Karlosity
LightNews LightNews
banner
karlosity.bsky.social
Karlosity
@karlosity.bsky.social
34 followers 140 following 150 posts
expressing unassailable truths with meaningless sentences since 1966
@karlosity@mastodon.nz
Posts Replies Media Videos
karlosity.bsky.social
Excellent choice!
My arms aren't long enough for my aged eyes so I just bought this one...
Casio B650WD-1A
October 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
ELIZA front page on a vt100 screen; an early chat(ter)bot from the 60s
October 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
karlosity.bsky.social
Ahoy-Hoy! Librarians!
Telelifts FTW!
A Lamson Telelift Automated Document & Book Distribution Rail-Capsule portrayed as a "Biblically Accurate" Angel. Illustration by Martha van Drunen
July 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
Sending you some misty Antarctic breezes from Wellington - but still only 12.4C at 11.20pm.
Well at least it's Matariki Bank Holiday tomorrow ...Happy New Year!
June 19, 2025 at 11:22 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
SEA LIONS CARTOON. WONDERMARK BY DAVID MALKI! WONDERMARK.COM ©2014 Malki! F: I DON'T MIND MOST MARINE MAMMALS. BUT SEA LIONS? I COULD DO WITHOUT SEA LIONS. M: DON'T SAY THAT OUT LOUD! SL: PARDON ME, I COULDN'T HELP BUT OVERHEAR... M: NOW YOU'VE DONE IT SL: I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A CIVIL CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR STATEMENT. WOULD YOU MIND SHOWING ME EVIDENCE OF ANY NEGATIVE THING ANY SEA LION HAS EVER DONE TO YOU? F: GO AWAY! SL: THERE'S NO NEED TO RAISE YOUR VOICE, I'M RIGHT HERE. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE ANY SOURCES TO BACK UP YOUR OPINION? F: YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! SL: YOU MADE A STATEMENT IN PUBLIC FOR ALL TO HEAR. ARE YOU UNABLE TO DEFEND THE STATEMENTS YOU MAKE? OR SIMPLY UNWILLING TO HAVE A REASONED DISCUSSION? M: TOLD YOU, DUDE. SEA LIONS. SL: I HAVE BEEN UNFAILINGLY POLITE, AND YOU TWO HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT RUDE. F: I AM TRYING TO EAT BREAKFAST. SL: VERY WELL. WE SHALL RESUME IN AN HOUR...
May 19, 2025 at 8:04 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
Gif from the movie Airplane "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking"
March 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
Where's my StarTrekShitposting peeps at? IYKYK...
February 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
<chuckle>
Shoop'd Southern Hemisphere "face" of the Man in the Moon
February 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
And the final (phew!)
China saw it as integrative, and integrated Russia and its soybean purchase orders into a far more complex negotiation ecosystem. Trump has the same weakness politically. For every winner there must be a loser. And that's just not how politics works, not over the long run. For people who study negotiations, this is incredibly basic stuff, negotiations 101, definitions you learn before you even start talking about styles and tactics. And here's another huge problem for us. Trump is utterly convinced that his experience in a closely held real estate company has prepared him to run a nation, and therefore he rejects the advice of people who spent entire careers studying the nuances of international negotiations and diplomacy. But the leaders on the other side of the table have not eschewed expertise, they have embraced it. And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it. From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn't even bringing checkers to a chess match. He's bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.” — David Honig
February 2, 2025 at 12:33 PM
karlosity.bsky.social
and the next bit of the text ...
The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can other countries. He can't demand they not respond. There is no defined end to the negotiation and there is no simple winner and loser. There are always more pies to be baked. Further, negotiations aren't binary. China's choices aren't (a) buy soybeans from US farmers, or (b) don't buy soybeans. They can also (c) buy soybeans from Russia, or Argentina, or Brazil, or Canada, etc. That completely strips the distributive bargainer of his power to win or lose, to control the negotiation. One of the risks of distributive bargaining is bad will. In a one-time distributive bargain, e.g. negotiating with the cabinet maker in your casino about whether you're going to pay his whole bill or demand a discount, you don't have to worry about your ongoing credibility or the next deal. If you do that to the cabinet maker, you can bet he won't agree to do the cabinets in your next casino, and you're going to have to find another cabinet maker. There isn't another Canada. So when you approach international negotiation, in a world as complex as ours, with integrated economies and multiple buyers and sellers, you simply must approach them through integrative bargaining. If you attempt distributive bargaining, success is impossible. And we see that already. Trump has raised tariffs on China. China responded, in addition to raising tariffs on US goods, by dropping all its soybean orders from the US and buying them from Russia. The effect is not only to cause tremendous harm to US farmers, but also to increase Russian revenue, making Russia less susceptible to sanctions and boycotts, increasing its economic and political power in the world, and reducing ours. Trump saw steel and aluminum and thought it would be an easy win, BECAUSE HE SAW ONLY STEEL AND ALUMINUM - HE SEES EVERY NEGOTIATION AS DISTRIBUTIVE. China saw it…
February 2, 2025 at 12:31 PM
karlosity.bsky.social
Here's the Alt Text for the image...
The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president, by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. Everybody I know should read this accurate and enlightening piece... “I’m going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes. Trump, as most of us know, is the credited author of "The Art of the Deal," a book that was actually ghost written by a man named Tony Schwartz, who was given access to Trump and wrote based upon his observations. If you've read The Art of the Deal, or if you've followed Trump lately, you'll know, even if you didn't know the label, that he sees all dealmaking as what we call "distributive bargaining." Distributive bargaining always has a winner and a loser. It happens when there is a fixed quantity of something and two sides are fighting over how it gets distributed. Think of it as a pie and you're fighting over who gets how many pieces. In Trump's world, the bargaining was for a building, or for construction work, or subcontractors. He perceives a successful bargain as one in which there is a winner and a loser, so if he pays less than the seller wants, he wins. The more he saves the more he wins. The other type of bargaining is called integrative bargaining. In integrative bargaining the two sides don't have a complete conflict of interest, and it is possible to reach mutually beneficial agreements. Think of it, not a single pie to be divided by two hungry people, but as a baker and a caterer negotiating over how many pies will be baked at what prices, and the nature of their ongoing relationship after this one gig is over. The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can ot…
February 2, 2025 at 12:27 PM
karlosity.bsky.social
Don't worry, once the #booktok folks realise they can engage the nuclear block/report in #booksky the toxic whattabout-ers will fade away...
A 4 panel comic The first two panels are titled “Blocking someone on Twitter” Panel 1: Blue guy holding a door open. Red guy stands in the doorway Panel 2: Blue guy slams door on Red guy, however the door has large glass panels, so Red Guy can still keep watching Blue guy like an absolute pervert. The second two panels are titled “Blocking someone on Bluesky” Panel 3: The Blue guy is reaching down and picking up a large piece of machinery. The red guy watches him. Panel 4: The large piece of machinery is revealed to be a shoulder mounted nuclear cannon. Blue Guy uses the cannon to blast Red guy completely out of existence.
January 19, 2025 at 9:05 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
Uh-oh, "several" Star Trek emergencies begin like this...
January 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
karlosity.bsky.social
What cout for Sealions!
SEA LIONS CARTOON. WONDERMARK BY DAVID MALKI! WONDERMARK.COM ©2014 Malki! F: I DON'T MIND MOST MARINE MAMMALS. BUT SEA LIONS? I COULD DO WITHOUT SEA LIONS. M: DON'T SAY THAT OUT LOUD! SL: PARDON ME, I COULDN'T HELP BUT OVERHEAR... M: NOW YOU'VE DONE IT SL: I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A CIVIL CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR STATEMENT. WOULD YOU MIND SHOWING ME EVIDENCE OF ANY NEGATIVE THING ANY SEA LION HAS EVER DONE TO YOU? F: GO AWAY! SL: THERE'S NO NEED TO RAISE YOUR VOICE, I'M RIGHT HERE. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE ANY SOURCES TO BACK UP YOUR OPINION? F: YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! SL: YOU MADE A STATEMENT IN PUBLIC FOR ALL TO HEAR. ARE YOU UNABLE TO DEFEND THE STATEMENTS YOU MAKE? OR SIMPLY UNWILLING TO HAVE A REASONED DISCUSSION? M: TOLD YOU, DUDE. SEA LIONS. SL: I HAVE BEEN UNFAILINGLY POLITE, AND YOU TWO HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT RUDE. F: I AM TRYING TO EAT BREAKFAST. SL: VERY WELL. WE SHALL RESUME IN AN HOUR...
January 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
karlosity.bsky.social
Hopefully he's gonna learn this ain't twitter, but blockity-block-block👍 and down with this sort of thing...
SEA LIONS CARTOON. WONDERMARK BY DAVID MALKI! WONDERMARK.COM ©2014 Malki! F: I DON'T MIND MOST MARINE MAMMALS. BUT SEA LIONS? I COULD DO WITHOUT SEA LIONS. M: DON'T SAY THAT OUT LOUD! SL: PARDON ME, I COULDN'T HELP BUT OVERHEAR... M: NOW YOU'VE DONE IT SL: I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A CIVIL CONVERSATION ABOUT YOUR STATEMENT. WOULD YOU MIND SHOWING ME EVIDENCE OF ANY NEGATIVE THING ANY SEA LION HAS EVER DONE TO YOU? F: GO AWAY! SL: THERE'S NO NEED TO RAISE YOUR VOICE, I'M RIGHT HERE. I'M JUST CURIOUS IF YOU HAVE ANY SOURCES TO BACK UP YOUR OPINION? F: YOU'RE IN MY HOUSE! SL: YOU MADE A STATEMENT IN PUBLIC FOR ALL TO HEAR. ARE YOU UNABLE TO DEFEND THE STATEMENTS YOU MAKE? OR SIMPLY UNWILLING TO HAVE A REASONED DISCUSSION? M: TOLD YOU, DUDE. SEA LIONS. SL: I HAVE BEEN UNFAILINGLY POLITE, AND YOU TWO HAVE BEEN NOTHING BUT RUDE. F: I AM TRYING TO EAT BREAKFAST. SL: VERY WELL. WE SHALL RESUME IN AN HOUR...
November 24, 2024 at 5:03 AM