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by siavosh 9mo ago
They could do a lot of things.
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by siavosh 9mo ago
And the board would replace them. It’s their fiduciary duty.
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by siavosh 9mo ago
This is the machine. The behavior is much larger than any CEO or even trillion dollar company.
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by siavosh 9mo ago
I’ve heard it said that monopolies aren’t a flaw of the system—they’re its product. What else could perpetual, cutthroat competition lead to? This isn’t an unintended consequence. In every new era, even when an industry is disrupted or rein
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Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4M followers reports TikTok ban(aljazeera.com)
19 points by siavosh 9mo ago|2 comments
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by siavosh 9mo ago
At the societal level this trend has been happening for decades, and not just in the west. It’s a global trend correlated with the degree of integration into the “global machine.” This machine commodifies and extracts. It extracts more mon
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by siavosh 9mo ago
I feel like there's something in the zeitgeist happening. I've only become aware recently of the 'gift economy' but I'm seeing more and more people post things related.
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The Productivity–Pay Gap(epi.org)
3 points by siavosh 9mo ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 9mo ago
Productivity will go up, competition will go up, profits will go down, unemployment will go up, wages will go down, a crisis will occur, consolidations and monopolies will emerge, hyper inequality will then break a system incapable of compr
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Varieties of Worker Cooperatives in Tech(platform.coop)
4 points by siavosh 9mo ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 9mo ago
I agree. The center of capitalism may have shifted to China, but they'll have to deal with (are already) dealing with the same problems and it'll probably happen even faster for them. Instability in the system is only overshadowed
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by siavosh 9mo ago
I read the whole post. Really revealing - so much analysis but not a single mention of a global system that is reaching a singularity in wealth concentration, and maybe how that might be an important dimension to reflect on. Its like using
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Democracy at Work: Curing Capitalism – Talks at Google [video](youtube.com)
3 points by siavosh 10mo ago|1 comments
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by siavosh 10mo ago
I read stories like these and it inspires me to think a bit deeper about things. Recently I told a friend that a good compass in one’s life is to seek out what gives you a lump in your throat, the rest are just words. Merry Christmas friend
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by siavosh 10mo ago
Wonderful. The music, illustrations, and sliding sound effect reminded me of the game Braid.
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by siavosh 10mo ago
I’m obviously out of touch. What do these starbucks people do exactly.
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This Plant will die if I'm on my phone too much [video](youtube.com)
2 points by siavosh 11mo ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 11mo ago
Thanks added to my list. I do believe that with the inevitable obsolescence of most work the system will continue to destabilize and some alternative will arise (maybe not in my lifetime) although I’m not optimistic it won’t by dystopian.
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by siavosh 11mo ago
I’m reading a book by a British author called Against the Machine which you may enjoy. It distills this pervasive unease so many have felt of this growth at all cost system that has been rapidly eating the world. The environmental, humanist
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by siavosh 11mo ago
What is the best / most popular / user friendly terminal http client I can replace postman with. Has a history I can search, save favorites, secure etc.
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by siavosh 1y ago
Sorry didn’t mean to pick on anyone. Even Detroit I heard has had somewhat a recovery in the last decade or so. I guess what stoked my unsettled curiosity was if the narrative of de-industrializion of the west and its impact on the social f
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by siavosh 1y ago
Appreciate it. Yeah I knew it was a very subjective question. I guess the reason I was shocked was prior I watched British shows like grand design and all I saw was rolling green hills and idyllic life outside the capital. Then in quick suc
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by siavosh 1y ago
Thanks. To be more specific on what I’ve seen by YouTubers touring outside London is just boarded up shops, minimal economic hope, lots of abandoned homes again outside London. The narrative being essentially the de industrialization having
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by siavosh 1y ago
Slightly related: to any British readers, I have a question. In the past few weeks, I have seen more and more YouTube videos showing most of Britain outside of London as being essentially like Detroit. How bad are things really?
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by siavosh 1y ago
I wish there was something for the app. I haven't tried it recently but you could kind of stop the shorts being displayed for a brief period of time before it re-asserted itself. And I already pay for ad-free youtube wish it was at lea
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by siavosh 1y ago
does super-resolution refer to the image processing technique of interpolating/hallucinating higher resolutions? if so, is this a common/respected part of evidence gathering?
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by siavosh 1y ago
What’s the recommendation for the simplest blogging setup to say s3? Req: 0 javascript, simple css, absolutely minimal functions for blogs. My ideal is I open a text file on my Mac in vi, type my thoughts and then save and run some script t
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by siavosh 1y ago
I think the sense of loss and fear is undeniable for most. None of it is unprecedented, although probably never has the potential for both been more extreme than with AI. The spiritual/psychological solution is always the same though,
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by siavosh 1y ago
I often find myself asking the same pair of questions "What are you doing? No, that's this situation's name, what is this really?", and it usually leads to "this is nonesense, it's paying civilizational debt b
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by siavosh 1y ago
Total newb here - but lets say i want to make a terminal based video game (think old school text / visuals / menus), will something like Libghostty be something relevant to that?

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