@hughfmurrayiii give it a few years…
you get less ageist as you grow older.
@kentbrew @FeralRobots @carlmalamud a handmade sleeve subculture, like underground zines for the '20s, should emerge.
"when you are called to testify, just remember perjury is free speech. stand up for our Constitution."
“neoliberals (unlike ordoliberals) seem very relaxed about monopoly power when it comes to firms… In contrast neoliberals are happy to attack monopoly power when it comes to workers and unions…
I have argued that a better way to describe neoliberalism in practice…is that neoliberalism uses concepts from economics to promote the interests of capital (corporations and companies).” @sjwrenlewis https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2023/08/economics-and-neoliberalism.html
“it doesn’t matter what he’s done, because he’s not a criminal.”
[new draft post] Fascism as triage https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/08/14/fascism-as-triage/index.html
@AccordionGuy Thanks for the great talk! If you do give it a spin, let me know about any icks!
“Argentina, and to some extent Latin America more broadly, has long been home to the permapolycrisis.” @paulsegal https://crookedtimber.org/2023/08/12/analysing-argentina/
@LouisIngenthron @carlmalamud i don’t know, but i think the flaw here might be imagining independence of these decisions. if some aging producer owned the rights to some 60s B horror flick, sure, why not. but those rights were probably rolled into a large portfolio, managed by financial and legal specialists whose role in life is to extract value from the legal fictions they own. 1/
@LouisIngenthron @carlmalamud if you are a portfolio owner of B horror, you know each film individually is near worthless, but you also know that in aggregate you control a corner of the culture a lot of people value. so you don’t license a la carte. you wait for someone to pay up for the use of the full library. until then, just say no, what you control is lost, a black hole in our nostalgia, until/unless the ransom is paid. 2/
@LouisIngenthron @carlmalamud plus, they get clever in ways we wouldn’t easily guess. recently platforms have been taking down shows for the tax write off — if you have the thing valued on your books at more several times the capitalized subscription loss you’d experience from pulling it, you earn more declaring it worthless and reducing your liability to Uncle Sam. 3/
@LouisIngenthron @carlmalamud the more games like this there are (and probably we don’t know more than a sliver of them), the more likely there are or there is the prospect of better alternatives than licensing a la carte films for the pittances they would individually command. /fin
@LouisIngenthron @carlmalamud every still-under-copyright film is a monopoly of the licensor, who apparently earns more (likely over a large portfolio) from pricing restrictively and charging the occasional taker a lot than by licensing cheaply to attract all who might be interested. there’s option value in hoarding something someone might come to desperately want, and you get to be a playah. the deep public interest in comprehensive access to our own culture only encourages them to hold out.
@jumbanho ahhh… so it’s the people mirroring these feeds saying this, not the news organizations. sigh.
law trumps physics, sometimes. storing and streaming digital works is so much cheaper in real resource terms than maintaining a library of DVDs you physically ship. and yet. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/business/media/internet-archive-emergency-lending-library.html?unlocked_article_code=SHhC1zCbybhNFFee1y2yE7uXqng9k_IfnWuZkvknItNyMGa8BjDb1bXtRT0vokzjJaZZ4n4b5tyDwKHX_OKblh5-fgx1H7U_y940V0RgncogyolvY7rx8-IY95ySMtAVyUXnSCINtoXVM-oHLsNncfS2VAmgWe5FGNQlJzFNLs7K-66gISBTvh364RoH3jmjvdf704Eoq-qNuSQEBshAMCUANLHBkCI9sJKVgDaiOsJwhoCfC2QXb5Kj7uwSQN78xBz6_V4R-HISPaCICnwsD-nwEhWDA0cxHLsC6PWPeRa_hhNetXGpM0wml5p0AqvzzAZ8idCCbUc-qcV9IuZ04aw92MN5ogprGrzF4bSZcBdsGFka7hzM13MxzQ&smid=url-share via @carlmalamud@official.resource.org
Text: New technology means culture is delivered on demand, but not all culture. When Netflix shipped DVDs to customers, there were about 100,000 to choose from. Streaming, which has a different economics, has reduced that to about 6,600 U.S. titles. Most are contemporary. Only a handful of movies on Netflix were made between 1940 and 1970.
The kids should stop complaining they have it no harder than we did is a #KevinDrum obsession. His pieces in this vein demand high scrutiny in general.
But the comparative student debt graph in this piece is a true masterpiece in misuse of data. People of older generations with unpaid student debt are the ultimate unrepresentative cohort. They are likely to have started rough and done poorly. In which case time itself is a confound as not-fully-paid interest capitalizes. https://jabberwocking.com/millennials-are-doing-fine-part-xvii/
An excellent piece on AI governance (not regulation!) by @nitin, with insights for beyond the Indian audience to which it is directed. https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/how-to-govern-the-ai-industry-must-be-accorded-high-priority-11691942380385.html
[tech notebook] Building an authenticated web service in Scala with tapir and JWT https://tech.interfluidity.com/2023/08/13/building-an-authenticated-web-service-in-scala-with-tapir-and-jwt/index.html
Thanks to, and riffing off of work by, @AccordionGuy!
“Notes on using a single-person Mastodon server” by @b0rk https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/11/some-notes-on-mastodon/
// lots of good observations/information about mastodon and the fediverse
A stalwart of the movement in favor of traditional Western values and masculine virtues had the legal system coerce a kid to leave their college for spitting on him in the throes of a political confrontation that he provoked and prosecuted wielding the full power of the state.
What a hero, what a man.
the case against the case against contrarianism.
@SteveRoth but if you did.