does the public even care?

markets civilize greed, but states civilize markets.

"Techno-optimists place their faith in innovation; degrowthers place theirs in social movements. Both sides lay claim to being the genuine realists. Each insists that we simply don’t have enough time to do what the other side wants."

from an excellent discussion of degrowth and its discontents by #JenniferSzalai https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/books/review/shrink-the-economy-save-the-world.html

#degrowth

A tale of two polls.

First, on Mastodon. Second, on xitter. My idiosyncratic catchments in both applications.

Same question:

Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021.

On Mastodon, 2% choose "overreacted", 81% choose "underreacted", 17% choose "responded about right"

On xitter, 22.5% choose "overreacted", 40.6% choose "underreacted", 36.9% choose "responded about right"

in my timeline the search engines are called “bong” and “giggle”.

"Capitalism exacerbates 'greed' via assembling increasing marginal utility agents from decreasing ones" #Metaphysiocrat https://concretepossibleworld.substack.com/p/capitalism-and-convexity

so after i post some stuff, i sometimes ego search a bit, put my name in various search engines restricting to the past week in desperate hunger for feedback.

i have to admit my search of kagi.com tonight was a bit depressing!

[new draft post] Only the state can house us https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/07/only-the-state-can-house-us/index.html

“The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder ht @andrewducker

"if you feel like you write free software for others but nobody joins your community, you are not alone. We are all together in this, alone. 😥" @alex https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-06-06-programming via @akkartik @TodePond @llimllib

[tech notebook] Neonix https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/06/neonix/index.html

Exterminationist AGI was invented in the 1970s as the "shareholder value revolution" and the "foom" has already happened.

Sassy, Google.

fzf.

i've never heard of it, but it's so cool.

like so often i'm indebted to @llimllib https://notes.billmill.org/computer_usage/cli_tips_and_tools/fzf.html

[tech notebook] Readying a blog for revision histories and sprouts under unstatic https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/02/readying-a-blog-for-revision-histories-and-sprouts-under-unstatic/index.html

People whose electoral politics is the same as mine seem very excited to share Figure 7, but they seem less often to share Figure 5.

Both from the same source, the Fed's Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2023 - May 2024 https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-economic-well-being-of-us-households-in-2023-overall-financial-well-being.htm

#economics #finance

"Unless the government steps in to build when new home sales demand gets soft, we will not add homes to the builders’ demand algorithm. Builders have learned to tightly control inventory… We won’t see the construction boom that people want because the builders are here to make money; they’re not here to fix the low inventory issues of the existing home sales market, which is their main rival for demand." #LoganMohtashami https://www.housingwire.com/articles/why-we-cant-build-our-way-out-of-this-hot-housing-market/

#economics #finance

sometimes the arc of history… just breaks.

katrina was a warning that we mistook for a fluke.

there's not a lot of money in not being evil.