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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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StillIRise1963, to random
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"Kirk argued in the 1950s that if the American middle class — then under half of Americans — ever grew too large and well paid, then such access to “wealth” would produce a social disaster. His followers warned that under such circumstances minorities would forget their “place” in society, women would demand equality with men, and young people would no longer respect their elders.”

https://www.rawstory.com/mudsill-theory/

finestructure, to swift
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“With the increased limit of the acceptance queue, and a patched version of wrk, we can now conclude that swift is a good competitor speed-wise as a web application server.

Memory wise it blows all the other technologies away, using only 2.5% of the amount of memory that the java implementation needs, and 10% of node-js.”

https://tech.phlux.us/Juice-Sucking-Servers-Part-Trois/

emptywheel, to random
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Jack Smith Invites Aileen Cannon to Protect the Country Rather than Just Donald Trump

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/05/25/jack-smith-invites-aileen-cannon-to-protect-the-country-rather-than-just-donald-trump/

skinnylatte, to random
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Something I’ve learned, that I feel very strongly about:

All of us grew up believing myths about ourselves. ‘I am not creative,’ or ‘I am like this’. I am a person who doesn’t like cabbage, who loves coffee, I can’t draw to save my life, I can’t cook, I like dessert, or I don’t.

Allowing myself the space to explode some of the myths I’ve believed about myself has been the best thing ever. Who cares if I can’t draw? I’m drawing anyway.

heidilifeldman, to random
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Here’s an excellent article about important lawsuits just filed on behalf of Uvalde families who lost loved ones to a mass shooting there. The families, represented by the same attorney who represented the Sandy Hook families, are suing Daniel Defense, the maker of the AR-15 used by the shooter, as well as the publisher of Call of Duty video games and Meta. (I am quoted in the story.) https://wapo.st/3R1Y9LA

jbond, to random
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We finally found the Brexit Benefit. It's destroying the Tory Party.

GossiTheDog, to random
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"Nobody uses Mastodon"

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vagina_museum, to random
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This is a message from the Museum of Mankind. Look at these treasures from the Plastic Age. Can you even imagine living as a miserable Londoner in such barbaric times? In their crude way, these people did their best to amuse themselves, in any way possible.

stux, to random
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:nkoWave: Hello and a good meowing everyone! :blobcathearts: :ablobcatheartsqueeze: Have a most wonderful ! :ablobcatwobpatted:

transworld, to transgender
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Twitter/X censored the word “cisgender” more than any actual slur this week

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/05/twitter-x-censored-the-word-cisgender-more-than-any-actual-slur-this-week/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic%2Fgaycommunity

rbreich, to random
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The Common Good vs. Trumpism | The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmB_vV9K6oA&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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


Sat @9am PST

starts in 2hrs

Ann returns!

https://www.youtube.com/live/MNpVQvgzn30

chockenberry, to random
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I’m calling it now: the slop feedback loop is going to ruin the Internet.

Look at the second toot in this thread: Google’s AI Assistant got the gasoline recipe from AI generated content.

We’re playing the shittiest game of telephone ever.
https://mastodon.social/@JoeUchill/112493317168967705

VeroniqueB99, to random
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nixCraft, to random
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🦈 via https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Jk2b8uzDd/

dlakelan, to socialism
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So, every other subthread is someone talking this and that with very poor commonality of definitions. So here's one to try on for size:

Capitalism: a system of economics in which the state determines through threat of violence a special group of people who have exclusive say in how capital goods are used.

That covers for example both the USA, and USSR pretty well. any other capitalist countries we'd like to discuss?

Cirdan,
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@dlakelan @GhostOnTheHalfShell
Those are good questions. I think those questions are better left to a vote of the workers. But nobody knows what form each Commons Capitalism Entity (CCE) will take. The best we can do, today, is provide CCEs with the tools necessary to successfully answer those questions and implement the worker's requests.

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dlakelan,
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@Cirdan
Perhaps a GitHub for the document? Just a thought.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell

Cirdan,
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@dlakelan @GhostOnTheHalfShell
The breadth and depth of the US economy is just staggering. I'm trying to promote an economic system that can replace traditional capitalism. Even then, it would take 75-100 years.

joelving,
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@Cirdan @dlakelan @GhostOnTheHalfShell
If I may offer a thought, in Denmark, where I'm from, some coops are setup as associations of which every employee is automatically a member. No equity buy-in necessary.

Doesn't solve the fundraising issues, of course, but it makes some things easier.

ChrisMayLA6, to food
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Its difficult to assess what % of food (or food based energy) consumed is ultra processed, but here is a chart that aggregates a number of studies to suggest the range of % for a selection of countries.... & then when you know Big Food in the USA spends more on lobbying than the Tobacco industry (which is likely to be similar in UK)... it starts to make sense.

Link that to public health & we have some more context for the UK's health crisis.

More food regulation is needed now!

jeffowski, to random
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dlakelan, to random
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In this random comment on Gelman's blog I describe how @SaintPeter and I broke into the field of "industrial mathematics" LOL

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/05/23/gpt-today-jokes-and-buffons-needle-in-python-with-plotting/#comment-2372790

SaintPeter,
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@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dlakelan The great thing about pi is that even if you take half, you still have an infinite amount. 😉

br00t4c, to random
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We analysed 30 years of Australian media articles -- and unearthed some glaring gaps in the coverage

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/05/24/australian-media-focus-financial-well-being/

bhasic, to usa
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Funny and/or sad that some of these are over 100 years old, but are now more relevant than ever.
I have cleaned, straightened and cropped some of the pics.

@MikeDunnAuthor

bhasic,
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