Peter Ek

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[PsyopAnime @PsyopAnime]

Being a game developer used to mean something.

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

@JensGanman Gillade personligen metagreppet att du själv var med som karaktär i din egen bok, Houellebecq!

[Le ₿unker 🪖 @LeBunkerBtc]

Tu t'appelles Hans, t'as 31 ans et tu sors du match de la coupe du monde.

L'Allemagne s'est faite humilier par le Paraguay (il y a plus d'Allemands dans leur équipe que dans la tienne).

Le lendemain 6h45 tu retournes bosser, taxé à 60% pour financer la transition énergétique, les changements de sexe et les aides sociales distribuées par ton gouvernement aux migrants Érythréens qui se déclarent homosexuels pour rentrer dans les cases.

Cet été, tu le passes sous 38 degrés et sans clim clim parce que ton parti écologiste l'a qualifiée d'arme de destruction massive.

Au supermarché la bratwurst, tes saucisses préférées ont été remplacées par du soja gris KlimaFleisch subventionné par tes impôts pour sauver les Pingouins.

Dans ton open-space a 27 degrés tu as déclaré que tu étais du genre "divers" car c'est devenu le seul moyen d'espérer des promotions avec la discrimination positive et le DEI.

L'eau chaude coûte 18 centimes le litre depuis que le gaz russe est coupé, tu te laves en 3 minutes montre en main et ta propriétaire t'envoie des recommandés parce que la consommation dépasse le seuil énergétique fédéral. Tu pleures sous l'eau tiède.

À 16 ans tu manifestais contre les centrales nucléaires et t'as élu Angela Merkel qui a exécuté. Maintenant, le gaz russe est coupé, ton industrie du moteur thermique est en berne et l'électricité est un luxe: tu penses même à brûler tes meubles IKEA pour te chauffer cet hiver.

Pendant ce temps, ton cousin éloigné Friedrich au Paraguay paye 0% d'impôts, démarre son pick-up Ford V8 5 litres et s'apprête à fêter la victoire autour d'un asado en buvant de la bière allemande.

Ça va être un été de merde Hans, et c'est que le début.

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

https://t.co/kz1N42uwqn

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

China has revealed a spherical police robot designed to autonomously pursue and immobilize criminals by shooting nets and rolling at speeds of up to 35 km/h.

[kitty mayo @Kitty_Mayo_]

Two weeks ago, watching Agnessa Pedersen mind control a drone in real time, was one of the most moving moments in my career. Agnessa is a rare and wondrous human working towards a wild future.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

There's a clay tablet with the founding charter of a 12-partner company on it. Twelve merchants pooled 33 pounds of gold to start the firm. The contract has the partner names, the starting capital, the profit split, and the penalty for cashing out early.

The tablet is nearly 4,000 years old. It was found at a site called Kanesh, in central Turkey. Archaeologists have dug up 23,500 of these clay records there, most of them business documents: receipts, loan contracts, shipping orders, lawsuits. The houses they were stored in eventually burned. The fire baked the clay solid and preserved every record.

The merchants came from Assur, in modern-day Iraq. They loaded donkeys with tin and cloth and walked them 1,000 kilometers across mountain passes to Kanesh, roughly the distance from New York to Atlanta. Each donkey carried about 180 pounds and the trip took two to three months. They came home with silver and gold.

The company ran for twelve years under a merchant named Amur Ishtar. A third of the profits went back to the investors. Pull your share out early and the firm gave you four kilos of silver per kilo of gold, half the normal rate. Locked-up money was meant to stay locked up.

That one company was just a tiny piece. The tablets show a complete economy with partners suing each other in commercial court, husbands writing home about prices, and wives writing back complaining the husband had been gone too long. A woman named Ahatum quietly lent silver to four different men over nine years. People bought up other people's loan documents and used them as collateral for new loans, the same thing Wall Street does today with mortgage-backed securities. One merchant got caught smuggling tin in his underwear to dodge a 10% import tax.

In 2019, four economists from Harvard, Sciences Po, Chicago, and Virginia ran the tablet numbers through a gravity model, the math economists use today to predict how much two countries will trade based on size and distance. The Bronze Age numbers matched modern trade numbers almost exactly. Trade fell off with distance at nearly the same rate it does between countries today. The paper ran in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

There was no economic theory yet. The idea didn't even have a name. The word "capitalism" wouldn't be coined for another 3,800 years, and Adam Smith was 3,700 years away from writing a sentence about markets. Just a guy named Pushu-ken writing a clay tablet to his business partner about a shipment of cloth, and a woman in Assur recording who owed her how much silver. Capitalism was already there, doing its full job, almost four thousand years before anyone wrote down a theory of how it worked.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

A hilarious April fools video made by the police

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

My day has instantly become better after watching this

[auonsson @auonsson]

Raw(er) video of Swedish police operators boarding de facto Russian grain theft ship CAFFA.

[Grok_Slow @grok_slow]

@RealDonKeith Better version of it 👇

[Ambar @Ambar_SIFF_MRA]

Unexpected ending

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

@JensGanman Jag är så skadad att jag bara vill klippa in Jens sittandes på en viss soffa omringad av Syrier...

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

@kvartalet Glömmer aldrig när SVT översatte "soft targets" med civilia i nån intervju med en amerikansk officer under andra Irakkriget.

[The Night Warrior @WarriorNight007]

@VladTheInflator Welcome to NYC!!

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

@Johans_tweetz @Existenzse Shahed 136 kostar cirka $193000.

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

https://t.co/aBOm9BILh6

[Karl Redig @hansi1414]

@jonsson_henrik I Veckan med Camilla Kvarnoft och GW Persson så försöker man skylla gängens pengar på alla partyknarkarna. Det visar sig att allt är en stor politisk lögn. Albin Stenström som är doktorand i kriminologi vid Stockholms universitet läser lusen av Camilla och "klägget".

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

@extraexakt @BishoujoTokyo @Markus_Allard Kärnvapenparaplyet och maktprojicering. Att klå ryssarna lokalt i Ukraina ja, inte att bedriva ett fortsatt storkrig.

[Peter Ek @PeterEk]

@AAppehl Lever du? :)