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anthonymayer.bsky.social
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unleashing social media on the world at large was like inflicting smallpox on immunologically naive peoples. Only psyches scarred over by endless stupid flamewars on usenet or IRC were truly ready for it

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

The tragedy of our universities in deep recession is that, for all the caveats, they produce exactly that connectivity, that sense of place, that attachment and even love that everyone is saying they want. You'll miss it all once it's gone.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Want to go visit the national parks this year? Sorry. The reservation system is shut down, EMT personnel are gone, so don't get hurt or lost. No one can clean the bathrooms or cabins, so they'll be closed. Rangers are fired. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 13 days ago • 846 comments

roses are red so are carnations what does that mean for financial regulation?

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Bullshit Jobs is really just the DOGE ethos leftishly ("if I can't understand what your job means, then its useless")

submitted 19 days ago • 30 comments

An alternative possibility is that it is simply compositional. Imagine an economy of 2 people 1 earns £750 1 earns £1500 GDP per worker is £1125 Next year everyone’s income rises 10% and another low income worker joins 2 earn £825 1 earns £1650 GDP per worker is £1100 but everyone better off

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

as always, an unbiased but slightly incompetent system with an unbiased but slightly difficult appeals procedure creates a system which is hugely biased in favor of the kind of people who can get decisions overruled.

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)

submitted 37 days ago • 119 comments

reading books that keep getting upset about modernity breaking up communities. but 'community' being presented as an unalloyed good is always a red flag to me. many communities are bad! community can mean family, love, friendship but it can also mean insularity, clannishness, spite, shaming.

submitted 40 days ago • 73 comments

the whole point of Oxbridge tutorials is to teach you this skill, ideally you should go into an hour-long two or three person conversation about the book having read no more than the introduction and the back cover.

submitted 43 days ago • 14 comments