(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 […]
Why I stay with Bluesky
Sharing the SWSX live stream because when you compare this narrative to the ones of the other platforms, particularly its currently open and free access and personalizing configuration (still unfolding), it becomes clear this is emergent possibility for better and more refined functionality than we’ve managed to see scale successfully. It’s an exciting time. Lots of opportunity. I’ve been yelling since the BBS days about the need to stipulate and protect a concept that is today called ‘protocols’ (that’s another article) as an emergent technology that genuinely can and likely will return personal power and certainly digital dignity (not Lanier’s […]
Thank you, Sen. Chris Murphy (#corruption #review)
Providing for archival purposes. The presentation Sen. Murphy made of this information is worth the watch and also provided here, courtesy of the public posting of recording by TikTok user @4thepeoplebythepeople (thank you); video follows the image. While watching this, please consider using the website https://5calls.org to make it clear to your House and Senate representatives what you think about this, the state of our nation, and what you want to see them do to put a stop to this. Full image from video is the featured image of this post (points up). Thank you for keeping up to date […]
The internalization must come out, sometimes.
I don’t have many people around these days who can recognize my value and are willing to articulate it on my behalf. I know what I can do, I like to show people what I can do, but after a point, it just sounds like so much self-absorbed pontificating. I wish I knew the way to get people to just SEE and RECOGNIZE what I am capable of… all this value potential sieving off into nothingness for lack of anyone interested in letting me help them bring something into reality. If I could code, I’d already be the next billionaire […]
Title track: Demagogue In A Toupee
In the halls of power, a clown takes the stageA would-be king, naught but ego and rageHe spoke of greatness, but brought only shameHe is dividing us, with his hate-filled game Donald J Trump, a man unfit to leadConvictions piling up, worst kind of a bad seedA danger to democracy, a threat each and every dayWe need a leader, not a demagogue in a toupee He lied about his scandals, about his payoffs, tooAbout the wall, about the debt, about what he would doHe used his power to enrich himself and friendsWhile leaving the people behind, he has no defense […]
Public Comment to IACC (2024 report response)
The reporting cycle for the IACC is complete and now, delivered. I’m livid at the result.
The United States of America needs another, better model of management
There should be a program that balances Federal funds AGAINST state incentives in such a way as to assure an evenly spread industrial and commercial network in our United States of America. Companies and industries that significantly impact the gross national product should NOT be permitted to jeopardize the national economic health via full blown autonomy. The idea that the companies of a nation are any less accountable for the health of the gross national product along with our general, economic health as a nation beyond coddling up to the states that house them, the government that legislates on their behalf (for shared […]
This Swampy River (a riff)
Is this Trump’s[1] effort to influence the return of manufacturing to the states?