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Nonilex

“It was like an aspiration for most the world. And we’re eroding that #brand right now,” #billionaire #KenGriffin said.

Griffin, founder of one of the largest hedge funds in the world, said that traders are concerned about parking their investments in the #UnitedStates — particularly US #Treasury #bonds — because #Trump’s #tariffs have destroyed faith that America will remain a TRUSTED & RATIONAL actor in global financial markets.

#US#economy#recession
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Nonilex

#Citadel CEO #KenGriffin, #billionaire #Trump supporter & #megadonor to #Republicans, had some harsh words for Trump about his #TradeWar:

It’s hurting America’s standing in the world & eroding the nation’s “#brand”.

“The #UnitedStates was more than just a nation. It’s a brand. It’s a universal brand, whether it’s our culture, our financial strength, our military strength …. America rose beyond just being a country,” Griffin said.

#US #economy #recession #trumpcession
cnn.com/2025/04/24/business/ke

CNN · One of Trump’s billionaire supporters has harsh words for the president about his trade warBy David Goldman
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Marko Vujnovic

Citadel is, as far back as I can remember, the only TV show we ever decided to stop watching after seeing just the first episode. In no uncertain terms, we were like nope. Just nope. All the nopes.

Except, both the Italian and the Indian spinoff look pretty damn awesome. So we keep going back to evaluating if we should just power through the original show just to get to the spinoffs. We haven't, so far. But just now I was reminded that I really want to see the spinoffs...

#Citadel
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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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