A philosophy/self-help book:
“The Way of the Dodo”
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guys, what if we did, like, a gofundme for our billionaires’ mental health?
cf #AmandaMarcotte https://www.salon.com/2023/07/17/billionaires-arent-doing-great--for-their-mental-health-time-to-drastically-raise-their/
ht @xerophile @uspolitics@sdf.org
@djc i haven't caught it as generational argot, maybe "late capitalism" is a bit late-gen-x-ey / early millennial.
the broad capitalism gripe seems kind of a mirror image of (multgenerational) lazy reversion to accusations ones rivals are "communists", making "communism" (or "marxists" or "cultural marxists") a bogeyman for problems from different quarters.
anyway, this kind of dead-man-farting rhetorical reflex strikes me as the inevitable decadence provoked by conditions of late capitalism.
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young millennial journalists had their own peculiar argot. "crushing it", "epic", the use of "everyone" as a weird pronoun describing the very narrow sort of everyone who was them and their readership.
will gen Z bring its own way of speaking? what are some gen-Z particular idioms?
@Smando @pluralistic she's still going strong! if she were defenstrated, that would be devastating. but for now i think the Biden administration deserves continuing credit in taking a muscular approach towards corporate power (grading on the curve set by all prior administrations of my lifetime, which sets pretty low expectations, but still).
"Why they're smearing Lina Khan" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion
This virtual event, featuring Rohan Grey, begins in about an hour, on Rohan's privacy-preserving government-issued eCash proposal. It will likely touch upon CBDC, cryptocurrency, and other such goodies (or baddies, adjust to taste). https://www.meetup.com/ethereumsiliconvalley/events/293996593/
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kids are such a miracle. no wonder adolescence is so hard. the process of going from them to us is like a kind of emotional petrification.
@trashrobot what earthy work counterfeiting would become.
“You don’t just stay inside the lines; you stay well inside the lines. This is not a matter of politics or judicial philosophy. It is ethics in the trenches.” #MichaelPonsor https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/14/opinion/supreme-court-ethics.html ht @kmontenegro
@djc it’s also how i know where you are.
if AI had been invented in 1960, all the latest movies would be starring Cary Grant.
@failedLyndonLaRouchite yeah. i don’t care so much about ripple per se, but this reasoning would cut a huge hole through all securities regulation. just sell over very impersonal and casino-like platforms, and you’re cool! make whatever representations you want elsewhere, maybe put it in complicated language so a judge would assume most punters couldn’t possibly understand. (even tho of course third parties—journalists, promoters—would simplify and hype those representations to everyone.)
@failedLyndonLaRouchite i’m not saying that! we’re just chatting!
@failedLyndonLaRouchite i get the theory. but why wouldn’t it apply to stocks, then? many speculators have zero intercourse with the issuer, seek speculative gains that may accrue without any clear connection to the actions of the firm (cf AMC, GameStop etc). if there’s a speculative casino clientele for a thing that is also a security to other clienteles, is it right to draw a distinction by purchasing platform? doesn’t securities *exchange* regulation specifically cut against that take?