Daniel Brockman

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Interests: economics, history. Author of "The Tale of Capitalism". Walker, swimmer, bicyclist.
Gig Harbor Washington USA
@[email protected] @DanielBrockman
WebsiteLaughingPhilosopher.com
Meeting 1.5C warming limit hinges on governments more than technology, study says - Carbon Brief

The ability of governments to implement climate policies is the “most important” factor in feasibility of limiting global warming to 1.5C.

Carbon Brief
What topics would you like to hear the candidates for President of the US talk about?

I would be pleased if the economists among us would give us their points-of-view on the microeconomic and macroeconomic costs and benefits of the following emerging technology.

Your AI learns faster if it's bigger. If it's bigger, then it calls on more energy resources and cooling resources. AI operators would shop for the jurisdiction that least constrains them. Can we get an international agreement on uniform constraints?

https://youtu.be/9aBNIekp4qY?si=RmzD57eL0z68Ze-0

How AI causes serious environmental problems (but might also provide solutions) | DW News

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"Republicans may hold the House majority, but Democratic yeas outnumbered GOP votes on every major bill that landed on President Biden’s desk this year." As I said in November; you're welcome. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/house-democrats-continue-legislative-heavy-lifting-rcna136749
House Democrats continue to do the legislative heavy lifting

When the House passed a $78 billion tax package, it was members of the Democratic minority who provided most of the votes. This keeps happening.

MSNBC
Hundreds of millionaires, billionaires urge politicians at Davos to tax their wealth - UPI.com

Nearly 270 millionaires and billionaires urged world leaders congregating in Switzerland for The World Economic Forum on Wednesday to tax their wealth.

UPI
The Colorado Supreme Court upheld the rule of law today. But I would prefer that we didn't have a former President who engaged in insurrection against the Constitution of the United States. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/us/politics/trump-colorado-ballot-14th-amendment.html
Trump Is Disqualified From 2024 Ballot, Colorado Court Says in Explosive Ruling

The decision, the first by a court to find that Donald Trump is ineligible to hold office again because he engaged in insurrection, is likely to put a monumental case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The New York Times
This story is horrible but needs to be read. And as you read it remember that there are members of the @HouseGOP who wear AR15 lapel pins on the House floor. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/ar-15-force-mass-shootings/
The AR-15’s destructive force: A rare look at the weapon’s impact

Photos, videos and personal accounts show how the AR-15 has given assailants the power to instantly turn everyday gathering places into zones of gruesome violence.

The Washington Post
Theory: the guy who overpaid for an asset, destroyed shareholder value, drove advertisers away, cluttered the platform with bots and regularly embraces RW extremism and antisemitism is the problem. Discuss. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/technology/elon-musk-endorses-antisemitic-post-ibm.html
X Races to Contain Damage After Elon Musk Endorses Antisemitic Post

IBM, a major advertiser on X, has pulled its spending from the social media platform, whose employees are grappling with what to tell its other advertisers, according to internal messages.

The New York Times
1. Our founders didn't come up with the Great Compromise of 1789 out of some highfalutin idea about the best form of representative government. They did it because it was the only way the individual states would agree to be United.
7. The filibuster of course serves only to make an institution *designed* to not represent the will of the American people incapable of even representing the will of the US Senate.