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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

#GeoPol #Eupol #DEpol

(9/n)

...#Citadel, #Deloitte, #JPMorgan, #KKR, #KraftHeinz, #LibertySteel, #Macquarie, #McKinsey, #Meta, #Neom, #Palantir, #PwC und anderen gehören.
...Sie werden von rechtsextremen Politikern aus der EU begleitet werden. Zu den Teilnehmern gehören gewählte Vertreter rechtsradikaler Parteien aus #Frankreich (#RassemblementNational), #Dänemark (#DänischeVolkspartei), #Estland (#KonservativeVolkspartei), #Ungarn (#Fidesz), #Island (#Zentrumspartei), den

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Pentaxke
15 years apart.

Truth be told, whenever I lack inspiration, I go to #Dinant. It may be not the most eciting city to visit in Belgium, but it more than makes up for it with it’s fairytale-like atmosphere.

The time before, it was raining cats and dogs and I settled for a quick-quick #panorama, so the last time I visited the #citadel of Dinant I had to redo it and this time with a little more effort. Both are +/- 120* vertical.

It’s also proof that in #Belgium, it doesn’t rain all the time (although it certainly feels that way.)

Photo #1: 10/2018 7 photos stitched #Olympus E-30
Photo #2: 5/2023 30 photos stitched #Pentax K1

#throwbacktuesday #belgie #belgique #thisisbelgium #travel #travelphotography #landscape #landscapephotography #fromthearchives #Pentaxk1 #editedincaptureone
View of the city of Dinant with the river Meuse flowing beneath. On the foreground the cathedral of Dinant sitting in an urbanized setting (as seen from above.) Everything is wet from the rain and the horizon is misty.
Same as the first photo, but wider and in a sunny setting.
#editedincaptureone
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rob

I am—and have been for a while—going through the process of #demeta and #degoogle my life as much as I can. For reasons too numerous to mention, but you‘ll be able to think of the main ones. An appraisal, so far…

#Meta

✅ Stopped using #Facebook years ago but have finally deleted all posts, photos, likes, follows, and interactions I ever had on there (going back to 2007). Batch delete was hardly “batch” so this was laborious (and I know delete isn't really delete but it felt good to see stuff disappear!)

✅ Deleted all of my photos from #Instagram. Now I just use #Pixelfed. On my phone, I use the @impressia app. The next step is to run my own, single-user instance on a #RaspberryPi at home (as I do with Mastodon) and get off pixelfed.social

❌ #WhatsApp is tricky. I'm in groups where I know I have no chance of converting everyone to an alternative platform. Cutting myself off from the herd (of IRL friends) isn't an option. Will reluctantly live with this for the time being.

✅ Don’t use Messenger; never used Threads.

#Google

✅ Switched from Google to #DuckDuckGo for search on all devices. Deleted search history in Google account.

✅ Migrated mail and calendar from Google to @fastmail. I was briefly considering either self-hosting with #Citadel or using #iCloud Mail, but Fastmail was the better option for me. Very pleased so far; thanks to @tekphloyd for sending me in the right direction!

✅ Switched from Google Authenticator to @ente Auth for #2FA

✅ Switched from Google Maps to Apple Maps.

✅ No longer using Google Analytics on any personal sites; currently trialling @Matomo which is #FOSS and self-hosted.

✅ No longer using Google Fonts on any personal sites.

✅ Removed Google’s Gboard as the software keyboard on iPhone; now using the Grammarly keyboard.

✅ Deleted a bunch of old Gmail accounts that hadn't been used in ages. Now using masked email addresses, so don't need these kinds of accounts now.

✅ Don’t use Chrome, only Safari.

✅ iOS since the beginning of smartphones; never used Android.

✅ Already using iCloud+ for photo library sync and any file cloud storage/mirroring; no need for Google Photos or Drive.

✅ Still old school MS Word/Excel for me, so don't use Google Docs.

❌ I don't upload video but I do watch a lot on #YouTube and—as with WhatsApp—I‘m not willing to cut myself off; no current viable alternative.

❌ My #SmartHome setup has quite a lot of Google: home wifi mesh and voice assistant, plus #Nest cameras, doorbell, and thermostat. Hmm. TBD.

…

✅ And of course I left the bird site in the great migration of Nov ‘22 and came here. As of 2024, I’m self-hosted so my data physically lives in my home office on a #RPi with full and incremental backups running to an external disk. Planning to upgrade from SD card to SSD in 2025.

Happy with my progress so far! 👍

N.B. I have my reasons for not completely deleting some of the above accounts; they will remain dormant.

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Ian Brown :verified:

GFNCI LLC turns out to be none other than #Citadel CEO Kenneth Griffin.

One might think that we should give Kenneth some credit for outbidding/p0wning a #crypto DAO in order to obtain an original copy of the US Constitution but, no, fuck that:

this guy is a billionaire who supports Republicans just so he can stay rich.

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Chuck Darwin

One major #Republican #donor is pouring millions into groups funding the #anti-#abortion candidates in three battleground states: #Virginia, #Pennsylvania, and #Kentucky.
He is also one of the largest personal shareholders in the viral social media network, #TikTok.

#Jeff #Yass founded the options trading firm #Susquehanna #Investment #Group, and is now worth a cool $28 billion.

ProPublica reported that Yass has avoided paying more than $1 billion in taxes in recent years.

One of Susquehanna’s richest bets was purchasing a 15 percent stake in TikTok’s parent company, #ByteDance, in 2012;
according to the Wall Street Journal, Yass’ personal stake in the company is about seven percent.

A longtime member of the advisory board at the #Cato #Institute and a top donor to Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, Yass, 67, self-identifies as a #libertarian
— a political philosophy that would seem to be at odds with the desire to increase #government #control of women’s health care decisions.

Jeff Yass has emerged as a GOP megadonor. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, his donations to outside groups funding GOP candidates have soared from $5.25 million in 2016 to an eye-watering
🔸$56 million in 2022. 🔸

Yass, with his wife Janine, were the largest donors to outside political organizations in the country last year, behind George #Soros, Richard #Uihlein of the shipping supply company Uline, and Kenneth #Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund #Citadel.

rollingstone.com/politics/poli

Rolling Stone · Meet The TikTok Billionaire Whose Campaign Cash Is Fueling the GOP’s Abortion FightsBy Tessa Stuart
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