The irony of the claims made in that video is off the scale. I wonder what those people lack the most, education or self-awareness?

Opinion | A Medicare-for-all future in the United Kingdom More Brits pay for private insurance because the National Health Service is so bad.

Again, the WaPo editorial board shows its detachment from the real world. It's true that national healthcare quality in Europe has declined in recent decades, but this is because of U.S.-inspired neoliberal economic policies that favor tax cuts over spending on healthcare!

DO YOUR HOMEWORK, WAPO!

A Pillar of the Economics Establishment Admits That It Was Wrong In a new report, the World Bank thinks better of its old free-market absolutism.

I have to say, it is almost too good that the author of this piece on The World Bank finally denouncing the core characteristic of neoliberal capitalism is named Karma.

And that one of the main sources of wisdom in the piece is named Lovely.

Can we please go back to Keynes now?

The only time I will observe Central Europe's affection for awful electronic music with joy and relief.

This is doing the rounds, which I don't mind. It is mainly an atheist anthem:

"Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us, only sky
Imagine all the people
Livin' for today"

"...And no religion, too"

I always laugh when I see Christians singing or sharing this song...

No reason? Sounds like a good reason to me (and no, I have to work :/)

*shudder*

Or, as they say: There's much more that unites us humans than divides us.

Also: Shared history and culture? Impossible in the U.S., unless "history" begins around the invention of the telegraph.

Religion? The fastest growing religion is no religion.

Values? Most of us have the same basic values: Don't kill people, friends/family is good, stealing is bad, try your best.

Hey Bob!

Ha, great!

I just realized that my poor attempt at a joke could be seen as me trying to correct your spelling.

But I was just trying to be punny and totally failed.

Sora, not sora.

P-22 - Wikipedia

I am so glad P-22 came into my life (and left) before this.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-22

a man in a baseball cap is swimming in a pool ALT: a man in a baseball cap is swimming in a pool

...swim in it!

What's funny about this nostalgia for the English feudal "democracy" of the 17th century is that nobody in the south would be able to vote, since even the richest people there cannot make up for how much blue states subsidize red states in Federal taxes.

Tomorrow, I will be teaching and discussing chapter 3 from @shannonvallor.bsky.social 's book 'The AI Mirror' with the students in my data/tech ethics course

I am more excited about it than anyone should be about work.

*on his ass, obvs.

(This is where shareholder-focused capitalism is supposed to conjure a Smithian invisible hand that grabs Zuck by the collar and throws him out of Meta in his ass.

The absence of this event is yet more evidence that shareholder-focused capitalism doesn't work.)

...as a subtitle in parenthesis, yes.

Seven brides for seven brothers calling themselves The Munificent Seven in a song in seven eights. I sense a theme.

Opinion | Remember the metaverse? Private companies, no matter how big or successful, are always at the mercy of their customers.

@washingtonpost.com really is a tragic case.

This editorial board opinion claims with incredible ignorance that consumer power in markets is a better mechanism for innovation than government spending.

THERE WOULDN'T BE AN INTERNET, AI, OR COMPUTERS WERE IT NOT FOR THE GOVERNMENT, YOU IMBECILES!

That is a very good analogy, given that Sting's original is in 9/8 time making it (like 'Love is Stronger Than Justice' in 7/8) a very postmodern country song. But Cash plays it in 4/4, removing the most interesting part about the song.

Decomplexification is a killer.

No brain, no gain.

Silver lining: The less people listen to broadcast radio or watch OTA TV, the less power Brendan Carr has.

Black Mirror scenario: Brendan Carr decides to assert similar power over radio-transmitted packets and starts policing online speech posted through smartphones and wifi.

They'd just be told that they're fated to pretend.

When I interviewed packet switching inventor Paul Baran in 2004 and asked him how he felt about being remembered as having helped invent the Internet he said: "No good deed goes unpunished. One day people are going to wish the Internet had never been invented." Smart man.

I came here to write this. You did it better.

I've even heard that Confucius got his idea of self-cultivation from 2500 years in the future. But supposedly Freud is getting credit for that, when it was really Jung's idea.

Jürgen Habermas, German philosopher and sociologist, dies aged 96 Habermas’ political consensus-building theory argued formation of public opinion vital for democracies to survive

In the early 90s, I saw that someone had written "Hab Hab Habermas" on a wall in Copenhagen. I had no idea what it meant.

I later majored in philosophy in college and found out. And it changed my view of democracy for good.

We need discourse ethics now more than ever. RIP.

HAB! HAB! HABERMAS!

Hardcore Bowie fans think I'm nuts, but Outside is my favorite Bowie album, followed closely by Black Tie White Noise and then the Berlin trilogy. I've been bummed since Earthling that we never found out who killed Baby Grace.

I will never be able to unhear the Scott Walker connection now, though.