"America may have blocked any climate reparations for the poor world, but thanks to Comrade Trump, America's still going to end up paying them" @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/04/hope-in-the-dark/#hormuzed-into-the-gretacene

(1/8) As always @pluralistic writes about exactly what's on my mind a thread 🧵:

My political economy begins by taking F.A. Hayek seriously. I kid you not.

Hayek saw markets as a form of decentralized processing a logical “spontaneous order” that aggregates knowledge. He saw this pattern everywhere, including within the human mind (I'm sure like Dawkins he'd have been one-shotted by Claude).

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116527241278574264

#capitalism #economics #markets #oligarchy

RE: https://zeroes.ca/@datum/116529211705505989

"Parliament voted down a motion on April 15 to ban a practice most Canadians have never heard of, but that retailers are already rolling out: surveillance pricing.

"Also called algorithmic personalized pricing, the practice uses personal data to estimate how much consumers are willing to pay, then adjusts the price accordingly. Two shoppers, same store, same item: two different prices, generated by data neither of them can see."

#cdnpoli #surveillancepricing @pluralistic

🐀 Dad's what's information

🦝 It's like misinformation but there's less of it and it's true

@wyatt we reached the next stage. "Don't buy shit" is the only defense that's left to us at this point.

Finishe reading #enshittification and enjoyed it. Short #book review on @bookwyrm
https://bookwyrm.social/user/strongthany/review/11089981/s/long-pluralistic-post#anchor-11089981

Thanks @pluralistic for the good read, and the indirect recommendation for the book Technofeudalism, which has been added the to read list.

Boy, is this ever good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHkNToXga8

@pluralistic "You are absolutely correct, I did not raise the shields after detecting a hostile ship lock weapons. I should have followed all standard operating procedures as I was instructed to when taking command. Because of the heavy damage to decks 3-12, I will now activate emergency force fields, restore life support, and dispatch the damage control teams."

The damage control team was in 10 forward, the ship was destroyed 12 hours later when the enemy got main power back online.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116527238498498125

Fire again. « This is the kind of doctrine you can only fully embrace after sustaining the kind of highly specific neurological injury that is induced by taking an economics degree, an injury that makes you incapable of perceiving or reasoning about power. »

@davidgerard @timnitGebru @emilymbender @mattsheffield @pluralistic Just 7 pages into reading my physical copy of Prof. Kate Crawford's "Atlas of AI" (2021!) and she preempts much of what happened to Richard Dawkins and why. Cartesian dualism. ML hype train. Lack of embodiment. The dangers of anthropomorphizing the algorithm. Even her fellow Aussie @gregeganSF called out symbolics explicitly in his novel "Diaspora". I got the same freaky vibes reading Michael Padlipsky in my own research field.

@robyn @pluralistic

I am adoring the two new words: hormuz as a verb ( now that Trump has hormuzed the oil industry 😁), and the Gretacene, which took me too long, and which she absolutely deserves as the permanent reminder of who kicked the hornet's nest and turned the volume up loud.

@mia ah yeah whoops this is the 866 font

Hey Sydney friends, I’ll be around on the 21st of May for Cocoaheads. I’ll be giving a talk on SwiftUI previews, Test traits and verification by AI agents. Should be a fun evening. https://meetu.ps/e/PKn3l/SgmFw/i #iOSDev

Alright new instance new #introduction time. I should really just copy this somewhere so I don't have to keep retyping it, given how much I move.

I'm #queer, and #polyamorous who's about 30 years old at the time of writing. I do tend to hop around fediverse instances, but I'd like to stop that at some point. I liked Friendica a lot, but my last 2 instances died very suddenly, and I decided against trying a third time. My more stationary account is @klymilark@social.lol, which should be up indefinitely if I don't decide to stop giving omg.lol my money (unlikely, they deserve it!)

I'm a #gamer, and have been for as long as I can remember. I play #FinalFantasyXIV, #GuildWars2, and #WurmOnline for #MMORPG, and I rotate between a few different non MMOs. I tend to play a lot of #VisualNovel, #Mahjong on Riichi City (and hopefully some on FFXIV once cross-DC queues hit NA!), and a lot of #NSFW games. If you have any suggestions on those don't hesitate to DM me, I'm always looking for more!

For some technical hobbies, I'm into #3DPrinting, and I've dabbled in #Soldering to make my own #MechanicalKeyboard. Didn't design it, but I did put it together without a kit 😁

Generally I'm very into #FOSS, and #HomeLab. I've also been a #Linux user since 2010. Over the years I've used several flavors of Ubuntu, Debian, EndeavourOS, Garuda Linux, Arch Linux, and currently a #Gentoo user. Also #Emacs is the best piece of software to ever be released.

I'm a #Writer, though I'm currently being very slow writing this novella. Hoping to turn it into a VN, but I can't draw to save my life, and it's real expensive to commission that many images. Might just do a light novel-style thing and throw an image in with each chapter.

For crafts I like #Knitting, and I can #Crochet though do that very infrequently because it hurts. I also do #TabletWeaving, though I'm fairly new at that.

That's just about everything! I do occasionally boost porn, and will probably post my own at some point. Images will be CW'd, text likely will not be, as it causes some distress figuring out what to CW

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/116527980050877744

This has now moved to threat intel and is actionable with the publication of techniques used by exploiting attackers.

Skyroot Rockets to Unicorn Status Backed by GIC, BlackRock Funds
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/skyroot-rockets-to-unicorn-status-backed-by-gic-blackrock-funds?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Profiles @profiles-bloomberg

Mbappé Will Power France to World Cup Gold Over Spain, BofA Says
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/mbappe-will-power-france-to-world-cup-gold-over-spain-bofa-says?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Profiles @profiles-bloomberg

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@ifin/116527980050877744

This has now moved to threat intel and is actionable with the publication of techniques used by exploiting attackers.