Ok, after years of warnings were ignored and hearing "Garry, you were right!" all damn day today, I'll repeat what I said in 2014: Stop telling me I was right and listen to what I'm saying now. My recommendations follow: 1/5
1/ There are no other constitutional rights in substance without freedom to transact
Being meaning to write this for 6 months, but the Canadian response to the trucker protests is illustrating this so vividly, that today is the day.
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Design tool: u were thinking like single-line... something like 92,872 pixels wide right? ya know what why ask i'll just hook u up
the word “metaverse” was coined by neal stephenson in the book “snowcrash” and it originally described a virtual world owned by corporations where end users were treated as citizens in a dystopian corporate dictatorship
what if neal was right
"OMG! Some people are trying to build an alternative to the private monopolistic big tech dystopia we live in but it's not 100% perfect from the get-go.
Grab the pitchforks!"
Yeah...That's never been how you get progress in this world...
@cassiecodes@mxbck I replied directly to Max and left your handle in by mistake, sorry for that (I'm pretty sure you could tell from the content of the tweet it wasn't directed at you). I don't think I'm violating some kind of code here by simply weighing in on a public twitter discussion…
@cassiecodes@mxbck …privacy, etc. It hurts to see that because we're all essentially on the same team and by keeping all the focus on bad actors (capitalists! scammers! destroying the earth!) we only hurt the people doing real impactful work in the space.
@mxbck@cassiecodes To put it another way: Das ist als ob du auf den Marktplatz gehst und da laut "Ihr seid alle Scammer" rufst und dich im Nachhinein beschwerst, dass keine vernünftigen Leute für ne ernsthafte Diskussion zu dir gekommen sind und stattdessen nur irgendwelche empörten Leute u. Trolls
@mxbck@cassiecodes If you're actually interested in some kind of discourse you could have put that tweet another way and invited more reasonable people that way. If not that's also fair… but then this could have been a DM to a friend instead of sharing it with 4.5k people…
@mxbck@cassiecodes Could also be because you offered no context, right? In the comments I saw you were talking about a twitter thread but you didn't put that in the tweet itself. So without that context it basically just reads like a hot take and dunk on an entire tech/cultural movement without...