lori

stux, 2 months ago to random

It should be super simple:

Billionaires should start paying their fair part of taxes

RickiTarr, 4 months ago to random

What's your favorite ice cream or frozen treat?

lori, 5 months ago to random en-us

tbh there's never a time I'm not against the marketers. I'm opposed in principle to marketing. I do not regard it as an honest line of work, and that is the hill I will die on.

High-speed rail project bridging Las Vegas and LA receives $3bn in US aid (www.theguardian.com)

The complete cost is estimated to be $12bn and is expected to be completed before the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics...

Do not let Putin win, Biden pleads with Republicans on Ukraine (www.reuters.com)

President Joe Biden pleaded with Republicans on Wednesday for a fresh infusion of military aid for Ukraine, warning that a victory for Russia over Ukraine would leave Moscow in position to attack NATO allies and could draw U.S. troops into a war....

American Psychological Association Announces “Feeling Like Dying But Not Really Suicidal” New Baseline For Normal Mental Health (thehardtimes.net)

lori, 5 months ago to random en-us

Is the incredible rarity of entry level postings a reflection of a manageriat that is trying to filter out entry level candidates, or one that is trying to filter out those who take stated requirements at face value?

ajsadauskas, 6 months ago to bluesky

With BlueSky moving towards finally opening up federation, I'm interested in how people feel about it?

Would you be open to the idea of Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, and other Fediverse platforms adopting the AT protocol in order to federate with it?

If those technical hurdles could be overcome, would you support your instance federating with BlueSky?

Does the same go for other commercially-owned platforms, such as Threads and Tumblr?

#BlueSky #Fediverse #Threads #Mastodon @fediverse

lori, 7 months ago to random en-us

They didn't have to ban the Yellow Pages, as they were able to successfully obviate it (or enshittify it to the point where everyone simply ignores the now-tiny unrequested Yellow Pages booklet that they received). Back when Yellow Pages was a thing I had a copy, and you had a copy, and being copies they were the same. Singe source of truth (SSOT), the beating heart of every distributed database worthy of the designation. The large print giveth signal dilution via noise, but the small print is just the commercial subset of the White Pages, only in subject order. Online "Yellow Pages," by contrast...

lori, 7 months ago to random en-us

#Nethack question: What does it mean to have strayed?

lori, 7 months ago to random en-us

astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…
The Tyranny of the Necessity of Selling

lori, 7 months ago to random en-us

MDOT: “An I-375 With Fewer Than Ten Lanes Would Take Away People’s Right To Get Around”

handbuiltcity.org/2023/09/20/m…

lori, 8 months ago to chess en-us

I was always (unironically) inspired by the fact that a particularly persistent pawn can sometimes be promoted to queen. I've never come anywhere near mastering the game (I'm not ANYONE's worthy opponent) but there are -so- few transformations of that type, even symbolic, in any cultural artifact. But now they've ruined the game's appeal for me. #chess

lori, 9 months ago to blogging en-us

This #Blaugust thing I'm hearing about this #blaugust2023 is there a theme to it? Is it about gaming blogging or something? In 50 words or less, what is it about? Just #blogging and #blogs?

lori, 9 months ago to random en-us

To me, the economy hasn't felt good (let alone great) yet (and I'm almost 60). I think the reasons for this is because most of the economic problems I experience are structural, not cyclical. I don't much care what part of the economic cycle we're in at any given time, and I'm not generally inclined to attribute either credit or blame to politicians when it comes to cyclical economic phenomena. I want to undo the structural changes that took place (broadly speaking) somewhere between the 1970s and 1980s, when it was decided that either job security or jobs with benefits should be a LOT to ask for. Absent that reversal, as far as I'm concerned, the economy is in a permanent recession.

lori, 9 months ago to random en-us

Left libertarians are a thing. Libertarian meant anarchist (and definitely not "anarcho"-capitalist) for about a century before certain corporate-funded messaging campaigns invented "libertarian" as a re-branding for laissez-faire capitalism.

lori, 10 months ago to random en-us

Defeating marginalist theory would go a long way toward restoring the long-lost dignity of labor.

lori, 10 months ago to random en-us

web.archive.org/web/2002080700…

lori, 10 months ago to random en-us

astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…
Democracy

lori, 10 months ago to threads en-us

Don't know if it's part of the #Threads effect, but #spam friend requests from "doctors" and "generals" seem to be a thing on the Fediverse now.

lori, 10 months ago to random en-us

In #Friendica what happens when disk usage (I assume due to database) reaches 100%? Is there a strategy for heading this off?

lori, 10 months ago to random en-us

Is #meritocracy without merit? astoundingteam.com/wordpress/2…

lori, 10 months ago to Bulgaria en-us

Top #EU court advisor says technical standards, like laws, should not be locked down by #copyright walledculture.org/top-eu-court…

lori, 10 months ago to random en-us

Is it just me, or is #TorBrowser now using a serif font for menus etc.?

lori, 11 months ago to random en-us

My reasons for proposing #pubwan, a crowdsourced effort to reverse engineer against data asymmetries between business and society, were motivated largely by the desire to create a volunteer-run, #nonproprietary, deeply searchable “catalog of the economy.” The Internet contains many websites that purport to facilitate comparison shopping for various products, but these are invariably for-profit businesses in their own right. They dispense 10 or 20 single data points (embedded of course in bloated web pages) in response to queries, not direct access to the database itself. And which firms’ prices are or are not included in results are most likely a matter of behind-the-scenes exclusivity deals.