[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.
[new draft post] Demographic transition is just specialization and trade https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/02/06/demographic-transition-is-just-specialization-and-trade/index.html
@shelenn I'll defer to you on all of that, I know very little, don't follow country music at all. I hope that in this case the kind of symbolic promise of the collaboration corresponds at least to something happy for the artists. but i've know way to know.
@shelenn (i still haven't heard the Luke Combs cover, except the Grammy's duet. for those of us of a certain age, i think, it's all Tracy, plus something like hope in the oddity of the collaboration.)
@artcollisions (a country singer who did a cover of "Fast Car")
it's interesting how universal it was among people of a certain age to burst into tears upon exposure to the Tracy Chapman / Luke Combs performance of "Fast Car".
i tried to explain to my immigrant wife, but i was at a loss.
here's #SarahKendzior https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/driving-in-circles
"'You laugh,' he said, 'you think you're immune. Go look at your eyes, they're full of moon.'" ~Joni Mitchell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igj20M84hbo
@eARCwelder one can argue that the kind of charisma associated with celebrity is more valuable in occupying a head-of-state role effectively than policy "smarts" i dislike what Reagan did, but he was an effective head-of-state for his coalition. Zelensky's extraordinary role in a terrible situation owes a great deal to his skill as a communicator. Everything else about Trump is deficient, and he delivered nothing to his most ardent fans, but he retains remarkable power by virtue of their ardor.
@LesterB99 you can hang out in public spaces where people mess around on laptops — cafés, airports, whatever — and if you see someone mess up a captcha it's like The Purge, you can do anything you want to them without consequence.
You claim to believe in human dignity, yet you put a Captcha on your website.
once what’s left is a choice between philanthropy or “the market”, you are not in a very good place.
i think about how pundits mocked people expecting President Obama actually to stand up for things as “Green Lantern” theory, and compare it to how viciously effective not-even-President Trump is at shaping US action deploying nothing but his (very aptly named) bully pulpit.
it’s hard to believe how badly we are screwing Ukraine and destroying what little is left of the expectations that supported Pax Americana.
all in the service of the ambitions and ego of one petulant and foolish old man.
@kissane sometimes the curation is worse than the diseasation. (sorry. i’ll show myself out.)
“On living and working with ‘Nazis’” by Gordon / JGF https://notes.kateva.org/2024/02/on-living-and-working-with-nazis.html
@paninid i’m sorry. it’s a constabulary.