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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai

opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.

Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.

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paninid, to random
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You can screw over customers, you can screw over employees, you can screw over vendors, you can fuck over the environment, you can flout the law.

But, fuck over and , and you will find out real quick.

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-autopilot-probe-us-prosecutors-focus-securities-wire-fraud-2024-05-08/

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@paninid

Feels a tad late.

Musk’s list of lies is long enough to reach the sun. Stacked flat.

JamesGleick, to random
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Sixty-year-old married man has his assistant ask a 27-year-old woman to his suite for dinner.

He greets her in his pajamas. She makes him put clothes on.

When she uses the bathroom, he surprises her in his underwear.

He tries to seduce her by saying she reminds him of his DAUGHTER.

Republicans! Party of “family values”! Here is your leader.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@JamesGleick

godless god forsaken animal. ™️

Just call conservatives anti-christians.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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@economics@a.gup.pe

Send the bill to Nordhaus and Charles Koch.

Deloitte has underestimated the risk. The global economy is already headed for extinction. It’s not fit to handle an extreme weather world. Climate change is not a future.

15 min

https://youtu.be/FoUSpLHwowQ

rbreich, to random
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Ron DeSantis signed a law that prevents municipalities in Florida from requiring that employers provide shade and water breaks for outdoor workers.

A study found that heat-related deaths in FL shot up by 88% between 2019 and 2022.

Folks, this is the GOP's vision for America.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@rbreich

Death is their Eucharist.

mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@mcc

Gee it would be too bad if users started posting chat gpt garbage on the site and upvoting it,

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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The triangular relationship between workers, employers & the Labour Party is getting more fraught as power looms in the mid-distance...

Business want to influence Labour not to 'over' regulate their business, unions want to ensure their members (and other workers) have rights restored & extended.... and the Labour Party, what does it want?

Well, in the age of declining mass-membership, it needs wealthy donors; the unions can wield their contributions but may be outgunned by business interests?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@ChrisMayLA6

Classic money vs number game then?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Economics
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This is what I think is a basic question. When a bank sells a home loan it's selling the total value of the loan, which is principal and expected total interest paid minus payments so far, right?

In other words, the sale value is close to

Value = Principal

  • TotalOverLifeOfLoan
  • PaymentsMadeSoFar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Mac

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@video_manager

don’t get me started on the most torturous nomenclature known to man, and just as bad as git or aspect programing.

IRRC opportunity cost is an equivalent concept and captures gains or losses forgone of other options over a current choice. That term comes from operations research.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@systemalias @video_manager

burn oil! :blobfoxdevil:

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"Mining, big agribusiness, and the fossil fuel sectors have unleashed an astronomical spate of attacks on human rights defenders (HRDs) throughout 2023. Crucially, perpetrators linked to companies and projects in these sectors account for the majority of over 600 attacks across the course of the year.

This is according to a new damning report by the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre (BHRRC)."

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2024/05/07/human-rights-defenders-attacks-2023/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@gerrymcgovern

Climate denial is a murder project

FantasticalEconomics, to random
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"AI Ethics Surpass Human Judgment in New Moral Turing Test"

With everything going on, this does not shock me. Human judgement seems like a pretty low bar right now...

https://scitechdaily.com/ai-ethics-surpass-human-judgment-in-new-moral-turing-test/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@FantasticalEconomics my very first reaction is, how is that title justified?

What is the criteria for better?

Read and bookmark. Return to it when claims like that are made.

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@FantasticalEconomics

Start here. 3Blue1Brown is one of the best math communicators out there. It’s 30 min well spent and will erase any idea of “reasoning”. The article on LLM’s and cons completes the circuit, by circling back to how human reaction to the stuff.

https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M

ChrisMayLA6, to politics
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I think Robert Shrimsley (FT) is right, for the Right of the Tory party, rather than now seek a leadership election, they have a job for Rishi Sunak - be the fall guy, so after the election, they can say (even though this makes no sense to anyone but themselves), that it was Rishi being too timid in his moves rightwards that lost them the election....

Indeed, after the election fantasy/deluded politics will be the game of choice for the Tories... which might turn very dangerous

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@ChrisMayLA6

I so wish the best for Count Binface, while the crazy looney party vies for Most Insane Ideas Ever awards and remain envious that we, across the pond, in the Colonies ™️ have yet to master the level of self satire found in the UK.

byteseu, to worldnews
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Elon Musk’s Bizarre Political Outbursts Have Turned Off Tesla’s Core Buyers, Data Shows https://www.byteseu.com/91055/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@byteseu

🔥 :ablobcatpopcorn: Genius

randahl, to random
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Sometimes I wish just one Republican state would leave the US to found it's own country.

Just one, which could try out all the book burning, closed borders, fewer women's rights, religios politics, non-scientific medicine — so everyone could really see, what that leads to.

For years, politicians in Europe blamed everything on the EU, but I can assure you, when Britain left our union and became a country with considerable challenges, it crushed the EU blame game in many countries.

European Union Uk GIF by 423 Motion, Inc.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@_L1vY_

Why I support PR. It largely nullifies the value of Gerrymandering.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@_L1vY_

proportional representation

in contrast to first past the post (fptp)

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to Economics
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@economics@a.gup.pe

File this under the heading economics is not even a dismal science, because mainstream economics isn’t even science. Economics could actually be a rigorous discipline, if orthodoxy can be kicked out.

“ In contrast to its attitude to private debt, which it ignores, mainstream economics obsesses about government debt. But this volte-face doesn't besmirch its record of being 100% wrong.”

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/its-a-mixed-credit-fiat-world-e3f

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@economics@a.gup.pe

I have to wonder about standard political talking points.

Dems crow of their budget cutting prowess to explain why the economy does better under them while hissing at Republican’s raising the deficit as an explanation of why the economy does less well. But MMT explains the opposite and I have to ponder that the reason is there’s a lag of a couple years.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@video_manager @economics@a.gup.pe

The point of my comment is Bill Clinton crowed he balanced the budget. He famously cut spending. Reagan simply expanded the deficit to fund SDI, even now and under Trump gov spending is lavished on defense.

🧵

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@video_manager @economics

But the deficit is private wealth. Cutting taxes simply cuts down on money destruction of taxes.

In finishing out Keen’s latest post, I observe he references Coolidge and the dynamics that lead to the Great Depression and also the Panic of 1837 (there was also a long Depression of 1873). For the 20s the interplay of private and public debt lead the roaring 20s but set the stage for the Great Depression.

These dynamics do take time to evolve.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@video_manager @economics@a.gup.pe TBH I don't see what your remark is addressing. Dems claim fiscal responsibility by slashing the deficit and ancheiving balanced budget. My observation is that 1) that claim as virtue is mainstream thinking 2) the GOP is blamed for larger deficits which are aided by expanding military spending 3) taxes delete debt money and credit. The budget and debt grows in size. The talking points ate cute but ass

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@video_manager @economics@a.gup.pe

So I finally get where the disconnect is here. The main point Keen makes is balancing the budget and cutting deficit can push macro dynamics into crisis state. It’s where the ratio of credit v GDP plummets.

The velocity IRRC signals financial crisis.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@benroyce @video_manager @economics@a.gup.pe

Political talking point aside.

Unfortunately lost in this exchange: crowing about cutting the deficit is wrong headed. Slashing the deficit and balancing the budget, which Coolidge was so proud of in the 20s, set the stage for the Great Depression. Dems bragging about nosing deficits down is no virtue. MMT is far more nuanced about public and private credit and debt.

Both parties cling to mainstream thinking which is deadly.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@benroyce @video_manager @economics@a.gup.pe

Prolly better to ignore economy and work on the moral sentiment of Trump as evil.

Directly challenge the myth and call him Satan’s servant. Call his infidelity Sin. Call his worship of money and lack of empathy Evil. Change the dialogue to them proving that he isn’t.

Go on the moral attack and make defend themselves .

Biden is more a man of faith than Trump will ever be.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@benroyce @video_manager @economics@a.gup.pe

Walk into room of GOP and take a page, rage about Reagan blowing up the deficit (even though it’s stimulative) and RAGE about him gushing money on SDI. Most won’t know what it was these days. Howl that it destroyed the economy. Rage that he destroyed high paying American jobs (FAA) and he caused college tuitions to explode, so fat ass bureaucrats could collect fat salaries (mostly true). Then demand that they explain why they support it.

AbandonedAmerica, (edited ) to random
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The newest of my Decay Theory articles just went live on Atlas Obscura! In it, we explore the struggling town of Gary, Indiana to determine how a once-thriving city winds up with over 7,000 abandoned buildings. It's an important story, not just for Gary residents, but for many American towns facing similar issues.

Let me know what you think, I'd love to hear your thoughts!
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/abandoned-america-gary-indiana

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@AbandonedAmerica

Down town was grim, though. Boarded up businesses everywhere.

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