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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."

-- Lou Holtz

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Live demo of algorithmic racism

RT @ParissAthena@twitter.com

Whew, this isn’t just exposing TikTok. This is how all these platforms work, more or less.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ParissAthena/statu

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Show this to that one friend who still 👏 doesn't 👏 understand 👏 privacy.

#GetSession

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@arteteco I would like to create something that, once mature, is used as an everyday currency. This will likely be an ethereum token (and later a ADA token once it matures). So PoS is where its headed regardless. It seems to me volatility is a barrier to adoption. Coins are either wildly volatile (like ethereum) or entierly stable (like USDT). Neither of which encourage people to invest in it. So the core idea behind my coin (there is a lot to it actually this is just the mile high benefit) is that it is semi-stable.

What i am considering are various modes on top of the equations I already have that may dictate when and how coin is printed and distributed to help encourage a healthy market for the coin.

With fiat we have governments printing it when economies arent doing well and distributing it through loans.. That approach wont work on crypto but my approach is similar in nature whereby the coin adjusts various parameters in order to improve the market and encourage the value of the coin.

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Life on Symi is always surprising. At 03.00 last Saturday, just as I was heading for bed, I heard a strange crashing sound outside. I took a torch and discovered that the stalk of the soon-to-flower Agave americana at the bottom of the Vigla (mountain as 'look out') had crashed into the courtyard and roof. Fortunately it appears not to have caused any structural damage to the house despite the size and length of the stalk.

see:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave

also:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agave_am

Canada may be making all the records at the moment. However, I have to say that in the last five days the temperature here in Symi has simply rocketed after a rather cold early June. Subjectively it feels like 40 degrees C and above and it's going to be even hotter today. Outside T-shirts and shorts may be the minimum apparel - but in this house at the bottom of a mountain (the Vigla= 'look out') naturism has a certain appeal!

The ancient fridge is just about hanging in. And the laptop too (CPU throttling etc).

How to survive? Lots of fluids and cold(ish) showers every few hours. Also cultivating a certain kind of laziness!

There was only one album I could play tonight with all the windows open (many Symiots have AC units) was Hotter Than July!

@zpartacoos @freemo I'm interested in this approach (and similar/complementary approaches) and would like to be included in any ongoing discussion.

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@freemo can we get everybody in qoto together to build a country with rationalism, logic, freedom and stem as a foundation?

I came across a Nigerian dude a while back complaining about his government and talking about a possible way to create a new country with a government system from scratch. His idea was to start as an online movement which would attract people of similar values and ideas about how to make governing structures. Then, you put them in a truly anonymous block chain where they can have a "passport" from this digital country and a platform where ideas and plans are made from ground up (using something like ADA/cardano or ICP/dfinity). For example, people can work on the legal infrastructure and other aspects of the country where everybody gets to vote and decisions are settled with smart contracts. All out in the open. Eventually, when sufficient people have joined the system, make a colony in a suitable piece of land (or multiple even in different geographical locations), either on earth or else where. So, you'd build all the values and digital infrastructure first and the actual physical system last.

What do you say?

The Book of the Month for June is The History Man by Ray Bradbury and the Track of the Month is the Andante from the Cello Sonata in G minor by Sergei Rachmaninov

phidoc.net/book_of_the_month.h

phidoc.net/track_of_the_month.

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I have been meaning to post about observations of #monarch
butterflies in the wilderness garden right in the middle of winter.

I saw a chrysalis ready to hatch, and a day later only the shell. Then I saw a couple of butterflies at a distance. Finally, I got a close-up shot of a butterfly and another a day later of the same butterfly, identified by a broken-off section of the rear, right-wing..

#photos #winter #monarchs

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