🔗 WWW
There are a lot of links out to different parts of the web on this site. I try to mark them all so they get listed here.
🔗 Thiel Blasts Dimon, Buffett and Fink as ‘Finance Gerontocracy’ at Bitcoin 2022.
Buffett’s scepticism of bitcoin prompted Peter Thiel to call him a ‘sociopathic grandpa’.
Of course, Peter Thiel is such a lovely person, that I am sure we are all hanging on his every word.
~🎵🎶 Who knew that Rick Astley’s formative years had him as a Prog Rock / Drummer type. First concert ever? Supertramp or Camel - he can’t quite remember!
“If you hurry to get to the future, you always get a punishment for it. For example, instant coffee.”
💬 Alan Watts
🔗 Artists in Ireland to receive 325 Euros per week
UBI for Artists? Well maybe ‘IBI’ for Artists.
Interesting watch
🔗 Harvard Canceled its Best Black Professor. Why? - YouTube
The real and unadulterated truth? This might be it - I just don’t know.
But if it is … well I wouldn’t be surprised.
🔗 Top 50 Cybersecurity Influencers
… are you on the list?
🔗 Help Web2 Users Make Jump to Web3
“If web3 builders continue to ask new web2.5 users to jump into the unfamiliar world of web3 without assets, network, status, or history, reaching widespread adoption will be difficult.”
Why this has to be explained - explains how we got here.
📚My Goodness Time Flies …
🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is upon us again!
Watch out for the deets in your email and calendars ….
🖇️ The second session of 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is coming up - delighted that @artkavanagh will be hosting. Sadly @ton will not be able to make it, so his session will need to run at a future event.
Otherwise, looks like we are all in for a good session on the 6th/7th March.
We MUST Abandon the Language of the Market to Reclaim our Humanity
🔗 Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity
I posted this link at the time it was published (2020).
It surfaced the other day through my DayONE - and I decided to repost it in the category 🖇️ ‘Language Is Important’- ‘Tom’ and I are on the same page.
🔗 Rands in Repose … writing about Zoom Meetings.
“Do you want to know why you’re fatigued at the end of a long day of video conferences? It’s because your brain has been straining to collect essential information that is no longer there.”
“The game is free … but you could spend up to $1,000 US Dollars just to buy the assets you need to play the game.”
Another example of redefining language.
This from 🔗 Paul Butler
‘Language Is Important' - a new category now available on this blog.
LATER
Category depricated - that said 🔗 🔎 click here - and all those posts re categorized will come up - along with a lot more.
🔗 The Crypto Crash Has Destroyed a Trillion Dollars in Wealth
I question the use of the word ‘wealth’.
The $1Trillion came from nowhere … and now it’s gone back to nowhere.
📚 🪦 🔗12 Authors Who Died In 2021
Of interest to *🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic
This is what 🖇️ 🔎The Readers Republic is all about - so far!
(https://www.craft.do/s/q4t5GKyMPcWXCp)
If you click through - and are interested … there is a link to register at the top of the page.