... www.instagram.com/reel/DHL6r6X...
- The dream is dead
- Let's see how the long list of promises will be tracking. The peace maker, the prosperity builder, the Christian, the restorer of masculine dignity...
- US hairdressers and aestheticians report clients are opting for less expensive services and canceling appointments—worrying signs that US consumers are retrenching
- Get ready
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- Such grand visions of greatness. At what point in time does the inevitable disappointment turn bitter? politicaldictionary.com/words/scorch...
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- Wonder where the promised $1.5 trillion in spending cuts will land. www.moneymarketing.co.uk/opinion/trum...
- “He made 2.5 million today and he made $900 million. That’s not bad.” Sounds like market manipulation to me. That’s bad.
- “Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.” Donald Trump The Art of the Deal
- He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.
- Oh well, as long as you pass the loyalty test - punchbowl.news/article/wash...
- I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”
- The trick is to (1) promise lots at elections, then (low and behold) (2) discover the actual cost per person, (3) backtrack, hoping people will focus on other matters. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
- Australia found it all very expensive www.equityeconomics.com.au/report-archi...
- A day is a long time in Trump politics. Fox News notes that "stocks soar after Trump’s tariff pivot".
- Seriously
- Of course, it is never Trump who is held to account. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
- People are getting a bit 'yippy' finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...
- According to IRS estimates, the internal sabotage by DOGE has already cost the U.S. Treasury more than $500 billion in revenues that otherwise would have been raised by April 15th. But it doesn’t stop there. DOGE is also in the process of closing down the Tax Division at the Department of Justice.
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- Trump knows the mid-term election are the only threat left. Liberation Day is not landing well, so time to deflect back to migration.
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- Exhausting, all this winning theshovel.com.au/2025/04/08/a...
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- Just a matter of timing for the dramatic 'you're fired' show to start. youtu.be/CHzdxly0Y9Q
- China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”
- Meanwhile, Fox News itself is gendering the tariffs. bsky.app/profile/abby...
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- Caricatural? Perhaps. But the shift 'east' can be mapped.
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- The fight-flight mindset vs. foresight. Amygdala vs frontal lobe.
- Note that special cohort amongst populists - the pundit. That theme of despair driving people to take unhinged risks. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
