#peak homo behavior

[masterpieceofunderstatement]

Nomad is Clearly Sapphic-Coded: in this essay, I will…

[reflections-in-a-critical-eye]

For each "peak sibling behavior" I see in the tumblr tags for jikook, the blowjob bros are keeping true to the nickname I gave them. The more someone writes that, the more bjs for koomi, jsyk

[adhd-as-my-personality]

So what you’re telling me is that John Winchesters move for Mary was to tell her he knew the words to every Zeppelin song, and Dean decided totally no homo to record a mixtape of his 13 favorite Zeppelin songs and give it to Cas. Peak besties behavior. Excuse me while I go cry in a corner.

[fireflysugarpie]

I think it would be funny if Shang Qinghua and Shen Qingqiu decided to get married, not for tax purposes per se, but for marriage/sex curse immunity. secretly, of course ;)

why would they do this, you may ask? why wouldn't they? excluding aphrodisiacs, there are plenty of curses and/or magical objects just laying around the SVSSS world just waiting for an unsuspecting Peak Lord to trip over them. And since Shen Qingqiu has decided to travel to see all the worldbuilding and cool flora/fauna he missed out on in the original PIDW, he's dragging Shang Qinghua along with him for the ride. Of course, they would need protection against the more serious afflictions they could catch or be caught by, and getting married was the perfectly logical solution!

and if they ended up getting sex-pollened and needed to rail each other anyway? if they both said no-homo after, then it didn't count! and if they had started to sleep in the same bed and woke up in each other's arms, that's because it's cheaper than getting separate rooms! Who cared that Shang Qinghua started to sleep over at Shen Qingqiu's peak when they were both back at the sect? And brought him gifts and food? And that he reciprocated? They were obviously just hanging out as friends.

And friends are supposed to be affectionate and show care towards each other! They're the only transmigrators in this world, so they need to stick together! Watching the other jerk off can be a bonding activity, you know!

And if Shen Qingqiu noticed one day that they stopped saying no-homo? They already know they aren't gay, so it would be redundant to keep saying it. Carding your fingers through your fake (real) husband's hair while he lays in your lap and complains about the merchant's trying to weasel out of a deal with the sect is completely straight behavior!

[m1ssunderstanding]

Get Back Rewatch 55 Years On: Day Two

Paul and Ringo cabaret duo au NOW!

Their collective bitter humor about the fan mag. I think George probably appreciates Paul getting into this sort of shit with him. Even if it is only on a surface-level. A reminder that the Beatles fame journey (something that's been hellish at times for George, enough to give him PTSD and other issues for the rest of his life) has not left Paul unscathed. That Paul actually does have feelings, however buried they may be.

Could even be that the appreciation comes out in the form of "I think your beard suits you. Man." Does the tacked-on 'man' mean a sort of "no homo" type qualifier? Or is it just an added endearment. I know we don't think of George as particularly inhibited, but it was the sixties. And of course Paul loves the compliment and has no idea what to do with it.

Can you all please thank Mal as he hands you your tea next time? Not that hard, guys.

Ringo's voice is so sexy. And I love how supportive Paul and George are of this very stupid song. If either of them had written it, they'd tear it to shreds, but it's Ringo, so we laugh along and enthuse about the sentiments behind the lyrics.

The communal bitching about EMI's treatment of them. As they should.

Oh goodness, it's the "Paul has an embarrassing crush" moment from that iconic post of @jeremy-hillary-boob He totally does and you should say it. "I never used to know what it meant". It's giving "girl pretends not to know how to hold her golf club so the hot guy will touch her".

I have a theory that some of their covers ~matter~ and "What do you want to make those eyes at me for?" Is the first one for me.

Okay this look right here that John is giving Paul? Not to, like, out myself as never having experienced pure love except from my own child or anything, but the only other place I've ever seen that look is on my one-year-old's face when I come get him from his nap. So ... "A lovely little baby, John was"

"If this boy dies, you're gonna cop it." Peak older brother behavior. He's joking, but he's also deadly serious.

In love with John trying to sing out of his range. He's trying so hard, you guys.

"Everybody had a hard year. 'well, I'm not sure, actually. Put [good year]." Same, John. Isn't it always that way? Hard. And good. He's such a genius lyricist. He just captures the human condition with such specificity.

Lol at Paul correcting John on the key of his own song (yeah, yeah, gimme some truth is secretly a colab but it's still a John song)

When they put a piano in front of Paul and John's instantly like "uh-oh, red-alert my beautiful boyfriend might not get captured perfectly from every angle" vs a year and a half later when he's bitching about Paul having too much screen-time in Let it Be. Well, you were part of the problem, babe.

I love George's way of teaching his songs. Whereas Paul was shouting key changes and counts between phrases, and John doesn't even bother to give any of that information, George is just softly singing "E, to F sharp minor. E to A." Beautiful. John and Paul, take notes.

Wonder if I'll get through a day without calling Paul a whore. Probably not.

John being instantly self-effacing after suggesting that genius little let's enhancement. "My mind can blow those clouds away" is actually much more original and thought-provoking, but John just makes fun of himself. Like. Just own it. You're John fucking Lennon!

The George/Paul convo (George talking, Paul hardly flinching) is so painful actually. Because from the outside, Paul's avoidance looks so condescending and unfeeling, but avoidance feels much more like 'Shit fuck shit dodge the fight, go around, don't react, don't engage, don't start something' and i really feel for both of them.

Let John do Help for gosh sakes!

"Not bad though. Good try, that. Johnny."

The part where Paul is looking just so exhausted, and he's actually letting it show, and then he sees the camera on him and hurries and tries to do a cheeky little Beatles head-shake and smile. But then he's really just too tired (and high) and he looks away and rubs his eyes. It was like watching an old circus bear. Those poor things.

And of course John's head snapping up like a little gopher when Paul says his name

[wweassets]

ridge blatantly checking out ricky's ass peak homo behavior

right… he wanted to bend him over and POUND

[o-craven-canto]

This (from Wiki) is a graph of Earth’s temperature over the last 450,000 years. We are, in fact, in the middle of an ice age, the Quaternary Ice Age, defined by the year-round presence of ice at the poles (for now, *cough*). (For Earth’s history as a whole, permanent polar ice is in fact not the norm.)

The Quaternary Ice Age consists in a series of glacial periods, each about 50 to 100 thousand years long, in which glaciers may come down as far south as Paris and New York, separated by brief interglacials, each less than 20 thousand years, in which the polar ice withdraws behind the Polar Circles. That peak in temperature at the right edge of the graph is our own Holocene interglacial, which began 11,700 years ago. The whole of recorded history, everything from the development of agriculture onward, happened inside it, on the trail of a glacial period ten times longer. We could expect it to end, with the onset of another glacial period, some 10 or 20 thousand years from now, but the effects of anthropogenic climate change on this cycle are not yet predictable.

The last interglacial before ours is known as Eemian (in the European nomenclature) or Sangamon (in the American one). It was a very similar period of warming -- in fact, significantly hotter than our own times, with hippopotami wallowing in the Thames -- lasting from 130,000 to 115,000 years ago. Fifteen thousand years of mild weather, well long enough to fit a story as long and complex as the one from the first Levantine wheat farmers to us (and half again).

In that time, Homo sapiens was still a strictly African species, just making short-lived forays into the Near East; Eurasia belonged to our close cousins, Neandertals and Denisovans, and possibly to the last smatterings of Homo erectus in the southeastern jungles. Our dear brothers Neandertals, whose behavior is revealed ever more complex and imaginative, until their sudden disappearence in the middle of the next glacial period.

What were they up to, in the ice-free Europe of the long Eemian greenhouse, long enough for civilizations to rise and fall a dozen times, long enough to go from the stone sickle to the Mars rover? Most traces on the ground would have been erased when the glaciers came down again, the glaciers whose stupendous weight would carve giant lakes from Erie to Ladoga. What if they had already had better places to go to, when our conspecifics showed up in a land that was already depauperated by frost?

Why would anyone think the “little grey people” in UFOs are aliens? Have you any idea how many specific contingent events made up our evolutionary history, how vanishingly unlikely it would be for the human form to arise on another planet? Those are Neandertals, homesick after thirty thousand years of exile, and they’re coming home.

OK, fine, fine, a technological Neandertal civilization would have left massive evidence (intensive farming, driving out of megafauna, fossil fuel depletion, unusual metal concentrations) that we would have noticed, advancing glaciers would not have erased evidence so completely and in fact would not prevent us from seeing isotopic traces of technical activity, such a civilization would not have been confined to Europe and yet there is no trace whatsoever of pre-Homo sapiens human presence in the Americas or Australia, nor there is any trace of sapient activity in the Solar System older than the 20th century, and UFOs are most probably not real. Don’t take this too seriously, guys.

[fuck-you-im-the-president]

peak hypocrite behavior.

being homophobic to your son while actively in a gay marriage and whatever homo relationship you had with Wilbur is a very real thing

if this makes no sense. Okay. Figure it out :/

not a hypocrite. 🖕

my husband isn't even technically a guy so it's not gay :/ then Wilbur was. in a bestie way.

[bleakbeauty]

Report on the Extinct Species Homo sapiens

By Archaeologist S'vril K'thann, Xenohistorical Division, Galactic Institute of Sapient Studies

Abstract:

The recent discovery of fossilized remains and preserved artifacts belonging to the long-extinct species Homo sapiens has provided our first substantive evidence of their existence. While many details remain uncertain, preliminary findings suggest that these beings were bipedal, tool-using organisms that once dominated their environment. However, inconsistencies in the data leave us with significant questions regarding their social structures, physiology, and eventual extinction.

Physical Characteristics and Behavior

The skeletal remains of Homo sapiens indicate that they were a warm-blooded species with an upright posture, capable of extensive locomotion. The presence of flattened foot structures suggests a reliance on ground movement, though some evidence hints at an arboreal ancestry. Estimates of brain cavity volume suggest moderate intelligence—possibly approaching functional problem-solving capability. Curiously, the exaggerated cranial size compared to body proportions implies that they may have relied heavily on cognitive abilities rather than raw physical prowess.

Their dental structures indicate an omnivorous diet, capable of processing both plant and animal matter. However, it remains unclear whether they primarily scavenged, hunted, or engaged in some form of cooperative food-sharing behavior.

Of particular interest is their apparent reliance on artificial coverings, which we initially mistook for external growths or exoskeletal plates. Further analysis indicates these were likely removable fabric structures, perhaps used for thermoregulation or social signaling. The variety of styles and materials suggests a complex cultural significance, though the purpose of many configurations remains obscure.

Societal Structure and Intelligence

The reconstructed dwellings of Homo sapiens range from simple caves to elaborate multi-tiered constructions of synthetic material, implying a broad range of technological proficiency. We hypothesize that they engaged in large-scale cooperative behavior, as no single individual could have constructed the largest observed edifices alone.

Among their most perplexing artifacts are a series of thin, flattened slabs covered in symbols—perhaps a primitive form of record-keeping or communication. We suspect that Homo sapiens may have possessed a rudimentary form of language, though whether it was auditory, visual, or otherwise remains undetermined. Some slabs depict sequences of repeating figures engaged in nonsensical activities, leading some researchers to theorize they engaged in ritualistic or non-functional behaviors, possibly a form of primitive entertainment.

Strangely, preserved remains indicate that many individuals suffered from skeletal deterioration, tooth decay, and injuries—conditions that appear to have been survived for extended periods. This suggests that they may have cared for their wounded and elderly, a behavior otherwise only seen in highly social species. However, other evidence points to violent interactions between individuals, including projectile wounds and blunt force trauma. Whether these injuries were the result of territorial disputes, predatory behavior, or structured combat remains unknown.

The Individual Life Cycle

Based on growth markers in the bones, Homo sapiens experienced an extended juvenile phase followed by a brief period of peak physical ability, after which they rapidly deteriorated. We estimate their average lifespan to be between 40 and 80 planetary cycles, though some accounts suggest outliers who lived far longer.

We have reconstructed the speculative life of a single Homo sapiens individual, whom we have designated "Specimen Alpha."

Specimen Alpha was likely born into a small social unit, possibly a family grouping, though the nature of these bonds is unclear. As a juvenile, they would have been dependent on older members of the group for sustenance and protection. Adulthood was likely marked by integration into a larger network, possibly contributing to their society through manual labor, the creation of artifacts, or social roles. The final stages of life appear to have been marked by physical decline, with some evidence suggesting that elders may have served as repositories of knowledge or guidance—though they may have also been abandoned when no longer useful.

Curiously, numerous artifacts associated with Specimen Alpha indicate an interest in non-functional objects. A set of sculpted figures, etched symbols, and elaborate personal decorations suggest an engagement in abstract thought, possibly even what could be considered "artistic" expression. This behavior is highly unusual for a species primarily concerned with survival and suggests an unaccounted-for cognitive dimension in their lives.

Extinction and Remaining Questions

The cause of Homo sapiens' extinction remains unknown. Geological records suggest their planet underwent rapid environmental fluctuations, potentially outpacing their adaptive capabilities. Another theory proposes that their reliance on technology ultimately rendered them vulnerable to systemic collapse. The presence of widespread ruins and abandoned structures suggests that their end was not instantaneous but rather a gradual decline.

A final, more controversial theory posits that Homo sapiens may have self-terminated due to their own internal conflicts. The widespread presence of weaponry-like artifacts suggests an innate predisposition toward intra-species aggression, which may have contributed to their downfall. If true, this would mark Homo sapiens as one of the rare instances of a species achieving intelligence only to self-destruct—a cautionary anomaly in evolutionary history.

Conclusion:

The enigmatic existence of Homo sapiens presents an unprecedented study in the paradoxes of intelligence, social behavior, and self-destruction. While their physical remains suggest a species capable of cooperation and innovation, their artifacts imply an undercurrent of discord, excess, and fixation on seemingly non-essential pursuits. More research is required to determine whether they were a noble experiment of nature gone awry, or merely a transitional phase in planetary evolution.

Further excavation and analysis are ongoing.

End of Report.

[movedto-jewishbucke]

I know it's a TV show but like... what about TK made Carlos go "yeah this bitch is a homosexual"

[aboutanancientenquiry]

Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess

A Near Eastern Koine

Author: Nanno Marinatos

An illustrated guide to Minoan images and symbols

Publication Date

Paperback: 09/01/2013

ABOUT THE BOOK

Ancient Minoan culture has been typically viewed as an ancestor of classical Greek civilization, but this book shows that Minoan Crete was on the periphery of a powerfully dynamic cultural interchange with its neighbors. Rather than viewing Crete as the autochthonous ancestor of Greece's glory, Nanno Marinatos considers ancient Crete in the context of its powerful competitors to the east and south. Analyzing the symbols of the Minoan theocratic system and their similarities to those of Syria, Anatolia, and Egypt, Marinatos unlocks many Minoan visual riddles and establishes what she calls a "cultural koine," or standard set of cultural assumptions, that circulated throughout the Near East and the eastern Mediterranean at the time Minoan civilization reached its peak. With more than 150 illustrations, Minoan Kingship and the Solar Goddess delivers a comprehensive reading of Minoan art as a system of thought.

Contents

Preface [ix]1.

 Introduction [1]

2. The King and Queen in Art [12]

3. The King and Queen as High Priests [32]

4. Thrones of Gods—Thrones of Kings [50]

5. The House of God [66] 6. Who Sees the Gods Face to Face? [78]

7. Minoan Prophecy and Royal Power [86]

8. The Cosmic Mountain as a Frontier [103]

9. The Double Axe, the Ankh, and the Ox Head [114]

10. The Rosette, Half-Rosette, and “Incurved Altar” [131]

11. Minoan Afterlife Beliefs [140]

12. The Solar Goddess of Kingship [151]

13. The Storm God [167]

14. Translating the Gods of the Religious Koine [186]

15. Conclusions: A Tribute to Sir Arthur Evans [193]

Notes [197]

Bibliography [225]

Figures and Credits [247]

Index [255]

Nanno Ourania Marinatos (Oυρανία -Ναννώ- Μαρινάτου), PhD, Professor Emerita, Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanno_Marinatos )

According to the review of the book by British  classical archaeologist and art historian John Boardman (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/472181 ):

 “Of all ancient civilizations, the one we might most cheerfully assign to invasion from outer space is the Minoan. It had no obvious antecedents in Greece and no real following, except for the short period of Mycenaean takeover. Arthur Evans, who discovered the Minoans at Knossos, drew the more obvious comparisons with the arts and religions of the East and Egypt—none terribly close and wholly overworked by a culture that viewed its arts and their messages in a way quite unparalleled elsewhere, and intelligible to us only because its practitioners were not little green men but a rather special breed of Homo sapiens. Their religious apparatus was peculiar to them (double axes, horns), and the personnel humanoid, but for a demon that owes a little to Egypt. Religious scenes bear slight resemblance to those of southern or eastern neighbors, and the strongly individual style of figure and animal drawings as well as scene composition is particular to them. Nanno Marinatos, daughter of the most vigorous Greek explorer of the Minoans, has worked this area before, but her new book places them more persuasively in the context of their neighbors, as well as of their own idiosyncratic view of the world, than as forerunners of the classical—which is quite inconceivable. Yet to include them in a “Near Eastern koine” stretches the idea of a koine almost to bursting point. They were the children of their age, as were their neighbors, but more dependent on a strong individuality of approach and vision, perhaps promoted by their physical remoteness from the Levant and Egypt—a remoteness they bade to reduce by travel, as had all occupants of Greece’s relatively sterile land, and in this respect alone foreshadowing the behavior and achievement of their successors there.”

For other reviews of Pr. Marinatos book and thesis on the Minoans see:

https://www.aegeussociety.org/en/book_reviews/review-of-nanno-marinatos-2010-minoan-kingship-and-the-solar-goddess-a-near-eastern-koine-urbana-university-of-illinois-press/

https://www.academia.edu/1236290/Review_of_Nanno_Marinatos_Minoan_Kingship_and_the_Solar_Goddess_A_Near_Eastern_Koine._Urbana_and_Chicago_University_of_Illinois_Press_2010

[mysticalcoffeequeen]

Nah, Banks. The Bundys are a gratuitous collection of awful boomer humor & the men are extraordinarily gross to women particularly underaged girls.

[radio-charlie]

Peak socmed homo (all genders) behavior is taking everything personally then setting random things on fire during tantrum then blaming other ppl coz whole life burning. personally i am peak tak kisah at this point. u are like 0.000000000000000001% of my life. wanna know if im talking abt u then come ask. if dont have the guts then blame ur never knowing on the fact that u dont have the guts

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Strength in numbers

Accountancy is more likely to be mocked than celebrated (or condemned), but accountants, far more than poets, are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Though "bean counters" are employed by firms, they are notionally bound by a professional code of ethics every bit as serious as the Hippocratic Oath: "count things honestly." Without an accurate accounting of quantities, you can't make good decisions on quality.

Though accountancy concerns itself with counting things, it is inextricably bound up with the realm of ideas, and accounting conventions (how you account for things) are philosophical matters, not empirical ones.

It's no coincidence that Modern Monetary Theory owes more to accountancy than it does to economics. Economic accounts of the economy have an unfortunate tendency to proceed from first principles, creating models based on pure reason, without checking in on the actual world.

For example, neoclassical econ's "homo economicus," the rational value-maximizing actor who populated so many models; or economists' insistence on targeting inflation with interest rates; or treating national "debts" like they were household debts.

It's telling that the greatest economics revolution of my lifetime was "behavioral economics," which could also be called "checking to see whether real people act like we've assumed they acted."

If it seems weird that economists would spend generations operating on the incorrect assumption that people behave in a certain way without ever checking, consider that Aristotle assumed women had fewer teeth than men, - and never bothered to count.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/aristotles-error/

Accountants check, and what they find is…gnarly. In "An Accounting Model of the UK Exchequer," Andrew Berkeley, Richard Tye & Neil Wilson offer a mindbending account (heh) of where money comes from (hint: not taxes), and where it goes ("poof").

https://gimms.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/An-Accounting-Model-of-the-UK-Exchequer-Google-Docs.pdf

The authors did a two-part MMT Podcast interview describing the paper's findings, and it is the most extraordinary 2.5h audio you're likely to find: not just the realities of money, but the deliberate obfuscation thereof.

https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/84-andrew-berkeley-richard-tye-neil-wilson-an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer-part-1

https://pileusmmt.libsyn.com/86-andrew-berkeley-richard-tye-neil-wilson-an-accounting-model-of-the-uk-exchequer-part-2

One thing the Exchequer paper reveals is that accountants bat for both teams: team clarity and team obscurity. As many finance scandals and finance dramas have reminded us, accounting can be turned to obscuring and dazzling rather than revelation.

After all, somewhere in HM Exchequer is a team of accountants who know *exactly* how money works - and know that it's nothing like the account produced by economists or politicians. They know it because they are in charge of it. They do money, all day long.

When accountants go rogue, things get bad. And thanks to neoclassical economics - and its emphasis on the "efficiency" of monopolies - we are living through a golden age of ghastly accounting fraud.

Just four companies - EY, KPMG, PWC and Deloitte - audit the books of 97% of the 350 largest UK companies; but they make far more selling these companies consulting services, and have made a habit of lying about those books in order to boost their consulting income.

Accountancy is meant to be a profession that understands that conflicts of interest are a moral hazard. But just as doctors convince themselves they won't get addicted to their own painkillers, accountants talk themselves into believing that conflicts won't corrupt them.

That's how the Big Four accounting companies came to sign off Carillion's fraudulent books. The company hid £7b worth of debts, took on management of vital government services up and down the country, then collapsed, leaving the nation stranded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carillion#Financial_difficulties

For the Big Four, Carillion's collapse was a feature, not a bug. After all, the only accounting firms large enough to oversee its bankruptcy were...the Big Four, who billed millions for cleaning up the mess left behind by their own fraud.

Accounting fraud is a fascinating potential fracture line in economic reform. After all, fraudulent accountants may help *some* plutes get rich - like, say Bernie Madoff, or Donald Trump - but they often do so at the expense of *other* plutes.

Like Exxon, which lied to its investors for 11 years about the value of its shale-gas holdings, which it purchased at the peak of the fracking bubble and whose revenues and liabilities it has buried in its financial statements ever since.

https://www.desmogblog.com/2021/02/02/whistleblower-sec-complaint-alleges-exxon-fraud-overvalue-fracking-assets

The company is finally writing down $19.3b worth of those assets, but the true figure is more like $50b. And yes, Exxon's big investors include a lot of passive funds that invest pension savings, meaning this hurts Main Street as well as Wall Street.

But as ever, those pension-savers are the Lucky Duckies here, because - joke's on us - Americans have basically no pension savings, thanks to the wage stagnation and asset inflation that left almost all working Americans facing penury in old age.

Hey, at least they're not getting ripped off by Exxon! The real victims of this decade-long, multibillion-dollar fraud are the same people who got snookered into buying into shitty Trump casinos and luxury buildings: rich people.

By definition, rich people deal in quantities that exceed their ability to personally count so they are especially vulnerable to scam accounting. It's only when the frauds tank a company we all suffer, as jobs and businesses disappear, screwing workers  and cities.

The absence of a neutral ref and scorekeeper is a really big deal in online business and policy circles. The ad-tech duopoly isn't merely content to price-gouge advertisers - they also lie about what those sky-high prices are paying for:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

But each member of the duopoly has a different scam. Google's frauds are complex, behind-the-scenes market manipulations, an abstruse, mathematical grift that leverages complexity and monopoly to fleece its customers.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3500919

Facebook is much more straightforward. It just lies. Back in 2016, FB lied about how many people were watching videos, and encouraged hundreds of media company to beggar themselves to chase fraudulent video dollars:

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-lawsuit-pivot-to-video-mistake/

Accounting fraud is in Facebook's DNA. After all, this is a company whose primary sales-pitch is, "We will count everything you do and then charge people to help them sell you stuff."

This proposition is intrinsically hard to evaluate. How can a customer know if their FB ad generated a sale, or whether it was an ad elsewhere, or random chance, or even that elusive beast, customer loyalty?

The main source for the belief in Facebook's efficacy is...Facebook. It's not a neutral party, and the accountants who sign off on its books have repeatedly shown themselves to be untrustworthy.

Here's the latest scandal: since 2018, FB's been defending a class-action suit brought by its customers who claim that FB lied about "potential reach" - that is, how many users would see their ads.

https://www.ft.com/content/c144b3e0-a502-440b-8565-53a4ce5470a5

And while FB strenuously denies that the inaccuracies in "potential reach" metrics were just normal, unpredictable variations in user behaviors, a whistleblowing FB product manager has produced emails in which they warn execs that they're committing fraud.

The execs who got these memos rejected them, telling the product manager that acting on them would have "significant revenue impact" - that is, "Our customers wouldn't buy our products if we were truthful about them."

The fraudulent reach figures begat fraudulent revenues, and those revenues were fraudulently reported to investors. Those investors will now take a haircut if FB loses in court.

Accounting fraud's pathology is bimodal: it abets the wage-theft and austerity that harms the poorest and most vulnerable - but also the reporting scams that harpoon finance's biggest whales.

It's a curious alliance of interests. For now, it seems like Big Tech is going to be antitrust and anti-corruption's harbinger, but I wouldn't count accountancy out - it's got exactly the right kinds of enemies to fire sustained political will.

[mullets]

Can u stop posting. I don't like gay people on my dash

you have my post notifications on thats peak homo behavior . btw wanna see cute pics of haech

hes so cute i love these glasses sm

[gaycrpg]

me airing out the entirety of my brain damage out in the open in form of a fanmix but having to constantly no-homo my art is peak hdb behavior imo