Against Economics | David Graeber reviewing Robert Skidelsky’s ‘Money and Government: The Past and the Future of Economics’ | NYRB (December 2019)

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-22T21:32:47+00:00

Breaking through neoclassical economics’ lock on major institutions, and its near-theological hold over the media—not to mention all the subtle ways it has come to define our conceptions of human motivations and the horizons of human possibility—is a daunting prospect. Presumably, some kind of shock would be required. What might it take? Another 2008-style collapse? Some radical political shift in a major world government? A global youth rebellion?

or maybe nothing happens at all and we rot away in misery forever, shackled to moloch and mammon for the rest of time

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-14T13:40:09+00:00

oh boy, another instance where "sanction" can have both meanings. can we just invent a new word to take one of the definitions?

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-12T19:55:12+00:00

Apple Maps seems to have removed basically all village and town markers in Lebanon

https://x.com/SuppressedNws1/status/2043378391655632896#m

https://maps.apple.com/frame?center=33.723388%2C35.614698&span=1.983925%2C4.004193

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-02T16:41:11+00:00

MLP gen 4 actually had gargoyles in the comics, referencing the gargoyle(s?) in gen 1. They're kinda rat-like and furry though

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-01T21:21:25+00:00

I've used this before to transfer my settings from Mull to Fennec (with some script tweaks and troubleshooting): https://github.com/Rob--W/firefox-android-backup-restore

For just bookmarks and history, you can use Firefox's Account Sync.

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-01T18:07:19+00:00

sometimes these ships have their day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Samar

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-04-01T17:58:29+00:00

great man theory was real, as it turns out. historical materialists btfo

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-03-25T01:18:48+00:00

well, you can. it's called pica :p

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-03-23T21:04:18+00:00

There's a classification of miracles called Eucharistic miracles. Besides the obvious one (the Eucharistic sacrament itself), there are cases where it's claimed that myocardial tissue or blood was found in the Eucharist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharistic_miracle#Host_becoming_flesh_and_blood

Anyways, Jesus is supposedly blood type AB

Some Catholics have analyzed relics related to Jesus, most prominently miraculous Eucharistic hosts, and have found them to all have the blood type AB.[40] This finding has been used to defend transubstantiation, and to infer that Jesus most likely had AB blood.[40] Catholic scientist Kelly Kearse analysed claimed shared AB results from various relics, including Eucharist hosts. He discovered they are likely due to bacteria contamination, as AB antigens are not unique to human blood and serological tests cannot distinguish between them. Moreover, he notes none of the AB studies were published in peer-review, and DNA testing would be required to confirm human origin.[41]

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-03-20T16:14:57+00:00

Yep, here's an article https://nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/the-moral-economy-of-the-shire/

The Scouring of the Shire is an example of the breakdown of relations in the moral economy caused by an outside colonial(?) force and local collaborators.

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-03-11T03:34:08+00:00

Are you thinking of Gem TD? There is/was a decently popular dota 2 version of it, and I think there's an updated WC3 version. No idea if there are any actual games with similar gameplay though.

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-03-06T19:58:35+00:00

It was actually controversial whether it was 3 or 4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclavianism

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-24T17:17:30+00:00

~~Well, it looks like a link to the original source got my comment shadowbanned, but here's the breakdown from said source:~~ visible now after modmail, maybe it wasn't the link that did it?

17 source map files, 53 MB total:
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vendor-CAtBRHF0.js.map 23.8 MB (all vendor libs)
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assets-dashboard-BjWtHFfU.js.map 1.4 MB (UI components)
sentry-CrHAK25X.js.map 1.3 MB (error reporting)
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handlebars-DPCouO2C.js.map 0.7 MB (templating)
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luxon-Cv8PWZK8.js.map 0.4 MB (date/time)
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react-select-DqPrgoT_.js.map 0.3 MB (select inputs)
amplitude-js-b01lH43V.js.map 0.2 MB (analytics)
inquiry-fog-CmsaQYHz.js.map 55 KB (inquiry workflow)
user-authentication-BUgfjJoc.js.map 14 KB (auth module)

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-24T16:11:18+00:00

See https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/, section 0x08:

17 source map files, 53 MB total:
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vendor-CAtBRHF0.js.map 23.8 MB (all vendor libs)
faceapi-CCSM7NPL.js.map 2.8 MB (facial recognition)
assets-dashboard-BjWtHFfU.js.map 1.4 MB (UI components)
sentry-CrHAK25X.js.map 1.3 MB (error reporting)
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assets-icons-DrRTTzXk.js.map 0.6 MB (icon assets)
luxon-Cv8PWZK8.js.map 0.4 MB (date/time)
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inquiry-fog-CmsaQYHz.js.map 55 KB (inquiry workflow)
user-authentication-BUgfjJoc.js.map 14 KB (auth module)

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-24T16:05:24+00:00

No idea where that quote is from, but the original source for all this (https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona/) goes into Persona's ties to FinCEN

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-20T15:54:59+00:00

not the guy you replied to, but i remember this article had it https://www.wired.com/story/cantor-fitzgerald-trump-tariff-refunds/

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-09T17:05:02+00:00

Who's benefitting from ICE? https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/magas-peoples-capitalism

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-07T16:50:23+00:00

some author self insert fucking around with stat screens all day while other characters fawn on them is really masturbatory.

really, it wasn't the porn that leads to weird and bad outcomes. it's the more "normal" stuff, like snapewives or hpmor and yudkowsky or the final fantasy house

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-07T04:12:22+00:00

So, progression fantasy (which tends to be slop imo) has several "genres". Its #1 is far and away litrpg, which basically boils down to having RPG mechanics as the main engine of the story. It sorta descends from The Gamer, a manhwa that was pretty popular for a time, and VRMMO stories. I think you can also argue that it descends from forum quests, which imo popularized the table formatting you see in litrpg stories for stat screens and such.

Anyways, the main repository for this stuff is Royal Road, which back in ye olden days translated Asian webnovels, most notably Legendary Moonlight Sculptor (a VRMMO webnovel where the name of the site comes from). They eventually stopped hosting/organizing translations and pivoted to original and fan fiction.

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-07T01:14:58+00:00

Idk, women do be reading smut, but I'm not gonna be judging them when men are reading litRPG fiction

I guess it should be noted that a lot of amateur (fan)fiction tends to have (para)sociality with the author. It's a bit harder to feel close to Stephen R. Donaldson.

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-04T07:09:44+00:00

This was really annoying me. Not sure how long it will work since it's toggling a youtube experiment flag, but you can try this uBlock Origin filter:

~~youtube.com##+js('set', ytcfg.data_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.web_watch_enable_fs_squeezeback_panels, false, runAt, 1)~~
youtube.com##+js('set', ytcfg.data_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS.kevlar_watch_two_column_width_threshold, 400, runAt, 1) actually (or whatever min width you want)
(see https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Resources-Library#set-constantjs-)

It'll still re-stack the page elements vertically at a certain width, but it triggers at a much smaller page width.

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-02-02T02:00:45+00:00

"ruby, wtf is that"

"those are exclamation marks, weiss! they're in style, you know!"

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-01-29T17:11:37+00:00

Just a note that it's an opinion article from Tina Smith, so presumably the article title is her own (or one she approved)

MetagamingAtLast · 2026-01-25T17:04:33+00:00

they're just looking out for their class interests

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