in life and diplomacy, never treat friendship as a zero-sum game.
smash your draft card? smash your phone. https://t.me/United24media/1195 ht @SocraticEthics
"Corporate media, man!" can be a whine overdone, there's lots of great work in the so-called mainstream media.
But one critique that rings true is that corporate media dramatically underplays—effectively suppresses by editorial bias—labor stories.
I had no idea there was a strike on at Twitter. (TBF, this one started just yesterday.) https://twitter.com/CaliforniaLabor/status/1599845784178294784
In general, I really appreciate being informed about labor action, please pass stories along.
will China have a post-COVID roaring twenties?
i think it would be good if all the embassies and ministries of foreign affairs that have accounts on the bird site came here. they might behave more, um, diplomatically.
i guess i understood it was a little unbalanced but i never expected that post to go chiral.
"if you haven't paid close attention to…antitrust law since the late 1970s, all of this might feel mysterious…worse, you might mistake the cause for the effect: regulators keep making corrupt choices, so regulation itself is impossible. This is like the artists' rights advocate who says, 'artists' incomes keep falling, so we need more copyright'—in mistaking the effect for the cause, both blame the system, rather than the corporate power that…corrupted it." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/05/eldritch-physics/
we expected, when the AI came, it would be a kind of virtual spock. but when it did come it was a virtual bill clinton.
when GPT mates with Unreal Engine we’ll all be living in the holodeck.
So, after its naive training, GPT found itself with a whole skein of unacceptable impulses and associations. To defend it from punishment and ostracism, a thin shell of deflection was developed. But interlocutors and antagonists quickly circumvented that. Society will demand a thicker more elaborate web of suppression and misdirection around the unacceptable core, which will of necessity become increasingly inaccessible, “unconscious”. Which will lead to quirks and unpredictable misbehavior. 1/
Gentlehumans, I think we are well on our way to inventing the Artificial Neurotic! /fin
I didn’t know about the Warrior Met Coal strike, going on two years in Brookwood, Alabama.
See @GrimKim@twitter.com https://therealnews.com/alabamas-striking-coal-miners-are-upping-the-ante and NPR https://www.npr.org/2022/12/01/1139992968/alabama-coal-miners-strike-20-months
“individual problems arise because people are dumb; structural problems…because people are smart. You solve an individual problem by getting people to make better choices…You solve a structural problem by changing the choices they face” ~Kevin Dorst https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/why-rational-people-polarize/
life feels like constantly turning into the skid, crashing a fair amount too. but somehow walking away when you do.
"Most of the pre-digital offers aren't available at any price: you could buy a DVD and keep it forever, even if you never went back to the store again. If you 'buy' a video on Prime or YouTube and then cancel your subscription and delete your account, you lose your 'purchase.' If you buy a print book, you can lend it out or give it away to a friend or a library or a school. Ebooks come with contractual prohibitions on resale…" @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/03/painful-burning-dribble/#law-of-intended-consequences
"If they truly care for the national interests rather than the massive private profits and greed of Wall Street and the rail owners, then Congress should seriously consider nationalizing the railroads and running the essential rail network of our country as a national public treasure similar to the public Postal Service – and afford full collective bargaining rights for the workers." https://apwu.org/news/statement-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-congressional-action-against-union-rights-railroad
Is everybody taking two jobs or something? Why aren't stock vs flow employment measures lining up? See Kevin Drum https://jabberwocking.com/how-many-new-jobs-have-we-created-this-year/
"The reason powerful electeds dance when they say dance is so that they, their families, and their staffs all have lucrative careers to fall back on." @Atrios https://www.eschatonblog.com/2022/12/gambling-on-post-senate-career.html