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How to Be a Dictator by Frank Dikötter

From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine, a sweeping and timely study of twentieth-century dictators and the development of the modern cult of personality.

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Meanwhile at Mar-a-Lago…Insurrection Donny will host a small gathering of close friends to watch the Vice Presidential Debate.

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"The West led by the United States is completely out of touch. The whole world wants the genocide against the Palestinians to end now."

Indian historian and Marxist academic Vijay Prashad spoke at the event "Latin America Speaks: Solidarity Vs. Empire". In the midst of dangerous escalation by Israel, Prashad spoke about the role of US-NATO imperialism in driving war around the world.

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Kudos to Margaret Brennan for fact-checking!!!!!!!! Vance complained.
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Video shows the moment a Kentucky judge was shot to death


People in the courtroom wept as the footage was shown during a preliminary hearing for former Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines, who is charged with first-degree murder.

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With $150 in so far, we are on our way to meeting the second match offer of the VP Debate Matchaton. All donations up to the next $350 will be matched by the stalwart @mmalc. Give at secure.actblue.com/donate/mast….

Meanwhile, Vance is kvetching because he lied and then got fact-checked.



Back when I was at Microsoft, @trengriffin used to school a bunch of us on the challenges of subscription business models which is now remarkably prescient.

People optimistically talk about LTV assuming you get customers for life but forget about churn. You have to give people a reason not to cancel their subscription each month.

This is what the studios learned competing with Netflix and also what SaaS providers are learning as well.

forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2…

in reply to Dare Obasanjo

lol, if a business is optimizing for LTV but not tracking churn, they need to fire their finance guy 🤪
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo

Freemium is the same model used by drug dealers - I will avoid it where possible - as for the LTV fallacy -aka-“when you have them by the balls , surely their hearts and minds will follow” is a high risk strategy.



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