“Raw data: US suicide rates since 1900” by #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-us-suicide-rates-since-1900/
// see if you can pick out the emergence of postwar social democracy on the graph
EDITED to include correct link, thank you @trl
@dpp providence plantations, on the other hand, is serious business.
a visibly tough state is a weak state. strong states have manufactured consent.
i am not alone.
a mail message from Taco Bell, subject “We miss you”
@Davastewart @greengaybles for whatever it’s worth, i’ve been turning my blogs into newsletters, and wrote some software to make newsletters from any full RSS feed. (no payments yet, though.) https://github.com/swaldman/feedletter
The meeting has been terminated.
when, long ago, i worked in a computer lab, i remember how i used to pick up tips and tricks, especially cool UNIX command line things, by osmosis, as i chatted with people and watched them work. i’ve been “remote” now for decades, and really miss that.
some of @b0rk’s posts are kind of a resynthesis of that, like “Popular git config options” https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/02/16/popular-git-config-options/
people act like Ozymandias was somehow humbled, but that was hundreds of years later. most of us experience our own ruins even before we are all that old, let alone centuries after our death.
@admitsWrongIfProven we live in an era of fascinating symbolic detritus.
This is a paid post.
our media organization conducted a careful, scientific poll, by which we learned that the public is concerned about the all the things we have been relentlessly shrieking are concerning.
@marick @beatnikprof @bmac time is a circle! and just think of the galas you could finance with that endowment. all in pursuit of the university’s educational mission!
I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that, according to the reasoning of this piece, the Harvards of the world will soon be eclipsed by what we used to call "finishing schools". by #AneeshRaman #MariaFlynn https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/14/opinion/ai-economy-jobs-colleges.html
@_dm the first hit is free! once you have a new bestie of whom you've so long been a superfan, is $10 a month really gonna put you off? (i have no idea whether what Meta is doing is compelling. but it seems like the kind of thing someone might pull off compellingly!)
soon we will buy subscriptions to be friends with celebrities' authorized AIs.
an irony of our times is that the resentments of the anti-woke derive largely from microaggressions that, as a kind of tribal marker, they dare not acknowledge as such.
This is not me.
@dpp AOL has really evolved with the times!
@kentwillard it’s terrifying how blithely they toy with undoing the load-bearing elements of postwar global peace and security. you’d think ukraine would have been a more bracing reminder of what happens when acquisition of territory and resources through military force is rendered less unthinkable.
@kentwillard ha! i was just thinking yesterday that Jack Welch is really underrated, or at least underdiscussed, as a villain and author of our decay. i very much agree.