We are pretty small and I haven’t seen any real conflict play out within the community in my time here. The admins are anarchist and I think we agree on the things that matter most. The community isn’t explicitly anarchist (we want to be a good landing pad for all solarpunks). I haven’t seen misplaced hatred or bigotry coming out of our community. I’m a pretty happy camper.
All the subtle techniques eventually produce enough evidence to sum up one’s observations into a really big and gross elephant. Standing right there.
That’s such a great description, you somehow start being able to see through the mist if you pay attention to a topic for long enough and the details coalesce into a clear picture of the situation.
I’m sure the wool is still over my eyes on some important things but my bullshit detector is constantly improving.
Also, agreed, let’s put the elephants in charge.
Nah you’re completely right it merits an angrier tone, it’s just so exhausting!
Agreed on the lack of legitimate publications. Pretty much every mainstream news source is compromised. You just have to piece together the truth from independent sources and read between the lines.
They make their agenda kind of transparent just in what they do choose to cover (like Bezos’ papers hyping billionaires and AI) vs what they choose not to cover (perpetual and well documented rape murder and other war crimes by Israel).
I guess I felt like the evidence spoke for itself, my aim was to communicate that Guardian was acting in bad faith in their reporting of this. “Grain of salt” was just colloquial language. I hadn’t read the paper so I couldn’t speak to the actual contents.
I’m also disappointed that Stanford, Upenn, and Duke would be okay with this (there are rules for putting your university affiliation on illegitimate research to make it seem legitimate). I would kind of expect it from Stanford (who also sponsored the research) tbh but not Duke or Upenn.
No wonder people are losing faith in the scientific establishment. If anyone reading this goes to one of those universities you should email the VPR/OPR office to complain. This is eroding your legitimacy too.
This whole thing is an excellent example of how corporations wield their ‘soft power’ to try to make their policies seem reasonable.
Edit: And U. Michigan! Good lord.
I think we agree! I was the original commenter in this comment thread and posted the screenshot of the sponsorship issue
Typically when a news article mentions a “study” it’s a peer reviewed research article. If it’s a white paper or a working paper that is typically pointed out. Leaving that detail out is notable and probably a purposeful decision by my reckoning.
Generally they don’t mention conflicts of interest even if they’re listed so that bit isn’t especially atypical here to me.
I had seen the LLC thing and raised my eyebrows at the projects listed on their wiki, but didn’t see the META board thing, good catch. Everything is both awful and exactly as expected.
Interesting that Guardian didn’t see fit to mention it was a white paper unless I missed something.
Keep in mind the paper is a white paper (not peer reviewed) and it is sponsored by the Bezos Family Foundation and Walton Family. Personally taking it with a grain of salt and waiting for some experts to weigh in who are not economists (like most of the authors are) since I don’t feel like combing through this 100 page document.
I was curious which ones they attributed to automation (which is only mentioned 4 times)
However, the analysis suggested that many layoffs are pre-emptive cost-cutting measures aimed at funding AI infrastructure, rather than a direct result of automation replacing jobs at scale.
Word. Threw it in the last sentence. A+ journalism.
I don’t want to push too much traffic to this guy’s post but it’s titled “Android’s new 24-hour sideloading delay should’ve happened years ago”
The comments on that article seem to agree with you.
What degrees (if any) do the best ones have?
At Harvard, the school’s president recently decried “anti-Israeli bias,” which he called“insidious and maybe more corrosive of University life” than antisemitism.
I missed that one.
If I was a polymarket employee I certainly wouldn’t consider identifying accounts with successful military predictions and selling that information to anyone. I’m sure this doesn’t create any dangerous incentives as far as national security goes!
Rude for no reason
I asked what they meant not what they said, they share a CEO
Do they mean Google or Alphabet?
I just use a spreadsheet currently. No fancy template or anything basically just a monthly expenditures list into a few categories.
I used/liked Goodbudget (an app based simulation of an ‘envelope system’) for a while. I think it was especially helpful for developing budgets across moves if that makes sense. Not sure what their free features look like nowadays but before you could share it between people so your whole household could see how much was available in the “groceries” ‘envelope’ for example and move money from another ‘envelope’ if they needed more.
Things like good public education make society more pleasant to live in for everyone including greedy opportunists and their families.
Same with balancing resource extraction against environmental stability.
What billionaires are doing seems totally illogical and self destructive even from a greed perspective.
Even if we assume they’re thinking they can escape on a space ark it makes no sense to want to live in the cold, harsh, hostile environment of a space instead of on the one planet that we can naturally breathe on that also happens to grow delicious things and stuff.
From no perspectives can this be a smart move, I refuse to believe it!