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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I had to study the diagram a few times to figure out what the core point was, but I think it boils down to this:

    Democracy: Highly equal, 1 person = 1 vote, everyone is included (“inalienist”)

    Capitalism: Different levels of power, 1 person = $X, some people can’t participate as much as others (“alienist”)

    Does this mean that Democratic Capitalism is somehow an oxymoron? Only in situations where we allow both types of power to coexist - hence the absolutely critical need to:

    • Keep money out of politics
    • Ban bribes and “gifts” at every level of government
    • Fund institutions that prevent corruption and promote transparency


  • I have a vision of starting a <noscript> community.

    Basically building a set of tools to help people host content with just plain HTML and CSS, using static personal hosting and organically sharing links like the pioneer days of the web.

    I think that the shift to client-side scripting, like tracking pixels, algorithmic content, infinite scrolling, targeted advertising, etc is how we ended up with the monoculture we see today.

    Just disable JavaScript on your browser and 99% of those things go sway and we can support people building personal homepages again.