the thing about art is that it was never about the artifact, but about how people choose to relate and organize themselves around the artifact. provenance, or at least perceived provenance, will not be irrelevant to those choices.
gack. deleting fixing reposting.
the behavior of the most prominent and financially successful businessman in America is maybe putting some pressure on the moderate sensible pro-business liberal niche.
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happy new year west coast friends
it’s alive! how our superannuated Congress continues to function. ht @mmasnick.bsky.social
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explosives to delight us rather than to exterminate us. i suppose that it is a good start. happy new year.
nope!
turning “the right” and “the left” into tribes into which you sort people, rather than just a really simplified, pretty weak, way of classifying ideas and positions, is just another way minoritarian interests divide and conquer.
our lives with it my friend.
i guess that makes him Kekimus Minoris.
remember Donald Trump?
Screenshot of Elon Musk attention-whoring as Kekius Maximus on X.
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one thing this piece is very good about is explaining how the system under which firms like Boeing were built is very different from the system under which firms like Boeing have been dismantled, even though both systems get called “capitalism”.
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“we” require exploitation/ segmentation to cover the burden of sizable migrations from poor countries to rich. 1/
but employment-based visas, which H-1B proponents characterize their program as being, bringing in necessary talent, are not controversial even without an exploitation surplus… 2/
because it’s pretty credible that this upscale population imposes little fiscal burden and places little downward pressure on native labor markets. 3/
H-1B is an unpersuasive mashup of upscale employment-based visa and downscale exploitation based visa. it’s sold as the former, but has effects like the latter, but without segmentation. 4/
it’s certainly conceivable that the public will come to demand we extract more of a surplus from employment-based visa holders, that upscale immigration will become unpopular on the theory good employment is scarce here and they compete. 5/
if that’s the case, we’ll have to have a conversation about how we want to extract a surplus from EB visa holders, perhaps some tax native workers don’t pay that funds popular benefits, for example. so far, though, H-1B is understandably a lower-hanging target for immigration restrictionists. /fin
i’m not interested in organizing people into caricatures like “the left”, but Gaza. lots of people of goodwill who really would have appreciates Biden’s economic work had a hard time saying nice things because Gaza. here’s me: drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/10/a...
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they don’t. you get a green card, participate in the ordinary labor market.
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Heavens to Betsy!
you couldn’t use it as a full replacement search engine. it searches a limited curation of sites, not eg commercial sites.
wiby: a kind of search engine for the old-school web wiby.me