move fast and break other people.
i'm so glad this community will have more political influence and less regulation, in order to innovate even more aggressively. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html via @ernie
if you look at an ad on facebook or instagram, you are participating in a donation to Trump’s inauguration.
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sometimes i find myself saying “thank you” to claude.ai then i wonder whether my politeness is burning down the rainforest.
dystopia is not salutary.
crypto begins as, its entire architecture is shaped and constrained in order to be, a form of money or commodity independent of states. it is an experimental alternative to state coordination of finance and even contracts.
now it’s surging, solely as a function of expected endorsement of the state.
i hate to link over there, but #MattBruenig is so good on this stuff. https://x.com/mattbruenig/status/1866915041154568279
this #MattBruenig piece on health care economics is a work of art.
1) administrative costs associated with health insurance are HUGE, not a rounding error next to inflated provider costs;
2) the only justification for those costs would be to rein in provider rents, but not only do private insurers fail to, they have structural incentives to let them grow.
read this one.
@peter for not entirely unrelated reasons, they’ve taken the same approach to suicide. there’s no acceptable attribution of cause or motive beyond “struggling with mental illness”. why the person themself thought they did it is apparently as unworthy of examination as a schizophrenic’s hallucination.
Text: The politics of stupid is believing that the way to deal with Farage or Trump type populism is to do what Farage or Trump happens to be shouting about at the time. Concern about immigration is real enough, but it is important to ask why there is concern about immigration. To put it very simply, there are probably two types of reasons why voters find populists going on about immigration attractive. The first is that these voters don’t like foreigners. Immigration numbers don’t matter to these people when there are already plenty of foreign looking people already here. The second type are voters who mistakenly think that problems like finding it difficult to see a doctor or buy a house are because of immigration. Cutting immigration is only likely to make those problems worse, by stopping doctors or construction workers coming to the UK
“Where are all the bureaucrats?” a useful chart by #KevinDrum https://jabberwocking.com/where-are-all-the-bureaucrats/
have any of you tried out Huawei HarmonyOS? how is it? what do you think?
“We acknowledge road users may be faced with socioeconomic challenges” ht @inertiate https://frontrange.co/@apnewsbot/113629830175123772
you know you’ve encountered a higher class of revolutionary when at least a pinky toe, if not several of the more vigorous toes, is latent.
the last time around we had robber barons. this time we have toddler tyrants.
is syria an isolated event or some kind of domino?
“The average cost of a three-day hospital stay is $30,000.” #HelenOuyang https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/opinion/health-care-anger.html
“Or, as the Northwestern University political-science professor Jeffrey Winters put it…this feels like a moment of ‘in-your-face oligarchy.’”
// “feels like” is too soft. this is what oligarchy looks like, laughing proud. https://universeodon.com/@memeorandum/113624917149665952