“Most economists will acknowledge that technological progress can cause some adjustment problems in the short run. What is rarely noted is that the short run can be a lifetime.”
–Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey
Last days of Rome–we're in it
"“Musk’s attorneys said asking about Burning Man and drugs at trial would be “inflammatory” and “irrelevant” and asked to exclude those subjects from the trial. The federal judge overseeing the case, Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, ruled last month that OpenAI can’t bring up ketamine in court, but that Burning Man is fair game.”
#rhinoket
“The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."
–Oscar Wilde
@sbkaufman that was kinda where we ended up--don't really feel there's a credible spot past the fact that if hard times (aka "trauma") are the lot of humans most everywhere, then resilience is the anomaly and x factor worth studying, not hardship. (like your Light Triad)
The “fundamental weakness of feminist analysis” is its failure “to see that men may need the status of the main provider role to give them a sufficient reason to become fully involved, and stay involved, in the longer-term draggy business of family life.”
–British sociologist Geoff Dench
#softpatriarchy
#givethedogabone
the average American consumed in 1830: 7.1 undiluted gallons a year, the equivalent of four shots of 80-proof whiskey every day.
(so we can blame the depopulation crisis squarely on Huberman and Attia)