“Editorials will still be called editorials, but articles written by outside writers will be known as “Guest Essays,” a title that will appear prominently above the headline.”
aww, not “Guest Substacks” or “Guest Mediums” or “Guest Blog Posts”
I am sad that NFTs are apparently the least bad (as in: being used by people) solution to real symptom, the underlying problem of which is _capitalism as it is practiced right now totally sucks_
ie people need money / need ways to spend less money / basics are incredibly expensive in the US eg housing, healthcare / social services are non-existent
Living is hard and everything is becoming a hustle & financialized
Worst is the creation of a new layer of middlemen who look, broadly, just like most of the last middlemen who’re for extraction and pulling the ladder up.
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This episode:
* A brief overview of the horrific car crash of the UK Post Office’s Horizon IT system modernization project
* More on Apple’s iPad problem, which is that they’ve decided it’s not a Mac, and we should probably accept that
* Snow Crash recap: chapter 15
The Snow Crash recap in particular goes into detail about the CIC Library, what a world without UGC looks like, the difference between an information economy and an attention economy, and assumptions that go into uploading vast quantities of “garbage data”.