Posts by vy@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APQA1zrgxhBgDOH5Iu by vy@mastodon.social
2022-11-08T22:41:10Z
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@TeacherGriff @adamdavidson seems like controversial would be instance dependent and political material is not universally controversial
(DIR) Post #ASWRup7dDfDJBcajD6 by vy@mastodon.social
2023-02-10T01:45:10Z
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#NewYorkTimes has bad US political coverage and awful labor practices, but they got a million new paid subscribers last year and are proving that #paywalls work. The smart people #BusinessModel of give it away for free and make it up in volume does not and selling advertising only makes the customers the product. I don't know what that means for Mastodon, which is largely not-for-profit right now, but it means something. @shoq
(DIR) Post #ATV5hY8dW814kl1wIK by vy@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T04:00:15Z
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David Sacks, one of Elon Musk's rich friends seen on twitter (1) explaining government is a worthless parasitical institution made obsolete by the VC space, and then, not much later, (2) HELP, GOVERNMENT, BAILOUT SILICON VALLEY BANK NOW!!
(DIR) Post #ATWDbfAXSSHxc1aGki by vy@mastodon.social
2023-03-11T21:36:52Z
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@fcktheworld587 @Gregnee @Stevoisiak Those people certainly lack empathy, but they also lack much information about how things work.
(DIR) Post #AX7hqAcIUh5LzI4r4K by vy@mastodon.social
2023-06-27T16:38:11Z
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From @mistergeezy on twitter
(DIR) Post #AXUHR0jvYLG7EgPGOO by vy@mastodon.social
2023-07-08T14:38:43Z
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@stevenroose @yogthos https://krebscycle99.net/2023/06/20/neoliberal-is-a-dishonest-word/
(DIR) Post #AYDCtC7ua6SvpMh0Cm by vy@mastodon.social
2023-07-29T20:43:16Z
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Whatever criticisms can be made of David Graeber's work, and of Graeber and Wengrow, much of the criticism is clearly in bad faith or just awful. #graeber #wengrow #DawnofEverything
(DIR) Post #AYDuoCJypHZexylUwK by vy@mastodon.social
2023-07-30T15:01:56Z
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@stevenroose Brad Delong's are particularly bad. This Nation article is written by someone who doesn't know anything about history as a scholarly field. https://www.thenation.com/article/society/graeber-wengrow-dawn-of-everything/Walter Schiedel had some good points but he attacks Graeber&Wengrow for writing a book for non-specialists which was their goal. Mike Begg on Debt in the as usual atrocious Jacobin clearly had not read the book. Much of the discussion in Crooked Timber on Debt was just academic jealousy. ...
(DIR) Post #AklCj4V3S3i1cKnPcm by vy@mastodon.social
2024-08-08T14:52:55Z
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@aral How are they profiting from genocide?
(DIR) Post #AkliWfNUE4vilENuM4 by vy@mastodon.social
2024-08-08T20:49:08Z
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@aral Giving away free meals for a few weeks is profitable? Astounding!https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68735706
(DIR) Post #Av8Lpy6UCYGjMOUfDc by vy@mastodon.social
2025-06-13T00:27:35Z
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Claude Shannon and John McCarthy predict LLMs in 1956
(DIR) Post #AxMyvCJU6CmbypdA4e by vy@mastodon.social
2025-08-20T18:40:56Z
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Google has optimized the "no" out of its motto. #climatechange #googlehttps://www.levernews.com/google-head-calls-trump-admins-climate-denialism-fantastic/
(DIR) Post #B1LA5pFKDVb7XLLTaC by vy@mastodon.social
2025-12-17T13:06:32Z
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@strypey @norightturnnz Masnick is wrong because he does not consider how e.g. Musk actively curates the Twitter feed for political/economic gain. Using the algorithm to help Donald Trump get elected is not what 230 was intended to protect. Masnick is still in the 1990s with earnest moderators missing some bad posts by accident.
(DIR) Post #B1M3SPbTDXEQ98UDvE by vy@mastodon.social
2025-12-17T23:27:25Z
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@strypey @norightturnnz It's naive to think that allowing oligarchs to create conduits for fascist propaganda is a good idea. I don't even agree that what Murdoch does should be legal.