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Ed O'Shaughnessy
@eddieosh #1432
Complexity explorer. Residing in the liminal.
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A reminder, if you even need it, that the MSM exists to tell you what to think and what you are allowed to discuss.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opinion/polls-harris-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/13/opinion/polls-harris-trump.html
Not just Americans.
“When the American middle class complains about how hard we have it these days, it’s like a bunch of overfed people at a buffet wishing they could just have one more flavor of donuts stacked onto the table.”
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2024/10/13/economics-vs-politics/
“When the American middle class complains about how hard we have it these days, it’s like a bunch of overfed people at a buffet wishing they could just have one more flavor of donuts stacked onto the table.”
https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2024/10/13/economics-vs-politics/
"But we can’t even put elevators together in factories in America, because the elevator union’s contract forbids even basic forms of preassembly and prefabrication that have become standard in elevators in the rest of the world. The union and manufacturers bicker over which holes can be drilled in a factory and which must be drilled (or redrilled) on site. Manufacturers even let elevator and escalator mechanics take some components apart and put them back together on site to preserve work for union members, since it’s easier than making separate, less-assembled versions just for the United States."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevator-construction-regulation-labor-immigration.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/opinion/elevator-construction-regulation-labor-immigration.html
"Half a dozen or more Perspex tanks were linked together through a network of pipes, dams and sluice gates and filled with water stained a deep pink with cochineal dye. It looked like the sort of thing a mad genius might produce if asked to design a water clock."
https://timharford.com/2024/10/how-a-mind-boggling-device-changed-economic-history/
https://timharford.com/2024/10/how-a-mind-boggling-device-changed-economic-history/
“Mathematics is the art of the perfect. Physics is the art of the optimal. Biology, because of evolution, is the art of the satisfactory”.
~ Sydney Brenner
~ Sydney Brenner
Feels like there would be an opportunity for using farcaster and cryptopayments to make this reality.
https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1844172564190621849
https://x.com/VictorTaelin/status/1844172564190621849
“those who never tire of telling us how little government can do domestically, because markets or whatever, have no compunction about setting out to completely reshape the politics and economies of other countries.”
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/out-of-control
https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/out-of-control
“It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans.”
http://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html
http://www.righto.com/2024/10/wealth-distribution-in-united-states.html
I didn't know about this company's products or fascinating history. Glad the industry and society have moved on from these prejudiced attitudes.
“when it came to more expensive machines for medium-sized businesses, Vector was the dominant player. By 1980, it was achieving $25 million (about $95 million today) in annual sales. The company that had been started in Harp’s converted back bedroom was now a well-known brand within the computing industry.”
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot
“when it came to more expensive machines for medium-sized businesses, Vector was the dominant player. By 1980, it was achieving $25 million (about $95 million today) in annual sales. The company that had been started in Harp’s converted back bedroom was now a well-known brand within the computing industry.”
https://every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-woman-that-tech-history-forgot
“Every 15 minutes, Google Pixel 9 Pro XL sends a data packet to Google. The device shares location, email address, phone number, network status, and other telemetry. Even more concerning, the phone periodically attempts to download and run new code, potentially opening up security risks”
https://cybernews.com/security/google-pixel-9-phone-beams-data-and-awaits-commands/
https://cybernews.com/security/google-pixel-9-phone-beams-data-and-awaits-commands/
"And the lesson here is clear for all: if you are undesirable by any force within this hegemony, you will be brutally erased from the face of the earth, swiftly, without a murmur of protest or a hint of recourse.
Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century."
https://x.com/JKSteinberger/status/1718528571126260105
Gaza is a blueprint for all of us this century."
https://x.com/JKSteinberger/status/1718528571126260105
"In the Middle East crisis, all actors are constrained by old paradigm ideologically-limited OS structures and values which interpret events through the lens of ethnonationalist categories, broken models of political engagement, and hierarchical modes of dialogue."
"We see a concerted social polarisation effect in which mutual exclusion and Otherisation is reaching extreme levels increasingly justifying larger applications of mass violence as a solution."
https://ageoftransformation.org/war-with-iran-the-planetary-phase-shift-and-global-system-paralysis/
"We see a concerted social polarisation effect in which mutual exclusion and Otherisation is reaching extreme levels increasingly justifying larger applications of mass violence as a solution."
https://ageoftransformation.org/war-with-iran-the-planetary-phase-shift-and-global-system-paralysis/