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Suddenly, Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/katies/status/1225422526261518337

https://twitter.com/_waleedshahid/status/1228391041985916928

https://twitter.com/LLW902/status/1227601837550964736

White Nationalists for Bloomberg

https://twitter.com/shane_burley1/status/1228437416790282240

Bloomberg’s Bad, Folks! Real Bad!

https://twitter.com/rubinafillion/status/1228728466822045697

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/bloomberg-flunks-wokeness-test-it-doesnt-matter/606634/

Is the American left about to prioritize virtue signaling over keeping an unqualified monomaniac from a second term as president?

What.

Slumlords As A Service

To squeeze every penny out of these inner-city goldmines, scammers have started outsourcing property management to ill-equipped call centres in the Philippines. The scammers call it “systemising”, a process of grabbing as many apartments as possible, filling them with identikit furniture, taking professional-looking photographs and then using every trick in the book to turn them into lucrative investments. Some of these tricks, though morally dubious, are perfectly legal. But others breach both Airbnb’s policies and local planning laws, while also putting the safety of guests at risk. As Vice found in October 2019, Airbnb is littered with fake and downright dodgy listings. But in London, where Airbnb enforces an annual 90-day limit on all “entire homes” listed on its platform, scammers have made a mockery of lax enforcement both by regulators and Airbnb itself, by turning entire new-build apartment blocks into de facto hotels designed for the short-term rental market.

(I stumbled across a huge Airbnb scam that’s taking over London - WIRED UK)

The Bernard Discourse

A lot of pundits are simply annoyed that you dare to contradict them. They have decided that criticism is violence.

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1228504482264342528

https://twitter.com/carlbeijer/status/1228189067025600512

According to interviews and documents obtained by The Verge, Palantir first approached New Orleans in 2012 through a well-known intermediary: James Carville, the Democratic Party power broker and architect of Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign. Carville is a paid adviser of Palantir whose involvement with the data-mining company dates back at least to 2011.

In an interview, Carville told The Verge that he was the impetus for the collaboration between Palantir and New Orleans. “I am the sole driver of that project. It was entirely my idea,” said Carville, adding that he and Palantir CEO Alex Karp flew down to New Orleans to meet with Mayor Landrieu. “To me, it was a case of morality. Young people were shooting each other, and the public wasn’t as involved as they should have been.”

Palantir has secretly been using New Orleans to test its predictive policing technology - The Verge

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/bernie-sanders-flying-first-class

https://twitter.com/i_Biden/status/1227968902849802241

https://twitter.com/organizingpower/status/1226996325214040064

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-progressive-millennials-cant-stand-pete-buttigieg

But the truth is, the youthful, progressive left has long despised the man that TikTok teens ridicule as “Mayo Pete.” And while Gen Z has made a social media sport of seizing his bland centrism for meme fodder, the millennials closest in age to the 38-year-old presidential hopeful are wracked by a more visceral contempt, informed by both their experience of American adulthood and the memory of growing up with peers who embody Pete’s brand of white-collar smarm. He’s the ruthless climber who wants a promotion at any cost, the rat who will sell you out the second you stop being useful to him. He’s the guy with opinions that shift according to the room he’s in. He did well in debate club, because he had the knack for disingenuous rhetoric. For some reason, he prefers to rip up a cinnamon roll and gnaw on the pieces. What the fuck is his deal?

https://twitter.com/adult_witch/status/1224841321191329793

https://www.vox.com/2020/2/11/21129665/pete-buttigieg-2020-democratic-primary-millennials