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Does a market economy necessarily generate a market culture? Frank Cunningham wrote an interesting article on this topic that appeared in the Journal of Social Philosophy in 2005. Clearly, Cunningham was a student of Karl Polanyi He quotes a pertinent passage from one of Polanyi’s essays:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So here I was on Bluesky, arguing with some stranger in the approved social media way, when he intrudes the idea that RFK Jr.'s book is really worth reading. At which point I had to question the time I'd wasted arguing with some stranger. No point arguing with a fan of Mr. Measles, my dudes.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The questions from senators and reps about the tariffs are way too decorous. Lets have schedules, costs, concrete details. If you put a tariff on Madagascar, is the government going to loan money out to some agribusiness to grow vanilla? Or umbrellas. Is the U.S. going to finance umbrella ateliers

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Vox interviewing a buncha racists who supported Trump and are now disappointed has that Vox "explainer imprimus over it - where instead of calling them racist, they are called "cultural warriors" - much like the KKK and the Nazi party. www.vox.com/on-the-right...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The emergency is that the Congress gave Trump emergency powers. Republicans AND Democrats. Thune AND Schumer. That can be taken back today. If they don't take it back, we will fall ever deeper into the stupidest period of American history, led by a stupid sexpest and an impotent legislature.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trumpkins so reminds me of the Bush years, when the promise of rainbows and unicorns was all over the Iraq planning. This time - the return of manufacturing! Either the state guarantees and provides the money, or it doesn't happen.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

While Natty Bumppo was hunting in Northern New York State, out in the fields and forests of Bohemia, the Vosge region in France and the Pyrenees, in East Prussia and Krain, that region of Austrian that now comprises Slovenia, in the Urals and by the Danube,

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Funny how the billionaires thought a lawless clown advocating kidnapping green card holders from the streets and sending them to torture chambers in El Salvador would surely spare them. Surely, Mr. Geniuspants, you aren't serious? The funside of the downside is seeing the billionaires melt.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The Dems shoulda een enough. They should be preparing articles of impeachment. The incompetence and corruption in 3 months is enough to impeach 4 or 5 presidents. And it is going to get worse. Bozo and the Bozo car - Typhoid Mary, the wrestler, the drunk, the subpar lawyer - gotta go. .

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

When Trump, tweeting about his tariffs, says the patient "has to take the medicine", does nobody's mind go back to the immortal press conference in which Trump suggested you could cure COVID by drinking chlorine? Trump: not a doctor.

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This analysis of the Tesla stock mystery is really good, as far as I understand it. www.forbes.com/sites/hershs... However, one of the things it misses is how easy it is to program a computer to make this strang "night" purchases. One use of AI for sure.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments