Bitcoin was not the big bang, this post is about what came before, eCash and E-Gold. A brief history of the beginning of the beginning.
A brief history of what came before Bitcoin
Come the robots. Subsidizing the destruction of capital
Will robots buy robots? Will they buy the products of other robots? Will they pay income taxes? If they don’t, who will?
Before TikTok there was Toutiao. The apology
Zhang Yiming publicly professed his devotion to the Chinese Communist Party and to the “Four Consciousnesses” of Xi. He also founded TikTok
Electric Dreams. A NO BS review #ElectricDreams
Electric Dreams. A NO BS review
1/8 I like sci fi. Movie pick? hm, Mr. Nobody. I watched 5 epis of #ElectricDreams I had no good/bad expect. ‘Uh oh’ in open montage.Fancy schmancy,bad! Twilight Zone opening = ordinary stuff/strange setting, disorienting.Imagination works, scary, great!
Black Mirror. A No BS Review
I like sci-f. There are lots of good movies, some great and some greater. It’s a hard thing to write, and watch, because small script, directing and acting mess-ups cause damage to the whole thing. Also hard because many times the writer wants to embed too many little coded references to other things, it makes for good blogging but oftentimes compromises the movie, it devalues the audience intelligence by creating complexity and clickbait. People are much more forgiving with romantic comedies, dramas and the like.
Black Mirror. A No BS Review…
My Best of TV list. A No BS review
I usually start reading a TV review at its end and sometimes work my way backwards. My own simple rating system is DON’T SEE IT, SEE IT, WHATEV
This bunch of my reviews is only SEE IT. It my TV list, and I could be wrong for you, but it is right for me
Uber Ambulance. Good or bad? Should cities build, buy or lease it?
…preview of a paper (under peer-review) that does forensics on how ambulance use rates changed when Uber began operating in US cities, and looks at data from 2013 to 2015….
In defense of the corporate tax cut
A corporate tax cut has to defend itself. Governments don’t like giving money back. Fallacy of paper investments vs real investments
Timestamped prediction. Survivor: Heroes, Helper & Hustlers
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t.
Worshipping Algorithms. No salvation in technology
We are an algorithmic culture that is devotional.. Adherents of computational social change algorithms as scripture. Is resistance futile?
Socialized Medicine? Who’s on first?
There must be such a thing as socialized medicine, but no-one is exactly sure what it ‘is’. We know all the things that it isn’t. Include in that long list that it is not single-payer and/or ‘Medicare for all’.
Amazon Prime is a planet
🌍 Amazon and the megacorps, have replaced Territorial Sovereignty with Functional Sovereignty
It’s their country and your just living in it
🫡 saluting their flag 🏳️🌈
💉 injecting their passport
Uber turpitude. Legal crooks do legal crimes
When you hire legal crooks, you get legal crimes. Moral and technological turpitude, its wolf in user privacy henhouse was Joe Sullivan, Director of Security:
Orwell. Propaganda today is history tomorrow
Orwell reminded us that our history is the propaganda of the past and the propaganda of today is tomorrow’s history. Good luck with that
Timestamping my predictions for UFC 217 #UFC217
Time stamping my predictions for UFC 217
I’m not gonna give a whole analysis or the forensics of how I came to my guess, because it just doesn’t matter. Either something happens or it doesn’t.
Government in energy markets. And climate change
Climate Change. The bonkers Government wish list of 17 interventions that take the ‘energy’ out of the ‘market.’ Buckle up…
Amazon becomes your local drug pusher. And they deliver
Amazon is building the capabilities to influence personal behavior and consumer habits outside the doctor’s office.
That should get you worried and it might also get you unemployed.
Leaking. Guccifer 2.0 is the Hillary specimen cup
Guccifer 2.0 is not a hack. It’s there to desensitize people to the uncontrollable events of real ‘anti-hillary’ news leaking out.
News doesn’t matter. Facebook is the emotional platform
The most dangerous of all is Facebook, it’s where grandma and the grandkids are. They are weaponizing empathy.
Facebook is the emotional platform.
Essential explainer. Chinese Social Credit Score
The Chinese government has developed the ‘Perfect Citizen’, Social Credit System. It’s always-on surveillance and it’s coming here.