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Lemmy’s Markdown is based on markdown-it^[1][2] which is based on CommonMark.

Anyone interested in your second point might look into In-Q-Tel or the book Palo Alto.

There was disinformation and spying being used gather Intel and push disinformation.

Of course. Of. Course.

What Biden actually wanted was to control the narrative about Gaza so that his support for Israel’s genocide wouldn’t cost him the election. Unlike US corporate media—including social media—TikTok wasn’t censoring the truth.

• Romney and Blinken Admit TikTok Ban Sought to Censor Gaza News
• https://duckduckgo.com/?q=romney+blinken+tiktok+gaza

No way: that’s how you get 5G Havana Syndrome.

A few related thoughts.

• Money, capital, and profit are not the same things.
• Labor vouchers are a form of money.
• Every time you give fiat money back to the government which owns the “money printer,” that money has been in effect destroyed.
• I’m not of the opinion that money should be abolished, not even necessarily “eventually.” Maybe a time will come when it makes sense to, but I don’t have the foresight to speak meaningfully to that.

You misunderstand the Luddite movement. They weren’t anti-technology, they were anti-capitalist exploitation.

The 1810s: The Luddites act against destitution

It is fashionable to stigmatise the Luddites as mindless blockers of progress. But they were motivated by an innate sense of self-preservation, rather than a fear of change. The prospect of poverty and hunger spurred them on. Their aim was to make an employer (or set of employers) come to terms in a situation where unions were illegal.