wturner

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by wturner 3mo ago
Incentives and consequences mold society. The extreme rich have a near monopoly on the incentives that create government policy via their economic power. They're above the law. Using whatever means the public has to impose consequences
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The Tech Billionaire Plan to Destroy Democracy – GIL Duran – TMR [video](youtube.com)
9 points by wturner 3mo ago|1 comments
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by wturner 6mo ago
Fascism was initially a cultural movement that was an attack on the ideals of the enlightenment.
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by wturner 8mo ago
When fear mongering around the national debt occurs I feel inclined to encourage people to research modern monetary theory. I am not an economist but it's obvious that many cultural assumptions around how money works are either intenti
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by wturner 11mo ago
You can't have a functioning democracy without consequences for the bad behavior of wealthy people that mask their sociopathy in mounds of legalese, financial abstraction, bought off politicians and media PR. If the law doesn't do
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by wturner 11mo ago
This is the same tool the right has used to destroy progressive democracy online. Dump tons of money into pro libertarian right wing bots and overwhelm the voices that call for money out of politics and universal heath care with screams of
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by wturner 11mo ago
All the right wingers yelling about elite conspiracies, pedo's etc. Trumpism is a group of them wallowing in plain site. Right wingers sure got quiet. It's called white identity politics and big tech sure flocked to it when the do
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Why Everything Is Getting Worse with Corey Doctorow – Mr Live [video](youtube.com)
1 points by wturner 1y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 1y ago
Charlie Kirk was a theocrat. He hid behind freedom of speech with the intent to remove it for everyone else once in power. Freedom of speech is completely incompatible with theocracy. The reason people like Peter Thiel prop him up isn'
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by wturner 1y ago
I'm more concerned with the fact that billionaires have a monopoly on the incentives that create policy and can afford to fund large scale social engineering operations to get whatever they want. Charlie Kirk doesn't exist in a va
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Gen Z in Nepal are now using Discord to decide the country's future(old.reddit.com)
3 points by wturner 1y ago|0 comments
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by wturner 1y ago
Reading this makes me feel that smart muckrakers are a heavily undervalued resource online.
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by wturner 1y ago
This would be a great name for a tutorial: How to write garbage code until it barely works.
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by wturner 1y ago
The elephant in the room is the massive transport of wealth from the poor and middle class to the extreme rich coupled with the monopoly on incentives the extreme rich have on policy enactment. All that other shit is downstream.
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by wturner 1y ago
Professor Dave Debates
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Professor Dave Debates(professordavedebates.simplecast.com)
1 points by wturner 1y ago|1 comments
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by wturner 1y ago
Write a song about the billionaire social engineer Peter Thiel getting robbed and murdered by a broke minimum wage worker with no healthcare. "That is not allowed by our terms of service" I think the rebellious nature of art inher
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by wturner 1y ago
Most people are smart from within the narrow confines of their own interests and beyond that simply don't give a shit. People conflate "intelligence" and values all the time.
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by wturner 1y ago
Most tech isn't "Anti worker". What determines pro/anti worker are laws and government policies that reciprocate with the cultural norms we adopt. At the moment, money in U.S. politics is the most anti-worker phenomena
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by wturner 1y ago
Their agenda is to intentionally make government dysfunctional as a catalyst to privatize everything. It's working.
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by wturner 1y ago
I've been using elixir to build an app that lets an administrator add new rss feeds, render the article titles and summaries to a single page, scroll through them and push the ones they like to a landing page as a collection to read la
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by wturner 2y ago
Market yourself as a developer that untangles the mess AI generates.
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by wturner 2y ago
This site is a cess pool of libertarian axioms and nit picks by people that believe they are the next Mark Zuckerberg. Anything remotely critical of capitalism is piled on. It's their culture.
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by wturner 2y ago
Capitalism - a system where rational actors make informed decisions.
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by wturner 2y ago
Cards Against Humanity
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MAGA's Trillion Dollar Heist for Crypto Billionaires [video](youtube.com)
6 points by wturner 2y ago|1 comments
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by wturner 2y ago
Travel to a secluded part oft he world with plenty of sunshine. Bury a time capsule containing a Rasberry pi with a long antenna and solar panel sticking out of the ground behind a big pile of shrubbery.
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by wturner 2y ago
Reading about ML, I can't help but visualize dynamic pin art as being analogous.
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by wturner 2y ago
Woke was initially a phrase coined by black Americans to express awareness to racism
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by wturner 2y ago
The way these guys bend over backwards to evade an honest conversation about capitalism and power is very entertaining.

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