“Most corrupt acts don't take the form of clearly immoral choices. People fight those. Corruption thrives where there is a tension between institutional and interpersonal ethics. There is ‘the right thing’ in abstract, but there are also very human impulses towards empathy, kindness, and reciprocity that result from relationships with flesh and blood people.” me, long ago. https://www.interfluidity.com/posts/1257407150.shtml
this is the moment when our future is about to begin.
[new draft post] We haunt https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2023/05/03/we-haunt/index.html
i was today years old before i saw and heard footage of Huey Long speaking in his own voice. via Sandy Darity cc @poetryforsupper https://youtu.be/KF6kFpnf4H4
@fastmail I did find that, eventually! Thank you!
@fastmail (i found aliases very straightforward, and was initially very confused when it seemed any aliases i’d made not pointing to my own address had disappeared. now i know what to expect, but i’m not persuaded it’s an improvement, and i wish you had left both views. still, you are a fantastic service, a bit of ui friction doesn’t change that.)
in an era of generative art prompt engineering, art history becomes a STEM field.
(you have to know your artists to effectively author "in the style of..." clauses in your prompts.)
i've seen so much #scala pessimism this week.
but it remains such a beautiful, fun language. i really enjoy #scala3 it's true there are some real tooling hassles (please give me a good emacs mode). you lose time. but you can express things so cleanly and concisely.
there are tensions between what "industry" wants and an impulse to experiment. a lot of us were drawn to scala because it challenges us, keeps us learning. it never wanted to be #golang. i don't think it should try now.
waiting for the #SupremeCourt to invent a lèse-majesté exception to the 1st Amendment with reference to itself.
after all, the Court is apolitical, so critique is not protected political speech; respect for the Court's dignity is essential to the survival and operation of the Constitutional order; and the Constitution is not a suicide pact.
we should all be grateful.
if the machine says you are guilty, you must be guilty.
if it turns out that was a bug, well, sorry i guess.
Marina Hyde via @NIH_LLAMAS @ct_bergstrom
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/post-office-horizon-scandal-inquiry
@lolonurse i am so sorry. that this was the policy choice — save banks as systemically important, in part by ensuring borrowers bear as much of the costs as possible, is much of why the US economic system has little public legitimacy. it is obviously not even roughly "fair" or "meritocrcay", unless you count being big or structurally well connected as merit. we go bitter towards fascist hierarchy, or generous towards social democracy, from here. "capitalist desserts" just have no social basis.
@taoeffect (expressing a similar wish, i was reminded that for a while Google had a blog index. now google tries not to surface blogs until they get love from the incumbents it already ranks highly. in the old days, even if sites were low ranked, Google would surface everything with a specific enough query or else deep in the results. now they'll simply omit.)
Small and midsize banks are basically in the position middle-class homeowners with underwater mortgages in 2008 who lost their jobs were.
Over the medium-term, their housing values and home-equity wealth were due to come roaring back.
But they don't have the liquidity to carry their position, and they're not important enough for anyone to front them cheap money until then, so they take the loss, cede to bigger, better-connected players who will enjoy the roarback. 1/
Formally eliminating limits on deposit insurance might forestall the liquidity crises. Alternative, more generous Fed or other-government-agency lending terms for small and midsize banks than the already generous Bank Term Funding Program are probably the most likely way small and midsize banks will be saved, if they will be saved. /fin
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@otfrom only if you sign over the film and television rights, i’d think.
@djc @Atrios the likelihood is other branches, when they substantively disagree, will treat decisions extremely narrowly and force courts to relitigate every variation, and that lower courts will also treat decisions narrowly forcing the SC to restate themselves, etc. overall, a kind of state actor work-to-rule. more constructively, the likelihood Congress does its job and reforms the Court quite substantially is much increased when the public is disinclined to defer to the existing Court.
“It is not sinking in, generally, that their behavior has made everything they do completely illegitimate.” @Atrios http://www.eschatonblog.com/2023/05/did-you-guys-notice.html
the more you love, the more you lose.
i am sorry to hear about gordon lightfoot.