it would be better if, when people advocate for a right, they explicitly describe the obligation on the part of others that would be its dual.
health care is a right, i say. it’s dual is not that doctors are slaves obligated to provide health care for free, but that states are obligated to fund doctors and other providers to ensure health care for all.
every meaningful rights assertion carries as its dual some other party’s obligation.
The main injustice the government perpetrated in its response to the Great Financial Crisis amounted to no more than basically suspending "margin calls" on some "systematically important" financial institutions — allowing them effectively an indefinite credit line — while continuing to enforce limits on households and other institutions.
@Alon i don’t think that’s informative. USians don’t have positive views of a cause they associate with Islamist terrorism. the issue isn’t Americans supporting the Palestinian national project or God forbid Hamas. of course we support Israel more. but we don’t support bombing trapped civilians or starving children, even for a cause we’d otherwise feel warmly towards. we increasingly resent becoming at best “complicit” in the moral catastrophe Israel has allowed itself to become.
the practice many browsers have adopted of truncating URLs in the address bar to the hostname is emblematic of the decline and commercially driven infantilization of the web.
understanding URLs — their roles and the ways and whys of how they are constructed — was an elementary skill of the original view-source web.
hiding complete URLs encourages people to become ignorant consumers of mysterious information services, rather than informed participants in a public forum.
@drahardja how do novice users become advanced users? that’s the issue. the web at its start was explicitly designed to invite even casual users to learn and explore. newer practices hide every next step. you either choose to “become a web developer” or you stay at the surface.
that’s bad, ethically. the original ethos, rendering transparent the tools needed to incrementally grow into knowledge and creative capacity was good. 1/
@drahardja if you want, like firefox, to highlight the hostname for novice users, great. but if novices can only learn more by going into conplicated browser settings, you’ve created a cliff. 2/
@drahardja you can’t “empower” users. as soon as you say that, you’ve lied to yourself. users can only empower themselves. the commodity they are increasingly depleted of is agency. you can tell them more or less clearly security related information. that’s fine, and more clearly is better. but if you want an ethical web, made of participants and citizens rather than users and consumers, then you want an infrastructure that instructs and unfurls as people spend time. /fin
@drahardja how do you find it? how do you even know to look? where?
perhaps you think my phrasing was descriptively “infantilizing”, but i am obviously not infantilizing people in the sense of placing them in a position where they are left largely at the mercy of more powerful or knowledgeable actors, the sense i mean, the sense that so much contemporary software excels at.
@drahardja the reason to show URLs is not so people can examine them for scams.
the reason to show URLs is so people can know what a URL is, what it means to be at a location on the web, can see and maybe begin to think about a host and a path and a protocol, and different ways paths that are not intentional dark patterns get constructed. 1/
@drahardja most people should not be web “consumers”. the web is not a product. it is a public space. as much as possible we want citizens there who actively participate, not passive recipients of other peoples’ products.
@aliceif@kura atm i’m on a phone. so blame ios maybe (this trend unsurprisingly began as an apple “innovation”). browsers are chrome, firefox, safari, brave.
@aliceif@kura safari on desktop does it by default, as does at least one other browser — brave i think. it was having to dig to find the setting to turn truncated urls off in desktop brave i think that provoked the microrant. but i can’t check right now.
UPDATE: It looks like Brave on desktop does the right thing (does not truncate). Contrary to what I misremembered above, on desktop (MacOS), truncation remains uniquely a Safari pathology.
@BenRossTransit@Alon none to which Biden is so unaccountably deferential despite maintaining a patina of critical independence in public relations terms.
trump : erdogan is maybe analogous to trump : putin, since trump was oddly, counterproductively deferential to both figures (in different ways).
@BenRossTransit@Alon he doesn’t defer to Erdogan in ways that much of the US political community perceives as adverse to US interests.
conducting diplomacy quietly is quite different than deference. there was no question the US was seeking Turkish acquiescence to Sweden’s accession. with Israel, the US is actively participating under terms many of us view as dangerously adverse to US interests, whatever quiet armtwisting there is or isn’t.
@Alon@BenRossTransit i sure hope Hebrew language media is aware of how much Bibi is risking the Israel-US relationship post Biden (or perhaps post a shift in approach from Biden).
Biden is not serving that relationship well, when much of the US public sees the administration as unaccountably enabling indefensible behavior. To use an overworn analogy, Biden has been the kind of “ironclad” friend who never fails to hand a drunk friend the car keys.
@Alon@BenRossTransit i guess i’m a latent antisemite who’s learned not to say ZOG but still think it? this seems more a kind of defense mechanism than a reasonable take on what’s happening. A very large fraction of the US public, I think the majority, believes Israel has behaved badly in Gaza in ways we ought not to have enabled, and think leaving decisions on Iran to Israel but promising ironclad defensive participation invites getting drawn into a foolish war.
"So that's all there is to Autopilot. No radar, no lidar, no GPS, no map, no geofencing, no proper driver monitoring. It just uses the camera to follow the lines. It doesn't disengage if it can't see the lines, it just keeps going."
