Graham SleightWhy do we call them “central banks” and not “apex creditors”?
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Kent Wakely
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b_fungDoes Twitter blocking Mastodon links constitute anticompetitive behavior against a nascent rival? I asked a couple of legal experts, including Bill Baer, the former antitrust chief at DOJ and FTC in two US administrations. Here's what they say: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/16/tech/mastodon-twitter-links/index.html
Jonathan FeldmanGood read by @doctorow @pluralistic “The Causes of and Responses to Today’s Inflation,"…by Nobel-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and macroeconomist Regmi Ira…compare[s] monetary policy inflation remedies to medieval bloodletting, where "doctors" did "more of the same when their therapy failed until the patient either had a miraculous recovery (for which the bloodletters took credit) or died (which was more likely)."
The Stranglers - No More Heroes (TopPop) (1977) (HD)
Chris TrottierThings I often think about regarding the status quo approach to social media:
1. Why do "likes" have to validate the existence of anything?
2. Why can't I share something regardless of whether or not someone likes it?
3. Why do I need to build clout?
4. Why does the act of being social have to be a game?
5. Why not make art simply because it's art?
Jim ParsonsRun don't walk from Post.
Listening to Sam Harris' recent podcast w/Andreessen was a full blown fascist-valley-TechBro-palooza. Marc's gone full Sith. https://www.samharris.org/podcasts/making-sense-episodes/290-what-went-wrong
Waze remains one of the most egregiously invasive personal behaviour #surveillance services that #Google offers and Noam remains loosey-goosey on #privacy rights.
Post.social = Value Extraction from humans powering Value Creation for founder/VCs.
WSJ 2019:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/waze-ceo-says-privacy-definition-is-moving-target-11558390840
Rain PerryTwitter wasn’t designed for activists to organize, artists and writers to collaborate & inspire each other, doctors and scientists to create informative threads, brilliant weirdos to shine. Those creative minds figured out how to use Twitter those ways. And they’ll do it again.
For my art theory/art history people, especially on issues of connoisseurship and collecting: check out The Menu. It’s not just about food; it’s about all that, plus a helping of master/slave dialectic. (Also, it’ll make you crave a burger)
Super weird that a sports league like CFL, that’s trying to build an audience and expand their franchise, would let their main media partner paywall their marquee event and instead show an NFL game for free. #GreyCup2022
You think they’ll get it?
CW: language, terrible post-secondary institutions #Yorked