As old age and forced retirement grease my slide away from actual "technical" competence, always doubtful in the case of a technical writer, I lose touch more and more with the breathless pace of IP innovation.
The right are responding with Big John giant groan to the challenge of liberal censorship, and the hot and horny "libertarian" entrepreneurs of blockchain are beaver-busy developing alternatives to the censorable Internet. No word on the environmental toll--maybe without the "mining" the actual cost of all that electricity won't drive us to our knees? Hush that stuff. Like, "Baby, there is no such thing as society." https://www.coindesk.com/handshake-goes-live-with-an-uncensorable-internet-browser Coindesk, the breathlessly website hosting the referenced puff piece contains such gems as this, in a piece on Gamestop and the wondrousness of Elon Musk: The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is raising the crypto rallying flag and ex-Facebook billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya is trading along with Reddit for quick profits, decentralized hedge fund and all ( https://www.coindesk.com/gamestop-real-market-manipulators ). This isn’t about how much money you have. This is about a mindset and a framing of the world. It’s about who you are and who you are not. And it’s about what you did and did not do. Barf-bag, anyone? -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#6073): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/6073 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/80359726/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
