@paninid the state of Florida is going to face a hell of a financial hole, some time pretty soon, when the insurance industry it regulates, implicitly backs, and largely operates via insurer-of-last-resort Citizens, can’t make good to policy holders after a couple of serious storms.

whatever people think of woke and whatnot, i just don’t think climate denialist can be a winning position in Florida going forward. no one thinks the weather and the water temps are not fucked up. it’s not a base DeSantis is catering to, but economic interests, quite the opposite of populism. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/06/15/desantis-florida-storm-floods-rain/

“Outlets such as The New York Times and NPR are doing excellent reporting… but they remain narrowly focused on the ethical lapses of employees rather than the real story, which is the political corruption of employers.”

#JeetHeer asks, why is Jeff Bezos putting the Washington Post under the control of sleaze? https://www.thenation.com/article/society/jeff-bezos-rupert-murdoch-will-lewis-hacking/

is there joy without arrogance?

@sharkinman @pluralistic “monopoly” is a matter of degree. “market power” is a clearer term, and yeah, Frito Lay has a lot of it.

@stevendbrewer it’s a better guess than i have. that’s a good description of how it moves! i’d never encountered thrips before your reply, so i can’t be too certain either way.

@realcaseyrollins i mean it's my leg, so, no.

@stevendbrewer maybe! though it seemed a bit more antlike than the images of thrips i’m finding. it seemed like an ant in a garden hose somehow. https://zirk.us/@interfluidity/112629590627308045

@nev @artcollisions fwiw!

@nev @artcollisions it was too dark to get a good still. they're all blurry. the thing was vaguely ant-like, but it was cylindrical, i.e. rather than having defined separate head, thorax, abdomen it was like it was in a cylindrical sheath.

what kind of creature is this?

[tech notebook] HTML iconography https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/16/html-iconography/index.html

@KevinCarson1 if you do, i'd hope he would leave you a tip.

@SeaMonster i did, nearly always do, use alt text. in this case it was the caption, slightly modified, from the original post. not enough?

it was you and me against the world. but then the world won, and it was you and me against each other.

from a really fabulous, read-the-whole-thing essay by @adamkotsko on the increasing illegibility of what passes for capitalism these days. https://itself.blog/2024/06/15/what-is-the-economy-even-for/

#economics

plutocrats building apocalypse bunkers is maybe a great example of the iron law of institutions.

@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch i mean i hope it doesn't... but it's a pitch.

@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch here's a screenshot, the beginning of the first e-mail in my original post. ("First Name" is redacted in green, 'cuz there's a lot of red built in.)