[New Post] February https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/9949.html
i've added an option to e-mail subscribe to all my crap as one weekly digest.
my testing skillz are so awesome we'll have to wait a few days to be sure it actually maybe works though...
@chrisp thanks! it’s nice to hear someone is reading my $%#?!
i'm not a fan of substack on principal, but just in a day-to-day way, one thing really annoying about it is a lot of substackers have their front page in some splashy newspaper-like format when i just want a reverse chronological list of wtf they have written recently. is there some trick to just get that?
"This is in the tech playbook. When you're growing, you want everything to be open. When there aren't any more users to get from other places, well, that was a nice idea." @davew http://scripting.com/2024/03/20.html#a163628
[new draft post] A simple theory of the stock market https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/03/20/a-simple-theory-of-the-stock-market/index.html
On philanthropy by sortition (or the stratified selection it often misguidedly devolves to). #YoramGat https://equalitybylot.com/2024/03/20/heiress-is-letting-50-strangers-give-her-e25-million-fortune-away/
@MisuseCase i disagree with Yglesias a lot, find him infuriating, often manipulative and disingenuous.
i’m not sure where really to go with problematic as a category, though. it’s too ambiguous a signifier, which on the one hand i think is part of why it is popular, but on the other hand leaves me a bit cold.
although i have certainly used it at times anyway!
@MisuseCase that’s pretty much Yglesias’ view, he’s a process-towards-a-two-state-solutionist.
@walli you’d want to propose there just to be contrary.
does anyone maintain a list of neotwitter’s many censorship scandals and fascist-far-right favoring double-standards in moderation? https://kolektiva.social/@strandedia/112128209725895517
“The specific thing that has transfixed a global audience of idealistic young people is the concrete suffering of Palestinian civilians. That’s something that could be resolved far short of dissolving the State of Israel.” #MattYglesias https://www.slowboring.com/p/what-israel-does-matters
@barrkel pretty rarely! but this was in Columbia, and I did need some cash.
a dog, cocking its head curiously, from a balcony in a narrow alley next to a spiral staircase.
it's been weeks since i've observed any kind of a sign.
i can't decide whether that's a good or a bad sign.
So much has been enshittified.
I keep finding myself getting screwed by having formed expectations in civilized times, expectations that are now just wrong. 1/
* brokerages used to sweep cash balances into money markets and pay reasonable interest rates. in the new post-ZIRP era, i found my brokerages are just paying less than 1% on cash and pocketing the difference. 2/
* my bank used to charge a fixed fee of $10 for international atm uses. i'd amortize the cost by making large withdrawals. now my same bank charges $5 fixed plus 3%. you can't amortize away a 3% fee no matter how much you withdraw. /fin
in the photograph they are smiling at you, but in reality they neither know or care who you are.
Just a moment.
Your estimated wait time is less than 1 hour.
[tech notebook] c3p0 and loom https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/03/18/c3p0-and-loom/index.html
@BenRossTransit it is. but it leaves unknown and unknowable how many people ultimately will be killed should the conflict suffer a thaw. too often the freeze is mistaken for the peace and time is let pass without urgent. every “frozen” conflict remains urgent, dangerous, Vesuvius beside our collective Pompeii.