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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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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

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?

alexanderhay, to technology
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[SLOWCLAP]

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

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

"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'.

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

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

#News #UK #SurveillanceCapitalism #Privacy #HumanRights

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@alexanderhay

No due process and full fascism.

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.

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

dugartogo, to random German
@dugartogo@dju.social avatar

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.

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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@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, (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, 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, (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, to random
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#askfedi #animatedMovies

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, (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, to random
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@notjustbikes

Definitely cool factor..

An evolution of strandbeest

https://youtu.be/V3Lai0lZsWI

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

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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3 min

As the Dutch would say "mooi!"

https://youtu.be/r5EJCJbZ3qQ

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, (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

thiesmarsen, to Israel German
@thiesmarsen@mastodon.social avatar

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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