"Silicon Valley epitomizes Stafford Beer's motto that "the purpose of a system is what it does." If Silicon Valley produces nothing but planet-wrecking nonsense, grifty scams, and planet-wrecking, nonsensical scams, then these are all features of the tech sector, not bugs."
Corruption is a system of concentrated gains and diffused costs: cheaters make a lot of money, and their victims each lose a little. The cheater has a much larger pool of money to spend on keeping the scam going, and the victims need to pay again to fight the cheater.
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This is very easy to see in the world of corporate environmental crime. The "social cost of carbon" measures the total cost of pollution: the injuries caused by marinating in fossil fuel extraction, processing and combustion byproducts; as well as the loss of life and property from climate events. These costs are blistering, so high that every MWh of renewable power we bring online saves us $100 in social carbon costs:
I really need to get back on reading Pluralistic. Been a while since I've seen writing so concise and well-sourced. Journalistic, if I might be so bold.
"Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense" by @pluralistic
If there was any area where we needed a lot of "innovation," it's in climate tech. We've already blown through numerous points-of-no-return for a habitable Earth, and the pace is accelerating.
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Online discourse: "You have to convince me to vote for Joe #Biden"
Why? I don't like Joe Biden. The idea that anyone has to convince you to fall in love with Joe Biden is as absurd of a #political assertion as the #MAGA cult and #Trump, that #politics is about passion
We don't view politics as a love affair. It's tactics. And more importantly, it's your #social#responsibility to vote
Nessel's media advisory provided no further details of what the charges would be or specifically who will be the subject of the allegations. #Nessel has already charged #Chatfield's top 2 advisors from his term as speaker in the #corruption probe.
Chatfield allegedly used political nonprofit funds for family trips including to the Bahamas.
Nessel said #Chatfield used private donations from the Peninsula Fund, a nonprofit #social#welfare org, to pay off $132k in charges to his personal credit card.
#Trump is tightening his stranglehold on the congressional #GOPโs policy agenda as he reshapes Republican lawmakersโ party orthodoxy on #NationalSecurity & #social issues.
Trumpโs sway was on full display Wed as the #House tried to take up a #warrantless#government#surveillance bill intended to unite the party. Then, hrs after Trump pushed to โkillโ the #Foreign#Intelligence Surveillance Act reauthorization, 19 #HouseRepublicans did just that.
#socialmedia platforms are becoming conglomerates of hate day by day. The polarization of society is leading to a complete extinction of dialogue and constructive discussion.
On the other hand, relegating these notions to the past is the best way not to learn from #History & to repeat its errors (what's happening). New words would bring artificial differences where there's none. It'd be kind of fake. I think the biggest problem is the current #western frame & huge trend for bad faith. It's the denial of the actual situation & the "official" inaudible spiel that drowns urgency in nonsense. On every subject. #genocide, #climate, #social...
I'm watching this video by Folding ideas on why it's rude to suck at #wow
Very insightful and something that really turned me off from the game. I used to be a Raid Main Tank and loved tanking when the game was new-ish. But the greater expectations of perfection and optimization even in random dungeons has fully killed my interest in it.
Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley โs birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals....
Mastodon is built differently. Just like the birdsite, you won't see every toot in existence but the 'why' is different. On birdsite, an #algorithm decided. Here, it's your #social connections that truly, organically determine what you see.
It works because it gives you control over who you interact with, and the people you interact with shape the timelines of you and all your neighbors.
Come on Barbie lets go Party ( lemmy.ml )
Trump mocks Nikki Haley's first name. It's his latest example of attacking rivals based on race ( apnews.com )
Donald Trump used his social media platform Friday to mock Nikki Haley โs birth name, the latest example of the former president keying on race and ethnicity to attack people of color, especially his political rivals....