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What about “town meeting” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_meeting)?
“Dangerous Memes; or, What the Pandorans let loose” In “Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context” Ed. Steven Dick and Mark Lupisella, NASA 297-318, 2010
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I’m not a philosopher, but I enjoy reading philosophy. From my reading, I would bisect the whole of judgments of this sort into ethics and morality. Simply making ethics the domain of “what is good in and of itself” and morality as adding the social dimension. Once you add the matter of social good, everything becomes more complex. Nevertheless, health, welfare and a host of other matters are good in and of themselves.
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Given the Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United, Loper Bright, and Hobby Lobby I find this notion obscene.
I just have to say this makes me so angry.
The Presidency is not a “private” endeavor. Drump comes from the private sector and thinks to run the Office of the President as his private business. Unforgivable.
Yeah. Marines
Stephen Few, “Save the Pies for Dessert” (https://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_inte...)
Edward Tufte, “The only worse design than a pie chart is several of them.”
The “1% other” is more compelling.
I’m sure, but for 1-2M annual revenue small businesses I work with the price points are not affordable. Enter LLM.
And in the latter my statement is true by definition. A tautology.
Really, I don’t know what you were hoping to accomplish with those similes, but they’re simply not equivalent logically.
But I understand you disagree.
Backdoors in greenfield products? I’m working on some simple websites with Claude and can’t imagine how it would subvert a framework. Can you give an example?
As if I didn’t have enough to worry about. Lol.
My suggestion of power at the table is not an “explanation” as you say. I don’t care about tidy explanations. I care about agency. I care about models of relationships that you can grasp and strategize your way back to a “place at the table”.
And the first step is to realize why anyone gives you power and responsibility in the first place.
In the first instance it’s not personal, it’s just business (and not economics).
?? The root of the idea is not bi-directional. Politicians have a particular type of job: public service. It’s this “job” that requires the transparency.
And not transparency into their public life. Though, as a public figure if your private life becomes embarrassing, or salacious you’re guaranteed to have news hounds on your trail. Not least because your public service rivals will use whatever they can to discredit you in the court of public opinion.
It’s the same for the work product. All of the material of governance should be the “property” of the people governed.
Can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
Ideologically, I'm speaking from personal experience. When your career is disrupted by technology, power is the first thing to go. You don't have any of it, and nothing you can do will bring it back. You have to bust a move, pivot, or something.
But don't take my word for it, Cory Doctorow has wrote a book and is on a lecture tour about it. He's not an economist, but does distill the complexity of modern culture and technology into compelling stories. A bit like Mark Twain.
"All this means that blue collar workers are the pioneering early adopters of the bossware that will shortly be tormenting their white-collar colleagues elsewhere in the business." (https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-03-13...)
He's also used his experience as a writer supporting the Hollywood writers strike to comment directly about software engineers. Not long ago engineers had massive power in the workforce. Their labor cost was like a 10x for their employers revenue. But SWE failed to use that power for collective organization when they had that power, and now it's too late. Though, the best time to organize was 10 years ago. The second best time is now.
Banks in the US will charge you additional monthly fees for cash handling if you deposit a lot of cash (don’t quote me, but I’m quite sure of > ~5k/d threshold).
Capital/labor in strict sense, sure, but there is also material support, or a “seat at the table”. A decision maker (in service to Capital).
The division is power—-be it Capital or knowledge or labor.
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That's what's odd. Why not `subject: "tippett studios"` or `subject:"tippett, phil"` or `subject:"phil tippett"` (the last one actually works to find works of "Phil Tippett").
You don't need a Masters in Library Science to know how to reference a person's work. So it's strange.
Ah. Creative drinking.