The vast majority of bosses have issue Return To Office mandates, but large groups of workers have ignored them, without incurring any consequences. This will have similar effects on employer authority to the attempt by the Catholic Church to prohibit contraception. https://fortune.com/2024/01/13/managers-scapegoating-workers-return-to-office/
I have a hard time taking seriously people who warn me that the next US presidential election will decide between democracy and fascism and then spend most of their time yelling at anonymous strangers online about not voting.
Why are you not desperately trying to get out the vote in swing states? Or stockpiling ammo and batteries for your insurrectionary cell?
@timthelion@HeavenlyPossum True, but doesn't change much. Once a fascist party is one of the main contenders for power, democracy is in abeyance. The only way back to democracy is for the democrats to beat the fascists
Similarly, how about self-employed professionals (architects, accountants etc) working from homes they own outright? I don't think you can dismiss them as rounding error
The current Israeli government is on a par with those of Milosevich and Putin. Its members should be in the dock at the Hague, not receiving US aid, and Australian support. (We have already declared Hamas a terrorist organisation, so no need for whataboutism here).
Doctor Who is, at its heart, for children, not adults who check in with every new Doctor in the hope of getting sucked in the way they did with some previous iteration. So yeah this is another one I’ll be passing on bc I find it unbearably cringey but I’m glad other ppl love it
There was a conscious switch back to a child-oriented show with Jodie Whittaker, and I gave up. But before that the revival was fine for people who’d grown up with the show, like me and tuned out after Tom Baker.
@kcarruthers Europe can defend itself, now that Russia's massive stockpiles of just about everything (including fighting age men) have been thoroughly depleted. They will need to spend money and abandon national military autonomy
I was going to write this but David French in the NY Times beat me to it
We’re misinformed not because the government or the [#Murdoch media -JQ] is systematically lying or suppressing the truth. We’re misinformed because we like the misinformation we receive and are eager for more.
The only way to fix the "cost of living" problem is for wages to rise to catch up with past inflation. Anything else is fiddling at the edges. #econtwitter
Alleged discovery of guns and grenades in #Gaza hospital has strong "mobile $Iraqi weapons lab" vibes to me. If Hamas were going to use a hospital as cover for a terrorist base, I'd have thought there would be something more substantial than half a dozen rifles
Looking for: complex systems that defy model reduction.
The behavior of a complex system is hard to predict from its parts alone because it follows from how the parts interact.
Model reduction is a way to capture the behavior of a complex system more simply (eg to capture the magnetism of 1g of Fe2O3, you don't have to model all 1022 molecules and their interactions). My sense is that model reduction works best when you have many repeated copies.
I'm looking for some good (ideally concrete) examples of complex systems that defy model reduction. I anticipate that they will be made of heterogeneous parts.
@NicoleCRust
This is a central issue in economics. Can the macroeconomy be modelled on the basis of individual behavior (microfoundations). Jury is still out.
