Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2026 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $33,874
41%  
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  • Meet Flock, the $8 billion startup backed by a16z and Tiger facing growing backlash against surveillance capitalism

    08/29/2026 12:14:19 PM PDT · by Ultra Sonic 007 · 83 replies
    Fortune ^ | 8/24/2026 | Catherina Gioino
    On Dec. 13 last year, a stranger in a Brown University bathroom noticed a man dressed head to toe in black, wrong for the weather, mere hours before that same man opened fire on Brown University’s campus, killing two and wounding eight before vanishing. Investigators had almost nothing: no name, no plate, just a tip describing a gray Nissan with Florida plates. But that was enough: Providence police ran it through a network of more than 70 Flock Safety cameras, which reached back through 30 days of history, and found the car had passed 14 times since Dec. 1. “We...
  • Big 4 Banks And SVB: Canaries In The Economic Coal Mine? (SVB Racing To Prevent a Bank Run As Funds Advise Pulling Cash)

    03/10/2023 4:59:07 AM PST · by Kaiser8408a · 24 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 03/10/2023 | Anthony B. Sanders
    While waiting on the February jobs report from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), I noticed that the big 4 banks (Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Citi and Wells Fargo) are drowning in net realized losses as The Federal Reserve combats 1) too many years of loose monetary policy under former Fed Chair Janet Yellen and 2) too much spending under Pelosi, Schumer and … McConnell. At a micro level, we have Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) SVB Is racing to prevent a bank run as funds advise pulling cash. Panic is spreading across the financial world as concerns about...