Thursday, December 02, 2021

THE BAD GUYS ARE WINNING

My love is of a birth as rare

As ’tis for object strange and high;

It was begotten by Despair

Upon Impossibility.”



Larkin died on this date, December 2, in 1985, at the age of sixty-three.


Trust. Without it, Adam Smith’s invisible hand stays in its pocket; Keynes’s “animal spirits” are muted. “Virtually every commercial transaction has within itself an element of trust,” the Nobel Prize–winning economist Kenneth Arrow wrote in 1972.

The End of Trust Suspicion is undermining the American economy.


Individuals matter Dan Luu. Yes, this is from 2021.



“Work Lunch” The New Yorker


When you ban someone from your channel, they should be banned from your community for good,” Twitch said in an announcement. “Unfortunately, bad actors often choose to create new accounts, jump back into Chat, and continue their abusive behaviour. Suspicious User Detection, powered by machine learning, is here to help you identify those users based on a number of account signals. By detecting and analysing these signals, this tool will flag suspicious accounts as either “likely” or “possible” channel-ban evaders, so you can take action as needed.”

Twitch ban evasion suspicious user detection


If the 20th century was the story of slow, uneven progress toward the victory of liberal democracy over other ideologies—communism, fascism, virulent nationalism—the 21st century is, so far, a story of the reverse

he future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town.