Jim Parkin @ParkinJim@social.cleverlibre.org

Other new EU laws adopted today -

Corporate sustainability reporting: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/11/28/council-gives-final-green-light-to-corporate-sustainability-reporting-directive/

Response to non-EU subsidies: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/11/28/council-gives-final-approval-to-tackling-distortive-foreign-subsidies-on-the-internal-market/

Revision of cybersecurity law: https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/11/28/eu-decides-to-strengthen-cybersecurity-and-resilience-across-the-union-council-adopts-new-legislation/

Today's weather:

OK, so this is interesting. Some major organizations have now set up their own Mastodon instances:

European Union: EU Voice >>> https://social.network.europa.eu/explore
German gov: Explore social.bund.de >>> https://social.bund.de/explore
Internet Archive: Explore Internet Archive >>> https://mastodon.archive.org/explore

#twittermigration #mastodon #fediverse #governmentInstance

Pine martens - aren’t they just beautiful?
A departure from my mountain photography today. I have spent the last six summers photographing pine martens from my tiny hide in the woods near #Inverness in the #ScottishHighlands.
This animal on the right is only 5 months old, leaning up against her mum and having a look around. A magical moment, and one I am privileged to have seen.
#PineMarten #WildlifePhotography #Scotland #Inverness #ScottishWildlife

Misty morning over the river today

This NYT article, "The Exceptionally American Problem of Rising Roadway Deaths," compares our terrible results to other high-income nations. And identifies design as a root cause. Which is good! https://www-nytimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nytimes.com/2022/11/27/upshot/road-deaths-pedestrians-cyclists.amp.html

(but road "accidents"? c'mon)

So Bankman-Fried, being a genius, recognized the incredible waste and corruption in the financial sector. He knew that the best way to help humanity is to downsize the financial sector. The gains would dwarf the impact of anything he could hope to do with the money he could accumulate in his business dealings.

https://cepr.net/sam-bankman-frieds-truly-effective-philanthropy-teaching/

@davidgerard it would be truly ironic if it did trigger broader regulation and the scaling back of the financial sector.

"[...] perhaps unbeknownst to it's libertarian supporters, the political economics of Bitcoin are in fact deeply right-wing."

JOURNAL OF CULTURAL ECONOMY, 2017
VOL. 10, NO. 5, 474–484

Every time I talk to journalists about how ridiculous the effective altruism, longtermism, rationality cults are, I also make a point of letting them know how much I resent having to spend energy explaining why these cults are harmful. Wouldn't have had to do spend all this energy explaining their ridiculous ideologies if they didn't amass so much $$ and influence.