Entropy, a decentralized crypto custodian that raised a $25M seed led by a16z in June 2022, is shutting down after "several pivots, and two rounds of layoffs" (Zack Abrams/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/386942/entro…
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
He creates a 3D-printed Lamborghini in his garden for just $20,000 and turns down a substantial offer: "it's the best feeling in the world" https://www.italpassion.fr/en/lamborghini/
Offener Brief der Deutschen Filmakademie zu dem scheinbar geplanten kulturpolitischen Eingriff in die Leitung der Berlinale
https://openletter.earth/die-deutsche-filmakademie-positioni…
Apparently Timothy Doyle, a well known Marvel artist has been making some Anti-ICE art using The Punisher, Wolverine and Ghost Rider.
(h/t to https://bsky.app/profile/roterote.bsky.social)
Estland is voor Nederland al zo'n 15 jaar lang een voorbeeld als het gaat om digitale overheid. Talloze werkbezoeken zijn er ook al geweest. Zonder iets af te doen aan Estland. Met het continue noemen van Estland als "voorbeeld" wordt het in Nederland niet beter. Het is niet dat we niet weten of snappen wat we moeten doen, we doen het vaak gewoon niet..... #verzuchting
„Nach einem Bericht der „Bild"–Zeitung ist für Weimer aber nicht nur die Preisverleihung ein Problem. Die 56-jährige Tuttle habe mit der Filmcrew eine Woche zuvor bereits mit Palästinenserfahne und -tüchern posiert.“
Ah ja. Und?
https://www.de…
It occurred to me that I have not expressed this in a while or quite this way…
I truly appreciate almost* every one of my followers. I don’t lock my account for various neurotic reasons but I do *curate* my followers for humanness and other vibes. I don’t “follow back” much, as my firehose is already too much. I block or at least soft-block most new followers.
*: except for the handful who seem to keep {un,re}-following as some dumb engagement farming.
Two women with white shirts promote EYES: Encouraging Young Scientists and Engineers
https://einhorn.cornell.edu/opportunity/encouraging-young-engineers-and-scientists-eyes/