José Marichal

This is the drink in the Good Place that's really the Bad Place

articles of confederation not looking so bad now 😀

"I mean, of course keep doing it, but just stop talking about it."

How to turn 93 million people against you.

And yet Oil Futures just chillin' ..... seems fishy...

Elvis!?! I made a Drake reference the other day any they were like "OK Grandpa".... Or at least if felt that way 😁

If World War III breaks out but it doesn't appear on your Instagram feed, did it actually happen?

I also think its a conflation amongst the public of male hyper-aggression with "keeping us safe"... two very different things.

Hate the regime all you want, but this is just inflicting violence on innocents.

True... They do have data in the write up that says 23 percent of Gen Z men have there's attitudes compared to 13v percent of men in general

Noted... In the write up, it did say 23 percent of US Gen Z have the studies compared to 13 prevent of the rest....

I don't want to overstate the case but I wonder how much of this has to do with growing up in the world of recommendation algorithms that limit young people's opportunity for conflict and awkward encounters...

"Insult comic" diplomacy... We'll see how that works long term

All this is fine (politically, not morally) as long as the US is never in a position to need things from world leaders. Some ppl think the world is all about leverage and power, but dignity and humiliation are also strong motivators.

From Axios:

"The first 100 hours of the war alone are estimated to have cost $3.7 billion dollars"

Iran’s ‘suicide drones’ have sent shockwaves through the global economy This time, the war has come home immediately in terrifying new ways – and the fallout for the financial markets may quickly spin out of control, says Chris Blackhurst

My meta take on war with Iran: there are tactical advantages to being an analog country in a digital world

www.independent.co.uk/voices/iran-...

Jonathan Meades: Architects are the last people who should shape our cities New, shiny buildings are all well and good, says Jonathan Meades, but what architects forget about is a sense of place – and the beauty of wastelands

Love this 2012 essay (even if its a bit polemical). Though it's about architecture, it can as easily apply to our algorithmically curated and surveiled lives:

"Architects cannot ... understand the appeal of untidiness and randomness, and even if they could they wouldn't know how to replicate it."

This feels like when aging rockers try to capitalize on a nostalgia trend and go on tour.... "Neo-con-palooza"

How to Become an Algorithmic Problem José Marichal, author of You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem: Renegotiating the Socio-Technical Contract, joined the Tech Policy Press podcast.

Biggest fear I have is that tech tools have allowed us to create "ontological enclosures" that allow us to curate realities we find unpleasant. So we can ask -- "if a global war breaks out and it doesn't show up in your TikTok feed, did it happen"? I talk a bit about this here

Proofreading is woke

Good stuff Dave! I agree that academic publishing is going to have to change.. maybe this means journals go online only and accepted submissions become "ensembles" of papers, apps, interactive dashboards that highlight the importance of the question... and possibly how the findings can be applied.

You're being much too reasonable for this topic 😁

We've entered a new phase of foreign policy where the affordances and incentives of the social media attention economy drive the norms of geo-politics. From realpolitik to "rant-politik"

AI and Ethics AI and Ethics seeks to promote informed debate and discussion of the ethical, regulatory, and policy implications that arise from the development of AI. It ...

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

Talking s**t about the rest of the world is an interesting foreign policy appoach.. not "realpolitic" maybe "rant-politic"

This isn't "realist foreign policy" anymore... It's something else

How much could the war with Iran cost the United States? President Donald Trump described the strikes as a “major combat operation” inside Iran and said the objective was to “ensure that Iran does not obtain a nuclear weapon”. He also said of Iran’s militar...

Not the worst part of all this, but worth noting....

"The first 24 hours of Operation Epic Fury cost approximately $779 million, according to estimates cited by officials. "

Stories are how we connect to one another....

Ok:

I see trees of green
red roses too
I see them bloom
for me and for you

Not loving "hold my beer' foreign policy