@Transportist no. that was never its role. the cannons at Fort McHenry were for that. they point outward into the Chesapeake Bay.

this photograph is a Civil War story. the cannon is on a spot thenceforth known as Federal Hill. it (and there were many more) points directly at the heart of the City of Baltimore.

the whys and wherefores are left as an exercise for the reader.

people who have learned nothing are now going to run everything.

@Phil i think there are lots of ways to be mistaken that don’t reduce to sloppiness. the space of things to consider or fail to consider is infinite. tradeoffs must be weighted and can be misweighted. i think nearly all writers on complicated subjects are often mistaken, but i don’t think nearly all are disingenuous.

a good pairing:

https://bsky.app/profile/cristiproist.bsky.social/post/3lbs3uhsxdc2m

https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lbrkjmf6rs2i

(ht @sjshancoxli for the latter)

@artcollisions some with, some without i think. do you think having editors should be a discriminator?

how do you distinguish between writers who may often be mistaken from writers who are disingenuous and perhaps not worth bothering with?

kind of a surprising coincidence.

for both Ethereum and Bitcoin the circulating supply graph looks like a smoothed version of the (log) price graph, which is not a relationship i'd expect.

i think the explanation is just that, for both, supply grow declines over time, and both have "matured" in the sense their price growth rate is much lower than in their days of early foment.

still interesting.

from
https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=ETH&category=Supply&m=supply.Current
https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&category=Supply&m=supply.Current

i’ve never tried it, but i was intrigued.

Elon Musk has really ruined ketamine for me.

the first time his entourage enthused he had a mandate, he said that wasn’t his thing and asked where Laura was.

#microfiction

“Confronted with the helplessness of a real disaster that can only be solved through the collective action you've been told is both impossible and a Communist plot, you retreat to an individualistic disaster fantasy that you can play an outsized role in. Every crisis – the climate emergency, poverty, a toxic environment – is replaced by ‘bad people’ and you can go get them.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/24/mall-ninja-prophecy/ ht @shonin@mastodon.world @GhostOnTheHalfShell

i pay them for a subscription year after year, and still i am the product. https://tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/113532655132113457 ht @schmidt_fu

@amerika @pluralistic yeah. basically agree.

@amerika @pluralistic i’m fine with that, though i see little of it in either american political party. “leadership skills” and professional education are largely orthogonal. lawyers are no more or less prone to it than any other profession.

@amerika @pluralistic you are missing the point.

we could elect microbiologists and water purification experts, but they couldn’t ensure the bridges won’t fall. an elected government, whoever gets elected, needs to be able to recruit, manage, supervise, and yes sometimes discipline expertise.

“Mostly, we elect lawyers. Lawyers can do many things, but if you ask a lawyer to tell you how to make your drinking water safe, you will likely die a horrible death.” @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/21/policy-based-evidence/ ht @mikeolson

@admitsWrongIfProven@qoto.org @Hyolobrika antitrust is a start and absolutely necessary. but i don’t think on its own it’s sufficient. https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/113534160360556906

the truth is out there. and it’s coming for you.

real americans grift.

@Hyolobrika No one is arguing people shouldn’t be allowed to say anything. People should be allowed to say overt falsehoods. It’s institutions of authority and potentially of reach that might be regulated.