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so they basically have to change their name now, right?
sounds like a broken promise otherwise.
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Beckman is the last name one of my favorite authors: Dutch author Thea Beckman ('Kinderen van moeder aarde'/Thule trilogy, as well as 'Kruistocht in Spijkerbroek'/'Crusade in Jeans')
so they basically have to change their name now, right?
sounds like a broken promise otherwise.
We need, to use Ken Carey’s phrase, to establish islands of the future in an ocean of the past. For reasons I will describe soon, let us call these places Institutes for Technologies of Reunion."
https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/institutes-for-technolo...
"Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder – published in the U.S. as Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do About It – is written from the inside by a doctor who himself has Attention Deficit Disorder. It offers a completely new perspective on ADD and a new approach to helping children and adults living with the problems Attention Deficit Disorder presents.
- Demonstrates that ADD is not an inherited illness, but a reversible impairment, a developmental delay Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy—and why
- Shows how “tuning out” and distractibility are the psychological products of life experience, from in utero onwards
- Allows parents to understand what makes their ADD children tick, and adults with ADD to gain insights into their emotions and behaviors
- Expresses optimism about neurological development even in adulthood
- Presents a program of how to promote this development in children and adults alike"
source: https://drgabormate.com/book/scattered-minds/
this is an author and expert definitely worth exploring.
yes, i agree it initially sounds counterproductive. their (imo legit) reasoning for this strategy though is protection from patent trolls:
"Holochain in an open-source project - so why would we spend the time and money to file for a patent? The reality is that projects can be stopped in their tracks while using their own innovations if others are granted patents for the technology. In other words, this is a defensive patent. It is our intention to use this innovation and share it openly within the context of the Holochain open-source framework."
source: https://holo.host/holochain-patent/
i hope you post your 3 questions on the holochain forum (it's quite active and filled with friendly considerate people).
https://forum.holochain.org/latest
or if you want a more private/intimate place to discover/discuss/learn you can also PM me on Twitter or email me and i can invite you to the latest holochain devcamp discord server where people like @helioscomm hang out (he wrote the holochain documentation i linked to).
edit: oh wow just saw your Go p2p networking library on github. awesome 'coalescism' [1] here - you might appreciate the earlier version of holochain, which was written also in Go (but abandoned for Rust lang's security benefits): https://github.com/holochain/holochain-proto
now i'm even more hoping you join us in the holochain space!
[1] https://forum.holochain.org/t/game-what-is-your-wildest-drea...
> At a first glance this seemed idiotic
100%. i've immensely enjoyed the blogs of Eric and Arthur, it's essential complementary material:
https://eric.harris-braun.com/blog/2012/01/03/id-225
glad to hear it. i guess maybe that's what i subconsciously aim for when i write things like this; hoping for things that resonated with me to also resonate with others.
i agree actually that it's willful misinterpretation of the person's comment. i think maybe the seemingly thoughtless presence/use of the word profit in this context just jumped out at me, as we're swimming in a pool of constant and endless capitalist realism. i personally appreciate it a lot when others challenge and expose our cruel and unsustainable material reality, so my comment probably comes from a desire to contribute to that critique.
am i though? or is society using an overly simplistic (and therefore dangerous/harmful) economic theory that considers our natural world an 'externality' and tries to grow the economy infinitely?
the Tesla car that was blown up was a piece of 'non-modular black-box consumer-grade tech'. i wish more people would recognize the horrific waste and planned obsolescence our current institutions are encouraging, and work on alternatives to replace them (my earlier posts: mikorzal.org/valueflo.ws, holochain + open source ecology).
anyway, at the root of comments like my earlier one is both a deep love for our planet, as well as 'earthgrief' (Chellis Glendinning/Francis Weller). it's those two things, as well as capitalist alienation: currently being unable to adequately exercise autonomy - not being able to sustainably take part in concretely building transitionary systems with others. not being 'allowed' and supported to be as deeply and continuously curious as i'd like to be because of the way science and tech are increasingly enclosed in new knowledge fiefdoms.
the reason i quoted the word 'profitability' was related to the concept of audience commodity and the destructive profit-seeking nature of youtube (as well as the economic system as a whole which google/alphabet etc. are inside of):
“the paying customers are the advertisers, and what is being sold are the users themselves, not their content. This means that the source of value that becomes Facebook’s profits is the work done by the workers in the global fields and factories, who are producing the commodities being advertised to Facebook’s audience.” -- Dmytri Kleiner
profitable?
this kind of spectacle is a net loss for the natural world, for humanity and for all the other species we share the earth with. if you think i'm exaggerating you're not seeing how much waste and destruction our current proprietary paradigm is responsible for.
this whole doing 'fun' experiments on non-modular black-box consumer-grade tech by destroying it or blowing it up for 'content' is the definition of insanity. we will look back from our communist open source future society and shiver with horror, disbelief and fear as we watch back 1080p videos showing how some of us poisoned our watersheds and laughed hysterically while creating the toxic, plastic, holocenic sludge.
think i'm being a crybaby? see images of global north e-waste giving cancer to children in the global south. it's devastating to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I
sounds like the author would appreciate the holochain framework and its built-in throwaway DHT network ontology allowing a surprisingly simple linked-data paradigm in a distributed computing environment, which in turn allows an incredibly intricate web of graphed knowledge.
what country is that?
exciting! glad he’s working on new stuff!
to answer your question: this whole NFT thing is a scam pushed by the propertied class/corporations.
an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4KrdjAPohc
well yes, that's what happens when the means of production are privately owned: workers have to sell their labor.
today's profit oriented economic system causes alienation and loneliness for many people, which leads to various coping mechanisms (such as watching other people playing games).
the streams are only valuable as content because the working class is heavily alienated and therefore our attention can be bought by capitalists as 'audience commodity': https://youtu.be/CK319sIWwbA?t=519
tell me then, why do a bunch of my US friends not have health insurance? even the ones who left their jobs during the pandemic?
to be frank, it sounds like your income is too high for you to actually know what happens when dealing with this 'patchwork' (as you call it) shitshow system in real life, to try to get the care you need to survive.
> Some of the scare is that single payer would result in some or all of (a) taxes way too high, (b) too much just wasteful, silly, and unneeded medical care, (c) low quality of care and, thus, too many people hurt or dead, (d) too little capacity where too many patients die from waiting too long for care, etc. I don't know what if anything is right/wrong with (a) -- (d), but these are concerns commonly voiced.
why state all these downsides and try to play this sort of 'neutral' card by saying "I don't know what if anything is right/wrong"? all of these so called reasons (or fears/scares) are just completely irrelevant when we can see that all other global north nations have single payer systems.
let me repeat that: the US is the only country that doesn't provide universal healthcare to the working class.
can you help me understand why you posted this comment? to me it just looks like a laundry list of the many failed strategies used by the US govt and huge pharmaceutical corporations that have helped them scam the working class out of trillions of dollars in the form of medical debt and pharmaceutical drugs, etc.. i could probably find all this on some wikipedia page about the history of the US medical care system.
tell me that these laws don't apply to you and that you've not had to struggle with them to get health insurance without telling me that these laws don't apply to you and that you've not had to struggle with them to get health insurance
as someone else already responded to you: "I think people tend to do this kind of thing when their employer is hostile or exploitative. People typically respond well and work hard when they're treated fairly."
i'm pretty sure you did not read the second part of my comment as you did not engage with it's argument (that the definition of the word 'steal' is political). i don't think saying "I'm sorry" and then stating your opinion is an argument.
> There are plenty of employee-owned companies out there that would fit your ideals, people can work for them if they want that ownership. Or start their own. Otherwise, no, they don't get to own the output of their work. That's the way it is.
It's not about ideals, it's about the core logic of our current economic system: the accumulation of capital by one class.
Idealism or whatever can't do anything to fight back against coercive and alienating capitalist property relations where one class (property-owning) benefits at the expense of another class (the working class).
why is Better.com using that language? all that workers can do is sell their labor time, while the property-owners they work for do not (since they earn rents from ownership). in this case, the workers create and develop some intellectual property (software), yet do not own the fruits of their own labor and are instead paid a wage. in other words: workers work on things that are not democratically held in common ownership (even actively made artificially scarce as an intellectual property).
my point is: we could argue the workers are rightfully taking back more than what they are paid under our current economic system, since the property-owners take too much to begin with; they steal — to use your word — by not sharing the (intellectual) property, the source of wealth.
edit: i've edited to clarify that I am responding to the definition of the word stealing used by Better.com. as Kye/OP pointed out below, this is not Kye's personal definition for the word stealing and it was terminology they copied verbatim from this current context (used by one of the parties involved).
Why did a standard like RSS get expelled from client-server web platforms? It makes little to no sense. The knowledge pyramids that are growing every day are anti-learning, so we need to continue to push for a distributed p2p web.
The growing p2p space is an inspiring counterforce to the dominant venture capital client-server web.
> To me though, highlighting race also reinforces stereotypes.
what's the alternative? so called 'color-blindness'? [1] what stereotypes are reenforced by mentioning race/ethnicity when discussing relations of power? right now it sounds like you're trying to refute structural racism.
> We americans like to pretend that class differences don’t exist when clearly they do.
i agree with you that class consciousness is low, yet both critiques/angles can exist/meet/intersect. that's what intersectionality is for.
[1] an example of where this leads: "[...] the organization was informed by a form of “colorblind” Marxism that was incapable of dealing with the realities of racial divisions in the class structure of the United States. While more progressive on issues of race than other political parties in the United States, the WPUS/SLP ultimately failed to make a connection with the black working class, a grouping in society that had shown itself to have enormous revolutionary potential in the period of Reconstruction. While standing for class unity and recognizing the need for inter-racial organization, the WPUS/SLP ideology under closer scrutiny reveals an inability to recognize that black workers in the United States faced a form of oppression that was unique to their racial status, with white supremacy acting as a key linchpin in the class structure of US capitalism. This “color-blind” socialism was ultimately incapable of resonating with black workers. It also falsely expected the proletariat to organically unite under economic pressures as it grew as a class, responding to immiseration and crisis in an almost automatic way. This was a vision that was incapable of taking into account the role of white supremacy in dividing the US working class to develop a strategy that could effectively win the most oppressed sections of the proletariat to socialist politics."
https://cosmonaut.blog/2019/02/17/early-american-socialism-a...
> Would this work to have a black family show up to meet the tax assessor next time they come by?
you write:
> That's a wildly belligerent take on what the parent actually said. They never implied in any regard that it was a personal question, using "I" or the equivalent to indicate an interest in personal benefit.
wow that's a creative take. the person typed the question themselves, but because they didn't say 'my tax assessor' it's all ok? i mean, sure, technically i agree. i guess my reaction came from the amazement that this question was the first thing they thought of after reading this disheartening article. OP's comment was also the very first comment on this thread.
here's some of her research findings:
"Today, Black families have a median net worth of $11,000 compared to a white family’s median of $141,900. Pew Research Center data reveals that white families have 13 times more wealth than Black families. The wealth gap exists at every income level, with a third of Black families having no assets at all. The perpetuation of poverty is stunning—75 percent of Black children who grow up in families in the bottom wealth category remain in that same category as adults. A 2013 study found that for white families, every additional dollar they earn in income leads to $5.19 in wealth. For Black families, each dollar creates only 69 cents in total wealth. This growing divide perpetuates injustices hard to capture in the latest news of riots and protests. The racial wealth gap is where past injustice breeds present suffering."
our systems are still inherently racist and we are a long ways away from equity.
source: https://prospect.org/civil-rights/no-justice-no-peace-fix-th...
article: racism means that as a black person your home increases in value by a whopping 50% if the appraiser does not know you are black.
you: does anyone know if i could make a similar person-switching trick work to reduce my taxes?