your last home is one you never live in.
colononauts. where no man has gone before. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/all-the-presidents-butt-snorkelers-cabinet-meeting-sycophants-dictator
sometimes i think AI should stand for “automated imagination”.
"he has small fingers and a nanobanana."
is that the proper usage?
it's hard to keep up with the lingo.
i canceled my longstanding adobe subscription today. as usual they offered sane pricing only during the process, but i'm comfortable enough with the affinity suite now i just said "sayonara". a bit bittersweet.
from @resnikoff, excellent, (mostly) on the great polling kerfuffle. https://publiccomment.blog/p/some-slight-issues-with-the-positivist-approach-to-politics
Text: All of which is to say you can't actually do an RCT of universal basic income. You can run an RCT of unconditional cash transfers, but that's not exactly the same thing. UBl is by definition universal: instituting something like a real UBI program anywhere in the United States would transform the entire local economy.
“hyperrealistic” is an oxymoron.
q: what do sentences and investigations (that can lead to sentences!) have in common?
a: subject and predicate
was New Coke the original woke?
when will The State be reified as a chatbot you can talk to?
@artlung i think a lot of what contemporary platforms do ought to be public goods provided by the state. meetup.com would qualify. the basic criterion is network effects are created by and should be owned by the public. if the value of a thing comes from network effects, it should be public, either like the public internet (decentralized, participatory) or if that’s not practical managed in the public interest by the democratic state (if/when we have one of those).
World War I never ended. The Civil War never ended. The sacking of Rome never ended.
taobao.com, which i think is like a Chinese Amazon?, seems to be indexing my sites like a search engine.
@ike Yeah. Ranked choice is the most prominent single-winner alternative voting system in the US, but I think it has problems with complexity (both in the ballot and in the apparently paradoxical outcomes that sometimes occur) and with the kinds of strategic voting it encourages (to avoid those paradoxical outcomes). 1/
@ike Approval voting also (all nonstochastic electoral systems) also admit strategic voting, but the situation is simpler and voters can understand an affirmative case for not voting strategically, and voters who do abstain from voting strategically can become determinative of elections, so there is a kind of incentive to generosity. I’ve written a bit about it here: https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/03/28/how-to-understand-approval-voting/index.html /fin
@ike Electoral reform is first on my list of reforms we require to have anything like a sane government. I prefer approval voting to ranked choice, and would insist upon some form of proportional representation for the House, but in general I strongly endorse your list. 1/
@ike I don’t think it’s impossible. Other democracies have managed serious electoral reform, even though it obviously endangers incumbents in the existing system. I think there’s some hope that US party “brands” get so completely destroyed that the winning pitch for candidates is to blow up the two party system. /fin
what humans generate is artisanal slop.
TPUSA. CPUSA. Coincidence?