tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
“There is an inherent tendency in #capitalism towards cronyism, and democracy enhances it. That means that capitalism is not sustainable in a #democracy, and those of us who defend #markets need to take that part of the argument from the left seriously. #Cronyism is not the opposite of capitalism. It is something that capitalism turns into in a political system that allows #freedom, and we should be worried about that. We should credit that as legitimate #criticism.”
— #MichaelMunger, on the #FreeThoughts podcast
https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/free-thoughts/capitalism-and-its-critics
@mathlover FT: I can't either (I'm in Spain). Someone else copypasted it for me.
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@freemo All the more reason to stop using #Google to host your stuff and install #fdroid on your phone. #freespeech
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Why Trump will win:
"What began as peaceful protests against incidences of lethal police misconduct has devolved into vandalism, arson, and mayhem. Trump, incongruously but so far effectively, has cast himself as the protector in chief of social order."
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/08/31/opinion/biden-is-track-lose-electoral-college/
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Holy crap, google is apparently taking down all/most fediverse apps from google play on the grounds that that some servers in the fediverse engage in hate speech. At least three apps I know of anyway and I'd imagine the others will follow soon under the exact same reasoning.} Seems to be the case with Husky, Fedilab, and "subway" tooter.
this is a scary precedent if google play is going to ban any apps that can in any way be used to access content with hate speech. So what about a forum client, do they take that down just because there is a forum somewhere on the internet posting hate speech?
This is particularly worrisome because for most people Google Play is the only way they understand to install apps at all.
Picture attached of one of the notices received by fedilab.
https://toot.fedilab.app/@fedilab/104761140268193772
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/104763960269049818
@fedilab @tateisu #fediverse #mastoadmin #freespeech #censorship
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“This threatens to change the web from a hyperlinked collection of resources (that can be audited, selectively fetched, or even replaced), to opaque all-or-nothing ‘blobs’ (like PDFs or SWFs),”
https://archive.is/5VNe1
I love the #EffectiveAltruism movement because people and organisations around it are focusing on what is really, really important — with an analytical mindset.
Often their ideas are so simple and powerful that I feel they would be pages of a hypothetical book entitled “Instructions for #Life”.
A recent example:
https://manuherran.com/what-can-i-do-to-prevent-my-own-intense-suffering/
What pisses me off the most about #ArturoPerezReverte is that, being so learned and having travelled so much, he has made a career out of stressing the uniqueness of mediocrity, ignorance and backwardness in #Spain. As if we were really unique for the worse. Or for the better. The more I travel and read, the more I despise that #chauvinism, and the more I recognise shared human experience. There are corruption, bigotry, embarrassing or absurd customs, and missed opportunities in every society.
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I'm glad there's much overlap in our way of thinking about these issues 😊
I take that point re the many personal areas one can improve by learning, thinking & discussing. I've applied the same argument to the news and to reading, although I still have doubts:
https://tripu.github.io/Vita/doc/logic#21-about-the-importance-of-reading
I'm curious: don't you feel bad somehow about being ignorant of a lot of politics and “the news”? And, do you read any books that are neither hugely entertaining per se nor actionable, but are widely considered paramount or influential (eg, “The Iliad”, “Walden”, “Das Kapital”)?
About #newsletters: I've been a daily reader of the NYT's “Morning Briefing”; recently I've subscribed to around 16 newsletters, from different outlets, from several countries, with varied editorial stances, in the three languages I can read — planning to share a detailed comparison, and keep only the two or three of them I consider best and mutually complimentary. (Hopefully soon on my GH.)
“On 28 June 2009, Professor #StephenHawking held a party at the University of Cambridge specifically for time-travellers, with Krug champagne and hors d’oeuvres. In order to prevent frauds from attending, the renowned theoretical physicist only announced the party after it had finished. Sadly, no one turned up.”
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/aug/08/facts-entertainment-16-fascinating-things-weve-learned-from-podcasts
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Interesting, thanks. I see what you mean. I've been considering for years a similar argument against the need/usefulness to/of keeping up with “the news”. I'm still undecided about that one.
What I don't like is that my “area of influence” is so tiny that your advice in practice would mean: “don't bother learning, reflecting and discussing with others about anything — except with colleagues about work, with your neighbour about where best to park the trash bin, and with your partner about what furniture to buy”…
#BryanCaplan on minimum rules to engage in intellectual #arguments:
“Remain calm, take nothing personally, use probabilities, face hypotheticals head-on, and spurn Social Desirability Bias like the plague.”
https://www.econlib.org/silence-is-stupid-argument-is-foolish/
This is all very important to me, and a constant source of frustration when debating with other people, so I just added it to #Vita:
https://tripu.github.io/Vita/doc/life#4-debates-and-discussing-with-people
“[Robin] DiAngelo isn’t the first person to make a buck pushing tricked-up pseudo-intellectual horseshit as corporate wisdom, but she might be the first to do it selling Hitlerian race theory. […] It takes a special kind of ignorant for an author to choose an example that illustrates the mathematical opposite of one’s intended point, but this isn’t uncommon in #WhiteFragility, which may be the dumbest book ever written. It makes The Art of the Deal read like Anna Karenina.”
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/on-white-fragility
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The plural of "index" is "indices".
The plural of "vertex" is "vertices".
The plural of "mutex" is "deadlock".
-- @agmlego
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
