Lot of talk of #TheMerge today and there's a good chance you want to know what it is. Here's my no-nonsense zero Crypto Kool-Aid explanation of how #Ethereum is evolving. #web3
tiktok.com/@mor10web/vide… #crypto people and companies out today saying #TheMerge solves all the problems with crypto and #web3 as if PoW was the main issue. Which is nonsense. The main issue is this is vision of the future where every interaction becomes a financialized transaction.

The age of monolithic end-to-end CMS solutions is coming to an end (if it hasn't already ended). The modern and future web is an API-ified web where clients consume data through APIs and nimble front-ends are decoupled from the creation layer. Right now, tools like @GatsbyJS and @nextjs make it easier to pull and combine data from existing monolithic CMSes and combining it into a coherent and performance focused front-end. From my perspective this is a stepping stone into a fully decoupled future.

I feel nothing but compassion for the people who are facing financial disaster due to #Cryptocrash. The marketing of #crypto, especially towards vulnerable populations, has been extremely effective. I fault nobody for believing in the promise of power in an inequitable world. The inscrutable technical complexity of the #crypto and #web3 space combined with massive investment and plenty of get-rich-quick stories has created an environment where media outlets uncritically presented these things as "the future" rather than "a risky endeavour."

"The Future of Finance"
"More Stable than Fiat"
"Inflation Proof"
#web3 #crypto Last week I watched a YouTube video of a guy doing some sort of "graph analysis" phrenology bullshit to explain how that day was the right day to buy Bitcoin because the specific shape of the graph was a pattern indicating a huge rise next week. I wonder how much he burned.

Let's talk about what happened at #Metrotown in #Burnaby British Columbia yesterday and why it is far more serious than a "prank." Background: Police were called to an active shooter and possible pipe bomb. People were evacuated. cbc.ca/news/canada/br… The mall is one of the biggest in Canada. It's actually two malls which merged some years ago into one gigantic mega mall. Yesterday afternoon, reports came in of shots fired, and videos of panicked people running out of the mall while heavily armed police entered were shared.

The supply chain collapse due to COVID19 and the EVERGIVEN situation is starting to manifest itself. ics-shipping.org/press-release/… This graphic shows days of delay in shipping between Asia and Europe.

10 years ago today, a far-right terrorist murdered 77 people in Oslo and on Utøya in Norway. Most of the victims were teenagers at a summer camp. The toxic ideologies and hate speech the terrorist adhered to still flourish online. In fact, they are more prevalent today. On the 10th anniversary of one of the worst terror attacks in Europe since World War II, international media is largely silent. It's difficult to tell the story of a white christian right-wing terrorist when all people want to hear is that terrorism is something other do to them.

Abolish billionaires. Nobody needs, or can even use, that much money. There should be an upper limit on wealth. Once you hit $100 million or whatever, anything above that is automatically put towards healthcare, education, and housing. It's difficult to fully comprehend just how much money one billion dollars is, so let me give you a reference:
One billion is one thousand million.
1,000,000,000

10 years ago, I woke up to the news a terrorist had tried to kill my friends. Two hours later, teens at a summer camp on an island started tweeting: someone was shooting at them. By the end of the day the terrorist had murdered 77 people, most of them teenagers aged 14-18. He considered them traitors to the country for being members of the social democratic Labour party and assigned himself the duty of carrying out their death sentence.

This story illustrates the complexities of designing modern technology to augment human interaction. It's not enough that it works; potential use cases and their consequences must be considered, and guidelines established to avoid harm #techethics #ethics mercurynews.com/2019/03/08/fre… Telemedicine is a challenging subject exposing many of the #ethics, social, and technology issues we're going to be facing in the near future.

We need to have a conversation about #OpenSource and equity. Particularly, we need to talk about how "decisions are made by those who show up" should be amended to read "decisions are made by those who CAN AFFORD to show up" and what that means for our industry. The origins of the Open Source movement are rooted in equity + distribution of power: Rather than large corporations controlling both the product, the tooling, and who gets to work on either, the user has full autonomy to create, contribute, distribute, and maintain everything.

I have long argued 1991 was a pivotal year for modern music. Allow me to explain why in this Friday feel-good #thread. #TheYearWas1991 For many genres, 1991 was a watershed moment. The albums released in that year often represent the start of a whole new generation of music. #TheYearWas1991