I am -not- in academia (so I can’t upvote), but this makes me somehow feel kinda better about myself.

Please tell me that, idk, “thoughtful” people need more time to review things (carefully), or something, and that explains this fault… Right? Hello? Is this thing on?

Great answer thanks for sharing!

What two pieces of software, if you don’t mind sharing?

I ask because a relative who is a software developer could somehow barely finally leave windows, because of WinSCP, which is, afaik, a GUI for secure copy commands. Why rsync or sftp commands cannot be enough for a software developer without WinSCP was beyond me. But perhaps there is something I don’t know about each of these pieces of software.

If Zucman is a fan, this is great news indeed. A 25% minimum tax on billionaire wealth sounds great, and with broad support, as the article notes (even 51% of Republicans).

Much better news, too, for those of us who only saw this part reported on til now:

The campaign spokesperson called the move—which would still leave the corporate tax rate lower than it was when Trump first took office in 2017—a “fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.” (emphasis mine)

IIRC, the corporate tax rate was slashed by Trump from 30-something percent, maybe 35%, to something like 18%, so to see that Harris was not interested in reversing this Trump tax cut fully (only to 25%) felt til now like yet another depressing instance of the ratchet effect, where the right does what they do, and neoliberals only undo part of it when they are in power.

Is it me or is there something very facile and dull about Gartner charts? Thinking especially about the “””magic””” quadrants one (wow, you ranked competitors in some area along TWO axes!), but even this chart feels like such a mundane observation that it seems like frankly undeserved advertising for Gartner, again, given how little it actually says.

The irony of it being a choking hazard, lmao

‘Great man’ theory of history rears its ugly head(s)

This kinda made me think. We all know the individual today is ‘atomized’ (alienated and isolated from society - in direct contradiction to the aphorism “no man is an island”).

But how many jobs I wonder have become ‘gig-afied’ and atomized, too, so that there are now people working multiple jobs that would previously be one single, well-paying job?

Because it’s Zach Beauchamp and he essentially hates the left.

I know everyone is giving you tidy, case-solving “it’s-always-like-this” responses, but indeed you are on to something.

Let the anti-anti corporate work begin (Walz and Harris being the [somewhat] anti-corporate).

Lmao, Silver is equating a Walz pick to a TIM KAINE pick.

I’m sorry, I can’t read any further with sooo much cope.

Is it? I am ready to believe it is, but i guess i was hoping headlines about passing the court

0 sympathy. Lockheed and Martin. “Yes hello I would like to help you bomb people since you are paying well”

You applied to work at AT&T.

WTF.

Agreed with “fuck Oracle,” but isn’t the JVM the same regardless of where you compile it, Linux or something else?

Something seems off with the idea of a conflict between Linux and Java (and I am no fan of Java!)

GIMP is fucking awesome what are you on about

Wow is this true about Harris?!

*Some girl

Very well said. Thank you for raising the flaws of technocracy so much better than I could have, though I felt the need to!

I want her to listen to climate experts

Yep!

public health experts

Yep!

economic experts

You lost me.

Economics is just political economy somehow supposedly divorced from politics.

The economics Nobel prize is not even a “real” Nobel prize. No kidding, look it up.

Holy shit that’s a good fucking bumper sticker.