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I get a lot of these and try to assume that it's the person wanting to be polite. Starting a conversation without a greeting is very rude in a lot of cultures. But yes, it's annoying in chat form, and especially when the conversat
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I'd guess you could point at the metaphor implied in the word "de-platforming." Free speech doesn't necessitate that every person gets a stage and a microphone. If we were in a physical auditorium and the president start
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Events(plato.stanford.edu)
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Damore's evidence was by turns cherry picked, misinterpreted, and unrepresentative of mainstream understanding in the fields it came from. You can read plenty of those researchers complaining about his use of their work. His synthesis
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Thanks, I appreciate that feedback. That was definitely a jargony phrase. Mostly I'm wishing for a term to discuss these policies at the level of abstraction where UBI is situated, and I don't see one in conventional discourse at
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As many here have noted, UBI still leaves in place a power structure, or material relation of dependency. I just think there are a lot more nuanced and interesting approaches to this problem. For instance, what would it take to devolve owne
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I'm unable to open this without permission, but I'm curious about the extent to which they interrogate the combination of rigid gender roles and wage stagnation. I'm not mormon, but grew up in an evangelical christian communi
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It takes a pretty impoverished understanding of evolution to write off cooperation and symbiosis as strategies for passing on ones genes.
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Totally. I also find that using it, I'm more willing to externalize my thought process, put code on the screen to reason about it and quickly scrap or modify it if it doesn't work.
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Between the awkward file navigation and the feeling of building my own editor from the ground up, I just never found it worthwhile to fully commit to Vim. So I work in VSCode in my day job. What I did take from those efforts, though, was Vi
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Revolutionary Catalonia and the Paris Commune are interesting examples of libertarian socialism. You could also look at the Korean People's Association [1], Rojava more recently [2], or the Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities in Chiapa
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This is one of the best articulations I've come across. For me, it sparked the realization that the boundary line between (to cite your example) light and perception is on some level an arbitrary distinction between words, that reality
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I see they used the photo from before the addition of "= Defund the Police"
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From the introduction: "The approach and model outlined here—the Pluralist Commonwealth—offers a trajectory and pattern for wide-ranging institutional change towards real democracy over the long haul, guided by a transformative vision
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Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth(thenextsystem.org)
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Yes. I wish we would frame these conversations about value more in terms of time. It's even starker when you address it directly: >When someone drives past me in a car that I know costs the equivalent of 30 years of my life... Even
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In my limitied view, this seems to be one of the biggest obstacles. I'm heartened to see new cooperative investment funds coming online, like Evergreen Cooperatives ( http://www.evgoh.com ) and accelerators, like Start.coop (
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Personally, I'd love it if everyone could easily vote with their feet. I think there's more overlap between certain libertarian and socialist visions of the economy than most people realize. In our current system, there's a l
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This is an argument a lot of non-authoritarian socialists make: democracy only governs the few hours when people are not sleeping or at work, so a deeper, fuller democracy would include running workplaces democratically as well. Whether by
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Also assumes that taxation is the only source of funding.
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I agree that this has to be part of the solution. There are some activists who have called for the US to go through a national truth and reconciliation proceedings to establish a common narrative.
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A Bot That Auto-Tweets Edits to New York Times Stories and Headlines(twitter.com)
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If sortition were issue, rather than term-based, I'd imagine you could use something like a sequestration process for selectees, combined with independent oversight and public transparency rules for the organizations creating prep mate
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I really appreciate this way of articulating it. There are responsible and constructive ways that we can discuss politics in this forum and I hope that adopting a systems mentality can help us sidestep tribalism and put problem-solving at t
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Not to mention that cobalt is mined by children and slaves: https://www.ft.com/content/c6909812-9ce4-11e9-9c06-a4640c9fe...
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in the past, riots have strengthened public support for more armor, more weapons, bigger budgets, less oversight. But there are less calculating possibilities as well.
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The Nooscope – a visual manifesto of the limits of AI(skynettoday.com)
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>Proper role of government is to actively encourage competition, not destroy market by subsidised public service. Just highlighting this because while it functions as an unquestioned prior for a lot of us in the tech community, I think i
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"The Ethics of Ambiguity" by Simone de Beauvoir helped pull me out of a pretty debilitating bout of nihilism.
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Orwell's account in "Homage to Catalonia" is moving and chilling. You get a sense of his deep sympathy for the fragile, classless society emerging in the early days of the civil war, but as the narrative progresses, you see h

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