Decentralization discourse
Feel like an important but often unsaid aspect of critiques of decentralized protocol stuff is that centralization better facilitates celebrity/visibility and that some people want that. I say this as someone who achieved niche visibility on Twitter for a specialization and benefitted, I appreciate why people want it--often I want it! But there's shame about admitting to wanting celebrity that makes people go in circles w arguments against decentralization.
@jordantcarlson we can dream
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Thank God I found an 82 year old neighbor invited to the party who told me about starting one of the first co-op buildings in Brooklyn
Thank God this is a book release party because I can literally hide in the back with a book
How metallurgists of West African origin in Jamaica (free, enslaved, Maroon) helped spark the industrial revolution. Their innovation to reuse iron was ripped off and patented by an embezzling Briton: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jul/05/industrial-revolution-iron-method-taken-from-jamaica-briton
The original article by Jenny Bulstrode (UCL) is quite a read, deep historical and cultural detail at each point of the Atlantic triangle https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07341512.2023.2220991
#STS #Jamaica #History #Africa #colonialism #copyright #innovation
https://www.npr.org/2023/07/14/1186550169/cellphone-exhibit ahhh I've been hearing about the development of this exhibit for years, so excited it's opened!!
My friend Emily Drabinski is the incoming president of the American Library Association. She has been named by the Montana State Library Commission as the reason they are withdrawing Montana from the American Library Association. This is bullshit.
The ALA issued a statement about this which is all about ALA. Emily deserves our support. Please join me in signing this letter in solidarity with her and her work. Thank you.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fgz9ITvekfCCtVspicgbaCM0Go2YzkaSrYGtR6s9lHo/edit?usp=sharing
@doriantaylor understandable, same energy
@jordantcarlson oh yeah this is all just financials from the last year
@doriantaylor I don't think so?
@jordantcarlson a little of all three? Like vice owns a company called JT Leroy Holding LLC and paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a mommy vlogger and I can't figure out why. Also, the executive compensation stuff is pretty how the hell.
@doriantaylor just a mini episode not a deep dive