From @simondlr, an image of a subway station near Chongqing, China, at the time that it was built in 2017, and then an entry to the same station now.
As Simon says, "We should build more bridges to nowhere. We need to build more housing."
https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/protocol-thresholds-and-the-days
The entry to an underground subway station pops up in what appears to be the middle of a random field, when it was built in 2017.
Entry to the same subway station in 2023, now adjacent to a dense mixed-use development.
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It seems to me this makes factual claims that are simply untrue. Not contestable claims about politics, but statements about events that did not in fact occur, intended to manipulate the recipient.
Why is that permissible in political advertising?
Screenshot of e-mail: From: Lara Trump Subject: My father-in-law was asking about you! To: Steve Waldman, Reply-To: Lara Trump FROM THE DESK OF LARA TRUMP This is Lara Trump and my father-in-law was just telling me about how much he LOVES YOU!
"The lurch back towards that early web is a deep hunger for the personal web. The web that made you feel like you were part of this crazy but exciting endeavor that suddenly connected you with some other person across the world… We want something that feels more…real. Something authentic, not performative… We don’t want a content treadmill, we want online presences that are idiosyncratic and intimate, peculiar and distinctive." @rscottjones https://rscottjones.com/its-not-about-nostalgia-its-about-human-connection/
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“It’s always best to plan ahead while you’re ahead. Start today.”
When your targeted ads are funerary, you start to wonder what the algorithm knows that you don’t.
This is pretty terrible news.
The SAVE plan has always been a bigger deal than forgiveness of past loans. (As a policy matter. Forgiveness of past loans is a BFD if you are among the indebted!)
I hope it survives via appeals, but I expect it will take Congressional action. It’s pretty gross states got standing because they’d get less money from servicing loans not even owed to them.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4737997-courts-block-biden-student-loan-repayment-plan/
"innovation should be rewarded enough to preserve incentives, but the skew of the wealth distribution has become increasingly bizarre… corporate profits + extreme wealth, particularly among mega-cap companies, have become a sort of “capture” or “rent” that reflects network effects, social dynamics, and general technological efficiencies that were no part of that entrepreneur’s invention, and might be better characterized as public goods." #JohnHussman https://www.hussmanfunds.com/comment/mc240623/
#economics #finance
if i were the mayor of Athens, every Halloween would be the Zombie Acropolis.
@Jonathanglick i’d say purpose. i think states misunderstand this + do too little of it. method suggests that it’s something they’d know to do to achieve other state objectives. even tho it obviously would help achieve other state objectives, states do too little. if it helps to frame it as method, for national security or higher-trust prosperity or whatever, i’m for it. it’s definitely a method to achieve human flourishing at scale. i see states’ purpose as to pursue that method.
@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika Individual journalists choose whether to be employable.
Under plutocracy, what those overarching structures define as employable, who they hire and promote, who they slough off as unprofessional and unreasonable, is shaped by the plutocrats who ultimately own them.
Sure, we should hold the plutocrats morally culpable, more than the individual journalists who have to eat. But plutocracy shapes choices and outcomes at every level.
the more plutocratic a society — the greater its degree of wealth concentration — the less likely journalists are to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable".
it becomes ever more uncomfortable to be the comfortable's affliction, and ever more comfortable to cheerlead, rationalize, and deflect from all that the comfortable afflict.
the very purpose of a state
is to integrate.
"When you rely…on social media algorithms to determine what appears in your feed, you are giving up control and relinquishing your attention to platforms designed to monopolize as much of your time and consciousness as they can get away with. RSS readers put you in the driver's seat. You decide [what is] worth your time and attention… rather than having it pushed on you based on what some company has determined is likely to keep you scrolling." @Daojoan https://www.joanwestenberg.com/rss-the-forgotten-protocol-that-still-matters%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B ht @kstewart
#RSS
