RT @DegenRolf: The highly intelligent do not commit fewer crimes, they are only better at evading justice. https://books.google.de/books?hl=de&lr=&id=EaowDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&ots=prWwsPEIxa&sig=F-FLwmy-wtyu0gFDCfetQMlSZ2Q#v=onepage&q&f=false https://…
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—“Debunking Paul Krugman is a little like beating up the special ed kid”– Joe Redtree
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http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2332649218795185DOUBLE STANDARDS
—“light-skinned black Americans suffer an obesity income penalty similar to white Americans, whereas medium- and dark-skinned black Americans seem to suffer no obesity income penalty.”—-
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Professor Who Coined Term ‘Net Neutrality’ Thinks It’s Time To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) Best known for coining the phrase “net neutrality” and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. In it, he argues compellingly for a return to aggressive antitrust enforcement in the style of Teddy Roosevelt, saying that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other huge tech companies are a threat to democracy as they get bigger and bigger. “We live in America, which has a strong and proud tradition of breaking up companies that are too big for inefficient reasons,” Wu told me on this week’s Vergecast. “We need to reverse this idea that it’s not an American tradition. We’ve broken up dozens of companies.” “I think if you took a hard look at the acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, the argument that the effects of those acquisitions have been anticompetitive would be easy to prove for a number of reasons,” says Wu. And breaking up the company wouldn’t be hard, he says. “What would be the harm? You’ll have three competitors. It’s not ‘Oh my god, if you get rid of WhatsApp and Instagram, well then the whole world’s going to fall apart.’ It would be like ‘Okay, now you have some companies actually trying to offer you an alternative to Facebook.’” Breaking up Facebook (and other huge tech companies like Google and Amazon) could be simple under the current law, suggests Wu. But it could also lead to a major rethinking of how antitrust law should work in a world where the giant platform companies give their products away for free, and the ability for the government to restrict corporate power seems to be diminishing by the day. And it demands that we all think seriously about the conditions that create innovation. “I think everyone’s steering way away from the monopolies, and I think it’s hurting innovation in the tech sector,” says Wu.
Professor Who Coined Term ‘Net Neutrality’ Thinks It’s Time To Break Up Facebook (theverge.com) Best known for coining the phrase “net neutrality” and his book The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, Wu has a new book coming out in November called The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age. In it, he argues compellingly for a return to aggressive antitrust enforcement in the style of Teddy Roosevelt, saying that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and other huge tech companies are a threat to democracy as they get bigger and bigger. “We live in America, which has a strong and proud tradition of breaking up companies that are too big for inefficient reasons,” Wu told me on this week’s Vergecast. “We need to reverse this idea that it’s not an American tradition. We’ve broken up dozens of companies.” “I think if you took a hard look at the acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, the argument that the effects of those acquisitions have been anticompetitive would be easy to prove for a number of reasons,” says Wu. And breaking up the company wouldn’t be hard, he says. “What would be the harm? You’ll have three competitors. It’s not ‘Oh my god, if you get rid of WhatsApp and Instagram, well then the whole world’s going to fall apart.’ It would be like ‘Okay, now you have some companies actually trying to offer you an alternative to Facebook.’” Breaking up Facebook (and other huge tech companies like Google and Amazon) could be simple under the current law, suggests Wu. But it could also lead to a major rethinking of how antitrust law should work in a world where the giant platform companies give their products away for free, and the ability for the government to restrict corporate power seems to be diminishing by the day. And it demands that we all think seriously about the conditions that create innovation. “I think everyone’s steering way away from the monopolies, and I think it’s hurting innovation in the tech sector,” says Wu.
—“The West also has its Roskomnadzor (Ros’-ko-mnad’-zor / Роскомнадзор), but it’s private.”— Maxim V FilimonovRoskomnadzor: The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media or Roskomnadzor is the Russian federal executive body responsible for censorship in media and telecommunications Founded: May 12, 2008 Number of employees: 3,019 (2017) Headquarters: Moscow, Russia Parent agency: Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation —“If you want to know the correct opinion on anything relating to the internet – censorship, privacy, net neutrality, bluecheck privilege – it’s the opposite of what the NIGARFAGTs want: Netflix, Instagram, Gofundme, Amazon, Reddit, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Twitter.”—Michael Andrade (Via Steve Pender)
—“The West also has its Roskomnadzor (Ros’-ko-mnad’-zor / Роскомнадзор), but it’s private.”— Maxim V FilimonovRoskomnadzor: The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Media or Roskomnadzor is the Russian federal executive body responsible for censorship in media and telecommunications Founded: May 12, 2008 Number of employees: 3,019 (2017) Headquarters: Moscow, Russia Parent agency: Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation —“If you want to know the correct opinion on anything relating to the internet – censorship, privacy, net neutrality, bluecheck privilege – it’s the opposite of what the NIGARFAGTs want: Netflix, Instagram, Gofundme, Amazon, Reddit, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Twitter.”—Michael Andrade (Via Steve Pender)
–“A particular civilisation can withstand all manner of internal or external upheavals – climatic, economic, resource scarcity, epidemic etc. and be able to rebuild true to type provided a sustainable portion of the founding stock remains. Should the founding stock be replaced, bred-out or overwhelmed by outsiders, there is absolutely no hope of a return to what went before. Religion, ritual, education or any other form of transformative instruction is a thin gild that will always give way over time to the base metal underneath.”— Lisa Outhwaite
–“A particular civilisation can withstand all manner of internal or external upheavals – climatic, economic, resource scarcity, epidemic etc. and be able to rebuild true to type provided a sustainable portion of the founding stock remains. Should the founding stock be replaced, bred-out or overwhelmed by outsiders, there is absolutely no hope of a return to what went before. Religion, ritual, education or any other form of transformative instruction is a thin gild that will always give way over time to the base metal underneath.”— Lisa Outhwaite
—“The data on neuroticism is suggestive of unfortunate findings – it is almost impossible to train out of (huge amounts, and consistent amounts, of time and effort leading to negligible improvements). That’s why it’s called a character ‘trait’ “— Andy Curzon All you can do is practice how you respond to feelings. That skill is mindfulness. Not in the new age version of the word. But in the old: Skill at self monitoring. The only answer I know of is stoicism. Whether you obtain it as my sister and I did by accident, or by intent, it works. You may not be able to train your emotions but you can easily train your reaction to your emotions and impulses.