strypey

strypey, 1 hour ago

"I think Tamaki has gone far beyond expressing his free speech."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/516805/brian-tamaki-s-destiny-church-notice-with-time-to-kill-tagline-extremely-concerning

I have two problems with this sentence. The pedantic one is that it's a tautology, like saying 'freely speaking his expression'. Which points to a person using terms without really understanding what they mean.

The more substantive one is that Tamaki's use of freedom of expression is not the problem here. Making it about that is distracting, and quite frankly, lazy.

strypey, 2 hours ago

@jennifilm
> I can't wait for ghost to be federated

Ghost have been talking about implementing ActivityPub for years. Any news on where they're at with it?

strypey, 1 hour ago

"A phantasm is a form of cognitive dissonance, a way of maintaining internal coherence when the world - and the evidence - challenges your beliefs. Who's Afraid of Gender? ... contextualises it in a trans-specific context, and is an incredible piece of work in itself - is such important and powerful analysis when we keep asking ourselves the question: how do we get people out of the disinformation rabbit hole?"

@jennifilm

https://blog.jenniferkshields.nz/nz-first-the-phantasm-of-gender/

strypey, 2 hours ago

@leighelse
> If opposition parties jointly announce that they will end these travesties

... and civil society groups jointly announce that they will actively disrupt them any way we can.

> Instead of railing against the government, perhaps I should be petitioning the opposition?

This is by far the best time to influence the policy of political parties. They have far more time on their hands, and they're keen to learn what might make them more palatable, come the next election.

strypey, 2 hours ago

@yawnbox
> hosting passwords in the cloud is not ideal, even when being e2ee. but it's also essential for most people, and the pros far outweigh the cons, for most people

Can you please expand on why you think so, or link me to a piece that does?

strypey, 5 hours ago

@renice
> investment is required to get more than best effort output in a work-or-die society

100%. The code isn't shitty because people writing it don't care about quality. It's shitty because the people paying don't care about quality.

strypey, 6 hours ago

@Hyolobrika
> This was an interesting read

As was this;

https://cnliberalism.org/overview

From a site linked from the words;

> it's worth pointing out that the "neoliberalism" being criticized here is not the same as the "neoliberalism" that is cheerfully promoted by the lovely folks at The Neoliberal Project

They've even changed their name to distance themselves. But... they are kind of neoliberals in the way Schneider (and I) use the word.

strypey, 6 hours ago

"... the cypherpunk spirit is fundamentally about making maximally immutable systems that work with as little information as possible about who is participating ("on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog"), but making new forms of governance requires the system to have richer information about its participants and ability to dynamically respond to attacks in order to remain stable in the face of actors with unforeseen incentives."

#VitalikButerin, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

@Hyolobrika

strypey, 6 hours ago

"Failure to do this means that everything looks like finance, which means, well.... perennial over-representation of concentrated interests, and all the problems that come as a result."

#VitalikButerin, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

This really hits the nail on the head for me.

@Hyolobrika

strypey, 6 hours ago

"There is one key difference between blockchain political theory and traditional nation-state political theory - and one where, in the long run, nation states may well have to learn from blockchains. Nation-state political theory talks about "markets embedded in democracy" as though democracy is an encompassing base layer that encompasses all of society."

#VitalikButerin, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

@Hyolobrika

strypey, 6 hours ago

"In reality, this is not true: there are multiple countries, and every country at least to some degree permits trade with outside countries whose behavior they cannot regulate. Individuals and companies have choices about which countries they live in and do business in. Hence, markets are not just embedded in democracy, they also surround it, and the real world is a complicated interplay between the two."

#VitalikButerin, 2021

https://vitalik.eth.link/general/2021/09/26/limits.html

@Hyolobrika

strypey, 5 hours ago

@silverpill
> The idea of algorithmic governance is flawed. And he was wrong in his conclusions, because it can not be fixed by adding more cryptography

Did we read the same article? As I read it, this is exactly what both @ntnsndr and Vitalik are saying.

> Blockchains are good for one thing: payments.

This is exactly wrong. Payments are the one thing blockchains consistently fail to be good for.

@lain @Hyolobrika @Sarosa

strypey, 6 hours ago

@negative12dollarbill
> the 1980s-era buses we get don't have the technology. Ripped seats, hint of cigarette in the air, yes. Opal card terminals no

What your government needs to do is redirect huge swathes of public transport funding into Roads of Dubious Significance with no allowance for bikes or pedestrians in the budget. Like our enlightened coalition is doing #FacePalm.

strypey, 1 day ago

"...one of the biggest supporters of extra regulation is big business. If you're a big business, more regulations are a pain, but they're going to hurt and maybe wipe out your competitors and stop any upstarts coming and competing with you."

#DavidSeymour, 2024

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/30-with-guyon-espiner/story/2018936159/david-seymour

Another common neoliberal lie. Regulation can be crafted to increase competition or suppress, depending on the level of regulatory capture.

#podcasts #RNZ #30WithGuyonEspiner #neoliberalism

strypey, 1 day ago

Take the NZ Food Act 2014. An anti-competitive food safety regulation would have one set of standards that only the largest market players could afford to comply with. But the Food Act has 3 different sets of standards, applying at different scales, so smaller businesses have lower compliance requirements than larger ones. It's a good counterexample to Rimmer's broad brush claim, as is the EU Digital Markets Act.

strypey, 6 hours ago

@IceNine
> Three tiers? What about God Level?

You know I actually have some sympathy for this woman. She's expected to meet tier 2 of the Food Act because it's a processed product. But if she was making the juice as she serves it, she'd only have to comply with Tier 1.

It's just fruit juice for chrissakes, not milk. As long as she's sterilising her bottles etc, the health risk is infinitesimal. The only other rule I'd expect her to follow is being transparent about it being unpasteurized.

strypey, 7 hours ago

"Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible."

#FrankZappa, 1994

#quotes

@RustyBertrand
@nom

strypey, 1 day ago

"The application of synthetic nitrogen fertiliser [in Aotearoa] has increased by 670% since 1990."

#RusselNorman, 2020

https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/story/greenpeace-briefing-government-on-priorities-for-the-environment-and-build-back-better-covid-recovery/

#fertiliser #nitrogen

strypey, 1 day ago

It's heartbreaking to read this now. In 2020 it really seemed like it might be possible to convince the Labour government to do a bunch of the stuff described here, and that they might have 6 years to do it. Now we've got the Coalition of Chaos doing exactly the opposite, on almost every point.

#NZPolitics