Google/Wall Street

This could have been expected: Google is "integrating" Reader into G+. While the official post dances around the issue, it's fairly clear that they're going to export G+ policies to Reader. If the service is "no longer for you" as a result, you'll be able to export your feeds. ETA: Google also promised to support pseuds, separately.  So this may not be the disaster I feared at all!

In other news, Wall Street isn’t winning, it’s cheating: “It is virtually impossible to not make money in banking when you have unlimited access to free money, especially when the government keeps buying its own cash back from you at market rates. Your average chimpanzee couldn't fuck up that business plan, which makes it all the more incredible that most of the too-big-to-fail banks are nonetheless still functionally insolvent, and dependent upon bailouts and phony accounting to stay above water. Where do the protesters go to sign up for their interest-free billion-dollar loans?” Matt Taibbi, I think I love you.

I too have Dreamwidth invites

( Let me know if you take one; there are more where those came from. )