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GuerillaOntologist

@GuerillaOntologist@social.coop

"Tell no lies. Expose lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties, mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories." ~Amilcar Cabral

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GuerillaOntologist, to drupal
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Discovered yesterday that Masto embeds do not work on our Drupal site -- as in they are not visible on the public facing page, although they appear fine in the back-end editor. Anybody here know what might be the issue? I embed other <iframe> stuff all the time and have never had this problem before. Any and all suggestions welcome.

GuerillaOntologist,
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@Archnemysis
Thx for responding. I had to check that out. The embed code IS in the source, just not rendering on the page. Pics below should illustrate the issue pretty well, I think.

embed properly rendering in back-end editor
embed code in back-end editor (in "source" mode)
embed not showing up on the public facing page

sam, to random
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Is there a word for "creator owned" co-ops where the ownership isn't held by employees, but isn't held by the consumer either? IE. what is social.coop? Does platform co-op cover it, or is there something more specific in wide use already?

I guess creator co-op is fine, I just don't know if it's actually in wide spread use.

GuerillaOntologist,
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@sam I guess I'd call social.coop a consumer co-op that runs a platform, in the same way that a food co-op is made up of customer-members (usually) and runs a brick and mortar store. Or it could be conceptualized as a "shared service co-op" with social media being the service. I'm still unconvinced that "platform co-op" is it's own category, like worker- or producer co-ops.

I've never heard anybody use "creator co-op," and to me that would probably just be another name for a producer co-op.

GuerillaOntologist,
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@sam I believe the name for that is "shared service co-op." For instance, a co-op whose purpose is to provide low cost accounting services for it's members. Basically, all the members of the co-op pitching in to buy a service they all need together, at a lower per-person price. Jim at GEO is very into this model of co-ops.

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@jonobie @sam
The types of co-op are only limited by our own imaginations! My mother, for instance, was part of a babysitting co-op when I was a kid that ran entirely on poker chips and strawberry daiquiris 😂

https://geo.coop/story/poker-chips-and-friendships-babysitting-co-op

GuerillaOntologist,
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@jonobie @sam Mom's the best.

sun, to random
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GuerillaOntologist,
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@sun Tell me you don't understand MMT without telling me you don't understand MMT.

GuerillaOntologist,
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@Hoss @sun
Lol. You don't understand it. I've got a degree in neoclassical econ and let me tell you, MMT is far superior as both a description of actual financial system behavior, and as a predictive theory. MMT is based on accounting identities and studying the way banks actually work. While I was taught banks simply intermediate between savers and borrowers, transferring $ from one to the other, that's not how banks actually work. Talk to a banker if you don't understand.

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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The Asia Times understands the US better than the New York Times does.

https://asiatimes.com/2024/05/cargo-cult-why-america-cannot-have-nice-things/

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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If you're surprised, you shouldn't be.

[Market-based schemes not reducing deforestation, poverty: Report]
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-based-schemes-deforestation-poverty.amp

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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Today's must read 👇

The Unlearning Of Empathy
https://indi.ca/the-unlearning-of-empathy/

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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This little guy is the epitome goaty-ness: non-chalantly standing on some unlikely perch and chewing on something that is definitely not food. 😍 🐐

ntnsndr, to random
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I feel bad for the person at church this morning with the "Capitalism For All" bumper sticker who had to sit there through Acts 4:32-35

"The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common."

GuerillaOntologist,
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@ntnsndr Sure, but everybody in that building actually lives their lives in essentially the same way materially right? In my experience, the communal lifestyle of the early church is rather far removed from the experience of most believers, whether they announce their politico-economic preferences on their car bumper or not. Practically, what difference does it make when everyone lives the same individualistic, materialistic lives? Are not all equally falling short of the example set in Acts 4?

cjd, to random
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🔥

GuerillaOntologist,
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@cjd @lucy
Reality would like a word.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2014/06/16/the-highest-paid-ceos-are-the-worst-performers-new-study-says/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shivaramrajgopal/2022/10/23/most-us-companies-pay-ceos-under-a-competitive-pay-policy-but-dont-confuse-it-for-pay-with-performance/

GuerillaOntologist,
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@cjd @lucy
Or maybe, just maybe, the CEOs are also large shareholders in their companies, thanks to modern compensation standards.

Boards keep voting to overpay CEOs because of Compensation Consulting firms, who they hire whenever they are looking for a new CEO. The CC firms tell them what the average compensation package is, and they - figuring that if you want above avg performance you need above avg pay - pay above avg. Thus the avg increases regardless of performance.

GuerillaOntologist,
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@cjd @lucy
Also you have your interlocking boards of directors, where CEO A sits on CEO B's board and vice versa and they both vote to pay each other more.

https://whorulesamerica.ucsc.edu/power/corporate_community.html

GuerillaOntologist,
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@cjd @lucy
An opinion informed by conversations with and writings by people with long experience on Wall Street, including being tasked with training corporate boards of directors, so...

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/new-study-debunks-myth-that-exorbitant-ceo-pay-results-from-talent.html

You have memes, I have studies. Forgive me if your ideology fails to persuade.

PaulGrahamRaven, to random
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TFW you're about an hour out from your final station on a 10-hour rail trip, and the train comes to a screeching halt, before the conductor announces that (I shit you not) there is something wrong with the train's fault-detection system

GuerillaOntologist,
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@PaulGrahamRaven
"There appears to be a fault in the sensor that detects faulty sensors."

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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@ntnsndr @CaitlinWaddick we meeting this morning? I'm waiting for the room host (Nathan).

Steve, to random

@ntnsndr , are you following Milei's misadventures in Argentina?

GuerillaOntologist,
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@ntnsndr @Steve
https://buenosairesherald.com/economics/government-deploys-slipshod-suspension-of-worker-cooperatives

luis_in_brief, to random
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I have talked to some very smart people who insist that their LLM "doesn't hallucinate" and 🤦🏽‍♂️
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/112180460903189659

GuerillaOntologist,
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@luis_in_brief I think you forgot the scare quotes around "very smart people" lol

mikemathia, to random
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GuerillaOntologist,
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@mikemathia Uh, no. That is obviously a Bell Pecker.

ntnsndr, (edited ) to random
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Umm—uhh—hmmm. Over at Farcaster, because of the Frames feature, communities are starting to make formal decisions inside social media posts: https://warpcast.com/vocdoni/0xd7cbee24

GuerillaOntologist,
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@ntnsndr Apart from my critiques of crypto in general, this example highlights a major problem for anyone interested in doing democracy on a public, permissionless blockchain: there's no good way to verify identities to prevent sock-puppeting, as this commenter points out. If you're only interested in 1 token = 1 vote (tokenocracy) then you don't need to care about how many wallets one person is voting with, but if you're a 1 person = 1 vote type then this is a big problem, seems to me.

GuerillaOntologist, to random
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TIL about the 9 Rs. They are:

Refuse
Rethink
Reduce
Reuse
Repair
Refurbish
Remanufacture
Recover
Recycle

GuerillaOntologist,
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@PaulGrahamRaven
It's in the air. I've always insisted that people needed to focus more on the first two of the traditional three Rs, and less on the last one (which is mainly a sop for the conscious of consumerist liberals imho), but I like these other Rs even better.

appassionato, to books
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Limitarianism The Case Against Extreme Wealth by Ingrid Robeyns

"A powerful case for limitarianism—the idea that we should set a maximum on how much resources one individual can appropriate. A must-read!"
—Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century
An original, bold, and convincing argument for a cap on wealth by the philosopher who coined the term "limitarianism."

@bookstodon



GuerillaOntologist,
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@appassionato @bookstodon
As my old econ prof John Photiades used to say, "Everyone talks about a minimum wage, but no one wants to talk about a maximum wage."

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