If I ran the kable kompany, I would sort content by subject and assign to channels accordingly. This is the channel lineup I would offer: Contents  [hide]  0 basic methodology 1 channel list 2 flags 3 geospatial coding 4 expiry time 5 queueing algorithm 6 custom channels and lineups basic methodology Start by recruiting an…

Let me preface this by saying I’m the kind of people who are most critical of those they love, and harshly critical only of those they love most. I love me some C4SS. I miss the days before their blog went no-comment; the current no-comment nature of their blog being the main reason C4SS is…

Aral Balkan: Whoever you are, wherever you are, we have a common enemy: the nationalist international. Heather Marsh: Most systems are now run by competitive organizations. Competition creates redundancy, is slow and wastes resources on idea protection, advertisement, and more. Competition also requires secrecy which blocks progress and auditing and causes lost opportunities and ideas.…

I long ago gave up on “right livelihood,” concluding that it’s literally an oxymoron. This is of a piece with my conclusion that there is no possibility of monetization without value subtraction. Consquently, I’ve concluded that the least pro-social jobs are probably those dues-paying jobs for people starting out in some hypercompetitive white collar field…

It’s (by definition) not labor-saving technology if more jobs are created than destroyed. The problem with “level up” as a strategy for dealing with it is that the jobs to be “leveled up” to are fewer in number, so it takes a much larger GDP to support the same number of jobs. A red queen…

COVID-19’s effects on media (and on the national Zeitgeist) are reminiscent of those of 9/11. The media have gone into full hero-worship mode, and the professions hailed as heroic are precisely the professions whose vetting process is basically hazing—the military, the police, the firefighters, the doctors and the nurses. Put another way, shit hitting fans…

As I see it, the job of a HTTP client (browser) is to correctly implement the open standards that define the web, no more and no less. I’m political enough about open source that I’ll endure a fair amount of inconvenience in order to avoid proprietary (or even commercial) software, but I also disagree on…

This post was originally a comment to /u/DarSakhar’s Reddit post, If, for some unknown reason, this subreddit disappeared completely one day, how would you connect with other AnComs? In general, choose DIY platforms over commercial platforms. Choose blogging over social media, and if possible self-host a blog (or other type of web site) rather than…

I am not a mutualist. I was first exposed to neo-mutualist ideas via the C4SS blog. I refer to myself as an “anagorist,” a term I coined back in 2010 as my take on agorism; a philosophical designation that, along with mutualism, is popular with the C4SS crowd. My reasons for being anti-market are actually…

As cases against psych-screening go, this article by Cathy O’Neil in Bloomberg View seems pretty weak sauce, but I understand that change requires some subset of change agents to be working within the system. “Maybe all employers really want is a tool to help them reduce the huge pool of applications they receive for any…