This is Griffin's thesis, and I really need to read his book at some point, that fascism is a coherent ideology and it's not going away.

If you want to know more about it, people to follow are @sethcotlar.bsky.social and @gwensnyder.bsky.social .

We've got multiple movements, unfortunately.

But this Nazi thing has been building up for at least 15 years. There's always been a thread of it, but it's taken off exponentially, and in the way of exponential growth, it becomes visible very quickly only at the end of the process.

We've got a real Nazi problem and it reaches to the highest levels of our government.

He's right. Gwen Snyder has been telling us the same thing from the perspective of an anti fascist activist.

for me to even understand what questions there are to ask, let alone begin to address them. I am definitely developing a horrible sense, though, that depending on the cheap photovoltaics that are coming out of China is a devil's bargain.

I've been working on a piece on slavery and solar panel production, which is what prompted the question. The basics are pretty clear and have been laid out in a report written by Laura Murphy at Sheffield Hallam University but I'm trying to frame questions about the global impact and it's not easy

as Keynes observed, "Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task, if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us, that when the storm is long past, the ocean is flat again." Hence my question. There has to be someone who's done some work on this as a dilettante though I'm not aware of it

At least you can measure the quantity of a pollutant, though assigning a monetary value is harder; as soon as human life and health (or even non-human life and health) become involved, the mathematical singularities appear. Economists prefer to stay with linear mathematics and equilibria but

only count the victims? At what point are working conditions bad enough that we just stop calculation and outlaw them?

Bitter laughter.

Ach. I have many unkind thoughts about The Intercept, though they do sometimes do good work.

I expect that a language model generated the name. It's the classic hallucination, right? Just puts things together.

$25,000 in 1980. Our idea of "a lot of money" has been skewed by inflation.

slapping this sticker on top of the nuzzi-lizza discourse