A communications tool must have censorship resistance (decentralization), anonymous signup without requiring a phone, and have an official way to obtain binaries signed by the community instead of by corpos that can be forced to insert backdoors.
Signal fails on every single one of these criteria and that is why we must stop recommending it to our friends and family who have a very limited tolerance for technology changes.
Choose decentralization.
Use matrix, or make something better.
"Should the transfer come from the business sector in the form of higher wages, higher interest rates, or an appreciating currency?"
I think it should come from not devaluing the currency. Tobin tax would just be another duct tape solution to this very problem.
"This year, we see more and more prominent economists [...] acknowledging that the problem is the low household income share of GDP. That’s progress. But I don’t see a discussion of the third part yet, which is the hardest part: If you want to boost household share of GDP, that implies a reduction either in the business share or the government share of GDP. This is where it gets complicated."
Beijing-based economist Michael Pettis calls for a fundamental rethinking of global trade. Short-term capital flows should be taxed, and surplus countries like China or Germany urgently need to boost their domestic demand.
#IC3PEAK, the best band in Russia¹ (and i would argue the most geopolitically important band currently operating because Russian kids love this shit, as do I) has chosen this moment to release a new video.
it's not my favorite song of theirs but it's pretty good and the video is... interesting.
¹ they're actually banned from performing in #Russia and i'm not even sure they live there any more
What would happen if we stopped asking, “How can this grow?” and started asking, “What is this thing’s natural size?” What if we evaluated projects not by their potential for expansion but their depth of impact within their chosen bounds?
Choosing to stay small, focused, and finite can be a radical act. It’s a declaration that some things are valuable precisely because they resist the illogic of endless growth.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/you-dont-have-to-monetize-the-things-you-love/
My office is overrun with indie comics. Small press runs, hand-stapled zines, hardbound collections, beautifully risographed art books from creators who might never make another comic again. I buy them at small conventions, from Gumroad pages, from artists’ websites, and through Instagram DMs. Each represents a moment in time, a
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