@dpp Yes. Given the state of the broader economy, it feels like an open exercise in tacit coordination to break the bargaining power of tech workers. “Silicon Valley” CEOs and VCs are interpersonally cliquish and extraordinarily faddish. Every fad is “The Future”. Certainly, they hope, weaker labor is.
Another reason to go hard on antitrust:
Too big to fail is also too big to jail, kryptonite to rule of law and the legitimacy of the state.
I mean Pizzagate isn't real, but it's hard to blame people for getting confused when all that #MoeTkacik details here is real.
On Boeing, with a sidelight of Epstein, the subject of a prior conspiracy to let off easy.
https://prospect.org/justice/2024-02-09-boeing-max-doj-epstein-deal/
juxtapose the phrase “ripe old age” with an image of the Grim Reaper and the idiom comes to seem pretty gruesome.
i still can’t get over that the James Webb Space Telescope works and is functioning and is actually something human beings did.
it's hard to live with the ex-post opportunity costs of your mistakes, but it's impossible to live without nearly infinite ex-post opportunity costs of mistakes.
it's not really what you miss that's hard to live with. it's what you almost didn't miss.
"in just the past five years, US semiconductor monopolists have paid out $239b to shareholders in buybacks and dividends, enough to fund the CHIPS Act five times over." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/07/farewell-mr-chips/#we-used-to-make-things
the terrible height of age, the terrible weight of memory.
@dpp maybe! florida gets away with stuffing taxes onto hotels and other services disproportionately favored by tourists. (helping save its residents an income tax.) i wouldn't bet on whether it would survive either way.
"every time I go to Maine I find myself thinking that they should charge a higher sales tax in the summer than during the off-season. Maine residents would be able to save money by timing durable goods purchases for the low season, while visitors would make a larger contribution to the state budget."
Clever, #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/tourism-is-good-actually
watching the superbowl with folks gonna be like, you with team op, or counter-op?
This is devastating journalism by @radleybalko, a reminder how the videos and documentaries that let you "see with your own eyes!" what the editor wants you to see are often incomplete truths woven into lies. https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retconning-of-george-floyd
ht #AlanJacobs
"There’s a latent tension at the heart of the Bidenonomics agenda between industrial policy and competition policy." #LukeGoldstein on an American Economic Liberties Project report on how to get semiconductor policy right https://prospect.org/economy/2024-02-06-will-biden-get-chip-markets-right/
[tech notebook] What does private mean at package level in Scala 3? https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/02/06/what-does-private-mean-at-package-level-in-scala-3/index.html
because we assiduously attribute suicide to mental illness alone, and we enforce a shroud of privacy over each occurrence, we as a public have little understanding of why people choose to kill themselves in our society.
is there contemporary, anonymized social science that takes seriously the problems and stated concerns of people who kill themselves? or is it taboo now to consider any sort of attribution beyond a "struggle with mental illness"?
remember Durkheim?
@buermann Here is basically what I'm remembering, two evolutions forward from Yglesias' geopolitics piece. https://www.vox.com/2014/5/20/5732208/the-green-lantern-theory-of-the-presidency-explained
@buermann I don't remember that! Seems maybe more defensible in that context. I remember it in the context of Obama's defenders mocking critics on the left for demanding the administration seriously try and perhaps fail to do things even if arguably "the votes aren't there" in Congress. We wanted a fighter on the bully pulpit. We were told we were delusional, children, as if Congress is fixed and struggles lost this time around don't affect thinkability and potential for progress going forward.
@buermann i wish we'd proved her wrong already. but i will always be glad to hear from her.
@carolannie under neoliberal logic, a thing is either a payer or a product. kids have to be paid for, can't pay, so... it is an old-school way to incentive kid production, to make household production/income in part a function of child labor. farm families were big.