@Wraithe actually love Styx but this would be weird, let me listen to it

@technomancy lua-http seems to be genuinely missing but probably easy to self compile. mirage alternatives are discussed on https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mirage-is-gone.84914/

It's fascinating to me that more hasn't been made of the fact that Bessent made his career out of working for Soros. And not just because "Soros is evil" is the right's favorite anti-semitic dog whistle.

@codinghorror Styx - “Blue Collar Man” (Long Nights)

For.. reasons.. I am making a wealth inequality playlist. I posted an earlier version about 10 hours ago. This is the latest version reflecting everyone's feedback. Remember, I want songs that aren't TOO aggro and could be background-ish at an event, catchy, topical, without making themselves the center of attention. Here's what I have for V2 of the playlist. Please parse this list and suggest along these lines, if you like.

Money itself: the source of, and solution to, all problems

The O’Jays — For the Love of Money
The Flying Lizards — Money (That’s What I Want)
Pet Shop Boys — Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money)
ABBA — Money, Money, Money
Pink Floyd — Money
Depeche Mode — Everything Counts
The O’Jays — Rich Get Richer
Billie Holiday — God Bless the Child

Inherited wealth and class

Kareem Rahma & Tiny Gun — Really Rich Parents
Lorde — Royals
Creedence Clearwater Revival — Fortunate Son
Pulp — Common People
Dolly Parton — Coat of Many Colors

Work, wages, and survival

They Might Be Giants — Minimum Wage
Dolly Parton — 9 to 5
Donna Summer — She Works Hard for the Money
Shakira & Fuerza Regida — El Jefe
Rise Against — Prayer of the Refugee
The Clash — Clampdown
Tennessee Ernie Ford — Sixteen Tons
Desmond Dekker & the Aces — Israelites
UB40 — One in Ten
Simply Red — Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)
Travis Tritt — Lord Have Mercy on the Working Man
The Kinks — Dead End Street
Tracy Chapman — Fast Car

Labor history, dispossession, communities stripped of value

The Staple Singers — When Will We Be Paid
B.B. King — Why I Sing the Blues
Skip James — Hard Time Killing Floor Blues
Bruce Springsteen — I Ain’t Got No Home (written by Woody Guthrie)
Bing Crosby — Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Patty Loveless — You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
Billy Joel — Allentown
James McMurtry — We Can’t Make It Here
Bruce Springsteen — Death to My Hometown

Poverty, inequality, displacement

Stevie Wonder — Living for the City
Marvin Gaye — Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five — The Message
Bruce Hornsby and the Range — The Way It Is
Prince — Sign o’ the Times
The Police — Driven to Tears
Bad Bunny — El Apagón
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Them Belly Full (But We Hungry)

The system, the math, and accountability

Pete Seeger — Banks of Marble
Yasiin Bey / Mos Def — Mathematics
Hozier — Eat Your Young
William Shatner featuring Joe Jackson — Common People (produced and arranged by Ben Folds)
Les McCann & Eddie Harris — Compared to What?
Stevie Wonder — You Haven’t Done Nothin’

Closing: Wake up and fight

Johnny Cash — Man in Black
Tracy Chapman — Talkin’ ’bout a Revolution
William Elliott Whitmore — Mutiny
Bob Marley & the Wailers — Get Up, Stand Up

Walk-out coda — after the formal event has ended
Gil Scott-Heron — Whitey on the Moon

@codinghorror @mttaggart I can make my case more easily comparing AI with a car than a gun. It's only been within the last decade that gun deaths have surpassed automobile deaths. & that's without including climate-related deaths indirectly caused by over a century of automotive pollution.

Cities being designed around cars have also shown to have a net negative effect on life satisfaction, with cities banning cars becoming measurably happier after.

& despite cars being transportation devices, car-centric cities actually make transportation less accessible, making walking & biking longer & more dangerous. They also exacerbate poverty by being a common requirement for employment.

The detriment of cars comes from their application rather than their existence. Requiring individual purchase for collective transportation is an act of class warfare that exacerbates poverty. It has financial, environmental, emotional, & health costs that all get passed down to the end users & their neighbors. & we as individuals had little say in their integration into society.

AI is currently undergoing such an integration, with data centers being forced through despite 70% dissent from residents. It's also being integrated into technology in a way that's clearly for surveillance & control. The systemic integration of AI can only be prevented through mass rejection of the tool, because consistent use of it would otherwise deteriorate resistance to its forced integration.

So even though you're right that people are directing their ire at a tool, we have little ability to direct the anger at the forced systemic integration of the tool, since such dissent is simply ignored. The only power we have in resisting such integration is rejecting the tool itself en massé.

@codinghorror Sixteen Tons?

Lots of covers to choose from, original is a bit too twee country maybe.

Mark Carney: Why I Rejected Trump’s Trade Deal

https://thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-why-i-rejected-trumps-trade-deal/

#uspol #Canada

@codinghorror
This is in fact my jam, especially resistance folk songs, and seeing as the only proper folk song on your list is by Pete Seeger, one of my least favorite folk artists, I had to recommend a few i like better. The first is by Pete's half sister, the second by the woman who wrote "Little Boxes," which Pete made famous. The other two are modern treasures.

Peggy Seeger, "I'm Gonna Be an Engineer"
Malvina Reynolds, "The Money Crop"
Carsie Blanton, "Rich People"
Jesse Welles, "United Health"

I could do a whole list just on folk and folk punk, but I'll restrain myself lol

If you live outside of the United States,
do you know if your country has a plan if the US government decided to cut access to Google, Microsoft, and Amazon products overnight?

What would happen to your work?

What would happen to your hospitals?

What would happen to your emergency services?

What would happen to your banks?

Imagine overnight, for all those public services and private businesses, no more Windows, no more AWS, no more Google and Microsoft office software, no more remote files storage, no more emails, no more online maps, no more videochats.

What would happen?
Is your country prepared?

#DataSovereignty

Faces of women, averaged from thousands of photos

@codinghorror Leonard Cohen — Everybody Knows

@codinghorror Wow! Love Billie and that song, and the coda is just perfect.