@mhjohnson thanks for taking the time to look this up! it doesn’t look like precisely the same crash, but i might experiment with the display settings anyway.

no wonder Musk turned against climate research. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-space-orbit-satellites-pollution/

@ike Ricardo’s the (formal) originator of the idea. There’ve been successors and elaborations, but he’s the guy it’s attributed to.

@ike yes! Ricardo’s comparative advantage presumes balanced trade, but not necessarily bilaterally balanced. ( i’m explicit about that in this one https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/27/how-can-taxing-foreign-investors-balance-trade/index.html )

i think they’ve decided, the way you deal with annoying “follow the science” people is ensure that there is no science to follow.

@mhjohnson Thanks! I did do that. It looks like WindowServer that is crashing. Next I have to figure out what to do about that.

[new draft post] Overall but not bilateral balance https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/04/30/overall-but-not-bilateral-balance/index.html

i bought a new mac laptop, my first apple silicon computer.

i'm finding when it sleeps, or when i've just left it overnight, i login and all my apps restart (and struggle to restore state), as though it's crashed or kernel panicked.

but there's no message like "Your Mac restarted due to a problem" or request to send a report to Apple or anything. like it's all fine, except it demands a password (no touch id) and i have to start stuff over.

anyone experienced anything like this?

@Harald_Korneliussen citation needed. citation hallucinated!

@admitsWrongIfProven @light right. but also the recasting of the outgroup into an enemy or burden, a threat whose defeat or elimination would finally make the ingroup great again.

@admitsWrongIfProven likewise! but i feel like i’m offering a rather dark perspective! i’m grateful you think it makes your life better. we do have to understand what we are up against, i think.

@admitsWrongIfProven @light not working extra hard because of hate. falling into line, obeying the leader unconditionally, because of love of ones community in the face of an insidious enemy that existentially threatens it.

see https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/05/what-is-fascism/index.html

@admitsWrongIfProven @light i certainly agree, but the counterclaim would be that sufficiently demonizing a minority outgroup unlocks a kind and quality of coordination (i think a horrible, ugly kind and quality) worth the cost in conflict and the sacrifice of potential collaborators.

@admitsWrongIfProven just give it a few minutes to recover itself.

@admitsWrongIfProven just an idea!

@admitsWrongIfProven necromangly

@chrisp (i’m glad! i’m hoping i can help more people make sense of the idea…)

@admitsWrongIfProven you just treat every press organ that is not absolutely fawning of you as different faces of the same enemy, one blob emitting “fake news” whenever it is news you find unhelpful.

@admitsWrongIfProven as steve jobs would say, stay tuned.