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i am tired of this golden age of the snuff film.
we are on the verge of essentializing one another to rubble.
#emacs org mode
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@jamesarosen i'm pretty sure the one that comes up for me as RIGHT-FACING is the Third Reich associated one, open on the top in its upper-left quadrant. it looks like there's unicode for both.
(the distinction never did much for me given that flags are translucent.)
TIL the swastika is defined as unicode U+0FD5
was a bit weirded when tab-completing unicode chars beginning with RIGHT in emacs, that particular symbol showed up.
@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch very cool.
@andregasser there is this one... https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps/ (thanks @smallcircles)
what was branded "economic liberalism" (which was no more liberal than proclaiming a right to swing my arm regardless of the position of your nose) has largely discredited liberalism.
but recent history makes a stronger case than ever that pluralism (and therefore tolerance of wide variations of individual + group behavior), equal dignity, integration, and democratic governance respectful of pluralism form the only nondystopian modernity we've even glimpsed, and our best hope looking forward.
@John you could provide URLs to a content addressed system like IPFS, so if the content was altered the URLs would either continue to show the original or break.
it's just not a day that makes you feel hopeful about things.
@mattlehrer (of that i had no idea! it was just a thing that came up…)
@mattlehrer i wish! but for the moment i'm wanting my computer to save me the trouble.
really, Apple?
it's a bit pathetic how narrow the range of languages for translation this supposedly cosmopolitan, most highly valued corporation on planet Earth provides.
Image of a pop-up that appears when asking Apple's buit-in translation service to translate Swedish, noting that Swedish is not currently supported.
@alice_i_cecile @dpp @evana Yes. Matching subsidy models are very interesting. I like in general terms ideas like quadratic funding, that provider bigger matches to the same dollars by many donors than by a few larger donors. I'd like to see states experiment with these models rather than just cryptophilanthropists biased towards very niche "public goods". https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3243656
Diagram of quadratic funding, under which a subsidizer matches many small donations more generously than fewer donations with the same dollar value.
@evana @dpp @alice_i_cecile Great points. Maintaining libraries that we already know are valued, but are not so exciting for people to work on, is a tractable target for straight paid work. That is, we could just have an agency that hires developers to maintain and enhance them, doing its best to keep tabs on what remains widely used in allocating developer resources. It's would be state maintenance of public infrastructure, a straightforward public role.
@akhilrao "active labor market policy" is a terrible name for the great idea that people should be actively thinking about valuable stuff that could be done, and encouraging people without wonderfully rewarding uses of their time to explore those. we should do a lot more of that! but that's largely independent of questions of remuneration. sometimes it may be directly remunerative, sometimes not. 1/
@akhilrao prosperity, though, can be shared quite directly. "obsolescence rents" can only be extracted by people with bargaining power because forseeable obsolescence makes new entrants scarce, and that's fine as far as it goes. but there should be other measures of social value than bargaining power in private labor markets, and we should use the state to pay socially productive people whose productivity lacks a business model or scarce factor to deploy for bargaining. 2/
@akhilrao (i'm not sure this is quite responsive? basically, it's good to pay people, it makes their life better, and it's good for people to do work that makes other people's lives better. market valuation and remuneration of labor is one way to get those things, and it's great, but not sufficient or perfect. we should use other tools, funded by the public purse, rather than hope that quirks of bargaining power and cost diseases can somehow smudge away the flaws of private labor markets.) /fin
@dpp i think that any ex ante metrics would be badly gamed. 1/
@dpp perhaps promising alternatives are consistent granting of ex post awards for projects that prove notable and/or popular (with lots of subjectivity intentionally baked into notability) and decentralized awarding, allocate small amounts to large groups of people willing to take on a role, on a lightly enforced but strongly telegraphed norm that allocation should be based on project value (also intentionally subjective!) and self- or friend-dealing is prohibited. 2/
@dpp (in general i think we've underexplored the "grant everyone $100 to allocate to public goods of their choice" approach. sure there will be noise and self-dealing, bad anecdotes to inspire clickbaity outrage, but i think the vast majority will be allocated based on people's very diverse perceptions of value, which is what we ought to want.) /fin
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