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“You have 18 months”

theargumentmag.com · Sep 22

The real deadline isn’t when AI outsmarts us — it’s when we stop using our own minds.

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Hacker News (@hkrn) · Oct 05

The deadline isn't when AI outsmarts us – it's when we stop using our own minds
L: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/you-have-18-months
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480622
posted on 2025.10.05 at 07:08:25 (c=1, p=5)

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There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics

alternet.org · Oct 05

It's awarded by Sweden's central bank, foisted among the five real prizewinners, often to economists for the 1% -- and the surviving Nobel family is strongly against it.

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troy_s :praxis_100: (@troy_s) · Oct 05

“There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics

Sweden’s Central Bank quietly snuck it in with all the other Nobel Prizes to give free-market economics for the 1% credibility. […] “Few realize, especially outside of economists, that the prize in economics is not an “official” Nobel. . . . The award for economics came almost 70 years later—bootstrapped to the Nobel in 1968 as a bit of a marketing ploy to celebrate the Bank of Sweden’s 300th anniversary.””

https://www.alternet.org/2012/10/there-no-nobel-prize-economics

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The psychology of bringing 'mad' sausage dog Valerie in from the wild

abc.net.au · Oct 05

Valerie's disappearance on South Australia's Kangaroo Island unleashed a 529-day hunt. She dodged rescue attempts and traps and had some wondering whether the sausage dog was mocking them and having the time of her life.

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Joshua Byrd 💽 (@phocks) · Oct 06

🔁 @3TomatoesShort:

Inside the mission to rescue dachshund Valerie from wild 529-day Kangaroo Island ordeal

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-06/how-valerie-became-the-worlds-most-notorious-sausage-dog/105832548

> Valerie's disappearance on South Australia's Kangaroo Island unleashed a 529-day hunt. She dodged rescue attempts and traps and had some wondering whether the sausage dog was mocking them and having the time of her life.

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A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

theguardian.com · Oct 05

For years, I pressed Palestinian interests in peace talks. The response to Trump’s plan proves the international community hasn’t learned from catastrophe

Shared by @journalismandcomment and 10 others.

Police State UK (@PoliceStateUK) · Oct 06

🔁 @wdlindsy:

"The 'peace process' became a magic pill rendering the occupation invisible to the west, disguising its metastisizing, omnipresent and ever more violent form. Palestine was now reduced to a subject of “negotiation” requiring concessions, with the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine swept under the rug to be forgotten."

~ Diana Buttu

#Israel #Gaza #Palestinians #WarCrimes #genocide
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/oct/05/gaza-palestine-israel-trump-peace-plan

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UX so bad that it's illegal

productpicnic.beehiiv.com · Oct 06

Big tech is divesting from user-centered design, and getting into hot water with the law.

Shared by @paul_ipv6 and 9 others.

Avi Rappoport (avirr) (@avirr) · Oct 06

🔁 @PavelASamsonov:

Big tech is laying off user researchers in droves, because it believes that coercing its customers is more profitable than silly things like "making good products people want to buy."

But now the FAFO pendulum is coming around, with Amazon's $2.5B dark pattern settlement and #a11y lawsuits galore.

#UX #UserResearch #tech #software

https://productpicnic.beehiiv.com/p/ux-so-bad-that-it-s-illegal

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Ken Parker Archtops - Finest Archtop Guitars

kenparkerarchtops.com · Oct 05

Ken Parker, known for the Parker Fly, has turned his attention to making the archtop guitar an instrument that plays to the strengths of all genres. His designs use space age and traditional materials, with unique and as time honored techniques, to produce instruments that are sweeter, louder, more

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Hacker News (@h4ckernews) · Oct 05

Ken Parker, famed luthier, has passed

https://kenparkerarchtops.com

#HackerNews #KenParker #Luthier #Tribute #MusicLegacy #GuitarCraftsmanship #ArtisanCommunity

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It’s time for soft secession

motherjones.com · Oct 06

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

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Bruce Sigmon (@bsigmon) · Oct 06

🔁 @RealJournalism:

It’s time for soft secession https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/its-time-for-soft-secession/ #California

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Structured Procrastination

structuredprocrastination.com · Oct 06

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Hacker News (@h4ckernews) · Oct 06

Structured Procrastination

https://structuredprocrastination.com

#HackerNews #StructuredProcrastination #Procrastination #Productivity #TimeManagement #SelfImprovement

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Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.

vox.com · Oct 06

An analysis of historical crises over the past 2,000 years offers lessons for avoiding the end times.

Shared by @salixsericea and 5 others.

Andrew (@dcbikeguy) · Oct 06

🔁 @alienghic:

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.

A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.

The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump by things like imposing income and wealth taxes.

For example:

"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."

He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."

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Andres (@Andres4NY) · Oct 06

🔁 @alienghic:

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.

A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.

The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump by things like imposing income and wealth taxes.

For example:

"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."

He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."

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Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦 (@dgoldsmith) · Oct 06

🔁 @alienghic:

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.

A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.

The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump by things like imposing income and wealth taxes.

For example:

"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."

He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."

Edit: slightly improved flow of one sentance

salix sericea (@Ripple13216) (@salixsericea) · Oct 06

🔁 @alienghic:

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.

A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.

The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump by things like imposing income and wealth taxes.

For example:

"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."

He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."

Edit: slightly improved flow of one sentance

coldclimate (@coldclimate) · Oct 06

🔁 @alienghic:

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.

A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.

The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump by things like imposing income and wealth taxes.

For example:

"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."

He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."

Edit: slightly improved flow of one sentance

Flaki (@flaki) · Oct 06

🔁 @alienghic:

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.

A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.

The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump but imposing income and wealth taxes.

For example:

"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."

He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."

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“You have 18 months”

theargumentmag.com · Sep 22

There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics

alternet.org · Oct 05

The psychology of bringing 'mad' sausage dog Valerie in from the wild

abc.net.au · Oct 05

A ‘magic pill’ made Israeli violence invisible. We need to stop swallowing it | Diana Buttu

theguardian.com · Oct 05

UX so bad that it's illegal

productpicnic.beehiiv.com · Oct 06

Ken Parker Archtops - Finest Archtop Guitars

kenparkerarchtops.com · Oct 05

It’s time for soft secession

motherjones.com · Oct 06

Structured Procrastination

structuredprocrastination.com · Oct 06

Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.

vox.com · Oct 06