longwick's comments

longwick | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?

Mostly write book reviews, and whatever comes to mind.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: How we broke the supply chain

Your comment does nothing to talk of the substance of the article.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: Anyone Seen Tether’s Billions?

AFAIK I think Terra’s UST is pretty legit

longwick | 4 years ago | on: Australia’s new mass surveillance mandate

I suspect until just recently it was because of the negative gearing policies, but now that Labor has officially scrapped any changes I feel like the differences between the parties gets thinner and thinner.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: How Media Is Control

Absolutely agree! Thanks for those links.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: How Media Is Control

I wrote an article on the propaganda model of media first put forward by Chomsky and Herman’s Manufacturing Consent. Our media is owned by a specific few with their own intentions in mind, I’d love to hear your thoughts!

longwick | 4 years ago | on: Six corporations control 90% of America media

I wrote an article exactly on this and how mass media have their own agenda in their programs https://apurva-shukla.me/blog/media-and-propaganda/

longwick | 4 years ago | on: My take on the study from MIT that predicts “societal collapse”

That’s just semantics, it means the same thing.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

But at least the concentration of wealth would not occur, and right now wealth = power, which often means anti competitive practices like simply buying competitors.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: We can now harvest usable lithium from seawater: study

This is the fundamental issue. If there is a environmentally friendly way to industrially produce something, it is not rewarded by our current system of capitalism. It is a form of green capitalism, still looking for profits to guide us to the best solution (when in fact there are better solutions. Our assertion of value is based solely on profits which is fundamentally at odds with this climate emergency. Would love to hear alternative thoughts.

longwick | 4 years ago | on: Small B Blogging (2018)

Love this premise! I’ve created my blog and website on Gatsby and am experimenting with creating small targeted campaigns for each of my posts depending on the topic/theme using a self hosted matomo analytics service and a self hosted staticman service (which creates a GitHub PR for moderation) so there are no creepy intermediaries for handling data. It’s pretty surprising and empowering how many solutions are out there that don’t need you to sign up to platforms, but it definitely is a slight (but fun) learning curve. Check it out here https://apurva-shukla.me

longwick | 4 years ago | on: Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

Ah another free market neoliberalist. You do know that government intervention during Keynesian’s time was incredibly helpful for the macro economy - providing jobs and investment into long running avenues. Neoliberalism purports that the private sector will invest diligently but really we’re seeing companies use shortermism as a technique to just make profit.