i learned desktop publishing on Aldus PageMaker, migrated with it to Adobe then, to InDesign for which to this day, absurdly given how little i use it, i pay monthly.

we did a flyer together, and now the kid wants to learn how to layout and design pages. i’d rather not get his habits tangled with Adobe software. what should we use?

@mpjgregoire @mtsw one way or other, remedying an ideological and rigged court requires just a sane majority in Congress and the will to use it. we arguably were just a sinemanchin away a few months ago. there are lots of ways to do it (besides just “packing the court”). here’s my suggestion https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html

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@dpp Ha! I gotta see it. (I guiltily love Marin, recreated there with the fam on weekends a lot when we were SF-ers. A bit of homesickness creeped into that post I think...)

@LouisIngenthron (libertarian with a very lower-case 'l' has a great deal going for it! there is a small tribe that describes itself as left-libertarian. Scandinavian social democracies offer a lot of economic liberty! but in my view "mainstream libertarians"—an oxymoron?—tend to treat
status-quo-ish markets effectively as ends, rather than means requiring adjustment to serve socially agreed goals, and oppose eg taxes and benefits that might ensure civilized outcomes.)

@Alon I very much agree! Social democracy can unite market organization and a broad commitment to equal dignity. Some forms of market organization can (and should!) be part of a society committed to equal dignity. Libertarians, however—I hope I'm not guilty of caricature—don't in general restrict their advocacy to such forms and arrangements, often seem to apologize for laissez-faire despite consolidation, etc.

@ouguoc @chrisp thank you!

i kind of love it, but will have to weigh that against feedback that it's hard to read. (it's nice to have some feedback on my side.)

i did, in response to the feedback, mess with it a bit to make sure it conveys well into browser reader modes. and of course, it's as readable as anything else via full-content RSS!

thank you again!

@costrike why do you pretend like that's a hypothetical?

[new draft post] Libertarians and hierarchy https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/08/libertarians-and-hierarchy/index.html

On the "new wave of search engines" #DmitriBrereton https://dkb.blog/p/the-next-google (from April 2022)

what if we are all bots and you are living inside some digital Truman show?

@MadMadMadMadRN @ryanlcooper @Brad_Rosenheim nothing prevents us from using a PR system to elect our house, even under our current Presidential system. for places where PR can’t work (the US Senate, executive positions) approval voting is a much better choice than RCV in my opinion.

@stephenjudkins @ryanlcooper yeah, it arose organically from it, but it’s not independent at all. in a Madisonian world of lots of small factions, the content and social meaning of these phenomena would be entirely different, they be pushing in lots of different directions, rather than just two opposing ones. (“shock jocks” used to be a transgressive phenomena identified with liberals, railed against by conservatives, when I was a kid.)

@ryanlcooper @Brad_Rosenheim Ranked choice voting definitely has the strongest momentum in the US as a not-horrible way to conduct single-winner elections. I don't want to let the best be the enemy of the good, but I think it's not a great system. Once third parties get close, the spoiler effect comes back. When publics vote strategically, well, that's much of what we're trying to avoid. When they don't, they oft find RCV results surprising, feel cheated. I don't think RCV has a long shelf life.

The economic left: Run the economy hot! When labor markets are tight, businesses have to bid up wages and working conditions to attract their workers.

The economic right: When labor markets are tight, we just payoff state legislators to legalize brutal child labor.

[new draft post] Dilution of faction requires voting system reform https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/03/08/dilution-of-faction-requires-voting-system-reform/index.html

@LouisIngenthron 1A jurisprudence is a broad field. narrowing NYT v Sullivan is a longstanding conservative shibboleth, which Thomas and Gorsuch have gone on record to express interest in revisiting.

(Our substantive views on S230 probably diverge, but though I’d like to see it substantially reformed, I think that should be a legislative rather than judicial exercise.)

This court is definitely strong on the 1A jurisprudence surrounding treating anonymous money as speech!

@LouisIngenthron i think that's exactly right. it's all an outrage game until then, i think that's going to have to be our time horizon for decision-making.

unfortunately the federal courts may not serve as effectively as a check as they have until now, given the current constitution of its apex.

( we need to reform that https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/7964.html )