Category: Me Myself&I

“What has replaced profit on the one hand and markets on the other? My answer: Central bank money has replaced private profit (as the system’s main fuel and lubricant) and digital fiefdoms/platforms have become the realm in which value and capital are extracted from the majority by a tiny oligarchy.”

Big and wonderful Economics interview with Yanis.

So, my questions would be:

– If Central bank money, aka QE aka money printed out of thin air is given to a tiny oligarchy, why don’t we not do that but rather, give it more equally to us, folks?

– If this money is imagined and printed by the government, why isn’t it given to people for them to at the VERY LEAST house themselves?

I’ll wait.

This morning.

I don’t know if it’s an American thing or a LA thing. Completely MESSED UP cars perfectly parked. This one with front wheels not working and both airbags out.

????

It amuses me because they remind me of drunk people in the metro in Paris. Like, the person knows that they’re wasted, but have to behave in public so they are super quiet and tucking themselves in on a seat, being extra careful about anything, softly smiling all the time.

And they look just like this car. Hammered.

Yup, Reddit on my Nokia with dark “mode” since 2011 lol

The entire /antiwork thing fizzled, didn’t it? It did for a few reasons:

– Reddit and communities pretty much always end up as pyramids with people at the top ripe for corruption, which happened here.

– The bigger an online community is, the stronger “recreational outrage” is. That is, people lash out with memes and extreme points of view, building nothing, not moving the conversation to a more interesting angle, only providing entertainment with a sprinkle of politics and a lot of ego trips.

– The sub should have been called /UBIorGTFO

The future of work is UBI, as I argued about it. From there, so many good things would spawn. For that, you need to channel that frustration and outrage into valid, stable solutions.

Let’s go!

We live in world where people have phones with 16 gigs of ram, 8 CPUs and who will, with this device basically:

– fidget with the interface

– take calls, answer text messages

– let those billions of notifications pill up everywhere.

And that’s mostly it.

I swear as a nerd knowing what’s going on inside those machines, the waste of technology is at an absolute all time high right now. Remember climate change? Consuming less and all that?

I started to add some in my salads a few months ago. I didn’t have any for a few days. I’m not going to say that I was trembling, I’m not going to say that.

But I was trembling.

It’s back to normal now. *pushes avocado off teaspoon*

I can explain, but you might need to sit down for a few hours.

Dear future,

Time doesn’t exist etc. I just try to remember. Last year at the same moment, we didn’t have vaccines. We only knew that scientists were onto something and that it would be ready soon. Maybe.

12 months later and 600 gazillion vaccine doses distributed, uh, it’s still a fucking mess. Infection rates are through the roof and deaths are following.

It’s hard to go from no hope to hope to reality check.

Meanwhile the US government feels like it’s made of NPCs, women might really lose their fundamental abortion rights, France is getting steamrolled by heavy right wing ideologies in an election year and Russia is Russia-ing. WHEW.

I’ll be soaking up the sun outside. Cheers,

The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle.

I went back to using hot water bottles, or hot bottle waters like I used to mess up.

They are the best. I use one with a nice, soft, fluffy fur cover. Knee is sore due to fade away turn around jumpers? 10mn on said knee, while moving it, and it’s back to normal. Neck hurts from typing? Five minutes of hot water bottle rolling between my shoulders and I feel much better. Cold feet? No more cold feet. Cold bed? No, it’s not now. Feel like needing a warm hug in this panny? There it is.

Heated water warms your blood up and said warmed blood circulates all over your body making you warmer naturally without getting forced dry, hot air on your delicate skin.

It’s awesome. Renewable. Cheap. It should be in every single home because it’s perfection.

(not really because I’m eating)

ANYWAY. About technology.

It’s not about centralized VS decentralized. Those things happen, for good and bad reasons and give us good and bad results. They change. They happen.

What matters is INTEROPERABILITY. Interop is needed now, in the past and in the future. Everywhere. And sometimes, often, interop doesn’t exist.

Interop. Focus on interop, my dear software companies.

Phil Jackson the famous Bulls coach, narrates in his books what happens when you win it all, after beating every single team all year long, all the way to the finals (he did it eleven times):

– 24 to 48 hours of partying

– ???

– Go back to practice

I like to remind myself of that when things are hard.

It’s old ass eastern philosophy I guess but it’s still pretty much on point.

The journey is quite important, if not everything.