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Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:

How to scare away your customers, exhibit 4821: #Broadcom #VMware:

"VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores.
Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent #penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines"

theregister.com/2025/03/28/arr

I don't know you, but if I were a customer for that product, I'd most probably start migration projects today.

The Register · VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 coresBy Simon Sharwood
#greed#virtualization
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Old White Dude

The US’s large trade deficit is highest with three major economic partners – China, Mexico and Vietnam. In 2024,

I want to know how much of this #deficit is because US companies have sent manufacturing overseas because of #greed.

#tariffs #uspolitics #felontrump #trumptariffs

aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/2/wh

Al Jazeera · Where are the highest, lowest tariffs? Trump’s reciprocal tariffs explainedBy Hanna Duggal
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Nonilex

#Trump has White House studying cost of #Greenland takeover

The WH is preparing an estimate of what it would cost the federal govt to control Greenland as a territory, acc/to 3 people with knowledge of the matter, the most concrete effort yet to turn Trump’s [#delusional, unsolicited & unwelcome] desire to acquire the Danish island into actionable #policy.

#geopolitics #Denmark #USexpansionism #Greed #ShippingRoutes #NaturalResources #ClimateChange
washingtonpost.com/politics/20

The Washington Post · White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sightsBy Lisa Rein
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A. Rivera

Well, well, well, the chickens coming home to roost. Me and some other librarians (incl. celebrity ones) have been saying this for years. Publishers act as if the money will never run out, but meet goose and golden egg.

Help too if scholars and faculty stopped obsessing over high end journals and #PublishOrPerish. You helped enable this.

> Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial

Impact of Social Sciences - Maximizing the impact of academic research · Academic libraries cannot afford to carry on with transformative agreements - Impact of Social SciencesCaroline Edwards argues transformative agreements are unaffordable and introduces the Open Journals Collective as a model for scaling open access.
#BadEconomy#academia#HigherEd
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Mojo ♻️

Fifth-generation farmers fighting to save their land
The Byrne family in western Victoria refuses to surrender their farm to a US-backed mineral sands mining company. They want to keep farming and pass their land on to future generations—but under Australian law, their options are limited.
Experts say landowners who resist approved mines face long, expensive legal battles with little chance of success. Is this what fair land rights look like?

#auspol #landrights #farmersvsminers #mining #greed #multinationals

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-31/don

ABC News · Fifth-generation farming family determined to protect their land from minersBy Gillian Aeria
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RonSupportsYou

"Twenty-one tractor-trailer loads of food coming to East Tennessee were canceled by the United States Department of Agriculture, Second Harvest Food Bank of East Tennessee shared.

Rep. Gloria Johnson: According to Second Harvest food bank, $722,000 worth of USDA commodities food, representing more than 377,000 pounds of nutritious food that were intended for Tennessee, were canceled by the United States Department of Agriculture:
wate.com/news/local-news/usda- #DOGE #hunger #Musk #greed

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Angela G

#Capitalism #Greed
The Monetization of #Water

Upwell Water, a San Francisco-based financing firm, announced in 2020 that it had raised $1 billion from investors “to monetize water assets.”

Upwell partnered with CoreCapital investors in Houston, which bought its 9,000-acre Robertson County farm property in 2021. Lynch, the managing partner at CoreCapital, said he expected to sit on the property for 10 years until the economics of water made it attractive to develop a major export project.

But as soon as he entered the market, he found eager buyers willing to pay well.

(The article later notes that if everyone pumps the amount they are legally allowed, the aquifer will be at the "cut-off threshold" in 6 years. Then no one gets any more water.)

texastribune.org/2025/03/31/te

A water pipeline project by Recharge through Lee County into Williamson County pictured on March 28, 2025.
The Texas Tribune · “Water is the new oil” as Texas cities square off over aquifer pipeline plansFast-growing Georgetown plans to pump 89 million gallons a day from the Carrizo Wilcox Aquifer but the project is being fought by Bryan, College Station and Texas A&M University, which depend on the same water.
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