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by jc6 2y ago
Democracy is already dead. As in who spends more or buys more Ads wins elections. For decades now. Trump and the Brexit vote broke the traditional media-advertising complex but that got fixed fast.
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by jc6 2y ago
Compare the revenues of the MIL complex to the rest of the options available on the Fortune 500. People dont realize how big the gap has grown between what nation states can afford and what transnational corps are raking in. Its a no braine
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by jc6 2y ago
But the good Greeks did us a great service by shpwing us they couldnt afford those cars without taking loans from German banks. And by not being able to repay those loans, proved what a fucking house of cards the whole story about being a &
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by jc6 2y ago
Scary. Its really fascinating how they have such capacity to spread into every nook they can find. We spent a lot of time wondering how such an exotic looking thing, showed up in basically an urban closed off area (barely any windows) where
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by jc6 2y ago
The purpose of a system is not optimization. Or as Stafford Beer would say - The purpose of a system is what it does.
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by jc6 2y ago
I dont know what metal that was but there was a grey coat of paint on it. Sometimes they coat the metal to prevent rusting or whatever, but the rusting happens under the coating anyway. So maybe possible the underlying metal was rusting and
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by jc6 2y ago
Not really. Read Pareto's Circulation of the Elites. The mistake is assuming all those who have some amout of power all have the same agenda. Such a state is never possible purely because people's personalities, needs, values, env
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by jc6 2y ago
Reminds me. I saw a bizarre fungus growing on an old Airport audio speaker left in storage. The speaker was a 5 foot high metallic tower. And this 4 inch high alien looking thing was growing on it. It had attached itself via a beautiful roo
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Come Retribution. Not possible without social media(thisamericanlife.org)
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by jc6 2y ago
Just give it a few more quarters. Phone and mac sales arent growing like they once used too. The pressure shall mount. And corporate execs are extremely predictable in how they handle mounting pressure.
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Calls grow for greater scrutiny of environmental impact of AI boom(channelnewsasia.com)
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by jc6 2y ago
Target EU govt and mil complex jobs. They have older stacks, favor experience and have more funds these days thanks to the war. Plus much less stress than in private sector.
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by jc6 2y ago
Is this what Zgmunt Bauman called the transition from Solid Modernity to Liquid Modernity? With rents going up and switching jobs more frequently than past generations it becomes harder to stuck around in one place long enough for strong co
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Coffee & sculptures – Banks try to make new branches less intimidating(apnews.com)
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by jc6 2y ago
Not only that, the rate of change is increasing or speeding up. Brains are not really capable of handling constant change. There is much more to learn. There are more unknowns. And there is much more competition. If you take competitive spo
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by jc6 2y ago
Their lifestyles are safe since they have convinced everyone organizing against them is what nutjobs and communists do.
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by jc6 2y ago
Both sides evolve tactics in reaction to each other just like the parasite and host evolve side by side. So what you see tomorrow wont look like what happened yesterday.
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by jc6 2y ago
Well today the Supply side (of content) has outstripped Demand for content by a huge factor. Demand for content from people with disposable income and interested in creative output, has dropped below demand for content from corporates to pl
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by jc6 2y ago
Its not some accident Google ended up with all this data. There is a reason they give you Free stuff like video, email, chat, search etc. People have forgotten the only way (in the past) to solve the Info Explosion that results when network
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by jc6 2y ago
Its a J P Morgan report. They are just nudging Buffet to spend that cash pile on something instead of sitting on it.
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by jc6 2y ago
Michael Goldharber - People have limited attention to give anything, but unlimited capacity to receive attention. The Attention Economy has been inflated exploiting the above inequality. Bottom line is the social media is not designed to op
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by jc6 2y ago
This stuff their assistants do for them. To understand how they use signalling be aware of The Theory of the Leisure Class.
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by jc6 2y ago
Subject matter experts are not experts in pedagogy. Because pedagogy is a seperate subject entirely. And teaching is not about getting people to say aha. Thats just performance or entertainment. Seen everywhere these days thanks to the Atte