Richard J Murphy explains the core of the neo-liberal mindset. 95% of people don't matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMexSzz60t0
See https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/wp-content/uploads/pdf-uploads/Economic-Questions-Published.pdf for what he himself believes in.
RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117441841785502664
I'd like to tell you a story about a contributor who came to us at Mozilla, in my first 2-3 years working there. I never met them, don't know their name, and I still think about them a few times a year.
They came to us with questions, as they were struggling to build Firefox on their computer, and they were getting errors that nobody had ever seen. And I don't mean "errors that were unfamiliar to our engineers", I mean "we can't figure out how or why our build system would emit that string."
Ok, "hierarchically and spatially" is a sick burn here...
Opinions solicited on important current news:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYU_geUwQoA
I should say that this is independent and includes its own analysis; it only has some related sources.
This video from Unlearning Economics does a great job of tying together a lot of smart sources that Cory Doctorow has also referenced but in a non-strident way.
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The only kind of information that such a constrained channel can carry is a scream. Populist politics acts as a signalling system for a population which wants to convey a single bit of information; the message that translates as “HELP! THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS IS INTOLERABLE TO ME”.
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- Dan Davies
RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/117593345381225586
Love seeing the documentation steadily get improved. Learn git!
we just got a new official Git tutorial for beginners merged! Thanks to all the test readers who tested it, everyone’s feedback made it so much better.
My dream was to be able to recommend “to learn Git, you can start with the project’s official tutorial” and we’re getting closer to that!
You can see a preview of it here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html, and it’ll be at https://git-scm.com/docs (and at `git help tutorial`) after the next Git release.
branches are next :)
Another banger from neal.fun: Battle Draw. Sort of an open world tower defense “game”? https://neal.fun/battle-draw
I just used the first of 10 (disposable) Google account 8-digit backup codes generated 13 and a half years ago.
Glad that worked.
The most important thing you can get out of the video is to listen regular people on the street. To hear their perception of what is happening.
Declaration of Human and Citizen Rights (1793)
Article XXXV
"When the government attacks the right of the people, insurrection is, for the people and each portion of the people, the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties."
If you think the problem is the French students, or a minority of them, perhaps you need to re-examine how you form your world view. Perhaps challenge your assumptions, your biases. Get information from a more diverse set of sources.
Could government agents be the ones inciting violence? Not just inciting it but initiating it?
I think there is a difference in kind between owning the shirt on your back and, say, owning a multinational clothing manufacturer and I hate that so many people treat them as if they were interchangable.
Or, if you wish, they are like saving accounts for rich people.
When rich people have so much actual cash (or liquid accounts) that they do not know what to invest it in ('invest' for rich people means to buy future profit), the government (via the central bank) wants less cash in the economy and pays rich people to not buy things by issuing bonds.
Government bonds (or T-bills) are just cash for rich people. Because they are rich, their cash accrues interest, unlike us poor schlubs.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@datarama/117574934175467021
This is an amazingly creative gift: