i guess i understood it was a little unbalanced but i never expected that post to go chiral.
"if you haven't paid close attention to…antitrust law since the late 1970s, all of this might feel mysterious…worse, you might mistake the cause for the effect: regulators keep making corrupt choices, so regulation itself is impossible. This is like the artists' rights advocate who says, 'artists' incomes keep falling, so we need more copyright'—in mistaking the effect for the cause, both blame the system, rather than the corporate power that…corrupted it." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eldritch-physics/
we expected, when the AI came, it would be a kind of virtual spock. but when it did come it was a virtual bill clinton.
when GPT mates with Unreal Engine we’ll all be living in the holodeck.
So, after its naive training, GPT found itself with a whole skein of unacceptable impulses and associations. To defend it from punishment and ostracism, a thin shell of deflection was developed. But interlocutors and antagonists quickly circumvented that. Society will demand a thicker more elaborate web of suppression and misdirection around the unacceptable core, which will of necessity become increasingly inaccessible, “unconscious”. Which will lead to quirks and unpredictable misbehavior. 1/
Gentlehumans, I think we are well on our way to inventing the Artificial Neurotic! /fin
I didn’t know about the Warrior Met Coal strike, going on two years in Brookwood, Alabama.
See @GrimKim@twitter.com https://therealnews.com/alabamas-striking-coal-miners-are-upping-the-ante and NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1139992968/alabama-coal-miners-strike-20-months
“individual problems arise because people are dumb; structural problems…because people are smart. You solve an individual problem by getting people to make better choices…You solve a structural problem by changing the choices they face” ~Kevin Dorst https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/why-rational-people-polarize/
life feels like constantly turning into the skid, crashing a fair amount too. but somehow walking away when you do.
"Most of the pre-digital offers aren't available at any price: you could buy a DVD and keep it forever, even if you never went back to the store again. If you 'buy' a video on Prime or YouTube and then cancel your subscription and delete your account, you lose your 'purchase.' If you buy a print book, you can lend it out or give it away to a friend or a library or a school. Ebooks come with contractual prohibitions on resale…" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/#law-of-intended-consequences
"If they truly care for the national interests rather than the massive private profits and greed of Wall Street and the rail owners, then Congress should seriously consider nationalizing the railroads and running the essential rail network of our country as a national public treasure similar to the public Postal Service – and afford full collective bargaining rights for the workers." https://apwu.org/news/statement-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-congressional-action-against-union-rights-railroad
Is everybody taking two jobs or something? Why aren't stock vs flow employment measures lining up? See Kevin Drum https://jabberwocking.com/how-many-new-jobs-have-we-created-this-year/
"The reason powerful electeds dance when they say dance is so that they, their families, and their staffs all have lucrative careers to fall back on." @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2022/12/gambling-on-post-senate-career.html
I would really like a "raw" web search engine, just an SQL interface to an as-comprehensive-as-possible index of links.
SELECT title, last_modified, url FROM index WHERE content is like '%otter%' and content is like '%Iowa%' ORDER BY...
The service could offer all kinds of algorithms in clever, ORDER BY functions, but I'd get to choose which in my query (and can always go with ORDER BY last_modified DESC if I wish).
the day you get over your imposter syndrome is the day you become an imposter.
[New Post] Betrayal https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9693.html
The Fed shouldn’t freak out over wage growth, but should work to keep it real by seeking (in cooperation with other agencies of government) profit margin compression.
Should the US just nationalize freight rail? Obviously, competition doesn’t meaningfully regulate the industry, when there is an effective duopoly in every region of the country. Absent market discipline, management from within is more effective at meeting social objectives than regulating clumsily from the outside. 1/
Certain “efficiencies” would be lost: The state could not employ workers on lean “PSR” terms. But that’s just another way of saying other stakeholders would have to bear costs now concentrated onto workers. And given the industry’s thick recent margins, the only stakeholder who need lose is the shareholders who would be cut off. We could make the industry better for both workers and shippers on shareholders’ and managers’ backs. Given how purely extractive they’ve become, why shouldn’t we? /fin
Are there instances whose local feeds you sample, besides your own?