More of this please.
Yâknow, in all my thinking about resilience and networks and communities and whatever else I have been doing to prepare for hard times, I seem to have forgottenâŚ
⌠flammable moats. Hmm.
Mahdawi is hilarious as usual, in that grim, superlative, âlaugh to keep from cryingâ way.
Methinks someone is trying to unload that rundown âExcaliburâ hotel on the Vegas strip by upselling it as a post-apocalyptic warlordâs citadel.
Note to self: set up a series of shell companies that promise to bio- engineer moat monsters in exchange for research funding. Insert greedy laugh emoji.
Meh.
Everyone knows that the only real way to protect yourself from invaders is to dig down through the caverns to the great magma sea, then build a magma-safe pump stack to bring magma to the surface to fill your moat when a lever is pulled.
Hide behind drawbridge, pull lever, wait for FUN to commence.
Another one? Isnât Zuckerberg doing the same on Kauai?
I guess Hawaii is the new New Zealand. 
Benioff is doing the classic supervillian-active volcano lair. If Zuck is trying to do that on Kauai, he missed it by 400,000 yearsâŚ
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/03/politics/dark-money-searle-foundation-invs/index.html
How the family fortune behind a major American pharma company has quietly funded conservative causes
https://trashpanda-x.github.io/darklantern/#Searle%20Freedom%20Trust
At least this one has a self-destruct timer.
RETIRED NAVY FOUR-STAR Adm. William McRaven â highly paid leadership guru, business consultant, and special operations commander â received a $50 million âCourage and Civility Awardâ from richest-person-on-Earth Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this past week. Actress Eva Longoria received the other half of the $100 million grant: the exact amount the Bezos-owned Washington Post lost last year before cutting nearly 10 percent of its staff.
For Bezos, the Postâs financial woes are mere pocket change. (With his net worth of $200 billion, covering the Washington Postâs financial deficit would be the equivalent of a person making $100,000 a year paying $50 to save over 200 jobs.) All of which is ironic given that Bezos says his motivation for buying the newspaper was âstewardship.â
Oh man this is going to get really interesting, assuming that the financial forensics can trace where all the loot went. It will be⌠instructive.
