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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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GottaLaff, to random
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Unbelievable.

Via Rupar:

46 House Republicans voted to defund NATO two days before the 80th anniversary of D-Day

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GottaLaff

I suspect Europe keenly feels just how deeply messed up a fascist US would be. Ultra right parties and EU elections are just as terrible. The wreckage they’d do.

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Remembering Alan Turing, died on 7 June 1954, victim of prejudice and ignorance 💔 He was a mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist and is widely considered to be the father of computer science and artiticial intelligence. He was also homosexual in a time when homosexuality was illegal. After his conviction he was given a choice between chemical castration and prison. He chose chemical castration, and later chose to kill himself. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@nixCraft

He also saved the lives of million of men with his work to break Enigma. Fucking British killed a war hero.

GrimmReality, (edited ) to random
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I realize it is less than meritocratic and doesn't carry any real weight in legislative power but it is kind of cool Marge Green has become the face of the Republican Party because literally no one in congress knows less about the world and how anything works, gets quite as infuriated at concepts she doesn't remotely understand, and vomits semi-verbal hate with the same random apoplectic fury at anyone for the merest slight, like, say, they got the parking spot she wanted at Hobby Lobby.

It's like they were working on a new mascot but had to keep going with the collateral designs so they just left a space marked "cartoon Dogpatch neo-Nazi Karen goes here" and then a flourish of music played and she strode right in from the wooded glade where a burning cross still flickered behind her.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GrimmReality

she’s a bull in a china shop, fo sure

evacide, to random
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Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows-recall-response-security-concerns

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@evacide

Em… uhhh, fuck them?

pvonhellermannn, to random
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“It was the worst aggression I’ve been subjected to during my work as a journalist,” Nir Hassoun, Haaretz’s reporter, said after he was beaten harshly by settlers during their annual provocative march in .

This picture alone.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@pvonhellermannn

The world will remember Israel for this. Always.

This is the face Israel is putting on an entire culture. It's disgusting.

BlackAzizAnansi, to random
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I'm mortified because my cousin just told me that I got him into South Park when he was a kid lol.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@BlackAzizAnansi Warp them when they are young and impressionable.

Your work is done here I see. :blobfoxdevil:

GottaLaff, to random
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Can’t get clearer than this:

Businessman Tells Jury He Bribed Senator With a Mercedes-Benz

Jose Uribe said he had provided the car to Senator Robert Menendez’s girlfriend in exchange for gaining his “power and influence.”

Gift: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/nyregion/jose-uribe-menendez-trial-bribery.html?unlocked_article_code=1.x00.D3mX.Aw1T2m8WTe-c&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@GottaLaff

I have this weird idea. If you get caught bribing a politician, you’re on the hook to bribe each constituent with the same value. That man owes a lot of people a bunch of money.

rbreich, to random

Conservatives say raising the minimum wage would drive up inflation.

But the federal minimum wage hasn't gone up since 2009.

Average CEO pay has gone up about 60% since 2009.

Who's pay is contributing to inflation?

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@economics@a.gup.pe @rbreich

this simply is not true. Empirical data demonstrates that a higher min wage increases profits. This is intuitively obvious because disposable income is business opportunity.

Beyond this, if I correctly understand Graziani comments, neither wages nor taxes impact companies’ (aggregate) profits. That said, it’s also obvious that competition between companies causes them to maim their own potential. In short, the math explains why.

🧵

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@economics@a.gup.pe @rbreich

I interpret this to suggest that employee ownership of a firm leads to far less dysfunctional behavior because owner incentives are categorically different.

Mrfunkedude, to random
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If you’re ever in California, and you’re not a resident, and you’re in a store where you’re experiencing an earthquake, don’t panic until you see someone 45 or over seeking shelter.

If you’ve lived in California long enough, you get a sense of how to know a “bad earthquake” from a “not so bad earthquake”.

Just basically do whatever the OG’s do and you’ll be safer.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Mrfunkedude

We’re you around for ‘89? That one (in the bay area) was fun.

First a little “meh it’s 3.x something” .. … … wait a minute this is still goOOOOH SHIT DIVE UNDER DESK. Lights go out in building.

Karoli, to random
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More like this please, Joe Biden.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Karoli :ablobgrin:

Orange Man DOWN

Nonilex, to earthquake
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Scientists have mapped one of the most hazardous spots on the globe in unprecedented detail: a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the coast.
Along this fraught stretch, called the , 2 pieces of the ’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude & generating a , w/waves as high as 40 feet.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/06/07/earthquake-tsunami-cascadia/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Nonilex Yes, that fault system doesn’t blow often but when it does it’s mag 8 or 9 ish

auschwitzmuseum, to random
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7 June 1933 | An Italian Jewish girl, Nedda Segrè, was born in Venice.

In February 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz. She was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@auschwitzmuseum

This is one of those days where my reaction is particularly visceral. Must be something about current affairs.

Nonilex, to Electricvehicles
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The admin toughened vehicle mileage standards, part of a strategy to transform the auto market to one led by to fight .

The measure requires to achieve a 65 mpg avg for all car models by 2031.

experts say retiring the is critical to staving off the most deadly & costly effects of .


https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/climate/biden-mileage-electric-vehicles.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Nonilex

I”d rather be free of car centricity. I wonder if it would be cheaper to focus on walkable cities than car standards.

The cheapest mitigation is the oil we never drill.

ExtinctionR, to random
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Do you know any of the names of the handful of people who control and profit from global food production?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-07/meet-the-mega-rich-families-controlling-the-us-food-system/103874576?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@ExtinctionR I know one of them

Cargill

Tyson maybe, but that might be brand only. Now let me check.

yup Cargill. The other names I mostly recognize, but think of Walton’s as retail only.

The face of Plutocracy. We live on their corporate manorial estates. We can thank M Friedman and Bork for ending a market economy, by eradicating hundreds of thousands of ranchers and farmers and certainly the markets they auction their food to. Now farmers and ranchers are serfs.

peterdrake, to drawing
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In the last year or two of learning to draw, I've accumulated a number of art books. Here are some particularly good ones for beginners.

Kistler, You Can Draw in 30 Days
Very friendly, exercises that don't take hours on end, and a concise list of drawing principles on pp. 2-3.

Dean, Animal Line Drawing
You can crank one of these out in a spare moment and it will look reasonable.

DeWilde, 30-Minute Drawing for Beginners
More short exercises and principles.

Howard, 101 Textures in Colored Pencil
This is more of a reference, but drawing these will get you in the habit of layering colored pencil to produce rich textures.

Bower, 101 Sketching Tips
A long list of clever tricks and observations for sketching from life.

The Sketch Encyclopedia
Some mediocre general advice followed by a HUGE catalog of things to sketch, each with four reasonable stages.

#MastoArt #drawing #sketching

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@peterdrake d

I would add Drawing on the Left Side of the Brain.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@economics@a.gup.pe

@ineteconomics

13 min

part 2 on their series on China and its leaders.

https://youtu.be/Qg7MEWXyMmo

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@economics@a.gup.pe @dlakelan

stat nerd love, right?

@nerd4cities

18 min

https://youtu.be/NJ4T_BHFgt0

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

#SteveKeen #SteveKeenAndFriends
#mmt
#Economic

Today 9am PST (in a little over 2 hours)

Should be interesting as Selgin is Mr Cato institute and also banks are intermediaries and when they are not it's the gubnit's fault (of course 🤪)

https://www.youtube.com/live/jbXcvv4_548

You can read the most stunning paper imaginable. :ablobwink:

https://www.cato.org/working-paper/banks-are-intermediaries-loanable-funds

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to religion
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#Teltale #religion #extremism #christianity

25 min

worth sampling to get an idea of another lunatic fringe group.

https://youtu.be/z3Isg8tL1gg

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Economics
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@economics@a.gup.pe

Jun 6

15 min

https://youtu.be/Uwwd3c3Ur-k

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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#PBS #climatechange #heat

7 min

of note, heat is one weather condition we can do most about to mitigate harm to the vulnerable

https://youtu.be/PqtmxmISDz4

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@Karuna don’t forget to offer an introduction! hashtag introduction

you can pin it in your profile if you have a mind.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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Are there still ways to view posts made to people on Twitter? I absolutely do not want to sign up, or even the site get a hold of any identifying info (public library internet access is good for that I suppose).

I'd like to track down a specific source posting to a specific person.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to ocean
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2 min

https://youtu.be/Lq2Ce2zTvDI

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