the use of shame as a tool for social discipline renders shamelessness particularly adaptive.
"1.00 USD = 4.1060 Romanian New Leu (RON)" ~Western Union
Official exchange rate: 4.578 RON/USD
Despicable, but you use them anyway when sending to the most marginal and vulnerable people, those with no access directly or through friends/family to a bank account.
“Yellowstone Caldera Volcanic Power Generation Facility: A new engineering approach for harvesting emission-free green volcanic energy on a national scale” by Thomas F. Arciuolo and Miad Faezipour https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960148122012290 via Alex Tabarrok
(edit: I initially credited Tyler Cowen, sorry Alex)
@maria @dangillmor yeah. i think that’s right. the goal is to encourage, not merely abandon as a statement.
but what’s valuable about social media is the hanging out, the sense you are conversing directly with people who otherwise would be inaccessible. as much as possible, that conversing should happen not-on-twitter. if people want to hang out with you, it’s great to let them know they can find you here, and that you are not at ease conversing there.
@maria @dangillmor it is hard and will become harder to take self-styled antifascist journalists seriously who do not work to transition themselves and encourage others to leave the site. you post your links there, sure. but if twitter is where your audience and other journalists can hang out with you, you are something more than complicit.
@DetroitDan (i think people grapple with Schmitt more in the context of domestic politics — though friend vs enemy certainly includes the foreign as well as internal enemy — but the preoccupation is the legitimacy of the state among citizens it seeks to predominantly define as friend in order that is should be obeyed and required to maintain domestic order despite the machinations of those enemies.)
@stephenjudkins here it’s just too crowded for that. they are doing their best, but takes come faster than they can check people in, and you don’t know if you’re cutting when you place yourself in someone’s attention, after you feel cut for waiting passively for a while.
@stephenjudkins tasteful dystopias…
@stephenjudkins they need to get over their “we’re hip, just hang out and we’ll get to you” vibe and get down with organized queuing.
most mall stores are empty, middle of a weekday. the apple store is packed, has been for the 2+ hours i’ve awaited my appointment.
they say Mac is more tasteful than Windows and it’s true. on a Mac it’s stylishly the black screen of death.
Though one might argue with conservative Lyons’ description of where and by whom Schmitt-think is resurging in contemporary Western politics, this is a lively and useful review.
“The Temptations of Carl Schmitt”, by
N.S. Lyons https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/the-temptations-of-carl-schmitt
i don’t know if i feel good or bad about it, but yesterday when the kid needed valentine’s cards made for school today, where usually i would have searched for free clip art, i let stable diffusion (via the Diffusers Mac app) make some clip art for me. it took a lot of tries to get something not somehow creepy or inappropriate that would print okay on our crappy printer, but eventually we did.
not-quite-identifiable smiley-faced cartoon animal-ish figure holding up a heart.
people are gonna start tying strollers to balloons just to see if they can’t get fighter jets scrambled to shoot it down.
one worker’s full employment is another employer’s labor shortage.
off-color condiment
at a restaurant called “bacon bitch”, a bottle of syrup extravagantly labeled “sticky bitch”.
@notio (thank you! OG private dropbox is just what i want.)
sync.com, good or terrible?