Posts by gmoke@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AUjFmVTFvwGnzCyZCC by gmoke@mastodon.social
2023-04-17T02:12:00Z
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@brewsterkahle I remember the idea of living companies (https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-living-company.html) instead of "corporations are people, too"Then again, there's the idea of an enterprise as a trusteeshipin Gandhian or nonviolent economics (https://hubeventsnotes.blogspot.com/2015/09/we-are-market-basket.html), the application of the Buddhist concept of appamada to business and the market.We can change the algorithm
(DIR) Post #AUl0AE0lI0Zbpsr73I by gmoke@mastodon.social
2023-04-17T22:37:17Z
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@brewsterkahle At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.Heller responds,“Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH.”Source: https://narendragoidani.medium.com/but-i-have-something-he-will-never-have-enough-8036d03d089b
(DIR) Post #AX6bfGEEUlcHK9HBOy by gmoke@mastodon.social
2023-06-27T04:31:32Z
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@clive Electric bikes (scooters & all electric micro-mobility vehicles) should be equipped with batteries that can be remote power when the grid fails, rolling electricity storage as electric cars/trucks are.
(DIR) Post #AY6OwmvQeYliiKPVCa by gmoke@mastodon.social
2023-07-27T00:01:55Z
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@lowqualityfacts People say "fight or flight" but it's really "fight, flight, or freeze" and freeze happens at least a third of the time, sometimes 100% as in "playing possum."
(DIR) Post #AYXbZHBhDJOoX6cuZM by gmoke@mastodon.social
2023-08-09T02:55:36Z
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@internetarchive Every day is Christmas at the library and librarians are part Santa Claus, part Sherlock Holmes.
(DIR) Post #Ab4rdTLkD5CxAOAoV6 by gmoke@mastodon.social
2023-10-23T23:50:13Z
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@todayilearned MLKJr convinced Nichelle Nichols to stay on Star Trek when she wanted to quit for EXACTLYthis kind of possibility.
(DIR) Post #AhbQIY0tm3AIUxgnL6 by gmoke@mastodon.social
2024-05-06T04:01:52Z
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@stux Knew a man once who bragged about deciding to land on his left foot while falling from a 30 foot scaffold. He lost that leg up to the knee.Didn't think it right to tell him about how a break fall distributes the weight all across one side of the body to minimize the damage to any single part. Don't forget to raise the hip immediately on contact with the ground.
(DIR) Post #AiidvJWWyUApmtnPGK by gmoke@mastodon.social
2024-06-08T02:36:42Z
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@GryphonSK My favorite definition from the November 1, 1918 NY Daily Call, the Socialist paper of that time"Art Young's Political Primer: What is Socialism? It is business operated for public benefit instead of private profit."Sounds like a B or Benefit Corporation to me.
(DIR) Post #AnmEZ1rXN8XWR6vku0 by gmoke@mastodon.social
2024-11-06T20:24:26Z
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@aral Thiel and Musk now own the USAmerican government.
(DIR) Post #AxaFWiDkYT7HyYKzom by gmoke@mastodon.social
2025-08-27T04:20:13Z
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@Nonilex Are they replacing it with a creative accounting fellowship. I would think Trmp would use that.
(DIR) Post #Azsu7MFnp5N9wxGrQm by gmoke@mastodon.social
2025-11-04T00:03:25Z
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@aral Lotsa people mistaking anti-Zionist for antisemite these days. Sometimes on purpose.