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GhostOnTheHalfShell

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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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textfiles, to random
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A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)

So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@textfiles

yay 😑

kdnyhan, to random
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Wow. A microbiology lab at Texas A&M accepted purchased raw milk samples from NPR for H5N1 testing, then contacted the milk producers to seek permission. When the producers said, "don't test our milk," the lab not only declined to carry out the tests but also refused to send the samples on to another lab.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@kdnyhan

I like how A&M warm over farm “families’” survival when people are being killed. What cult of human sacrifice do they worship in?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@kdnyhan So the labs have stolen NPR’s property.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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This is something I am deeply worried about too; throughout but again this morning, with Israel’s horrendous bombing of a refugee camp just days after ICC put out a warrant against Netanyahu, and again, so far, NOTHING from Biden and co:

that the liberal world order so obviously means nothing, is a sham; that “Might is Right” - always but now so completely clearly so. As Nesrine Malik says, this will have wider repercussions.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@pvonhellermannn European colonialism closing ranks.

alexanderhay, to technology
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[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the .

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

" later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@alexanderhay

No due process and full fascism.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@metaphase @alexanderhay

I know. Companies are hegemons and she is being racially profiled.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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Is there any way to filter following list to find someone?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@wendinoakland

I am in it right now, and don't see a search or filter widget. I use the site. I prefer to avoid apps.

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/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@StillIRise1963

fucking dirty sordid billionaires got their little cabal together to seize the means of government from a sovereign people. We should call it a coup.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=issmDdjBa5w

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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There’s an Italian(?) animated short involving mosquitoes living off a sleeping human, as an allegory for modern dependence on oil.

I don’t remember the name. Anyone?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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3 min

As the Dutch would say "mooi!"

https://youtu.be/r5EJCJbZ3qQ

PillarOfGarbage, to random
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New video premieres in 10 mins!

Across The Grifterverse
https://youtu.be/SnGpoFq9y5c

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@PillarOfGarbage

I’ve finally settled down to watch your piece. Ah another generation excavating the culture only to find it’s still the late 1700s..

ps there’s band potential there being sung in the ending credits.

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

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@AbandonedAmerica

https://youtu.be/Nw2j2-YSknU

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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:ablobwobble:

BREAKING: The Justice Department and 30 U.S. states have filed a sweeping lawsuit charging Live Nation-Ticketmaster with running illegal monopolies over ticketing and concert promotion. “It is time to break up Live Nation-Ticketmaster," Attorney General Merrick Garland said.

https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkxi2qL6xnM7cqagpcEAqODbeOdw9VB7J9Q

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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5 min

https://youtu.be/sBFhsGAFIaw

scottsantens, to random
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Universal basic income is society as a whole saying to every individual member of society, "I have faith in you. Show me what you can do."

Anyone who has ever accomplished anything has first had someone in some way demonstrate their faith in them and their potential.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@scottsantens

UBI is saying the people have the same right to financial security as only the lucky few have. Their wealth is used to destroy because they have far too much and nothing else to do with themselves except nurture their contempt.

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

An inflationary spiral based on expectations. It is a very different one from a deflationary one.

In the case of supply chain disruption (think floods and drought) it's a supply shock and at best businesses have to scramble to adapt (invest etc) to get around the problem. But hammering COL demand is perverse.

In all cases, messing around with interest rates is largely an exercise in futility.

🧵

https://youtu.be/eX4Sh1sq6HU?si=8NUW_83dz4sfUDtE

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

May 21

7 min

https://youtu.be/eknE5NjNMQg

🧵

notsle, to random
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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@notsle It’s pillage economics. You can’t even call it capitalism because whatever this is, thanks to mainstream thinking, wrecks economies far more efficiently than they said communism would. progress baby.

https://youtu.be/SSBsW3Qzqjs

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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IIRC, turbulence is another little hazard of a warmer climate. It might just reduce air flight.

https://youtu.be/uak-Zm4qhBk

FantasticalEconomics, to Economics
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We really need to rethink our capitalistic obsession of running things like a business. Cutting costs to increase profits obviously doesn't make sense in areas of education, healthcare, public utilities, and prisons, to name just a few.

Hell, Boeing is making a strong case that it doesn't even make sense for businesses to be run like a business, much less these public goods...

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@FantasticalEconomics

As if on cue, reports on McKinsey.

https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxtGW7g2zGEpNCebnsfO5qVCMrAk__3nzM

Julie, to ukteachers
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“I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation… Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.“

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html?via=rss_socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2el5hj2IJIZV8F8Hi-62KtCwuu2XTcElhuvuwa4yIXvglej21ZZbmbKVE_aem_ATF4R36NfLOkaspzyk_eDxbfTt9K0lpCFfs9yMgxC4L71c81MTUTb6tXPZD9XkEHLHvpabg17mjWVDTzLw-K1paj#lvwqz456tzz7ahrlip9

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Julie @jeffsussna

Readers are a lifesaver for some sites. They have pages of ads with information as an afterthought.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to history
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8 min

Human history in a nutshell.

If the Italians appear sanguine about history, it's because they've been there, and done that.

Nothing new, certainly since Cicero and well before.

https://youtu.be/ijcuXh-Lk9E

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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May 26

https://youtu.be/ErGHrlM56Xs

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