1. New VC-backed startup enters the scene
2. People flock to it
3. They discover it’s a surveillance capitalist (and still have no clue what that is)
4. They’re shocked (because, see 3)
5. It’s too late, they’re too big and they’ve exited
6. Goto 1
🤷♂️
@mala well, there's this small competition... something to do with data... and it's us vs 'enterprise thinking' (again, again, again) https://icebreakerone.org/energy/ :)
may have started another culture war. Again.
I blame @mala for everything.
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that thing where you set a test five years ago and still no one solved it https://github.com/agentGav/test/blob/master/testing.svg
For those trying to help stem the flood of disinfo, I made this
it seems to have helped / worked in some cases - not so much in that the individual stops, that the rest of the room says they agree with it, so the social norm flips ...
I am in the hugely privileged position to be hiring right now. First up is a researcher post for Icebreaker One
Icebreaker One job alert—Researcher https://icebreakerone.org/jobs/
Please send to anyone you think may be interested.
give me a laptop and a boat and...oh wait.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/04/i-live-alone-on-a-boat-at-sea-how-to-be-happy-in-isolation
"I was too scared to port scan the light switch"
This, and other ridiculousness, coming to an IoT near you.
(2016 post, but still as relevant today)
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/03/the-absolute-horror-of-wifi-light-switches/
They went there — "Hyperbitcoinization" — " 20% of world energy production will go to SHA256 hashing because the industries of bitcoin mining and power generation will have merged"
Can't help thinking BC is the Flash of C21. Kill it all with fire.
https://www.unchained-capital.com/blog/law-of-hash-horizons/
I think I've finally found the perfect use for blockchains... the provenance of crystals. Two kinds of woo that, when combined, makes 10 woo.
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2019/jun/16/are-crystals-the-new-blood-diamonds-the-truth-about-muky-business-of-healing-stones
dgen.net/biog