One thing we tech people need to be more proactive with is helping folk understand that a "decentralised" platform does not imply, lest of all require, a blockchain, and that there are many successful examples of this.
Google has degraded. But the bigger issue is that so much stuff is in silos, and those silos never had decent search. In a better world, social platforms would advance the art of searching / filtering "rivers of notifications" way beyond Google's feeble search model. But no 🙄
There are multiple actual journalists reporting on this event, but for some reason everyone is sharing this tweet from an account made last month with an AI-generated face pic as its avatar.
Europe is full of traditional festivals where strange figures, vegetation spirits, wild men and monstrous creatures appear. Many of these are and popular rituals associated with seasonal and agricultural cycles. /1 pic.twitter.com/2oEMYE2h5z
The challenge is to sufficiently decouple the games rich people play with money from the economy the rest of us have to live in. Wall Street / stock markets are 90% speculative casinos. But what happens in them doesn't stay there; it spins out and hurts everyone else. \1
good discussion between systems/security expert @Dymaxion and venture capitalist @ljin18 asking: do DAOs work for or against the labor movement? (warning: nonlinear conversation, see multiple threads before and after this quote tweet) https://t.co/N5YMWe7zSw