it might not be right to say the Trump Administration's garish chaos-monkeying contributed to the crash. maybe. but we don't really know that.
nevertheless, it's a whole lot less ridiculous a claim than any attribution of blame to "DEI".
ferchrissakes.
it was just a bunch of kids who liked to twirl around.
what kind of due process would apply to Guantanamo detainees?
@Arianity @geerlingguy I really like the GPU + Raspberry Pi approach. I have no idea how one puts that together, but it's probably not too expensive and better at running these things than my laptop!
"the Supreme Court ruled that the NLRB needs three members to have a quorum. Thus, until Trump appoints a third NLRB member, the NLRB will not be able to issue decisions. Trump could opt not to fill any NLRB vacancies and prevent the agency from issuing decisions for his entire term." #MattBruenig https://www.nlrbedge.com/p/trump-fires-democratic-nlrb-member
Guys, really. Our apparently brisk GDP growth is down largely to rentierism, attaching ever more, ever larger tolls to everything. It’s not meaningful prosperity. We are miserable. Don’t emulate us. Stick with Universal Scandinavia. cf @crookedfootball https://crookedtimber.org/2025/01/29/the-death-of-the-hope-of-progress-and-the-fear-of-being-left-behind/
“No, I do not want AI to ‘polish’ me.” #JennyLawson https://thebloggess.com/2025/01/28/no-i-do-not-want-ai-to-polish-me/
“governments of the ostensible ‘centre-left’…are incapable of reviving neoliberalism in its progressive, internationalist guise, but are also unwilling to properly embrace the legacy of postwar social democratic nationalism.” #DavidTimoney https://fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-pivot-of-history.html
@realcaseyrollins @dangillmor maybe. funny how Google actually had a policy about this, though. then… whoops!
@realcaseyrollins because Google was right in 2008. https://publicpolicy.googleblog.com/2008/04/how-google-determines-names-for-bodies.html ht @dangillmor
Text: When our policy says that we display the "primary, common, local" names for a body of water, each of those three adjectives has an important and distinct meaning. By saying "primary", we aim to include names of dominant use, rather than having to add every conceivable local nickname or variation. By saying "common", we mean to include names which are in widespread daily use, rather than giving immediate recognition to any arbitrary governmental re-naming. In other words, if a ruler announced that henceforth the Pacific Ocean would be named after her mother, we would not add that placemark unless and until the name came into common usage. Finally, by saying "local", we aim to reflect the primary and common names used by countries that actually border the body of water, as they are the countries recognized under international law as having a special sovereign stake in it.
@realcaseyrollins uh, a cat death-wish? curiosity is just… curious.
(i think the renaming is dumb, and hope Apple resists it better than Google has. maybe someday “Gulf of America” will be in common usage, but we’re far from there.)
[tech notebook] Adolescent DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/adolescent-deepseek-on-a-mac-laptop/index.html
(i’m morbidly curious how Apple will handle the Gulf of Mexico thing.)
@geerlingguy Something like 20-ish, sharing all the costs.
Norms only exist when there is a community of agents to enforce them. When there are only two agents, there’s no such thing as a norm, only cooperation or conflict. 1/
There can be Nash equilibria supporting cooperation with only two players, sure. But they’re fragile in practice. If defection yields a strong negative payout to the sole other player, its capacity to punish ex post and so deter ex ante will be weak. 2/
Norms can be thought of as Nash equilibria in very multiplayer games. They are strong if (and only if) defection can’t kneecap the whole community’s capability to punish. In practice that’s often the case. 3/
When there are broad communities, norms really can support cooperation! But much less so when the game collapses effectively to only two players. /fin
proclaim policy so extreme and destructive it’d be the dog catching the car if actually implemented. then walk it back declaring some misunderstanding or bullshit victory. 1/
you never have to face or be held accountable for the consequences of your proposals. you thrill your partisans. you leave your opponents bewildered and preoccupied. they come off as overwrought, nervous nellies. /fin
from @jbouie https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/opinion/democrats-trump-opposition.html
democrats are always trying to be “generic democrat”. no one is mad at generic democrat, no donor is alienated. generic democrat polls pretty well!
but generic democrat is an empty suit. we need people to lead, or, right now, to brawl.
Text: At the heart of all of this - whether it comes from congressional leaders, ordinary lawmakers or top pollsters - is the idea that Democrats can float above the fray and reap the political rewards of any chaos and dysfunction. Besides, voters say they want compromise - and what else can Democrats do but follow the polls?
[tech notebook] Baby DeepSeek on a Mac laptop https://tech.interfluidity.com/2025/01/28/baby-deepseek-on-on-mac-laptop/index.html
i wonder if banks will discount frozen grants.
some people prefer the negative income tax and others prefer the universal basic income, so they compromised on the negative basic income.
