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This is approach by

moat — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:31:03 +0000

In reply to there's a Massachusetts plan,

This approach by Massachusetts should be done by all States.

The States should then coordinate with each other to present the Federal government with a coherent means to use the supply chain resources that only the Federal government can organize.

The Federal capacity to compel production and research needs lot of assistance given the condition of its present leadership.

there's a Massachusetts plan,

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:48:38 +0000

In reply to We Do not have a lot of Time

there's a Massachusetts plan, a real one with an expert team:

https://www.newyorker.com/science/medical-dispatch/its-not-too-late-to-go-on-offense-against-the-coronavirus#intcid=recommendations_default-popular_996a6b6f-6672-4cfd-a98e-7bbe62344de0_popular4-1

Real plan, practica economic

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 08:16:13 +0000

In reply to We Do not have a lot of Time

Real plan, practical economic plan, Warren & Brown-cross link

Pandemic! by Slavoj Žižek

artappraiser — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 07:16:37 +0000

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Pandemic! by Slavoj Žižek review – the philosopher provides his solution

As old orthodoxies melt into air, the world needs a very new form of communism, argues this instant response to the crisis

Book review @ TheGuardian.com, April 23

George Packer of some of the

artappraiser — Tue, 21 Apr 2020 06:11:38 +0000

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George Packer on some of the broken things that need fixing that helped this happen:

“When the virus came here,” George Packer writes, “it found a country with serious underlying conditions, and it exploited them ruthlessly.” https://t.co/T3I2MebIbI
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) April 20, 2020

The irreplaceability of

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 08:20:00 +0000

In reply to Noah Smith op-ed:

The irreplaceability of business was largely cemented in the 90s when even construction workers would check their portfolio perfoemance and pay down a mortgage.. Since then the right has done it's best to denigrate business by highlighting it's excesses, such as stealing thousands' homes through predatory housing practices, now stealing the data of millions and using it against them. Is it possible for the right to advocate business in a sustainable legal fashion, or is "pump and dump" as the only acceptable mode, with concurrent pain for the supposed group they wanted to recruit? If you drown government services (not coffers) in a bathtub and leave Jack the Rippers riving about, well, why even talk about a modern society? It's just the roving packs of bandits stage somewhere back in Europe 1100, pre-Enlightenment.

Noah Smith op-ed:

artappraiser — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 06:06:14 +0000

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Noah Smith op-ed:

"It has become clear that a competent, well-staffed, efficient bureaucracy is key to a nation’s ability to meet major threats." https://t.co/ubUBMpwHyQ
— Cardiff Garcia (@CardiffGarcia) April 20, 2020

And where is Ecology in this

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:19:00 +0000

In reply to I thought at least once was

And where is Ecology in this new ecosystem? What have we learned besides high priced Whole Foods?

(en Francais, helas).

https://www.qqf.fr/article/entretien-juliette-grange-le-jour-d-apres

I thought at least once was

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 02:07:03 +0000

In reply to this posting is not

I thought at least once was the best most important thing Elon Musk had done was pop-up automated Gigafactories - to make whatever. There likely is hype and exaggeration, but then there was a pop-up hospital the Chinese built. It leaked, it was unsanitary, it was awful, but it was a great first try. The Indians did another soon after, perhaps a bit better. Elin's Hyperloop is being attempted in Europe. It may not be exactly what he wrote, but the certainty that city subways require huge amounts of city land, a half a trillion in expense, 1 1/2 decades to build, is giving way as our only option, that maybe we can be fleeter of foot and build something our British brethren of the early 1800s *didn't* envision and largely do already. Our educational system is still almost wholly based on early dindustrial age needs and methods and goals. WaitButHow notes cavemen dropped here would be amazed by everything except our slow same way of speaking and communicating knowledge - where are the Star Trek beams of person-to-person info at 10x our speaking or reading efficiency? Someone on LinkedIn bemoaning our "socialism" with the bailouts, as if the last century's concerns about socialism wasn the killing and imprisoning people in the name of helping them, and that socialism didn't seem to offer an actual mechanism for increased buy-in and productivity and happiness even as the free stuff rolled in - that we needed the pain to move forward in that BF Skinner thinking. Bucky Fuller noted web often progress at 90 degrees to our goals, such as our internet coming out of military efforts rather than "let's build a really cool way for people to communicate" - it was more to help kill others and keep them from killing ourselves. I pointed out how little money in effect could subsidize $20k for every new car sold to make it electric, to actually make Al Gore's promise happen 25 years later, and we just spewed *much more* money out the window in some vast semi-bailout/semi-highway robbery that doesn't address global warming at all. Oops, more belt tightening and polar bear killing for another generation? Yes, will it become t endy on LinkedIn to actually do business to help people and society, rather than simply "monetizing" everything, as if that were the goal?

I love academia and want it

moat — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 23:27:07 +0000

In reply to We academics need to think

I love academia and want it to continue to exist.

In previous generations, the need for its continuance was accepted as something all sides could agree upon.

To make it a policy option now is not only cynical but deeply odd. The only place to argue for different views depends upon such institutions.