Zachary Kai has curated an interesting list of twenty (20) webrings. As an added bonus, he supports webmention!

Arthur Anderson LLP (at the time the world’s largest ever partnership) engineered Enron’s finances by gaming partnership law to the max, by creating convoluted layers of dummy partnerships. The “A” “I” industry is also built on self-dealing, but seems to be structured as “strange loops.” “Computer aided drafting” of contracts (boilerplate in general) and legislative…

I’ve been unable to watch TV news for at least 20 years. It’s simply too painful, on many levels. The most painful thing is seeing what journalism has allowed itself to become, and how dumbed down the product has become, and how low the signal-to-noise ratio has become…subtract out the fluff stories, promo pieces, B-roll,…

I’m losing interest in the Medicare For All “branding,” largely because “Medicare” “Advantage” at this point has successfully sold its shit to a majority of Medicare recipients, and their PR people are absolutely gloating with their “Medicare Advantage Majority” website. Image CC-BY-2.5Robert Ashworth I’m deeply worried that at some point our demands for Medicare For…

Bryan Creely, as a promotion for his job seeker consultancy, has posted an interesting video on YouTube, titled If Your Job Interviewer Asks You THIS, BEWARE!. The thing that jumped out at me is that virtually all the question types he enumerated is a question I would describe as “infantilizing.” Here’s a news bulletin, if…

Global warming is pretty existential as threats go. We can probably survive the loss of the spotted owl, the continuation of a fossil-fueled economy, not so much. I think it’s very likely that the worldwide surge of nationalist ideology is a side effect of climate chaos. Drill-baby-drill as an unadvertised feature of Bidenism is hard…

Looks like blogosphere trends and the like are back! h/t Jan-Lukas Else Here’s the standard list: 📨 Mail Client: 💻 Thunderbird / 📱 K9-Mail 📮 Mail Server: (not serving) 📝 Notes: Xournal++ 🟦 Photo Management: (not managing, just shoeboxing) 📆 Calendar: Baïkal with DAVx⁵ 📁 Cloud File Storage: nexcess.net 📖 RSS: Thunderbird 🙍🏻‍♂️ Contacts: Baïkal…

Tim H. From my (Working class) perspective much of what drives authoritarianism is a desire to not accept criticism from people they don’t respect*, to me, this implies willful ignorance, with a splash of tolerating sociopathy. Not that I expect sociopathy in the service of economic advantage to entirely go away, but its practitioners need…

I often play around with a thought experiment in which I imagine a big box store such as a Meijer store, but with the merchandise rearranged according to an attraction/repulsion schema in which complementary goods mutually attract and competing goods mutually repel (mathematically a very difficult problem, hence a thought experiment, rather than something more…

Another organization name seemingly pulled out of a hat. Web search found nothing about “Blue Collar Dollar Institute” that’s not by “Blue Collar Dollar Institute,” so probably a recently-created astroturf. Tenuous link, but one of their contributing authors is Michael Berghaus, who is or was Director of Economic Researcher & Strategy for Charles L. Shor…