@FeralRobots @ghorwood Huh! Re ClassicPress, who knew there was a, um, heresy! I've been messing around with plugins for years to keep the old WordPress editor (one of many reasons I'm migrating away from WordPress).
@FeralRobots @ghorwood i do think we should start referring to them as "heresies".
my kid's word for the internet usage of "actually" is "technically".
the comparison is obscene.
@cour13r5 we weren’t born in the nineteenth century. but the nineteenth century was still born (not stillborn) in us.
gen x is the last generation of the nineteenth century.
sometimes i think “pyrrhic victory” is just a tautology.
@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch @wim really might as well just take over the functions of the hand and have the puppet people just fork over cash.
@wim so MUCH to look forward to!
@gsignoret no matter how cleverly you can interact with a thing, if we don’t feel like we are “touching souls” (a definition of love from Joni Mitchell’s “A Case of You”), our lonesomeness won’t be quenched.
maybe having a soul to touch is a different kind of Turing Test, maybe it is something else entirely. for better or for worse I guess we’ll see.
so many people seem to think there’s nothing to be done, progress is over. but i look around and see so many surfaces that are not yet covered with ads.
"solidarity is absurdly powerful, which is why they go to such great lengths to discredit it. In Sweden, the solidarity strikes against Tesla – who refuses to recognize its maintenance workers' union – have spread to nine unions." @pluralistic https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/24/coalescence/
// it's long past time to relegalize solidarity strikes in the US and wherever they are banned
everything in moderation, especially moderation.
@carnage4life the new “cancelled by the algorithm”
@hcetamd sure. being a dick is perfectly legal. but a person unwilling or unable to restrain expression of those views certainly ought find work other than high-level positions in US diplomacy and foreign policy. i’m a bit skeptical he restrained himself so well that no one had any idea, and i worry why he wasn’t filtered out long before he attained his roles.
@BenRossTransit So far! But if you believe the believers, AI is going to be a very different kind of beast. So far, no. ChatGPT can write your first draft, but you'd better fact-check the heck out of it. Cruise dispensed with drivers, but each car had 1.5 humans on the backend. No technological disemployment crisis there. Maybe, like self-driving cars a decade ago, this moment's wild predictions will ultimately yield... not much change a decade from now. But maybe this time it's different.
if AI stuff really does render the part of the PMC that considers itself the meritocracy also-rans like everybody else, will we see a lot more political support for social democracy?
@SteveRoth i don't think MMT sees any puzzle in Japan's low inflation, because MMT is best understood as the claim that any relationship between accounting debt/deficits and inflation is loose and unreliable to the point of uselessless, so inflation should be understood by virtue of more detailed analysis of flows, regulations, real production and constraints.
@SteveRoth there's asset ownership and there are transfers. the quasi-equity position "the state" — consolidating Alaska's govt into the broader entity — has in oil extraction is disinflationary cet paribus. state asset ownership, if that doesn't compromise the quality of deployment, is disinflationary relative to private ownership. if the state went into debt — same as making transfers! — to purchase the asset, the net effect would depend on price. 1/
@SteveRoth if it overpays, inflationary, underpays disinflationary, although in either case the effect would probably relatively minor because the financial positions the transaction is affecting is those of the already rich, less sensitive to marginal income. in fact the price was zero (it's from a tax), so likely net disinflationary, income otherwise to private parties disappears into the state. 2/
@SteveRoth if the state creates a new expenditure, transferring income generated by the asset broadly rather than to the not-very-wealthy, well, that transfer is likely inflationary, whatever it was financed from. analytically, i think we can mostly separate the disinflationary impulse of the tax from the inflationary impulse of the transfer, and would probably score the whole thing as net inflationary, as it's a redistribution of income from rich to less rich. /fin
@SteveRoth (taxes can be lower is another way of saying disinflationary, in some respects! although perhaps also taxes in Norway can be lower to meet distributional as well as price level objectives if we think of the SWF as overcoming inequalities we'd otherwise use taxes to blunt.)