Posts by OliverUv@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AXhYgpMiswCNAqu08G by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-07-15T00:20:36Z
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@chris @tek oh! Similar to how over time, Christian monks would start saying birds were fish (they're in the water!) so they could eat them during lent. I think there were other such weird re-definitions, but don't recall any atm
(DIR) Post #AXjxbb31ZpWEUUD7uS by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-07-16T02:19:17Z
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A dark clad, masked stranger enters an Arrakis bar, orders a beerBartender: You want Atreides?Man: Atreides?Bartender: A TRAY OF DEEZ NUTS#Dune
(DIR) Post #AYKTsjEf3YYpYBvtJY by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-08-02T19:02:42Z
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@EU_Commission please encourage your policy makers, bosses, etc to talk to actual professionals in addition to the VC marketers/lobbyists they're obviously already talking to
(DIR) Post #AYVQkR6NCpFUeeKtPs by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-08-08T01:46:16Z
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@textfiles alt text: A screenshot of the linked page, showing a collection on archive.org Thumbnails of many academic books are visible.
(DIR) Post #AZmE7j8WUyZ1moZdAm by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-09-15T02:03:39Z
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@DocBohn @mos_8502 pijul has a serious possibility of being a real step up in capability, but may be even harder to design a good UX for than git
(DIR) Post #AdHsGmm3zdnVGy1GBU by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-29T02:12:47Z
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@ocean as someone who learned to beat MM2 at will on NES but couldn't beat MM3 until I got an emulator with save sates, respect.Damn that dark needle man stage is tricky.
(DIR) Post #AdPkx71APDa9z1fevg by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T14:46:06Z
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@HeavenlyPossum @AlexanderKingsbury turns out it's important to not just look at first order effects when trying to understand complex systems like capitalism
(DIR) Post #AdPkx8bMW884tZc4zA by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T15:46:30Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury You are not describing wider, long-term effects. "Enlargement of the pie" is something that happens, distributed unevenly, while new resources are being found and exploited.You know resources are not infinite. Neither is our ability to find new efficiently exploitable resources.The long term effects are something we're experiencing now.The pie can grow larger for a decade or a few more, perhaps, but the cost of doing so is ever increasing, and unevenly distributed.
(DIR) Post #AdPkxTJLWJCD7mLUJs by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T15:48:37Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury The growing of the pie is, perhaps, a second or third order effect of capitalism.The exhaustion of resources is perhaps a third order effect, as well.The fact that participants in capitalism are forced to dominate or be dominated whenever the pie isn't growing at exponential rates is perhaps a fourth order effect, or whatever.
(DIR) Post #AdPkxWzHqpWkWizWbo by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T15:53:38Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury As you correctly note it is the efficiency of resource exploitation that matters, not the actual amount of resource available.Music! Great example. What does the music industry look like? How well are workers compensated? How have existing capitalists entrenched their positions using above mentioned legislative capture? What happens to those who invent better methods of distribution?(Hint: the Spotify founders didn't want to sell ownership of the platform to RIAA etc)
(DIR) Post #AdPkxbrfiZPHeYT0vw by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T16:01:33Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury Better alternatives have existed, but have all been forcibly taken over through the legal system (Napster, Spotify) or been made illegal (PirateBay), or are bought by increasingly larger corporations looking to exploit platform effects (Bandcamp).What I mostly want is for you to understand that the competitive ratcheting dynamics that @HeavenlyPossum described work perfectly well for turning "infinite" resources into exploitative hellhole industries.
(DIR) Post #AdPkxfRaPUuwkoIEpU by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2023-12-28T16:04:55Z
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@AlexanderKingsbury Also> However, I don't see many people leaving it. shows an incredible ignorance of the industry and the lives it ruins and the opportunities it willingly kills to ensure that entrenched owners maintain their positions of poweredit: which is ok, you did say you're not in the industry. I'm not either, but many of my friends are. It's easy to believe things are hunky-dory when you don't know what is happening.
(DIR) Post #AiMawQ9qX0t7glducq by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2024-05-28T22:12:41Z
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@ajroach42 the only thing I remember about a team is how they're always union busting lol. And Mr T, and the guy who smokes a cigar at the end
(DIR) Post #AiOXXWu4P4zDp8cfi4 by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2024-05-29T20:44:00Z
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@ajroach42 nice! Maybe it's in later seasons they start on the anti union stuff? I remember there were multiple episodes where they bust "mob like" mining unions
(DIR) Post #AnCVHd41XZSD5izu6q by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2024-10-20T14:42:26Z
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@stux an acquaintance made this
(DIR) Post #AqHHdHZhBevEkpRlFA by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2025-01-20T15:39:31Z
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@stux that looks quite neat!
(DIR) Post #ArFKNA8O0uUCmYjLSi by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2025-02-18T14:52:43Z
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@davidrevoy haven't read web comics in like two decades, but decided to check yours out now. Love the art style, clearly a lot of effort in every frame. Seems very cozy too, gonna read it on my tablet to appreciate it better.
(DIR) Post #AwXWcYf1t7Dk0cFzCy by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2025-07-26T22:55:30Z
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@stux
(DIR) Post #AwaeoNjXznmI3Y7hYG by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2025-07-28T11:11:26Z
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@stux only bible study games allowed! Eventually
(DIR) Post #AymKIDOMCsbrQAilMm by OliverUv@mastodon.social
2025-10-01T21:17:07Z
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@eloy I appreciate this good humoured rant after things calm down: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wji-hEV1U1x92TLsrPbpSPqDD7Cgv2YwzeL-mMbM7iaRA@mail.gmail.com/