leaning into the digital gold/SoV usecase will kill freedom money. View quoted note → View quoted note → #bitcoin

open source software works by allowing people to build whatever they are excited about building. if we aren't physically building the tools ourselves, our job is to support their building by using the tools and learning/educating about them. and in some unpredictable, clumsy and unknowable way, we all end up with better tools in the end. View quoted note →

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"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time, when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas and or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting, our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites, now down to 10 seconds or less, lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance." Carl Sagan (in 1995)

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yup. View quoted note →