Democrats AbroadRep. Jasmine Crockett has a few questions for #Democrats.
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Wannabe AstronautEconomics: "Humans only value things monetarily."
Sociology: "Uh, I don't..."
Economics: "Humans are always rational and value is calculated by complex internal calculus."
Sociology: "Uhhh, Psy, can you help?" Psychology: "That's not how humans..." Economics: "ALSO MY SYSTEM WILL GROW EXPONENTIALLY FOREVER!!"
Physics: *drops teacup*
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Tim O'ConnellY'all, I almost got a good one of those "bluebird posting on a redbud in spring" photos.
#birds #birding #EasternRedbud #CercisCanadensis #Oklahoma #wildlife
Michael Ekstrand"your algorithm can’t do anything that would be illegal if done by a real person" — I appreciate the FTC explicitly articulating this principle. https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/03/price-fixing-algorithm-still-price-fixing
Price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing
Landlords and property managers can’t collude on rental pricing. Using new technology to do it doesn’t change that antitrust fundamental. Regardless of the industry you’re in, if your business uses an algorithm to determine prices, a brief filed by the FTC and the Department of Justice offers a helpful guideline for antitrust compliance: your algorithm can’t do anything that would be illegal if done by a real person.
Widdershins Smith 🐘When asked how Fascism starts, Bertrand Russell once said:
"First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."
"First, they fascinate the fools. Then, they muzzle the intelligent."
Felicity ShouldersI took these photos last week, but it took me this long to narrow down my favorites at all! This is an adult male Anna’s #Hummingbird. We’re months into mating season for them now, and I am seeing the males a lot, singing their buzzy song and perching high and proud. It’s one time of year they don’t seem as grumpy to me :)
𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not yet begun to fight"Look, when you're voting for a President you're not actually voting for just one guy. You're actually voting for every single member of their staff from the Vice President on down, the people who have the lunch pail type jobs who do the nuts and bolts daily grind work of holding our democracy together.
So forgive me if I think you a little naive for framing this as "one old guy vs another old guy". Remember that a vote for one of those "old guys" is also a vote re-affirming the first black female vice president in history plus a thousand other staff members that both she and Biden vetted between them.
And a vote for the other "old guy" comes along with about a hundred fucking traitors and moochers and grifters and seditionists and convicted fraudsters and rapists and literal white supremacists, most of whom are his own fucking family members.
Kelly Shortridgein case there are other nerds out there who haven’t yet read this classic, behold “the case of the 500-mile email” https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
I adore the “absurd computer-borne mysteries” genre and kindly ask for more content from the annals of y’all’s careers
Watching #ForAllMankind is kind of painful, because the world we might have had is strikingly better