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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.

peterbrown, to random
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“Remarkably, food production doubled under the agrivoltaic system. And because water evaporation from the plants cooled the panels, the solar system itself generated 3% more electricity during the summer, showing how both food and solar production can perform better when done in collaboration”.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/12/solar-and-crop-production-research-shows-multi-solving-climate-benefits/

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@peterbrown

It’s kinda funny how powerful ecological systems are, symbiosis and all that.

Can we call this techno-permaculture?

leaverou, to random
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We’ve always told devs that browsers prioritize what to implement based on dev demand.

There is one exception: .

SVG is used on >65% of websites. Yet, browsers have been refusing to work on SVG, ignoring pressure and pain points from web devs.

showed SVG as the top content pain point: https://2023.stateofhtml.com/en-US/features/content/#content_pain_points

Tons of work (SVG 2, fill & stroke, and more) has sat unimplemented for years. At this point, in standards circles, we know not to touch SVG with a barge pole.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@leaverou why?

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

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

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.

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

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.

DrALJONES, to random
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Interviews

The first US faculty-led Gaza solidarity encampment

At The New School in NYC, nearly two dozen academics pitched tents inside the lobby of the university’s main building.

"For the state violence our students were subjected to & traumatized because of, we could not stand on the sidelines any longer.... We have to get all war profiteers out of our universities.”

~ Suneil Sanzgiri, lecturer

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/5/10/new_school_faculty

..

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@DrALJONES

Refinance higher education. Make them publicly funded again and tuitions payable on a minimum wage job.

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, to random
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@notjustbikes

Definitely cool factor..

An evolution of strandbeest

https://youtu.be/V3Lai0lZsWI

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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@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

Denise Hearn was a stellar guest and the exchange between her and Keen quite interesting!

https://www.youtube.com/live/jrquIAehcn0

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

Toothsome 1995 paper.

Finance and Economic Breakdown: Modeling Minsky's "Financial Instability Hypothesis"

Minus the math, which can be skipped over, for his discussion, the paper lays out the basics of modern economics wrt to economic cycles and labor v capitalist v creditor (banks) income.

It’s the basic model to reason about our economy and its state.

https://keenomics.s3.amazonaws.com/debtdeflation_media/papers/JPKE1995PageImage9509152794.pdf

also on JSTOR

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4538470

🧵

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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may 5

Raging weather on infinite loop.

Do I need a swimsuit or a houseboat?

3 min video

https://youtu.be/TQbO2_OLhy0

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

Blair Fix has a YouTube account!

https://mastodon.online/

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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5 min

https://youtu.be/sBFhsGAFIaw

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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3 min

As the Dutch would say "mooi!"

https://youtu.be/r5EJCJbZ3qQ

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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