Meanwhile, in Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Florida…
#RonDeSantis #DeSantis #Republicans #GOP #MAGA #Trumpism #BanningBooks #BookBans #BannedBooks #NaziGermany #WhiteNationalism #HistoryRhymes #IgnoranceIsStrength #NineteenEightyFour #Orwell #Fahrenheit451 #Bradbury #RevisionistHistory #fascism #authoritarianism #autocracy

Finally got around to reading on Apple Vision. It does sound very cool. On the below, my weirdo take is that with emojis we returned to hieroglyphics, and with spacial computing now we're returning to cave painting 🤷‍♂️😆 #historyrhymes #AppleVisionPro

“The room in which you’re sitting is the canvas. The whole room.”

https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/first_impressions_of_vision_pro_and_visionos

Reminds me of reports of torture from Greece under the Junta. Those who know their power is not from the people fear the people.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/kherson-torture-centres-were-planned-by-russian-state-say-lawyers
#History #HistoryRhymes #Torture #Ukraine

RT bespokeinvest: These are the six periods most highly correlated with the last year’s price action for the S&P. #historyrhymes

See how these prior periods unfolded in this week’s newsletter: https://www.bespokepremium.com/interactive/posts/think-big-blog/the-bespoke-report-1-20-23-well-take-it

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#HistoryRhymes

- "In July 2005, Myspace was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million...."

- "June 2006, it surpassed Yahoo! and Google to become the most visited website in the United States."

- "By 2019, the site's monthly visitors had dropped to seven million."

- "June 2011, Specific Media Group and Justin Timberlake jointly purchased the company for approximately $35 million."
(They later sold it for $87M)

(quotes from Wikipedia, Lic. CC-BY-something-or-another...)

On the #historyrhymes not repeats thread.
From 2019