Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org

“We are living in a world in which nobody is free, in which hardly anybody is secure, in which it is almost impossible to be honest and to remain alive.”
― George Orwell

Are economists selfish? Not according to Monopoly

Against my better judgment, I was recently prevailed upon to play a game of Monopoly with the family. It soon developed in a fashion that has become familiar: everyone tried to rip everyone else’s face off, except me. I proposed a mutually beneficial deal to each player, offering extra concessions myself to make sure those deals go

https://timharford.com/2024/02/are-economists-selfish-not-according-to-monopoly/

#UndercoverEconomist

Wellingborough voters facing historic opportunity to reject cronyism by giving disgraced MP’s job to his girlfriend https://newsthump.com/2024/02/15/wellingborough-voters-facing-historic-opportunity-to-reject-cronyism-by-giving-disgraced-mps-job-to-his-girlfriend/

Vote Count Binface for Mayor of London and I will rename the Overground lines, as follows... #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount

#bird #crow #smart #spikes

These crows removing the bird-prevention spikes from this new condo. They are not having it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Bn9FONAkUA

(2/2) As for code, researchers have documented "disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn – the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored – is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline."
https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

Needless to say, there are also lots of other issues. Generative AI remains a double-edged sword.

Cutting it close for Valentine's Day? Cut these out. https://brianmcfadden.org/2024/02/02/2024-valentines/

Gimme money, VC idiots. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2024/2/9/2222337/-Cartoon-New-tech-trends

Sportscaster: It is finally Super Bowl Sunday!

Other Sportscaster: Oh I thought it was Superb Owl Sunday hahaha

Owl: We get one single holiday the entire year and it's just a big fucking joke to you people.

They wouldn’t be able to ban the flipper zero in the USA because of our 2nd amendment right to bear ARM’s which everyone knows refers to the processor

@davoloid @Tendar
Oh Lord yes! Meduza comes through as always.
https://mstdn.social/deck/@meduza_en@masto.ai/111901945071411033

Tucker Carlson’s two-hour interview with Vladimir Putin may not have revealed much that we didn’t already know, but it did inspire a lot of good jokes.
https://t.co/3dYc5urnh1

The Tucker-Putin interview is only a day in the past and devolves already in an absolute failure for Putin and his lesser minions in the West. I have already made my initial statement that the distorted history lesson of Eastern Europe was an absolute blunder. The attention span of the regular social media screamer from the right (and left) cannot exceed the length of a 3-minute tik tok video. Neither can their average meme-IQ last a text longer than 280 characters.

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But it is not only that. As you can see in the reposted text, it is even in Russian social media space where people are rather dismayed about the trajectory of this interview. Some even correctly assess that Putin's obsession of history - or better his distortion of thereof - is rather contrary to the intended goals. Putin is very much trapped in in his deluded world and then makes decisions as before February 24 for a full scale invasion which even many in his circle call ludacris.

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I always dreamed of a #MachineTranslation app that asks for clarifications – until I built one myself. https://www.fairslator.com/