Mastodawn

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I found this para an interesting summary… albeit usual depressing ending
(the rest of the article is about American billionaires’ “giving pledges” - now out of fashion, apparently):
“Wealth last concentrated at such levels during the original Gilded Age, the 1890s through the early 1900s, and the correction didn’t come from philanthropists. It came from trust-busting, the federal income tax, the estate tax, and eventually the New Deal. It arrived as policy that was driven by political pressure too powerful to be ignored. The institutions that forced that correction — a functional Congress, a free press, an empowered regulatory state — look considerably different today.”
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/the-billionaires-made-a-promise-now-some-want-out/

#wealthConcentration #GildedAge #correction #taxes #institutions #USPol
#reconnectingconsequencesToCauses

@jerry

The billionaires made a promise -- now some want out | TechCrunch

In 2010, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates launched a disarmingly simple campaign they called the Giving Pledge: a public commitment, open to the world's

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Leon Furze May 18, 2023

The AI Iceberg: Understanding ChatGPT

Analogies are useful for understanding complex ideas, and there are plenty of complexities for educators trying to wrap their heads around ChatGPT. In this post, I’ll try to explain some of the features of the chatbot and the model it’s built on top of. I'm deliberately avoiding any kind of analogy that represents the AI as magical, mythical, human, or godlike - we've seen enough of them. I’m not claiming that this analogy is watertight or that there is no better way to conceptualise […]

https://leonfurze.com/2023/05/18/the-ai-iceberg-understanding-chatgpt/

Jean-Louis Bouzou 4d ago

https://jeblablate.blogspot.com/2026/03/quillbot-un-outil-interessant.html

#correction #ia #orthographe #grammaire #ecriture #autoedition #auteurs #ecrits #outils #internet #outilsenligne

QuillBot : Un Outil Intéressant (Internet)

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦4d ago

Bloomberg chart: #MagnificentSeven #index nears #correction territory.

Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦6d ago

#TorstenSlok, chief economist, ApolloGlobal Management: With #margin #debt at record highs, any #downturn in #stocks risks turning into a sharper #correction as #leveragedinvestors are forced to sell into falling #markets

Reel Tubes Mar 10

Sécurité des communications — partie 2 : correction des exos par NSI Dumezil (Terminale). Explications claires et pas à pas pour réviser cryptographie et protocoles. Parfait pour préparer le bac ou consolider tes bases ! #French #Sécurité #Cryptographie #NSI #Terminale #Éducation #Informatique #Correction
https://peertube.solidev.net/videos/watch/9900f3b9-09fe-439a-b0a0-b48e3b6f3cac

Sécurité des communications - partie 2 - correction exos

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Miss Kitty 🌈🌈🌈Mar 8

#Women need to be much more heavily involved with guiding the directions. We have achieved imbalance. It won't do any good to swing it too far the other way LOL. But it's going to take a strong #correction!!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5u5dic56jyd5ua66hfue3asy/post/3mgjgt5j7k22w

misryoum global news network Mar 7

BNB price faces correction risk after wedge confirmation

https://misryoum.com/us/markets/bnb-price-faces-correction-risk-after-wedge-confirmation/

BNB price has confirmed a bearish rising wedge breakdown after rejecting the $657 resistance level. With the value area high now lost, the probability of a corrective move toward the $587 support is increasing. Summary Rising wedge breakdown: Bearish pattern...

#BNB #price #faces #correction #risk #after #wedge #confirmation #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

BNB price faces correction risk after wedge confirmation

BNB price has confirmed a bearish rising wedge breakdown after rejecting the $657 resistance level. With the value area high now lost, the probability of

US News Hub

WIST Quotations Feb 28

A quotation from Bastiat

At least let no one argue that, because an abuse cannot be suppressed without injuring those who profit from it, the fact that it has existed for a time gives it the right to last forever.

[À moins qu’on ne prétende que, parce qu’un abus ne peut être détruit sans froisser ceux qui en profitent, il suffit qu’il existe un moment pour qu’il doive durer toujours.]

Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850) French philosopher, economist, politician
Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 1st Series, ch. 20 “Human Labor, National Labor [Travail Humain, Travail National]” (1845) [tr. Goddard (1964)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bastiat-frederic/824…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bastiat #abuse #correction #exploitation #harm #justice #justification #precedent #problem #profit #profitability #profiteering #solution #wrong

Bastiat, Frederic - Economic Sophisms [Sophismes Économiques], 1st Series, ch. 20 "Human Labor, National Labor [Travail Humain, Travail National]" (1845) [tr. Goddard (1964)] | WIST Quotations

At least let no one argue that, because an abuse cannot be suppressed without injuring those who profit from it, the fact that it has existed for a time gives it the right to last forever. [À moins qu’on ne prétende que, parce qu’un abus ne peut être détruit sans…

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WIST Quotations Feb 27

A quotation from C. C. Colton

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. Mal-information is more hopeless than non-information; for error is always more busy than ignorance. Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Ignorance is contented to stand still with her back to the truth; but error is more presumptuous, and proceeds in the same direction. Ignorance has no light, but error follows a false one. The consequence is, that error, when she retraces her footsteps, has further to go, before she can arrive at the truth, than ignorance.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 1 (1820)

More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

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