The Perplexity conversation with full citations below.
Ignore the propaganda/media (all you need to know is…)
(audio courtesy of https://notegpt.io – a free online text to speech generator) Captive, coerced, and controlled labor is the grail of economy. Cheap, captive, coerced, and controlled labor is the grail of capitalism. Cowed, cheap, captive, coerced, and controlled labor is the grail of power. Consider the focus and locus of all this activity and effort — it is enlightening: All economy stops without labor. Global Capitalism fails without labor. All Power crumbles without labor. If you sell your labor, every bit of the above is targeting you. Economy, Global Capitalism, Power, they ALL know their entire kingdom rests upon […]
Reflection, Midyear Thoughts
(Note: There is additional content in the audio that is NOT in the below as when reading, other thoughts occurred and where thus included, prefaced with ‘editorial addendum’ and an end cap of some few minutes on acknowledging privilege and an intention of keeping those voiceless many included as I can.) I’m watching other humans talking about their journey to autistic diagnosis and/or individual acceptance of autistic identity, but when I attempt to do the same, I find I’m stuck in a rut of needing to actively refactor my herstory and much of that work requires a mind space that […]
Thoughts on ‘handing out hits for free’, errata
In 2010, I submitted several ideas to my employer, a TCCG and Analog Pen and Paper Roleplay company: They laughed me out of the meeting and laid me off later that year. In June of 2023, thirteen years after I and all my suggestions got laughed out of the company, they finally released the LoTR cross over set. It is the #1 selling set of all time as I write this. To date, they have yet to manage print on demand, but it remains most likely to save their PnP brand. They didn’t go all in on their MMO, which […]