#economic output

[alwaysbewoke]

#bernie sanders #work week reduction #32-hour work week #overtime pay #productivity #technology #fair labor standards act #international examples #france #norway #denmark #germany #well-being #stress #fatigue #republican senator bill cassidy #small enterprises #job losses #consumer prices #japan #economic output #labor dynamics #artificial intelligence #automation #workforce composition

[echofromtheabyss]

I’m 50. My culture as I know it may not survive another hundred years. I don’t know what the future holds. I am going to spend the rest of my life doing whatever the fuck I want, what I want in a job is something that gives me the work-life balance I need for that, and “whatever the fuck I want” in this particular year means obsessing over my self directed multimedia projects and making music about space.

#The Jewish culture I relate to and am part of - peaked in the 70s-80s #American Jews are being replaced by much more religious and straight laced Jewish people who had more babies #but don’t have the creative output or edgy opinions #we will never produce another Lenny Bruce in my lifetime #American Jewry has gotten pushed *more* toward model minority shit not less bc both left and right have ideas of what a Good Jew is #and we also economically destroyed the creative production capacity of the class of people that produced the edgy Jewish creatives

[daisyachain]

It’s sad seeing three consecutive author’s notes that are just cries for help.

#someone fire this guy’s goddamn EIC before he develops crippling health issues that put his creative output on ice forever oh wait— #kelsey liveblogs hxh #seriously though. did it not ring any alarms. move the release schedule to monthly and just buy time. even economically #it doesn’t make sense to kill a creative!

[ninjaglobal]

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#Worlds Economic Output #Worlds Economic #UNCTAD #UNCTAD] #Global Trade #ninja global

[deenbandhuchhoturamuniversity]

Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, also known as DCRUST, is a renowned institution located in Murthal, Haryana, India. Established in 2006, the university has quickly gained recognition for its excellence in science and technology education. With a sprawling campus and state-of-the-art facilities, DCRUST offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in various fields of study. The university is known for its strong emphasis on research and innovation, fostering an environment where students can explore their intellectual curiosities and contribute to the advancement of knowledge in their respective fields.

Web Site:- www.dcrusm.org.in

#Applied Sciences #Management #Pharmacy #Humanities #Research and Innovation #Industry collaborations #Entrepreneurship #Community engagement #Social responsibility #Outreach programs #Community development initiatives #Awareness campaigns #Educational quality #Research output #Conducive learning environment #Skilled graduates #Technological and socio-economic growth

[lackadaisycats]

Hey Tracy! Have you heard about the new Ai called Sora? Apparently it can now create 2D and 3D animations as well as hyper realistic videos. I’ve been getting into animation and trying to improve my art for years since I was 7, but now seeing that anyone can create animation/works in just a mare seconds by typing in a couple words, it’s such a huge slap in the face to people who actually put the time and effort into their works and it’s so discouraging! And it has me worried about what’s going to happen next for artists and many others, as-well. There’s already generated voices, generated works stolen from actual artists, generated music, and now this! It’s just so scary that it’s coming this far. 

Yeah, I've seen it. And yeah, it feels like the universe has taken on a 'fuck you in particular' attitude toward artists the past few years. A lot of damage has already been done, and there are plenty of reasons for concern, but bear in mind that we don't know how this will play out yet. Be astute, be justifiably angry, but don't let despair take over. --------

One would expect that the promo clips that have been dropping lately represent some of the best of the best-looking stuff they've been able to produce. And it's only good-looking on an extremely superficial level. It's still riddled with problems if you spend even a moment observing. And I rather suspect, prior to a whole lot of frustrated iteration, most prompts are still going to get you camera-sickness inducing, wibbly-wobbly nonsense with a side of body horror.

Will the tech ultimately get 'smarter' than that and address the array of typical AI giveaways? Maybe. Probably, even. Does that mean it'll be viable in quite the way it's being marketed, more or less as a human-replacer? Well…

A lot of this is hype, and hype is meant to drive up the perceived value of the tech. Executives will rush to be early adopters without a lot of due diligence or forethought because grabbing it first like a dazzled chimp and holding up like a prize ape-rock makes them look like bleeding-edge tech geniuses in their particular ecosystem. They do this because, in turn, that perceived value may make their company profile and valuations go up too, which makes shareholders short-term happy (the only kind of happy they know). The problem is how much actual functional value will it have? And how long does it last? Much of it is the same routine we were seeing with blockchain a few years ago: number go up. Number go up always! Unrealistic, unsustainable forever-growth must be guaranteed in this economic clime. If you can lay off all of your people and replace them with AI, number goes up big and never stops, right?

I have some doubts. ----------------------

The chips also haven't landed yet with regards to the legality of all of this. Will these adopters ultimately be able to copyright any of this output trained on datasets comprised of stolen work? Can computer-made art even be copyrighted at all? How much of a human touch will be required to make something copyright-able? I don't know yet. Neither do the hype team or the early adopters.

Does that mean the tech will be used but will have to be retrained on the adopter's proprietary data? Yeah, maybe. That'd be a somewhat better outcome, at least. It still means human artists make specific things for the machine to learn from. (Watch out for businesses that use 'ethical' as a buzzword to gloss over how many people they've let go from their jobs, though.)

Will it become industry standard practice to do things this way? Maybe. Will it still require an artist's sensbilities and oversignt to plan and curate and fix the results so that it doesn't come across like pure AI trash? Yeah, I think that's pretty likely.

If it becomes standard practice, will it become samey, and self-referential and ultimately an emblem of doing things the cookie-cutter way instead of enlisting real, human artists? Quite possibly.

If it becomes standard industry practice, will there still be an audience or a demand or a desire for art made by human artists? Yes, almost certainly. With every leap of technology, that has remained the case. ------------------ TL;DR Version:

I'm not saying with any certainty that this AI blitz is a passing fad. I think we're likely to experience a torrential amount of generative art, video, voice, music, programming, and text in the coming years, in fact, and it will probably irrevocably change the layout of the career terrain. But I wouldn't be surprised if it was being overhyped as a business strategy right now. And I don't think the immensity of its volume will ever overcome its inherent emptiness.

What I am certain of is that it will not eliminate the innate human impulse to create. Nor the desire to experience art made by a fellow soul. Keep doing your thing, Anon. It's precious. It's authentic. It will be all the more special because it will have come from you, a human.

#art #lackadaisy #technology

[don-lichterman]

Strong US retail sales, manufacturing output boost economic outlook

Strong US retail sales, manufacturing output boost economic outlook

US retail sales rose strongly in April as consumers bought more motor vehicles amid an improvement in supply and increased spending at restaurants, providing a powerful boost to the economy at the start of the second quarter. The broad rise in retail sales reported by the Commerce Department on Tuesday suggested demand was holding strong despite headwinds from high inflation, souring consumer…

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#boost #Economic #manufacturing #outlook #Output #Retail #sales #Strong

[ikpress1]

AN EXPLANATION OF THE VARIABILITY OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE OF CHINA |  Journal of Economics and Trade

Some of the stylized growth facts that Kaldor asserted [1] include the disparity in economic growth rates in all countries of the world and their enormous variability within each country. This form of economic regularity is not unique to China. According to the database Penn World Table, the country's lowest growth rate in the previous 60 years was -18.8% in 1961 and its greatest was 15.2% in 1984. The purpose of this research is to illustrate how variables influence the variability of the Chinese economy's growth rate. As a result, non-parametric estimates, as well as estimates using the ordinary least squares method and the Granger causality test, are made using the Harrod growth model. The findings reveal that the Chinese economy's growth rate is determined and caused by the marginal product capital ratio.

Please see the link :- https://www.ikprress.org/index.php/JET/article/view/114

#Economics growth #incremental capital output ratio #marginal propensity to save

[leprivatebanker]

The U.S output gap declined to minus 267, seemingly showing a potential bearish cycling is upcoming.

The U.S output gap declined to minus 267, seemingly showing a potential bearish cycling is upcoming.

The U.S output gap declined to minus 267, seemingly showing a potential bearish cycling is upcoming. Goldman Sachs lowered its forecast of its S&P 500 year-end 2022 price target to 4300 (from 4700).

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#Economics #Output gap

[headspace-hotel]

I'm not super favorable about "insects as sustainably farmed food" because I feel like it obscures the nature of the global food crisis.

We aren't anywhere close to a hard limit on the amount of food we can produce or the amount of people we can feed.

But our economic system keeps human labor forces that work on farms in dire poverty and sterilizes the landscape of smallholder farms that grow a variety of crops and cultivars while maintaining natural biodiversity, replacing them with vast monocultures and factory farms that replace human labor and sustainable practices with machinery and mass application of pesticides/herbicides/antibiotics/etc

The goal of the system is to consolidate as much wealth at the top of a pyramid of extracting wealth from land and labor, and this means farming ought to be consolidated under the control of Corporation, so the "solutions" considered to be viable are just those that simplify farming down to "input raw materials-> output Product" as much as possible. Most of the multitude of foods we can raise or grow sustainably require decentralized, personalized human labor to some extent, knowledgeable humans who are actually present and active in their relationship with the ecosystem

but our economic system sees the optimal way as "Dump corn into Facility-> Get sellable product." Farming as a way to convert land area and an investment of machinery and chemicals into Profit.

basically, insects are more factory-farmable than anything we have now and that's why they're considered such a good option as a sustainable food source

[centrally-unplanned]

Ratfic version of Omelas where I take over the city and marshal its perpetually lucky, incorruptibly healthy, impeccably orderly population into a military-economic war machine, perfect process engineering and uncomplaining 16 hours shifts outputting weapons by the truckload to be handled by men with unfailing morale and immunity to battlefield disease and rot. The Omelegions brick by brick conquer the neighboring nations, dismantle their cities, and relocate their populations back to the capital, their complaints magically washed away by the soothing, brackish tears staining the pitted cheeks of our war machine's heart as soon as they cross the border. Dense urbanization is promoted alongside mass-scale hypertransit projects, rendering each new district such a teeming mass of socioeconomic interconnections that the magic of Omelas is forced to extend its blessed embrace mile and after inexorable mile, still powered by the hacking sobs and blood-stained fingernails of a single child. All shall be Omelas, nation by nation, from commercial center to industrial district to residential exurb, until the city coats the entire planet and the Ecumenopolis of Omelas is born. Earth is no more, there is only Omelas, and the despair lancing on loop through every synapse of our Child-Emperor's brain is mathematically, objectively, as officially calculated in the holy ledger of the Ministry of Utility, reduced to infrequent specks of morality in the eyes of the one hundred trillion residents, unnoticed in their bliss.

And then "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas" will have to choke on their insufferable self-righteous bullshit because they have nowhere to walk EVERYWHERE IS OMELAS NOW BITC-

[communistkenobi]

I remember a self-described queer feminist once very confidently telling me on here (in response to me saying star trek tos is racist of all things lol) that imperialism had not been theorised prior to like the 1960s so applying any kind of anti-imperial analysis to American television made prior to that time period was historically inappropriate. setting aside the base stupid logic of that for a moment it is immediately apparent that this statement is made with deliberate and profound ignorance to the many Black and Global South writers and activists who, in the 1930s, immediately diagnosed rising European fascism as the logical output of western imperialism. Langston Hughes said in 1937 “in America, Negroes do not have to be told what fascism is in action. We know. Its theories of Nordic supremacy and economic suppression have long been realities to us.”

#I should post about tos again it really helped cull all the annoying people who follow me #and they weren’t the only ones ofc. Lenin and so on and so forth

[gothhabiba]

The occupation [of Palestine] has [...] witnessed a process of economic integration without parallel political integration or representation. The OPT [occupied Palestinian territories] are highly dependent on Israel for basic goods and consistently run a trade deficit with Israel. Citrus from the OPT for example is exported to Europe through Israel and then sold back to the Palestinians as processed juices and preserves because no facilities exist to process the raw materials. Almost all of the OPT agricultural imports come from Israel, and are either grown there or imported through Israeli firms. A UN study in the-mid 1980s showed that 50 percent of Palestinian imports from Israel had been produced domestically prior to the occupation (Awartani, 1993).

Palestinians procure from Israel some 90 to 100 thousand tons of fruits and vegetables annually (Awartani, 1993). While a small portion of these exports are produce not grown locally, most are products with which the OPT suffers from severe surpluses, yet are offered cheaper by the subsidized Israeli market. Meanwhile 5,000 tons of fresh fruit and vegetables are exported to Israel and around 40,000 tons of oranges are exported to Israel juice processing factories. Therefore, the physical agricultural trade deficit of the OPT to Israel is in the range of 40,000 to 70,000 tons. This fluctuates as Israel uses the OPT as a buffer to fill shortages and stabilize prices. Israel is highly selective about what it allows across the green line and its practice of holding up agricultural produce has a crippling effect on local farmers.

Due to the high levels of subsidization of Israeli agriculture, Palestinian growers operate with considerable comparative disadvantages. For example, in 1981 the total value of Israeli government subsidies to agriculture equaled $1.5 billion – equivalent to twice the total value of agricultural output for that year (Awartani, 1993). The unique perception of the role of agriculture in building the State has been expressed in generous support programs covering all aspects of production and marketing and the full range of services supportive to agricultural development.

Israel also helps regulate risk, regulates supply through marketing boards and promotes agricultural exports. Israel’s subsidies, particularly cheap water, are particularly damaging to Palestinian agriculture, and enervating, due to the fact that the 90% of the water of the (inequitably) shared Mountain aquifer resources originates as rainwater in the West Bank. Presently, more than 85% of the Palestinian water from the West Bank aquifers is taken by Israel, accounting for 25.3% of Israel’s water needs. While subsidy levels have been decreasing since the 1980s, Israel has devised other means of restraining Palestinian agricultural activity. Chief among these is the permit system. For example military order No. 1015 (Aug. 27, 1982) gave the power to authorities to require permission for the planting of fruit trees other than that for personal consumption.

– 2009. Leah Temper, “Creating Facts on the Ground: Agriculture in Israel and Palestine (1882-2000),” Historia Agraria 48, pp. 75-110.

#Leah Temper #quote #Palestine #Israel #agriculture

[deenbandhuchhoturamuniversity]

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#Applied Sciences #Management #Pharmacy #Humanities #Research and Innovation #Industry collaborations #Entrepreneurship #Community engagement #Social responsibility #Outreach programs #Community development initiatives #Awareness campaigns #Educational quality #Research output #Conducive learning environment #Skilled graduates #Technological and socio-economic growth

[yourtongzhihazel]

In 1825, well after Haitians won their independence, the french levied five 30 million franc payments over the course of 5 years as a debt due to their independence. The total annaul economic output of Haiti was only 6 million francs. Why did they legy such harsh debts? To fover lost property. What lost property? The land? Yes. The buildings? Yes. But most importantly, the (now former) slaves themselves.

Not only did the french not pay the Haitians for their centuries of crimes against humanity and torture against them, the french demanded a debt simply because the Haitians freed themselves.

Haiti paid off a debt which they should not have owed over a century after they were levied; in the 1950s.

#i loathe the french #everything they say makes me ill #death to the west

[transmutationisms]

ok i still haven't seen the video du jour so i'm not casting aspersions on it, specifically, but i must say i am baffled by seeing responses to it on here that seem to be written under the presumption that newspaper journalism is somehow immune to the economic forces that cause digital creators to churn out endless streams of low-effort, plagiarised content. have we not all had the experience of trying to find information about an event and clicking on a few different news stories from 'respectable' outlets, only to discover they're all using the same three quotes and just paraphrasing the copy around it, and then clicking around more and determining that those three quotes all turn out to have been sourced from a local paper that broke the story last week but has a circulation of approximately ten people and was mostly ignored, and meanwhile critical details of the situation have now been distorted or omitted in a game of lazy newsprint telephone?

this is more of what i mean when i say that plagiarism is not a bug of capitalist knowledge production and circulation; it's a feature. newspapers and academic articles and youtube video essays are all products and they all exist to sell themselves. individual writers and journalists and editors may be more or less invested, personally, in what they're making, but regardless they are all subject to the same forces incentivising more content and shittier source attribution: it's good for your bottom line if you can continually present yourself as some brilliant thinker who is coming up with wholly original ideas and bestowing them upon the masses. it is much less beneficial to you, economically, to direct people openly and honestly to others' work by crediting them and presenting your own output as part of a larger collaborative social endeavour.

this sort of knowledge production is therefore prone to plagiarism as an expression of the contradiction between the idealist pretense to knowledge circulation as a beneficent activity of social enlightenment, and the material reality of knowledge circulation as a capitalist activity both productive of and dependent on structures of exploitation and inequality. it's not a problem that's unique to individual bad actors, or to any specific medium or professional credential or lack thereof. let's be serious

#najia said much the same the other day about academia! i just like dk why there is so much energy put into trying to present certain #media forms as uniquely subject to market forces. or well i do know why but lol