@Big_Worker @phillmv Bare links, no. It's always with a teaser. But good RSS is full-text RSS, you don't have to link out of your reader to, well, read. And good RSS is fine-grained, so you can subscribe to what you want. In the best case, you'll skip much of what you scroll through, but you don't want what you'll read to be buried in oceans of noise. Until Google Reader shut down, the norm was by author or small group of authors ("group blog").

@Big_Worker @phillmv Full text or links? How fine grained? e.g. at The Week, I used to be able to subscribe to individual writers. Then they got lazy, and made all RSS feeds magazine full feeds (to which I unsubscribed, way too much noise).

Will an end to the war in Ukraine, on whatever terms the active fighting will end, be disinflationary in the West as commodity markets are reintegrated, or inflationary due to the pressure on resources that reconstruction of the destroyed country will impose?

@Big_Worker @phillmv I use inoreader daily. but the network effect disappeared post-Google-Reader, and lots of feeds disappeared or are poorly maintained.

@Suzyanalyst1 @stephenjudkins (I don’t know. Because I’m unenthusiastic about another centralized “winner” of the network effect, I’m devoting very little attention to post.news)

it seems unfair that it’s the very wealthiest people who get to live rent-free in our heads. and quite extravagantly.

in my day, toy stores didn’t have separate kids’ sections.

@SteveRoth @DetroitDan youch. i really hope it is not that horrible for China.

@DetroitDan Yes. My understanding is that their vaccine uptake rates (on their domestically produced vaccines, not our mRNA vaccines) is low, especially very sadly among the elderly. I've been told maybe this has to do with older Chinese's faith in traditional Chinese medicine over Western-style care, but I don't know if that's right. It was similar, and catastrophic, in Hong Kong.

@stephenjudkins it turns out there are lots of situations where concentrating the burden makes more sense in practice than broadening and sharing it that seems so much better in theory. the canonical case i think is employment, in practice firms fire a few rather than, say, imposing small blanket reductions in compensation.

@danhon the only way you can properly figure that out is if you do some research, on location.

If, perhaps, we return to a civilized age where one discovers and reads much of ones news by RSS feeds, a nice, gentle alternative to a paywall would be access to full-text feeds rather than feeds you have to annoyingly click a link from to reach still open content.

Every time I click, I'd be reminded that I'm asked for support I'm not giving, and think about whether I wish to give it.

@poetryforsupper Woohoo! Congrats!

@poetryforsupper (i’ll have to wheedle some elaboration from you when next we speak!)

@solonar 😊

@shawnhooper from my perspective at least, 2022 was a banner year for anxiety. i spent february through july endlessly ducking and covering on the inside.

@pkedrosky i love garrulous therapists. so many great stories!

people think anxious people are workaholics in order to relieve their anxiety and maybe that’s a part of it.

another part, though, is that the opportunity cost of lost leisure is very low if you know you’re going to ruin whatever you do with it by being anxious.

@hcetamd @pluralistic @SaintPeter @IraCogan maybe most hypermodern, private-equity-run corporations. historically, actually, most businesses left some surplus on the table in favor of sustaining long-term relationships. that’s why capitalism used to kind of work, stakeholders jockeyed over the pie for the bigger piece, but did allow each indispensable constituency to take home a meaningful slice.