
Schneier responding to Sanders on AI Sovereign Wealth
2d 18h ago in uspolitics from www.schneier.comBeing your own boss doesn’t always pay off: What 30 years of [Canadian] data reveal
2d 18h ago in economics from theconversation.comTIL: There are giant viruses and they get viruses
2d 18h ago in til from theconversation.comMod will let you play Morrowind in Elden Ring
6d 17h ago in videos from www.youtube.comHomer's classic: The Oddsea
6d 19h ago in justpostInvesting for good: possible? What do folks do?
7d 20h ago in asklemmyI'd like to tell myself that ethical investing would also... actually do stuff? Move numbers?
Thanks to both!
So, there’s reasons why “ethical investing” doesn’t work well in practice
Could you say a bit more on this?
Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4 Billion Resort Triggers 'Flamingo Revolution', Asset Freeze and an EU Warning
8d 5h ago in world from www.yacnews.comWe've lost one bird war already.
[ER] You have to have patience.
8d 6h ago in soulslike@lemmy.zipThe curse of Thoth
8d 6h ago in curatedtumblr@sh.itjust.workswikipedia confirms
How Do We Pay for Universal Basic Income? Tax Stock the Way Companies Already Issue It.
8d 14h ago in PLT@sh.itjust.works from scottsantens.substack.comI'd read this, but I don't trust myself to find the source. Do you have a link?
I mean, we already do. It's not all that effective afaik? Preventing foreign ransomware from extracting money from american(-businesse)s via bitcoin is clearly within the state's mandate and incentives, has reliable bipartisan support, and seems like a pretty similar situation. We can't track and protect funds on a public ledger as it stands, and journalists struggle to track PAC political funding. I'm not sure the spy-state is up to it tbh.
It will make the stock market grow slower. Almost definitionally. I don't understand why we've designed policy around that growth rate. But we definitely do. Anybody got a long read on why that happened?
I found this counter argument pretty compelling: the trouble is that investments are extremely mobile, and fairly cheap to obfuscate. Incorporating a big effective business is not. Property is not.
Patriot act: How to Survive 2020
12d 7h ago in politicalvideos from www.youtube.comThis community isn't your personal adviser
13d 1h ago in selfhostedI mean; the mechanics ensure that it kinda is. Are these good mechanics?
This is a major 'upside' to centrally controlled spaces, they are tricky to exploit in several ways. I don't think that maintaining a open community with both:
- Easy exploits;
- Social norms against using them;
is effective.
Either the exploitation is a feature that we accept, or we should rework the feature. Behavior is downstream of systems. How should we change the delete-post system?
World Inequality Database
13d 4h ago in wikipedia from en.wikipedia.orgFocus apps are failing neurodivergent minds, please fix
13d 16h ago in adhd from theconversation.comThings to prepare for when aid will end
14d 6h ago in PLT@sh.itjust.works from www.thenewhumanitarian.org








