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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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gwynnion, to random
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Are these protesters "antisemitic," too? 🤔

https://apnews.com/video/israel-government-israel-hamas-war-israel-protests-and-demonstrations-benjamin-netanyahu-80fa94064ad4429ebb52531ad3ca12dc

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@gwynnion

By Israel’s standards? Yes. Netanyahu just isn’t in a position to jail them quite yet. It’s coming though.

RickiTarr, to random
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This 1947 Anti-Facist short is so simple and so effective, you realize how stupid all the arguments to the contrary are. You can say a lot in 2 minutes.

https://youtu.be/BCVK7LdI4ao?si=CUhuXZAfQEy6E9vY

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@RickiTarr

The whole enchilada

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

EU_Commission, to Bulgaria
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2023
warmest year on record

This year has now had six record breaking months.

November had, for the first time ever, two days with a global temperature 2ºC above
preindustrial levels.

These extreme temperatures confirm that 2023 will be the warmest year in recorded history.

It serves as a stark reminder that we need to work together to drastically reduce emissions.

This is why we're pushing for stronger climate ambition, finance, and global energy goals at

📷: @scottduncanwx

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@EU_Commission

I want to say the most important measures lack priority:

car free cities, permaculture, passive heating/cooling building design

car-free itself saves time, lives, money, energy and is economically vibrant. car centric design is financially insolvent. It is climate mitigation and adaptation. It costs far less than renewables and especially EVs. It the pathway for a sustainable future developing nations can embrace.

It should be a top priority but isn’t.

Jennifer, to random
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Holy shit. Thanks @pluralistic now I don't want to fly anymore 😱

Boeing's 787 "Dreamliner" is manufactured ... in a non-union shop in Charleston, South Carolina. At that shop, there is a cage full of defective parts that have been pulled from production because they are not airworthy.

Hundreds of parts from that Material Review Segregation Area (MRSA) were secretly pulled from that cage and installed on aircraft that are currently flying the world's skies.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/01/boeing-boeing/#mrsa

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Jennifer @pluralistic

Ah this is a return to traditional US manufacturing. In the good old days (1980s) when my father worked in the valley for a big, three letter company starting with G and ending with E, received parts from Fairchild or other component manufacturers, they’d test them all in a large on site facility.

Why? Because in those days, it was standard practice to mix 10% known failed parts into any shipment.

dugartogo, to random German
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Es gibt kein Problem, bei dem das Fahrrad 🚲 kein Teil der Lösung ist, Teil 428:

@fraunhofersit hat den Ursprung von in Deutschland untersucht.
Verpackungen? Joa
Kunstrasen? Auch

Mit Abstand größter Verursacher: Abrieb von Autoreifen.
via @CelloMomOnCars

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dugartogo @fraunhofersit @CelloMomOnCars

There’s so many reasons for car free cities. It saves time, lives, money, energy and the climate. The starting point? Change your city’s zoning laws.

shoq, (edited ) to random
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Product design poll - please share.

When you write or otherwise work at your desktop computer for any length of time, are you prone to experiencing back or neck pain bad enough that you’d consider a $100+ apparatus that minimizes or eliminates the pain, even when used continously throughout the day?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@shoq

I hate to admit it, but mom is right. Sit up straight.

But take breaks every hour.

ChrisMayLA6, to Economics
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As The Guardian points out:

'mainstream economics is proving incapable of giving sensible answers to important questions', but the problem is that Rachel Reeves remains in its thrall rather than listening to dissenting voices.

Until our policy makers realise what works in 'econoworld' seldom works like that in the real world, they'll try to re-organise the world to look like economists think it should look, rather that find an economics for the real world!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/28/the-guardian-view-on-rethinking-economics-a-discipline-in-disarray-holds-too-much-sway-in-the-uk

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@ChrisMayLA6

I am hoping AppliedMMT (people who use MMT to forecast markets several months out) works so well that investors adopt its use.

The best revenge is living well… also making money tends to get people’s attention.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to Economics
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@academicchatter

"A fundamental requirement for realistic economics is to abandon the 19th century (in)convenience of assuming equilibrium, and to instead model the economy as a dynamic (and evolving) system. This raises the question of how to treat time itself, and the appalling pun in the title of this chapter highlights the fact that economic modellers in general, ... have habitually treated time as a discrete rather than a continuous ..."

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/im-not-discreet-and-neither-is-time-bcb

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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Walter Koenig on playing Alfred Bester on "Babylon 5" - TelevisionAcademy.com/Interviews

7 min video

https://youtu.be/t2GVL3TdMXs

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to random
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Nordhaus is an economist who wrote papers in the 80s to trivialize the consequence of climate change. He is allied with other individuals that worked to spread corporate disinformation on tobacco, asbestos, CFCs and acid rain. His papers provided policy legitimatization to ignore climate change. Koch is more widely known for his own activities and has sponsored science denial. The result is climate crisis.

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

Adding prices into macro. Why do I have the sense neoclassicals are in for even more pain? :ablobcatpopcorn:

"The original Neoclassical (and Austrian) explanation for inflation is that it is caused by "too much money chasing too few goods", with government money creation being the culprit, .."

— if you want to support work like this, drop by his substack for the whole chapter (open access) and/or toss a coin his way.
🧵
https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/what-about-prices

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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jun 7

The Master Race Melts Down | When Paint Is Kryptonite for the Übermench

7 min video

Adam picked apart the history behind the right wing death threats to a classical historian (events in 2017)

I wanted to toss a few comments in

https://youtu.be/RjTp-frmEJQ



GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Christianity
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Aug 13

Church and State | Texas's immigration policy and Church Crisis

https://youtu.be/5Bo6rFjpIt4

7 min video

Church leaders find out what happens to religion in the service of a political party.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to ai
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Sept 14

Singularity And You | ChatGPT and digital existence.

10 min video

What’s worse beyond all the crap journaled on Mastodon about chatGPT and the abuse platforms engage in, is the BBC reports an explosion of AI generated disinformation youtube posts that threaten to drown out accurate channels. I expect these are being promoted by paying YT.

I want to emphasize, people need to be the algorithm.

https://youtu.be/xQir829fD80

#x

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to random
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People remember that Google isn't caching content anymore?

Here's at least one victim maybe? (It looks like mnstate repurposed their web server, deleting this priceless cultural work)

https://web.mnstate.edu/alm/humor/ThePlan.htm

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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oct 14

13 min video

climate change is more than the sum of its extreme weather parts. Sure enough the FT publishes an article reports on the parts (link in video comments. Note that its paywalled)

https://youtu.be/pCcdsmqpnhI

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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-- edit added @academicchatter

Streaming the 25th. Mark your calendars. Book mark and boost, if you might. All of academia needs to know what kind of deadly dross neoclassical economics is legitimatizing.

https://www.youtube.com/live/CmD79GNVPNs

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

"Before I show why he fails, I want to clarify what it means to say that banks create money “out of nothing” (Schumpeter 1934, p. 73). It definitely does not mean that banks create money via magic. What it means instead is that there is no other account from which a bank loan is financed, whereas there is such an account for a non-bank loan."

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https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/selgins-hot-air-on-bank-money-creation

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to random
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In all this amazing display of the Earth’s magnetosphere, remember it’s deflecting the relentless cascade of deadly solar and cosmic radiation washing the Earth every day and hour, and turning it into wonder. It’s a precious cloak of protection against a harsh universe, unique in our solar system, securing our atmosphere. Irreplaceable.

Take time to appreciate that.

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

The stream returns today, as Prof Keen emerges from the release of Ravel with a revamped look and a new and marvelous host, Dave Foulkes.

stream starts @9 am PST, be there or be square.

An amazingly rough start to the show. Kathleen’s internet struggled and the lag made conversation a challenge.

https://www.youtube.com/live/j1Ql3AgXwMg

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.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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April 28

14 min

When incentive structures are unfit for purpose.

https://youtu.be/6Sq2yft87sE

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

@scottsantens

I want to suggest an umbrella concept:

Universal Basic Sustenance

Where communities the world over rework themselves away from "comparative advantage" and mainstream economic development and focus instead on securing their food, water, energy and housing locally.

https://masto.ai/@GhostOnTheHalfShell/112368322178670035

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

"When the Swedish Central Bank awarded its fake "Nobel" in Economics (Offer and Söderberg 2016) to Ben Bernanke, for a model of banking in which bank loans don't create money, the so-called "Scientific Background" paper for his Prize did not even cite the Bank of England's contrary declaration about bank lending (Committee for the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2022)."

🧵

https://profstevekeen.substack.com/p/puncturing-the-hubris-of-economics

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@economics@a.gup.pe

@blair_fix

"The conservative project of the past 40 years has been to reverse this: to return the great majority of us to the status of desperate, forelock-tugging plebs who know our places. Hence the return of child labor, the tradwife movement, and of course the attacks on labor unions and voting rights.."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/27/for-the-little-people/#alden-capital

thiesmarsen, to Israel German
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Wie immer sehr empfehlenswert: Erica Zingers Kolumne auf @tazgetroete - diesmal über die antisemitischen Demonstrationen an der Columbia University. Tröstet ein bisserl hinweg, über das, was man in der taz sonst zum Thema manchmal lesen muss…

https://www.taz.de/!6004718

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@thiesmarsen @tazgetroete

Oh no, the flag of a nation is being rubbished because of the genocidal behavior of its government. I am old enough to remember the US flag being burnt by students in protest of Vietnam, or by Iranian students in protest of the Shah. US students, citizens were furious.

Israel is not the Jewish community and rebuke of its conduct is not antisemitism.

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