Luis Villa
@luisvilla
I do a lot of opens, at Wikipedia, Mozilla, Creative Commons, and elsewhere.
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- it always astonishes me that the New York Times feels the need to store a document considerably larger than War and Peace on my phone. It also astonishes me this document only has one subject – how to target online ads to Dan Davies – and that nonetheless, the New York Times isn’t very good at that.
from to the vector belong the spoils
- Patriotism (as George Orwell noted in one of the few extant essays about its distinction from nationalism) is defensive, while nationalism is aggressive; patriotism is rooted to the land, to a particular country, while nationalism appeals to the myth of a people, indeed to a majority; patriotism is traditionalist, nationalism is populist. Patriotis... See more
Feel this definition of the difference between nationalism and patriotism deeply. Patriotism isn’t perfect either but, at least in the current moment, is a lot more defensible.
From https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/reading-watching-050524
- Any social science that aims to inform (and perform) the function of a complex social organization, like a state or corporation, that enforces even somewhat impartial rules needs to ruthlessly abstract from particularities.
from In Praise of Blindspots by Suresh Naidu
- The most salient reason neoclassical economics became dominant in policy circles is that it was allied with a general revanchist business interest squeezed by late-60s/early 70s crisis. But we should not forget that it also presented the policymakers dealing that crisis something that more heterodox approaches did not: parsimony.
from In Praise of Blindspots by Suresh Naidu
“it presented the policymakers…with… parsimony”
- neo-liberalism succeeded not, or at least not simply, because of Milton Friedman, the Mont Pelerin Society and the rest of it. It came to dominate because it was the only plausible language that people could minimally agree on, at a moment when enormously consequential new policies needed to be enacted.
from Cybernetics is the science of the polycrisis by Henry Farrell
I’ve been wrestling an analogy between open licensing’s minimal set of options and the cash-centric/neoliberal minimalism of Homo Economicus. I think this quote unlocks it.