GhostOnTheHalfShell

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 day ago (edited 17 hours ago) to random

@economics@a.gup.pe

#SteveKeen #SteveKeenAndFriends

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, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

#aurora

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.

dlakelan, 1 day ago to random

Read a thread about hiring processes and corporations etc. It make me think about how incredibly much smaller the ideal company size is than the companies we work for today. Has anyone ever noticed how incredibly productive Anarchist groups of open source software developers are compared to... Google/Facebook/IBM/Microsoft/Whatever? Like, the Slashdot software was written by a couple of guys, Mastodon by a couple of guys, Git was created by Linus Torvalds and passed off to a few tens of people?

overholt, 1 day ago to random

This afternoon I hosted a visit from a group called The Pursuit of History, 30 folks spending the weekend immersed in Revolutionary history, and had a lovely time showing them collections from 1774 Boston. https://thepursuitofhistory.org/pursuit-of-history-weekends/rebellion-in-new-england-may-2024/

Three large cartoon prints satirizing events in Massachusetts, particularly the British reaction to the Boston Tea Party
A manuscript diary of events of 1774
A sample of calligraphy from a Boston writing school

buermann, 1 day ago to random

Israeli whistleblowers from the Sde Teiman concentration camp told CNN how Israeli doctors "amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot."

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd

ElleGray, 1 day ago to random

Wow he's going to be tired but good for him

LALegault, 1 day ago to random

Israel just shredded the UN 🇺🇳 charter at the United Nations and I am not sure if there is a visual more fitting for what that country has done to the world:

BenjaminHCCarr, 1 day ago to random

No one has seen the data behind #Tyson’s “climate friendly beef”
Tyson—one of “big four” #meatpackers—applied to #USDA, seeking a “climate friendly” label for its Brazen Beef. #BrazenBeef claims a “10% #greenhousegas reduction.”
“There are lots of misleading claims on food, but it’s hard to imagine a claim that’s more misleading than ‘climate friendly’ beef,” said #EWG
Millions of taxpayer dollars flow to #livestock companies raising "low carbon" #beef. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/no-one-has-seen-the-data-behind-tysons-climate-friendly-beef-claim/

molly0xfff, 1 day ago to fediverse

"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."

is this feeling... hope? https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/

#ActivityPub #Ghost #fediverse #OpenWeb

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 day ago to random

@economics@a.gup.pe

Das Geld Syndrom in a nutshell. There’s a reason why every major religion sanctions usury. It is wealth transfer from labor through business to creditors.

It’s money “destruction” in the sense of purchasing power destruction, the essence of inflation or debasing the currency. It has a lethal consequence of concentrating power.

The one measure that circumvents this decay is demurrage. Gesell formalized it in the concept of Freigeld.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ei07MySGKwk

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 1 day ago to climate

@economics@a.gup.pe

#climatechange #degrowth 😑 #economics

This is the face of degrowth by means of climate inaction. Degrowth is not a future, it’s already underway.

https://youtu.be/-wYOkjVtBY4

grimalkina, 2 days ago to random

"Randomized trials cannot address all causal questions of importance in medicine and health policy and may have limited generalizability; thus, investigators may need to use observational studies as a source of evidence to address causal questions. The challenge, then, is to balance the importance of addressing the causal questions for which observational studies are needed with caution regarding the reliance on strong assumptions to support causal conclusions."

A challenge of our time truly

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 days ago to climate

#climatechange

And this will happen over and over and over. The water management facility of the destroyed dam, for flood control, hydro, irrigation, municipal and industrial water supply is gone, as it is for each dam or flood control system destroyed. Their functions are no more. Dams dotted all over the world are unfit for purpose, built for a climate that no longer exists. They will fall when faced with extreme weather.

https://youtu.be/-wYOkjVtBY4

AnarchoNinaWrites, 2 days ago to random

So this is not to be critical of the people posting about it, I understand how they feel and I agree with them - but... the reason Trump openly soliciting a $1B bribe for his campaign landed in the public consciousness like a wet fart is because post Citizens United we all know this is how American politics actually works. Should it? Fuck no. But EVERYONE in charge loves it, so this is, once again, libs howling that Trump didn't play Simon Says right. And that's why nobody really cares.

cstross, 2 days ago to random

• Looks out window at: three bus stops, 2-5 pubs, a row of restaurants, and a busy shopping street at ground level *

Reader, those things were all there before I moved here. They're a big chunk of the reason WHY I moved here. 17 years ago …

scottsantens, 2 days ago to random

I make a point of posting and amplifying posts about the concept of unconditional basic income. I do this in the hope of inspiring others to do the same. UBI isn't the only change we need to make, but I do believe it's the single most important one. If you agree, please help amplify UBI posts.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 days ago to Economics

@economics@a.gup.pe #economics

So if a free market works to optimize stuff by maximizing efficiency, and people are perfectly clairvoyant utility maximizing beings people would have gone vegan in order to maximize agricultural output, defined as max caloric return for humans.

But instead the lion’s share of output goes to maximizing calories for cows, pigs and chickens. Despite the fact they can convert non edible (for people) organic matter into human calories.

jackofalltrades, 2 days ago to random

Digging into this paper by Sullivan and Hickel, and I am a bit distressed by the way authors misrepresent and distort their sources to fit their political narrative.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X22002169

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GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 days ago to Bulgaria

#eu #german

https://youtu.be/jqHHxiH6UEQ

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago) to climate

@economics@a.gup.pe @academicchatter

#climatechange #DownToEarth #economics

Remember folks, mainstream economists assert that 3C warming is OKEY-DOKEY. They also put universities on a commerce footing and lobbied for debt based higher education.

They also say they are a scientific discipline, because they believe that humans operate on a rational basis. Of course, they demonstrate highest evidence regarding that assertion & their rationale attainment. ;)

https://youtu.be/Vrw1HLI2kOY

GhostOnTheHalfShell, 2 days ago (edited 1 day ago) to climate

#climatechange #groundwater #agriculture #uspol

8 min

Before aught else, they must drink. It’s not like it will last. The midwest will stop only when they can’t draw water.

https://youtu.be/DdNtraY6HhQ

pluralistic, 5 days ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal "user agents"; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/07/treacherous-computing/

#Pluralistic

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