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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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GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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@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, to climate
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@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

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to climate
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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

scottsantens, to random
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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.

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@scottsantens

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

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.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Bulgaria
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#eu #german

https://youtu.be/jqHHxiH6UEQ

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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@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

MLNow, to random
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Sutro tower

https://missionlocal.org/2024/05/sutro-tower/

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@MLNow

A snippet of history regarding that tower. The people who wanted to build it simply started construction, ignoring the planning commission. Reception close to it is notoriously bad.

Also to do work near the transmission bits you need to wear a suit that is a mobile Faraday cage. Carrying keys could kill you, in the same way metal is bad around an MRI machine.

andrewstroehlein, to random
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Prominent British-Palestinian surgeon, Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah, was invited to speak in Berlin, Paris & The Hague.

He was asked to share his experiences treating patients in #Gaza.

But Germany denied him entry & imposed a Schengen-wide ban on him.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/10/germany-british-palestinian-doctor-denied-schengen-entry

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@andrewstroehlein

I would ask the German government why they are subordinating their laws to the ethno-religious nationalist interests of a foreign state power and criminalize protesting Jews.

Didn’t they learn about religious tolerance from the Reformation or that business about 100 years ago?

DrALJONES, to random
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"Hospital staff are being tortured & disappeared in Gaza"

“There’s over 200 cases of disappearances..of healthcare workers, many of whom we don’t know if they’re still alive or dead.

"We’ve taken testimonies from a number of healthcare workers … one of whom was captured for 62 days. He was talking of daily torture.

"Medical institutions [must say] it is completely unacceptable to be attacking, killing healthcare workers.”

23.30 GMT MAY 8 AJ updates

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@DrALJONES

We will remember Israel for this. Always.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to climate
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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

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@melanie Mostly, yes. It’s decline has been known for years.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Eka_FOOF_A @melanie

Much like most other environmental concerns.. 😑

realTuckFrumper, to random
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UN aid agency says Israelis set fire to its East Jerusalem headquarters https://www.axios.com/2024/05/09/israel-fire-palestinian-aid-refugee-jerusalem?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@realTuckFrumper

For these acts, remember Israel always.

LukeBornheimer, to random
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The California Coastal Commission rejected an appeal opposing the Great Highway Pilot (aka Great Highway Park) unanimously (9-0)!

This ruling allows the Pilot to continue, but doesn’t make @GreatHwyPark 24/7 or permanent. Help us do that by signing up at https://GreatHighwayPark.com.

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@LukeBornheimer @GreatHighwayPark

This looks lovely and a wonderful improvement. Still SF is particular risks to storm surge. The Embarcadero is a basket case.

gyozaPower, to random

@notjustbikes in my city in Spain (Oviedo), after years of doing the bare minimum, the city council is finally doing some more serious bike and pedestrian infrastructure. This one should connect some of the farthest neighbourhoods with the city center in what's essentially a straight line. Quite excited about this.

Oviedo's new bike infraestructure

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@notjustbikes @gyozaPower

Even in the US, some hopes too.

https://sfba.social/@LukeBornheimer/112414465063270844

pluralistic, to random
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Fun fact: "The Tragedy Of the Commons" is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people and moving it from collective ownership, "rescuing" it from the inevitable tragedy by putting it in the hands of a private owner, who will care for it properly, thanks to "rational self-interest":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@pluralistic Lovely article because it itches that scratch of global genocidal tech bros and the reason why neoclassicals endure. It’s all the money behind them.

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@Npars01 @pluralistic

Ironic in a world of spend thrift “move fast and break things” financialized goons.

Embracing neoclassical economics is a guaranteed test of incompetence.

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

Deficit spending, good, bad, or it depends? people seem to promote the idea that we can just deficit spend until the limit of inflation. This seems to me to be a wrong headed idea. On the one hand, it makes a huge difference what you spend on. Wars and subsidies for bad businesses vs housing, infrastructure, or quality scientific research for example. But the second point is that once you put money into the system it tends

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan

Gawd, I should have been forced to do it too. I would be far better off for it.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan

There’s so much work to be done at the local level. Financing all the small projects needed to meet housing demand, as StrongTowns describes. Funding non market housing. Adding municipal energy.

Ecological restoration and urban greening to adapt to extreme rainfall and other extreme weather mitigation. Food supply chain resilience, funding measures to ride out any global or national disruptions.

restoring libraries.

much more interesting than another luxury condo complex.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan or some asshat tech bro “future city”, which I read as a grift and despot wet dream.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan

One gripe of mine about economics, no surprise here, exceedingly loose in definitions. Absolute rubble of terms.

In grumpier moods I declare money as being that which has “this note is legal tender for all debts public and private” printed on it and every thing else is wealth. Some of it is liquid wealth, all those demand deposits (checking accounts etc) that are accepted as payment. A tangible currency is distinct from its digital from, in ways analogous to paper v e books.

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan People reason about money as the tangible kind largely.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@dlakelan

That might be changing, at least if municipalities want to solve their housing issues. Outfits like Urban3 have supplied the studies visualizing just what parts of a city makes money and which takes it. Looming financial insolvency in road maintenance is also sobering.

pluralistic, to random
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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/

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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@pluralistic

If the W3C is compromised, what do we resort to for internet standards? The only option left is to boycott bad decisions, tricky with large “technology is the alternative to politics” whales in control of the medium.

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