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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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GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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8 min

If you don’t like cities, live in the country. :)

https://youtu.be/LQCvIRfRgX0

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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6 min
Poisoned ground water
https://youtu.be/8PJsnfMEXZ4

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to TikTok
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10 min

Many nations have problems with TikTok’s data harvesting.

https://youtu.be/kSyAzBa9tpU

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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4 min

https://youtu.be/4mEuE-XiHj4

davidzipper, to cars
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In Vox, I explained how federal policy encourages car bloat, making American vehicles more enormous, polluting, and dangerous than they'd otherwise be.

That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/24139147/suvs-trucks-popularity-federal-policy-pollution

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@davidzipper Federal policy should never encourage bloat instead encourage car-free.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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If we eject all the billionaires into geo sync orbit as solar shields, I think we could cool the earth.

verdantsquare, to news
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Cartoon: Understanding homeless problems https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/28/2237205/-Cartoon-Understanding-homeless-problems?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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@verdantsquare

Housing First was first tried in the US as a pilot great success. European nations tried it. Finland did and adopted it. Homeless has all but vanished. It costs less than chronically homeless through the criminal system. It cuts down on drug use, because a stable environment removes the mental anguish.

In any political debate, Housing First is the cheapest AND most effective system. It is the MOST moral and ethical system.

vagina_museum, to random
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The Vagina Museum does not charge admission. As museums, we are presented with the choice between ensuring there are no financial barriers between a visitor and our exhibitions, and generating more income. We choose the former.

[Ironically paywalled article] Can Britain’s museums remain free for much longer? | Times Culture https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-museums-free-entry-charge-tickets-w5jppmrh3

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@vagina_museum Museums could, it’s called kick f*king conservatives out of office and restore a kind, more moral and ethical society, as well as a financially stable one.

veronica, to ai
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A quick reminder that humans have not yet invented AI. It's an imitation puffed up by marketing. They've dressed up a parrot as Agent Smith.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@RGBes @veronica

The parrot was generate by Stable Diffusion. It is a picture of one nailed to its perch in a cage.

Daojoan, to random
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Don’t forget to like and subscribe for more tutorials like this and thanks to our sponsor squarespace

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Daojoan Sounds like somebody got a video recommendation..

blair_fix, to random
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An essay from Branko Milanovic that is shockingly hospitable to degrowth.

https://branko2f7.substack.com/p/abundance-capitalism-and-climate

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@blair_fix

What makes it shocking? I don’t know him so I feel like I lack context.

“ Degrowth advocates therefore might have a valid point when they argue for an end to capitalism if they believe that climate change can be stopped only if society is stationary. Stationary society, end of capitalism, and abundance are logically consistent.”

Also this way of thinking about things is looks at change only through the lens of consumerism.

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@blair_fix

In particular, I think cleaving off capitalism’s territorial claims on market economies is absolutely necessary. They should have no claim to it, especially because it is so adept at destroying market conditions (Marx nailed it rightly).

Of the things that can be said of today’s world, its greatest absurdity’s surely came from the mainstream crusade to commercialize everything. That privatized, deregulated, consolidated war zone they insist is Heaven on Earth.

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@blair_fix

A world of bakers and cobblers is not the the problem but all of the products made at volume is. Consider also the host of non market entities, like coops, that work fine in a market. They exist for the well-being of its members and not to make profits for stockholders.

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@blair_fix

I’ll be posting a video that kind of glides through these points; I think what we’d call degrowth is also and largely a choice for an alternate economic story than one told by modern economies and the financial and investment imperatives they creative from them.

UN funding of climate mitigating for poor nations is an example of a modernity dominating the projects.
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@blair_fix

Solar and windmills, instead of permaculture+ecological restoration. I’d rather see the basic necessities degrown first. People and towns everywhere be able to cover food, water, energy and housing with local resources only as much as possible. This is de growth and then we can talk about a much more irrelevant global and national supply chain.

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

#StrongTowns #ushistory #housing #uspol #economy

20 min

History is useful.

Useful history on US housing and economy from the great depression since to today’s deeply messed up housing and economic structure. Also the US housing market can be fixed through local measures. Cities have taken the first step to loosen zoning laws; financing remains a challenge.

https://youtu.be/OtJD45cTV9c

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@dlakelan @economics@a.gup.pe

Chuck is a civil engineer. StrongTowns helps organize for car free transition. Good outfit.

And I grew up in suburbia. I wish the trend was reversed 50 years ago.

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

#MorePerfectUnion #economy #uspol

13 min

stock market of whales. Why does this stuff sounds an awful like seigniorage. Equivalent of a bank using its own loan to buy shares.

All that money to buy politicians..

https://youtu.be/LjNTa93fqkY

dougiec3, to Ethics
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“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act,’”
The trouble SCOTUS is having with this is that many of them are Joe Biden's political opponents.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/april-25-2024?r=63j6s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dougiec3

I will be grim and grumble, really? After everything the Koch network has been working up to for 50 years?

ifnotnowboston, to boston
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TONIGHT at 8. Our Jewish community stands with Northeastern students who are bravely putting their bodies on the line in the fight for Palestinian freedom. Join us in a Havdalah ritual as we transition from Shabbat into a new week of fighting for liberation for all people. All are welcome! #Boston

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@ifnotnowboston

At some point, march on the German or Israeli consulate and nail 95 thesis demands to the wall, that protesting Jews are not anti semites and a state doesn’t have a right to deny a people their free expression to despite the behavior of a state.

fkamiah17, to random
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WEEK 30: Just a member of staff at Indiana university escorting two snipers to the roof of an administration building.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@fkamiah17

Chat them up..

“So do you prefer looking into their eyes or capping them from behind?”

cjm, to random
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Quite an amazing write up

“The tax sharks are back and they're coming for your home”

From: @pluralistic
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112343512019200206

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@cjm @pluralistic

Pillage capitalism. Everything strip mined.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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The vast international cabal trying to rule the world are checks notes billionaires, and checks notes they were forced to.

"[B]oth the U.S. and Soviet governments are controlled by the same furtive conspiratorial cabal of internationalists, greedy bankers, and corrupt politicians. If left unexposed, the traitors inside the U.S. government would betray the country's sovereignty to the United Nations for a collectivist New World Order, managed by a 'one-world socialist government'."

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@engarneering

He’s was definitely traumatized, but lord did it mess her up bad.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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Wow, reading all these letters by NYU faculty to the office of the president is quite something. Do read them all. Highlighting one by History Professor Steven Hahn, as it encapsulates everything (in one screenshot).

https://facultyforpalestine.education/statements/faculty-letters-to-the-office-of-the-president-and-the-office-of-the-provost/

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@pvonhellermannn The shit is rhyming hard now.

That the hard right will flip Jewish identity into an extremist rightwing identity is migraine inducing;.

gerrymcgovern, to random
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"The capitalist world system will likely confront unprecedented “polycrisis” events by the early 2030s – referring to mutually amplifying shocks across the domains of political economy, climate, energy, food, and geopolitics. If left-green movements remain weak in this conjuncture, then dominant responses like today will continue to prioritise short-termist energy and food security strategies that perpetuate ecologically damaging practices."

https://theecologist.org/2024/apr/25/polycrisis-ecosocialism

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@systemalias About the time people everywhere have changed their local laws for car free and other measures as resilience to economic shocks climate is imposing and will impose with increasing ferocity.

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