a way to have an append only database with no centralized authority.

Thank you for finally making me understand blockchain.

As a non-technical person - how can I trust that there really is no centralized authority? Wouldn’t whoever built the blockchain system retain some kind of power over it?

Sweet summer child. Does the propaganda make you feel all cozy and warm?

Lego is becoming the Disney of Europe. All cozy-looking while perpetuating and supporting evil.

Wait, that’s not boring, and it’s the first time I read this

One of each if you can’t make up your mind

Probably something like these

Before it was fashionable to call ‘terrorists’ or ‘insurgents’ to organizations the ruling government doesn’t like, ‘organized crime’ would have been a common term applied to any organization posing as an alternative to said government.

Ran from a wildfire recently when the wind turned suddenly. In a few universes I am now BBQ.

Tetris and some Austrian Heimatfilm? Good luck creating crossover of that!

I feel this. I used to find computers and the promises of the internet exciting. Then things slowly turned into what they are now, and these days I often can only see everything computer as a layer of bullshit that has been put on top of the real world to keep us in a trance and not engage with reality anymore. But a lot of good things came from being connected as well. Maybe it’s like growing up and finding out a beloved parent was after all slightly abusive. And then see them decline in old age and have their worse traits worsened even more.

Another image that comes to my mind frequently is that of the internet as the haunted shopping mall: It was once a shiny place, everyone went there, it was all the rage. Now most of the shops are boarded up, the few that are left seem rather dodgy, and the only visitors seem to be a bunch of drug addicts hanging out at the bottom of the out-of-service escalators.

Currently I’m a bit lost trying to return to my analog hobbies. I draw, I paint, I play music, I scratch the donkeys. I often don’t have the energy I wish I had to do things other than sit at a screen. Takes time to get used to it again I guess.