@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika Individual journalists choose whether to be employable.
Under plutocracy, what those overarching structures define as employable, who they hire and promote, who they slough off as unprofessional and unreasonable, is shaped by the plutocrats who ultimately own them.
Sure, we should hold the plutocrats morally culpable, more than the individual journalists who have to eat. But plutocracy shapes choices and outcomes at every level.
@Hyolobrika Depends how much the humans like food, shelter, health, and education for their children?
"Like money" sounds like luxury, like you can just choose not to be greedy. I think that's not a great characterization of the situation.
"Emotion canceling", a new miracle of AI. via #RobHorning https://robhorning.substack.com/p/o-flesh-how-art-thou-fishified
the more plutocratic a society — the greater its degree of wealth concentration — the less likely journalists are to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
it becomes ever more uncomfortable to be the comfortable's affliction, and ever more comfortable to cheerlead, rationalize, and deflect from all that the comfortable afflict.
the vivaldi browser has a built-in RSS reader. cf #openrss https://openrss.org/blog/vivaldi-web-browser-improves-customization-for-rss-subscriptions
the very purpose of a state
is to integrate.
if it is true there is power in a name, penicillin is like the opposite of bushes.
oh my god this is the most nonsequitur of my autocomplete mishaps ever. (really ios slide typing mishap rather than autocomplete.)
[tech notebook] Condensing updates that appear in digests https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/22/condensing-updates-that-appear-in-digests/index.html
"When you rely…on social media algorithms to determine what appears in your feed, you are giving up control and relinquishing your attention to platforms designed to monopolize as much of your time and consciousness as they can get away with. RSS readers put you in the driver's seat. You decide [what is] worth your time and attention… rather than having it pushed on you based on what some company has determined is likely to keep you scrolling." @Daojoan https://www.joanwestenberg.com/rss-the-forgotten-protocol-that-still-matters%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B ht @kstewart
"If you have two segments of the economy with different approaches, and one of them has a higher exponential growth rate then in the long run it will come to dominate, even if it starts out as a very small enclave… if you want to transition from a dominant, fast-growing economic model to something else, you either need that something else to grow even faster, or you need to kneecap the dominant, fast-growing segment." @ZaneSelvans https://amateurearthling.org/2023/11/04/the-math-of-ethical-growth/
@steve_zeke there's a lot of amazing stuff!
@chrisp @SteveRoth You won't be too surprised I disagree with Paul Graham, and agree with you.
Income dispersion enhances incentives to produce and innovate. It also enhances incentive to prey, extract, and game. As usual when there are tradeoffs, the "optimum" is likely an interior solution. It is possible to have too little and possible to have too much variation of income. 1/
@chrisp @SteveRoth "'Incentives to produce' are incentives to rig the game" https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/5031.html 2/
@chrisp @SteveRoth "Dispersion causes discohesion" https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7629.html /fin
// sorry for always pushing my shit!
Link.
For free.
Your actually linking stuff is our only refuge from corporate-controlled algorithms and paid influencers.
The more humans link to work they think excellent or important, the less our thinking, our very being, becomes collectively subject to the small fraction and faction that holds nearly all the purse strings.
Link.
Joyfully. Promiscuously. But with curation, discrimination.
Link.
"the globalized system in which state planning is outsourced to private consultancies, and with time even the supervision of the consultants is outsourced to consultants, is an Anglosphere special, dating from the 1990s onward… It’s turned entire countries, like the United Kingdom, incapable of building more than about one line per generation." @Alon https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/06/22/meme-weeding-high-wages-and-baumols-cost-disease/
i think we should poll the electorate on their view of politicians who carefully hew to poll numbers when crafting messaging to the public.
@realcaseyrollins this is just a thought experiment, not a proposal. but resilient, credible randomness turns out to be surprisingly doable. you can mix multiple sources such that if any one source is not corrupt, the outcome is truly random even if all other sources are corrupt.
@inkican it’s a thought experiment, not advocacy. the subject of the experiment is the voting public, not the winner.
@LouisIngenthron only if the slot won.
@LouisIngenthron (obviously you’d need a credible, incorruptible, source of randomness, but that turns out to be a surprisingly tractable problem)
@kestral it’s made of people.
what if as a third party candidate we had “randomly selected eligible citizen” on the ballot?
would that beat RFK Jr etc? from which major party candidate would it pull more? might it win?
