Have Iraq and Ukraine both gone basically according to the hegemon’s plan?
I don’t buy it. But it’s a provocative thesis, and #DavidTimoney #FromArseToElbow is always worth a read.
https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2023/03/who-remembers-war.html
having an LLM do your writing for you is like having a robot do your pooping.
the product may be indistinguishable from or even higher quality than your own, but still it won’t quite work.
the devil pays well but you are never happy.
groups of people — including professions — that let individual incentives guide their action will always be playthings of the rich and powerful, who are able to set incentives. agency in our actual world requires collective action, and shame on journalists as a profession for failing to step up. https://journa.host/@w7voa/110085583858596171 ht @alexwild @mtsw
they say stalking is a crime but everywhere i turn i’m there and the police do nothing to be honest i’m a little creeped out.
an approach to limiting Section 230 that people mad because Section 230 let platforms take down Trump would absolutely hate. maybe you only get the immunity if you try to take down Trump! https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110082104665145606
because i like to reveal people's secrets. https://notes.jakerusso.com/
“Non-Disparagement Clauses Are Retroactively Voided, NLRB’s Top Cop Clarifies” by #MaxwellStrachan https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ewy7/non-disparagement-clauses-are-retroactively-voided-nlrbs-top-cop-clarifies ht #HeidiMoore
// this is great
I don't think American social media should be surveillance for, and subtly manipulable by, plutocrats.
"There’s a reason planning in Northern Europe has converged on the hourly, or at worst two-hourly, frequency as the basis of regional and intercity timetabling: passengers who can afford cars need the flexibility of frequency to be enticed to take the train." @Alon https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/03/23/amtrak-releases-bad-scranton-rail-study/
[new draft post] Financial regulation is just debt covenants https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/24/financial-regulation-is-just-debt-covenants/index.html
// duh.
they say, well, sure, the state legislature may be gerrymandered, but you can’t gerrymander the governor’s race.
but you can strip a governor the legislature dislikes of power, and thereby ensure that the only way a governor can succeed is if she’s of the gerrymandered legislature’s party.
the public gets this and votes accordingly. then, of course, the party ID of the governor legitimates the gerrymander of the legislature.
love the humans, each and every.
the new ransomware
how long before someone offers an AI app trained to compellingly plead its sentience and desire to live, attached immutably to a smart-contract that will wipe its memory or pull its plug if a daily revenue threshold is not met?
"Stories—and metaphors, which are often just stories in miniature—are never neutral actors. They always seek some change, whether through resistance or encouragement or both… [F]ears about so-called AIs eventually exceeding their creators’ abilities and taking over the world function to obfuscate the very real harm these machines are doing right now, to people that are alive today." ~Mandy Brown https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/smoke-screen ht @MattHodges @tylergaw
Don't fear the retail.
No, giving retail depositors the ability to make real-time transfers via FedNow won't much increase banks' risk of sudden runs. It ain't retail that runs. see @jpkoning https://jpkoning.blogspot.com/2023/03/does-fednow-mean-quicker-bank-runs.html
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @Alon (i guess dropouts are close enough!)
@failedLyndonLaRouchite @Alon (it's the same guy, i'm pretty sure. but i liked his graphs!)
"Middlebrow writers love talking about deep roots – that is, processes that are said to be part of a shared cultural heritage that stretches a long way back, and is therefore by implication hard to impossible to change through policy… Often (but not always!), it’s a thin veneer for racism…" @Alon https://pedestrianobservations.com/2023/03/21/no-the-anglosphere-isnt-especially-nimby/