Things are often named what they want to be, yet fall short in reality. Similar to most companies values - if you are something by culture you often don’t need to remind people be act a certain way. View quoted note →

Yep. Steve is full of shit. View quoted note →

“AI, Person X has the following interests, connections, and has visited the following websites recently. Write a highly targeted ad, masked as a blog post, that you intend for them to click and optimally buy from, maximising commission. The only goal is making money.” Now do this 100s of times per day until we extract all their wealth. Google and Bezos Playbook 2.0

Interesting read about the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic. “Mask wearing gained considerable popularity as an emblem of public spiritedness and discipline. Newspapers carried instructions on how to make and launder them” “Still, gauze masks had their detractors within the public health community. One notable critic was the Detroit health commissioner, Dr. J.W. Inches, who declared “.. . these masks are worthless.” They were so porous that not only “.. . a mosquito could jump through them,” he remarked, but, “I have sprinkled granulated sugar through them,” telling proof that a microbe could get through the mask's defenses. Inches thought masks might have some utility for doctors and nurses treating flu victims, but for the ordinary citizen, the use of an ordinary paper napkin that could be destroyed after each use was far more advisable. (Dr. Inches was ahead of his time, anticipating the rise of disposable paper handkerchiefs in the 1920s.)” Amazing how the world wide government effort to promote and educate how to handle a used mask (even how to take off a soiled mask safely) or how to launder a reusable mask was literally zero. Common sense would infer it’s the most risky part - touching likely contaminated materials. We had clear evidence from July 2020 how air-conditioning location and positioning impacted spread (link below). Yet somehow we were told it was ‘droplet only’ and cloth masks worked? Only later was it admitted to be aerosol - meanwhile hospitals had been treating Covid as aerosol from day one… “Virus transmission in this outbreak cannot be explained by droplet transmission alone. Larger respiratory droplets (>5 μm) remain in the air for only a short time and travel only short distances, generally <1 m (2,3). The distances between patient A1 and persons at other tables, especially those at table C, were all >1 m.”

“Destroyer and Teacher”: Managing the Masses During the 1918–1919 Influenza Pandemic - PMC

The Spanish influenza arrived in the United States at a time when new forms of mass transportation, mass media, mass consumption, and mass warfare ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases journal

COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020

COVID-19 Outbreak Associated with Air Conditioning in Restaurant, Guangzhou, China, 2020

Real or fake, governments fail at their most basic purpose - to protect individuals property rights and access - in this case from big tech.. but anyone else. How is even the possibility of this, which isn’t far fetched, a complete utter failure of government’s very existence? Corporation control and ownership don’t belong in your home. Nor government. Nothing good comes from it. A Corporate Home Invasion Act should exist. View quoted note →

Why #bitcoin?

The issue with businesses is that governments have too much control over them.. which leads to an erosion of fundamental human rights. Alice can’t pay Bob, because Bob may be a terrorist, and company X complies with broad scoped, unfair, far exaggerated ‘legalities’ - unless it is in their business plan and they fight for it or accept future fines. It’s the same repeating playbook. It stifles innovation, causes abuse of power and corrupts. Distributed entities or DOWs or a country that doesn’t seek to play the broken power game. View quoted note →

Australia bank just sent this. Fiat is not your money.. it’s children being allowed to spend when the government benefits or banks say you can.

Apple needs a high profile anti-trust case across multiple areas - including App Store and payments, Safari, etc. They control too much.

Reddit EOL 2023 View quoted note →