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Recent Notes
@rabble Did you evaluate the Zot/ Nomad protocol family, as used in Hubzilla and Streams? Thoughts?
This documentary isn't about blockchains themselves, or the geeks who develop it out of radical fervour. It's about the [huge cloud of MOPs and sociopaths](https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths) who orbit around that nucleus, spreading misinformation (eg goldbug takes, antisemitic banking conspiracy nonsense), and conning people out of their savings.
Many points on the body politic that came to harm are documented here, with rigourous referencing;
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
I'm still sceptical that BitCoin is anything more than the GNUtella of online payments. I agree with much of the political economy analysis of this post. But for that very reason, I don't think asymetries of economic power are undone by changing the way value is tokenized, for exchange with strangers. So I'm more excited by projects like GNU Taler and InterLedger because they're token-agnostic, and thus lack the logical centralisation distributed by blockchains.
Why are some people such insufferable fuckwickets?
Yawn. Bog standard Stalinism = communism nonsense.
"Stalin was worse than a 'flawed' or 'corrupted' communist. Rather—with the single exception of Hitler—he was the most lethal anticommunist of his time. In fact, the epitaph of virtually every prominent European socialist to die in the years 1928-1945 reads either 'murdered by Hitler' or 'murdered by Stalin'."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/03/stalin-will-never-be-redeemable
"Stalin was worse than a 'flawed' or 'corrupted' communist. Rather—with the single exception of Hitler—he was the most lethal anticommunist of his time. In fact, the epitaph of virtually every prominent European socialist to die in the years 1928-1945 reads either 'murdered by Hitler' or 'murdered by Stalin'."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/03/stalin-will-never-be-redeemable
I think a CMS makes sense in some use cases, eg formal organisations, particularly those large enough to have some kind of in-house IT team. Does it make sense for a solo project, run by someone with the skills to build an efficient site from scratch to meet their needs (ie you)? It probably doesn't. Although there *might* still be advantages in sharing the maintenance headaches that emerge over time?
One cool thing about Ghost in particular is that if you use version 6.0 (once it's out), you can use the AP integration to make everything you publish natively available in the fediverse. I'd love to see this syndication engine tweaked so plugins can be added to publish over Nostr, ATProto, and any other protocol someone wants to write a plugin for.
One cool thing about Ghost in particular is that if you use version 6.0 (once it's out), you can use the AP integration to make everything you publish natively available in the fediverse. I'd love to see this syndication engine tweaked so plugins can be added to publish over Nostr, ATProto, and any other protocol someone wants to write a plugin for.
The death of Socrates is the first recorded example of a cancel mob in action. The Cultural Revolution in China is probably the most well known example of puritan popular condemnation escalating to mass murder. Following a similar model to the Inquisition and the Salem witch trials. Although more recent examples include the Rwandan, Myanmar and Palestinian genocides.
We're lucky that recent puritan populism in the anglophone world hasn't usually resulted in murder. Although there are a handful of counterexamples, what's protected us for the most part is also democracy, but in the non-majoritarian sense of the word. Human rights protections, due process and jurisprudence, media diversity ("freedom of the press"), adversarial legal and political rituals into which antipathy towards The Other can be channeled, and so on.
We're lucky that recent puritan populism in the anglophone world hasn't usually resulted in murder. Although there are a handful of counterexamples, what's protected us for the most part is also democracy, but in the non-majoritarian sense of the word. Human rights protections, due process and jurisprudence, media diversity ("freedom of the press"), adversarial legal and political rituals into which antipathy towards The Other can be channeled, and so on.