@jwz Unlike Google, XScreenSaver will never charge you money for fraudulent clicks on domain parks that it characterizes to advertisers as "search engines"

[New Post] May away https://www.interfluidity.com/v2/10003.html

@paninid i'm very curious what the price of a gallon will be this November.

does the public even care?

markets civilize greed, but states civilize markets.

"Techno-optimists place their faith in innovation; degrowthers place theirs in social movements. Both sides lay claim to being the genuine realists. Each insists that we simply don’t have enough time to do what the other side wants."

from an excellent discussion of degrowth and its discontents by #JenniferSzalai https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/08/books/review/shrink-the-economy-save-the-world.html

#degrowth

@djc (that does describe the vast, vast majority of twitter users, including the vast majority of the people i used to interact with frequently there. you, my friend, are the rare, noble, exception.)

A tale of two polls.

First, on Mastodon. Second, on xitter. My idiosyncratic catchments in both applications.

Same question:

Overall, the United States __________ to COVID between March 2020 and July 2021.

On Mastodon, 2% choose "overreacted", 81% choose "underreacted", 17% choose "responded about right"

On xitter, 22.5% choose "overreacted", 40.6% choose "underreacted", 36.9% choose "responded about right"

in my timeline the search engines are called “bong” and “giggle”.

"Capitalism exacerbates 'greed' via assembling increasing marginal utility agents from decreasing ones" #Metaphysiocrat https://concretepossibleworld.substack.com/p/capitalism-and-convexity

@Flux @jcriecke very few other jurisdictions offer a liability shield with anywhere near the breadth of US CDA Section 230, yet Mastodon thrives. it will continue to thrive in the US as well, if, for example the US were to replace Section 230 with, say, rules that attach liability upon notice, after a grace period, as in the UK. repealing or reforming the US’ extraordinarily broad shield does not imply imposition of some kind of hair-trigger strict liability.

@jcriecke @Flux are there no or few Mastodon servers outside of the United States? in many jurisdictions without US Section 230 protection, my impression is Mastodon thrives.

so after i post some stuff, i sometimes ego search a bit, put my name in various search engines restricting to the past week in desperate hunger for feedback.

i have to admit my search of kagi.com tonight was a bit depressing!

[new draft post] Only the state can house us https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/06/07/only-the-state-can-house-us/index.html

“The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to.” #HamiltonNolan https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/everyone-into-the-grinder ht @andrewducker

@marick kind of a rough tale!

@akkartik @llimllib thanks! since updates are what i'm obsessing over these days, i've added an update… https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/06/06/neonix/index.html

@Transportist worse. there’s no pod to escape from.

@TodePond @alex @akkartik @llimllib let's!

@caseyjennings i think tons and tons, the vast majority, near the top. but retained earnings are genuinely less "income" than realized payouts, as they remain under contestation within the firm. however, the "tax efficiency" of buybacks is a huge source of evasion, allowing for carefully timed and distributed tax-minimized payouts. we should ban the practice in part because it is efficient in precisely the way its proponents argue.