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  Don’t let the system, the people who most benefit from it, and those who seek to perpetuate it change you into someone who would do the things most likely to perpetuate it as well. Have hope, try to do what you can, when you can, to lift others up. It can be empowering. But in any case, connect with people.

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@DemocracyMattersALot/117520548169756889 Congress could remove the requirement that Treasury issue notes bearing interest:

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  RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/117524760393593712 Goodness this conversation thread turned out to be both productive *and* informative!

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  @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange Region encoding isn’t a pre-requisite for differential pricing.

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  I can't recall whether I shared this before, but this video from Hasan Minhaj where he interviews Gowanus, the non-official spokes-puppet for the new Luddite movement. Entertaining and very informative. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpV97A5I90 #luddism #summerofludd And yes, there is irony in sharing this here, but to me the Fediverse is more human that other social media, so :-P

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  If you are worried about Carney being all rah-rah about oil & gas investment, here Mark Hislop, who is an world & Canadian energy market journalist, trying to play devil's advocate to Max Fawcett, who argued in a recent piece that Carney is removing all federal roadblocks to Danielle Smith eventually learning that industry will never support new pipeline capacity because there is no economic argument for investing in new production capacity. I agree with Max's arguments. https:/...

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  An epiphany I've had about reconciling MMT (which is simply a description of how fiat money works) and the way most orthodox economists, politicians, the mainstream (corporate) press, and indeed the popular culture view the finances of a sovereign nation's national government.... Finance and money are technical reflections of real world power and control in terms of people's behaviour, collectively. It is useful to powerful people if we only think in terms of finance and not soverei...

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  Just remember, unemployment rates above the structural rate of what, 3%, is a policy choice meant to reduce labourers' agency.

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  I am confused by Montreal's power play plays for getting into the offensive zone. It seems designed to avoid getting into the offensive zone. Hell, it looks designed to have difficulty getting into the neutral zone! #hnom

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  Excellent video about how our brains work under power... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fchrqBL-8B0

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  The logistics of power, or rather, power through logistics. I wonder what David Graeber would have thought about this w/ respect to civilization. I'm also wondering how this applies in the modern world. I suspect it is competely applicable but just with different time & distance scales. And perhaps the addition of one more type of resource added to the mix; data- > information -> knowledge -> wisdom (compare with grass -> sheep -> wool -> thread -> textiles -> cl...

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  RE: https://mstdn.ca/@globalnews/116574463384960670 There are no *fiscal* constraints on federal government spending! There is never a reason for the federal government to "raise funds"! Fuck! He should know that.

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  @mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca It's been not bad. Every few weeks I think I get several hundred updated packages. I am running using ZFSbootmenu which makes for fairly easy switch-booting using a common ZFS /home. I can't recall any bugs I've encountered in the 4 months (I think it's 4 months?). I used to use Ubuntu. I am using a kernel and zfs userspace from Stéphane Graber (of linuxcontainers.org) but the Debian ones are a fallback. On my homelab I'm running trixie because I u...

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  I was going to say I eagerly await hearing, in a year's time, how devastatingly brilliant or terribly useless Mythos turned out to be, but the reality is that I am only mildly curious.

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  Debate: Capitalism is the belief that a society should not put any limits on the accumulation of power by any subset of society. Discuss...

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  @devsimsek@universeodon.com @mike@thecanadian.social I certainly don't think we are anywhere near it nor will we be until someone invents a silicon nerve (simple multiple-input binary output tunable arbitrary functional nerves) that uses very little energy instead of simulated (via linear algebra on GPUs) ones.

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  If Alberta separatists are upset about decades of equal federal income tax funding a significant fraction of the provincial equalization program causing billions of dollars to leave the province, just wait until they find out about what capitalism does with oil revenue! #abpoli

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  @virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca I think the current numbers (3 satellites a day of the v2 type, or 1250 kg) don't meet the "exceeded the natural infall rate from meteorites by at least twice as much" when this NASA site say 44000 kg per day for meteors (https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/meteors-meteorites/facts/) But the v3 may be 2-8 times the size (my guess based on https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-offers-new-look-at-v3-starlink-satellite-for-gigabit-speeds) and, at a future ra...

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  LOL "You are paying for this thing to have a nervous breakdown in front of you...' (followed by a thoughtful critique) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CIlTOnc6I8

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  @Chigaze@cosocial.ca Amen!

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  Against homophily https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm_L9VCBJ_E #DEI

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  Let's hope Smith's UCP takes this as a message and drops this new gerrymandering legislation... https://globalnews.ca/news/11812868/supreme-court-rejects-quebec-election-map/ #ableg #yyc #yeg #elections #Alberta

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  iOS Express Transit (quick transit-payment function) plus VISA's lack of requirement for asymmetric (public/private key) in certain situations is a big security hole known since 2021 that is vulnerable to MitM attacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPJ6NJkmDAo

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/116414952858328826 I like that Australians and Canadians use both meanings of the adjective form of the word pissed. Ruben has combined one of the them with the verb form that has a third meaning.

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  #Fedle #4 2/6 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://fedle.fedilab.app/share/109

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@duke_of_germany/116403826351752867 Hey @till@ubuntu.social, have you encountered this?

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  @johnefrancis@cosocial.ca To be fair, groups of young adults are generally dumber than individual young adults.

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  So Trump has said he'd sink (eliminate) an Iranian ship travelling through the Straight of Hormuz. What happens if a Pakistani (or Indian, or Chinese?) ship carries Iranian oil or LNG and passes through the Straight with Iranian permission? What does Trump do? Literally start World War III?

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  I love Technology Connections's videos @TechConnectify@mas.to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdVG45wveo

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116397732624612922 "Why are you such a horrible, awful person and how do you live with yourself?"