@philipbrewer.net Short answer: Avoid debt, raise cash (even though the “-flation” part will bite), limit investments in the stock market or your own business (crushed by the “stag” part), and wait for things to get better.
@philipbrewer.net Short answer: Avoid debt, raise cash (even though the “-flation” part will bite), limit investments in the stock market or your own business (crushed by the “stag” part), and wait for things to get better.
@philipbrewer.net Here is my most recent (but pre-war) post on stagflation: www.philipbrewer.net/2025/01/24/o…
And here’s my old, old (pre-pandemic) post on stagflation: www.wisebread.com/all-about-st…
@ciaranmaccen3ie.bsky.social Most of the people in my HEMA group have painted their masks. It took me a while because I needed to find a set of acrylic paint markers with at least three shades of brown. (Which did not turn out to be as hard as I’d expected.)
@philipbrewer.net The only thing more terrifying would be a raccoon, which would be too scary to carry.
@cstross.bsky.social This is why I’ve always preferred punched paper tape.
@philipbrewer.net First thing I thought of. :-)
@JohnBrady Same. Got hives once after having gotten penicillin. Haven’t had penicillin since. I did have hives once since then. :-/
@philipbrewer.net Sadly, there’s just three WPA images on the wall at the moment. I think maybe they have a lot more and rotate them through? I’m not sure, though.
@numericcitizen I, on the other hand, am very pleased to get this early heads-up, so I can make a point of getting my next (possibly last) pair of ear bugs before they all have AI embedded in them.
@interfluidity.com Of course it’s more complicated than this from both directions. There are plenty of people who choose to, for example, live in a commune, grow their own food, share everything, and take great joy in enjoying their (objectively very low) standard of living.
@philipbrewer.net Possibly of interest to @quinnslobodian.com and @gilduran.com.
@philipbrewer @adders Instead of making 100 radiologists 1% better each, it makes 1 radiologist check the work of the AI and “somehow remain vigilant as they do so, despite the fact that the AI is usually right, except when it’s catastrophically wrong.”
@adders It’s great when it helps human radiologists catch something they’d missed. But, as Cory Doctorow points out, it is all too often the opposite of that:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/n…