Department of Collections

Gruntles

First, I hate liquid glass, with its water-stain lettering and deeply cropped and rounded window and icon corners (which give you fewer pixels to click on and harder corners to grab and pull.) I’ll say more about it after the holidays. Meanwhile, if you’re with me, this will help.

Second, I continue to insist that the Internet and the Web should always be capitalized as proper nouns. Because they are names. Both are also a one-and-only, like the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth. You can’t find other examples of them.

What would Adam Smith think?

Cory Doctorow’s latest describes how financialization has put the real economy inside a casino.

Guilty as charged

Jimmy Wales’ latest fundraising email is addressed to “Wikipedia’s rarest supporters.” I didn’t think my support was that rare, but yeah. Got me.



One response to “Department of Collections”

  1. “It’s their world, and we just live on it… For now.

    The balance between the selfish and selfless, finance and pure altruism is almost similar to Western and Eastern philosophies.

    Last night, I was doing some prompting for a national project I’ve been working on for some time blending graphs of 80 years of NYC’s social ills inherited (1940s and up) and America’s societal cures in the form of manuals (1600s +). Guess what Claude’s model did. It explicit told me it would NOT edit the proposal and shifted it to a pure startup proposal — excluding the institution completely — after force vetting my credibility indicators for claims being made.

    Pure finance at work? Maybe. I have zero clue. But John Adam’s demonstrated an ontology in his “War and Politics” quote that is the remedy for liberty from the force finance provides.

    I believe that quote’s taxonomy is very remedy for the point the article makes.

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