@carrideen @tokyo_0 thanks! very helpful!
@failedLyndonLaRouchite i don't think there's any question that, absent other information to condition on, large corporate websites are more durable and reliable than websites run by individuals or small firms (under whatever business model, or none).
Wow. I just learned that my instance is going to close. No shade on the administrator — stuff happens. I'll move.
But an instance outright shutting down really exposes the hazard in posts being left behind when you move. Unless I archive and rehost them, everything I've written here will be lost.
Even if I do archive and rehost them, anything that linked to stuff I wrote here will be broken.
kava, kratom, kanna, cbd — tonics? indulgences? that seem ubiquitous but still nouveau to me, that i've not yet ever tried.
i finally believe that AI is real.
apple mail now marks just about every e-mail i send (they get bcc'ed back to me) as junk.
you know it's agi when the machine tells you (accurately, at least in my case!) you're an idiot.
@djc @22 @DeanBaker13 i think u are getting at two ideas: “complete markets”, and modern portfolio theory optimization. in reality markets can never be complete, questions of optimal individual diversification are quite distinct from social welfare, even hypothetical complete capital markets should have infinitessimal amounts “bet on” invested in nearly every contract that completeness would prescribe. there is no practical wisdom in any of this (except it’s individually desirable to diversify).
dear @mozilla,
it's a good article! but the solution isn't to "ask[] car companies to stop their huge data collection programs" or have readers sign a petition you made up.
the solution is called *regulation* and you should ask people to call their congresspersons.
there is no "voluntary" step that will durably prevent profit-maximizing firms from doing profit-generating things, no matter how creepy.
"Nissan earned its…spot for collecting some of the creepiest categories of data we have ever seen. It’s worth reading the review in full, but you should know it includes your 'sexual activity.' Not to be out done, Kia also mentions they can collect information about your 'sex life' in their privacy policy. Oh, and six car companies say they can collect your 'genetic information' or 'genetic characteristics.' Yes, reading car privacy policies is a scary endeavor." https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
"As everyone learns in Econ 101, and immediately forgets, the purpose of the financial sector is to facilitate transactions and allocate capital… We don’t need finance to develop elaborate betting games and complex financial instruments. Financial instruments are only useful when they serve the purpose of better facilitating transactions or improving the allocation of capital." @DeanBaker13 https://cepr.net/crypto-and-finance-are-waste-and-a-drag-on-the-economy/
spare me your gender ideology i believe in biology anyone who used to work at twitter is a woman they are ex x.
@StefanThinks i prefer grudgies.
when i was a kid there was this great apple ][ game called robotwars by muse software in baltimore, and it occurs to me that game pretty well sums up how reality would unfold, life as a bitter contest between robots various contenders program, except the arena in the game was just a square like a boxing ring but the real arena turned out to be us.
hurricane ron will take the longest to recover from.
@zeh probably so. i look forward to seeing you around!
@zeh it may have been a massive improvement, in the way that having fingers removed is an improvement over having hands removed. the governments of lenin and stalin had agency. they were not forced by other people’s imperialism to be vicious, which they were. our baseline is far less awful than tsarist russia. i hope to keep even my fingers.
@zeh i don’t maintain an equivalence. they were quite different regimes. but both catastrophes. usually the result of merely “abolishing and dissolving” old power is ungentle new powers seize the moment. those interested in taking time to figure things out are passed by if they are not executed. we need to build something new and worth achieving, not merely destroy something rotten.
“Facts are statements that we accept as true because they are established by public processes that can be checked — think of the methods of science or traditional journalism. But then the opposite of a fact is not an opinion but a secret: a statement about reality that cannot, and in some cases must not, be verifiable through a public process.” #JonAskonas https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/an-america-of-secrets ht @guncelawits
@zeh it did do all that. it did a lot of bad things too. i'd rather we do (much) better.
@zeh i don’t think this always works. if you clear away the old and bad without a clear vision of the better, there is no time. something must serve the functions of what has been eliminated. instead of peace for discovery, you get conflict and risk very unworthy victors, perhaps as bad or worse than what has been deposed. the russian revolution is a clear example: obviously one should have opposed rule by tsar, but its overthrow inaugurated a new civil war whose victor was a new catastrophe.