@ivory i write a reply to someone. while i write, they delete their post.
i can’t send the reply to a deleted post. great. my reply is in my drafts. i want to rework it to a topline post. every time i bring it up, i get a modal dialog. “Can’t reply. The post has been deleted.” I hit okay, and the draft is dismissed. There’s no way even to copy the text before it’s gone.
issues with drafts have been my biggest frustration with your otherwise excellent client. (drafts have also disappeared.)
who elected sam altman? who elected elon musk? who elected george soros? who elected charles koch? who elected robert mercer? jeff bezos? mackenzie scott? michael bloomberg? melinda gates? bill gates? dick uihlein? mark zuckerberg? peter thiel? howard schultz? who do we vote for to throw the bums out?
"The ideology that threatens rule by capitalists isn’t communism, or at least, not the communism of communists in power. It’s social democracy… When it comes to organized worker power, Lenin, Mao, and Xi are indistinguishable from Musk, Howard Schultz, and Samuel Alito: They all hate and fear unions." #HaroldMeyerson https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-13-why-elon-loves-china-hates-sweden/
suppose you thought it the right thing to do to vote “uncommitted” in the primary in order to send a signal, even though you’d not vote for Trump and in fact would hold your nose for Biden in a general election.
what then would you think would be the right thing to do if a pollster called and asked who you support?
(but this observation should not be taken as an excuse for complacency.)
to imagine that your rewards will be commensurate with your sacrifice is a bad heuristic.
“China is a capitalist country, there is no question about it. But the sort of capitalism they practice is the type we practiced in the 50s and 60s. You can get rich, but you have to actually produce and incomes are expect to rise faster than the cost of goods. Ordinary people’s lives are expected to get better.” #IanWelsh https://www.ianwelsh.net/you-cant-run-industrial-policy-or-a-war-economy-under-neoliberalism/
next time a demon offers unimaginable power if you make blood sacrifice of a dog, maybe check his credit score.
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[tech notebook] The 'iffy' XML namespace https://tech.interfluidity.com/xml/iffy/index.html
i would like a device by which i could travel to counterfactuals. just understanding the navigation system would be quite fascinating.
@admitsWrongIfProven The question of the extent of US prison labor is a good one. My own intuitions are I think outdated. Prison labor was primarily in public-sector work, making license plates, firefighting, landscaping. I think this is not as true anymore, but I don't know. It is very much worth looking into.
God bites Their fingernails and discards them in the sky.
a faint sliver of an evening moon, resembling a discarded fingernail.
@artcollisions i did that once! it was fine, but very generic, like a lot of the moving biz it seems you contract with a broker and then there's a vast internal market that schedules the actual trucks, so it's not clear how much difference who you choose makes.
i ultimately went with https://www.kingoftheroadtransport.com/ it was fine, about the same price as everyone else (not cheap!) i don't know if it'd've been any less fine or different with anyone else. i've only done it once.
For learning about products, Mastodon "word of mouth" seems very definitely superior to search and reviews in the usual (far from credible) places.
Asking about travel laptop backpacks, I learned about, got feedback on the following brands that did not appear prominently when Googling (or Kagi-ing or Amazon-ing) laptop backpacks generically:
Jandd
Nomatic
Osprey
Quechua
Rickshaw
Tom Bihn
Tatonka
Also Targus, which does show up more easily. Plus, I got a kind offer of an extra!
Thank you @mtraven23 @marick @ringmaster @barrkel @dpp @LesterB99 @admitsWrongIfProven @nach @ouguoc @kouhai @Lemniscate @lordbowlich and anyone else i hope i didn't forget.
i really appreciate the help!
can our political narratives be urgent without being simple?
@admitsWrongIfProven i guess all enshitification is relative!
US prison labor definitely isn't in the US Tesla supply chain, where I'm not sure we can say forced labor in China isn't in EV supply chains. (Maybe we can! I don't know.) But I think even if, labor costs are not the big differentiator between US + Chinese capabilities. 1/
@admitsWrongIfProven The US now is planning to protect the domestic EV industry with huge tariffs on Chinese imports. That may be wise or not, but if it's true that China is just better at building and designing EVs, such strong protection will just leave the US with a modern equivalent of old Soviet Ladas, a substandard product that competes only in isolated markets. I'd hope we'd be more clever, but of course US incumbents do a lot of lobbying and don't mind this outcome. /fin
[new draft post] Industrial policy and ecosystems https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/05/11/industrial-policy-and-ecosystems/index.html
i'm looking for a replacement travel backpack, something big, water resistant if i get caught in the rain, can pad a 16" laptop. i'm on a budget these days.
i find i no longer trust reviews on the internet, pretty much anywhere. maybe i trust "word of mouth"? any recommendations?
“American Myths of European Poverty” by @Alon https://pedestrianobservations.com/2024/05/09/american-myths-of-european-poverty/
the only fixity in time is that the moment you were born was exactly one lifetime ago.
