I’m looking for the word or theory that describes situations where many individuals, *acting independently* & rationally, unintentionally cause deleterious group or mass-effects. Not a tragedy of the commons situation… instead think… 1|

It’s true. Air travel was a much, much better experience when economy class was literally 300% expensive more in inflation terms.

What’s really interesting to me is that we forget that 2.4 millennia ago the Mediterranean papers were *filled* with outrage over various liberties taken during the retelling of the Odyssey. It’s like we’ve learned nothing.

Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · 20h ago

Poseidon IS the god of horses (and the sea and Earthquakes). Deloitte could have been really helpful on Olympus tbh.

Oh for the love of all that is holy...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Tragically, another ICE detainee has died at Delaney Hall. Deplorable conditions and inhumane treatment from ICE is a stain on our nation and it must end. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

El Salvador man dies in Delaney Hall immigration facility in New Jersey

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Monday that Edwin Lopez-Cornejo had been held at Delaney Hall in Newark after being arrested in June. The agency says he died Saturday.

pbs.org

Frankly, I wouldn’t join any chat that would have me

Bluesky@bsky.app · 24h ago

Update: group chats can now host up to 100 members.

Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."

This is the problem with populism: you cannot build a republic on a foundation of conspiracies. Corruption and special interests are real challenges, but reducing politics to “us” against “them” infantilizes the electorate and sows the seeds of authoritarian rule.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

With Demorats like these, who needs Republicans?

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez@ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 2d ago

There is pervasive corruption across our healthcare and agricultural systems that defy party lines. I meet with MAHA activists because a lot of their concerns are bipartisan issues that major corporations paint as partisan. The fight isn't left and right, it's top and bottom.

Leftists are giving the neo-Nazis everything they hoped for. Amazing.

Fiona Small@fionasmall.bsky.social · 3d ago

A Mexican neo-Nazi approved

‘Pres. Trump announced that he had canceled unspecified strikes on Iran because of unspecified progress on an unspecified deal to reopen the previously open Strait of Hormuz. This is the 13th time Pres. Trump has announced & cancelled the destruction if Iran since beginning his unofficial war.’

It’s bad enough to report the words of an inveterate liar without qualification, but doing it for the SAME LIE he’s told every week for 2 months or so is just head-scratchingly bad

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

President Trump said late Saturday that he had canceled a series of strikes on Iran because of unspecified progress on a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Follow live updates.

THE LORAX: i am the lorax, i speak for the trees BLUESKY REPLY GUY: twenty million animals died last year and you dont speak for them??

So, so tired of antisemitism.

The fuck are reactionary centrists?

Blocked and reported

I’m not sure this makes literal sense, but the gestalt is accurate.

Dan Cerinthedark@etbeeegood.bsky.social · 5d ago

god gives her least breathable boxers to her swampiest balled warriors

LMAO “political scientist”

Chat, I think science has gone too far

Fascinating that the vehicles most explicitly designed to look and be aggressive end up actually being aggressive. Regulate this culture of vehicular murder out of existence

David Zipper@davidzipper.bsky.social · 5d ago

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...

If I could have a superpower, I’d choose to the ability to *instantly* give someone uncontrollable diarrhea or vomiting from anywhere in the world. Despised populist walks onto the debate stage only for watery poo to seep onto the floor as he grimaces w/ cramps. Don’t need more violence than that.

John Brown stan account@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Just about the only political violence that I can imagine accomplishing anything right now are high profile assassinations. That is, unless you think you can organize a few ten thousand people to show up at the capital and end this

#Miami just set a new record high heat index for July 31. At 4pm, it reached 108°F, breaking the previous record of 107°, set in 2023. Also, it's the 4th day so far this year that met the "heat advisory" criteria of a 105°+ heat index for 2+ hours. In 2023, there were 24 such days by this date.

Read this article

giri nathan@girinathan.bsky.social · 6d ago

we might be throwing out a generational umami opportunity. i will taste the forbidden fish sauce defector.com/abandoned-fi...

New from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...

This poor woman is in hell.

Rich Raho@richraho.bsky.social · 6d ago

A Texas mother deported to Mexico despite having legal permission to stay in the U.S. after arriving as a child has filed a lawsuit against the federal government after it notified her it would be terminating her permission because of “unauthorized travel” stemming from her deportation.

One thing you can see in the latest Stancil blowup is that a sizable share of this website thinks that good intentions are the only thing that matter in policymaking, and expressing skepticism that a policy will really work as intended is equivalent to stealing food from the poor.

Are there any objective, yes/no questions which (though counter to law) would improve the judgment of the median voter? Possible examples: - The earth is at least 100,000 years old. - Telepathy doesn’t exist.

I do think a lot of folks really don't understand that Capitalism is, in fact, a specific kind of economic structure, and not the original sin of mankind. (Redacted cause it's more illustrative of an issue in left-of-center politics and not the posters in particular)

Thought I’d add that ai (as with many things throughout history) can be both paradigm shifting and over-valued. The bursting of the dot-com bubble didn’t mean the internet was a failure.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 6d ago

i don't know if the 'ai bubble' is "over", but Korean stocks are sure signaling... something to that effect