Have Iraq and Ukraine both gone basically according to the hegemon’s plan?
I don’t buy it. But it’s a provocative thesis, and #DavidTimoney #FromArseToElbow is always worth a read.
https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2023/03/who-remembers-war.html
@stephenjudkins of course. like everything, it’s a statistical game, there’s lots of variation, in susceptibility, in exposure, etc. we can’t eliminate illness, but we can reduce it. 1/
@stephenjudkins we all know we will be exposed to everything, but it’s still not great to show up in close quarters with others when you know you have fresh symptoms of a particularly unpleasant flu. lots of judgment calls! (is it “just a cold”?) but it’s right that en flagrante circulation like that increases the likelihood of disease rather than mere exposure, and we are not wrong I think to take some effort to minimize that. /fin
@stephenjudkins i think the right conversation is about the quality of exposure. with better air quality, might all of our inevitable, repeated, exposure be more likely to be variolating rather than disease-causing?
@keyclocker large laxative model! (i don’t know? i guess we’ll all have to kind of feel it out.)
having an LLM do your writing for you is like having a robot do your pooping.
the product may be indistinguishable from or even higher quality than your own, but still it won’t quite work.
@nurettin (i hope you appreciated that toot was ironic?)
the devil pays well but you are never happy.
@zorinlynx careful! big trouble!
groups of people — including professions — that let individual incentives guide their action will always be playthings of the rich and powerful, who are able to set incentives. agency in our actual world requires collective action, and shame on journalists as a profession for failing to step up. https://journa.host/@w7voa/110085583858596171 ht @alexwild @mtsw
they say stalking is a crime but everywhere i turn i’m there and the police do nothing to be honest i’m a little creeped out.
an approach to limiting Section 230 that people mad because Section 230 let platforms take down Trump would absolutely hate. maybe you only get the immunity if you try to take down Trump! https://mstdn.social/@kissane/110082104665145606
@maxbsawicky Gack! Max Speak You Listen! I am very sorry to you both!
@jordancox Thank you for the correction!
@jordancox Oh shoot! I think you are right! Max Sawicky's blog used to be called Max Read or something like that, so I assumed. But it looks like maybe this literally is a Max Read!
@djc i think it's general! firms can make confidential particular business-sensitive information, but can't suppress employee speech about firms broadly, even by contract, is the ruling as i understand it (but only from reading this piece!)
because i like to reveal people's secrets. https://notes.jakerusso.com/
@neilk who will bail out Big LSD?
“Non-Disparagement Clauses Are Retroactively Voided, NLRB’s Top Cop Clarifies” by #MaxwellStrachan https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ewy7/non-disparagement-clauses-are-retroactively-voided-nlrbs-top-cop-clarifies ht #HeidiMoore
// this is great
I don't think American social media should be surveillance for, and subtly manipulable by, plutocrats.