[new draft post] State as coordination https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/31/state-as-coordination/index.html

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @merz @DeanBaker13 @jgordon Matt Stoller, in his Big newsletter (very much worth reading!) solicits stories about off-beat monopolies, and he often investigates and publishes them to his extremely Washington-plugged-in audience. Obscure-to-the-general-public abuse by consolidated players in science supply chains would be 100% up his alley, and might even move some needle that matters. https://mattstoller.substack.com/

@MBridegam no! just unsubscribing one at a time. org-wide opt-outs would be convenient!

@LouisIngenthron (i'll have to do some record keeping! for now i just bang the unsubscribe button like a reinforcement-trained rat.)

The social prerequisite for technological dynamism is a universalist welfare state that reduces the coupling between fluctuating labor income and human thriving.

See #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/03/31/what-to-do-about-ai-driven-job-displacement/

@LouisIngenthron (to whom do you report miscreant mailing lists?)

@LouisIngenthron look on the bright side!

we can have the satisfaction of unsubscribing from the same lists over and over and over again.

i find i am unsubscribing from all the political-figure mailing lists my #ActBlue-ing over the years has put me on.

i'm not sure whether this is the right thing or the wrong thing to do. it is an act of sheer #revulsion.

instead of trying to throw a constraint into somebody’s optimization problem, is there any way you can shift what they are trying to optimize?

@caseyjennings hopefully things don’t have to break completely before we buckle down with some remedies.

@merz @DeanBaker13 @failedLyndonLaRouchite @jgordon if you read @DeanBaker13, a major theme of his work is disparity in just whom we put under international price competition “in order to underpay people” (or, alternatively, to drive price to least marginal cost of provision like an econ 101 textbook), and whom we protect. note that concerns about the justice or injustice of levels of payment are quite different from concerns about whether a reorganized industry can deliver the goods.

@lori to prove the iron law of oligarchy wrong, we must develop less oligarchical means of political coordination. i think this is a domain where technology reay can make a difference. ( e.g. https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9069.html )

plutocracy is just not consistent with rule of law.

plutocrats have the resources to hijack the state or undermine the legitimacy of state action. our current politics is unstable because plutocracy is illegitimate (because duh) while state action to counter plutocracy is made illegitimate by the work of the plutocrats.

so there is no way forward.

they are gaslighting you into imagining you are gaslit.

"when [NewCollege] hired its first dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion in 2022, it wasn’t surrendering to the woke left. It was responding to an explicit mandate from a DeSantis appointee... a banker appointed by DeSantis led an aggressive top-down push for sweeping new DEI initiatives in all of Florida’s public colleges, compelling every campus, including New College, to put more emphasis on DEI." #ConorFriedersdorf https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/new-college-florida-ron-desantis-takeover/673556/ ht @grantimatter

#NewCollege

direct from the trenches of US-19 i am here to report that Palm Harbor Florida remains calm.

@costrike it’s friday somewhere.

the US feels a bit retro today, like a much anticipated mash-up of Law and Order and the Jerry Springer Show.

@lmorchard careful with the handle.