Illustration by Arthur Rackham From the tale “The Griffin”
‘Little Brother and Little Sister’ (The Brothers Grimm), 1917
“If someone pitches you on a ‘great’ Web3 project, ask them if it requires buying or selling crypto to do what they say it does.”
… And while there are certainly carbon emissions associated with the traditional art world, if the point of blockchain art is to imagine something radically different, he wonders why avoiding climate destruction wouldn’t be at the top of the priority list. “We have to change our existing habits,” Akten says. “So how can we build new platforms that are unsustainable?”
I can’t quite put my finger on it, but this feels vaguely relevant…
Read the full text of It Can’t Happen Here on Project Gutenberg: X
Have I ever hit “reblog” so fast? No.
I read this last year. In the world of a book, Buzz Windrip was also famous for “writing” a book on his life/philosophy, which was actually ghost-written by one of his closest aides. He uses the 1935 equivalent of radio shock-jocks to stir up his base, tries to keep his political opposition under house arrest, demonizes Mexico, and tricks the Evangelical movement into believing he’s a savior. He turns his most devout supporters into a loyal militia. Corruption abounds. There’s more. It’s an eerie read for this moment in history, but one definitely worth the time.
“ … Amazon became the world’s largest online retailer in part by outsourcing its sprawling operations to algorithms—sets of computer instructions designed to solve specific problems. For years, the company has used algorithms to manage the millions of third-party merchants on its online marketplace, drawing complaints that sellers have been booted off after being falsely accused of selling counterfeit goods and jacking up prices.Increasingly, the company is ceding its human-resources operation to machines as well, using software not only to manage workers in its warehouses but to oversee contract drivers, independent delivery companies and even the performance of its office workers”
