It’s been a roller-coaster ride, a tale full of sound and fury. Tech has been a marvel. At first adored, glorified, envied. The progenitor of one of the greatest bubbles in all of financial history (which dramatically peaked right at the turn of the millennium!). The startups, the VC’s, the…

Seven people do ask the question: Kirkpatrick Sale, E. F. Schumacher, Leopold Kohr, Ralph Borsodi, Mildred Loomis, Rudolf Bahro, and Paul Goodman. What size collective makes sense? Earliest: the band of about 50 (comprised of several kinship families) Then: the Paleolithic tribe of about 300 (comprised of multiple nomadic bands or…

https://mishtalk.com/economics/bank-contagion-spreads-to-europe-credit-suisse-sinks-to-a-new-record-low “If you bought today’s low and cashed out you are up 22 percent in one day. Congratulations.”

https://mishtalk.com/economics/yellen-said-no-bailout-but-its-a-huge-bailout-of-the-banking-system This is a reinforcement of the idea that we live in a new economic period. What’s in a general sense called the era of capitalism can be sub-divided into the period of mercantilism, the period of corporate consolidation, and then the period of governmental management. The latter smooths out wrinkles but results in distortion of markets, increased inequality, and relatively slow economic growth.

https://www.oracle.com/in/cx/marketing/lead-management/what-is-lead-nurturing It’s not just the pitiful orientation of seeing people as “prospective buyers.” That sucks, but the insanity of the modern situation is the inifinitude of the domain of prospective buyers. The lonely atomized company faces a world containing a for all intents and purposes infinite number of them. It’s daunting. The poor company could be subject to over-strain in its striving to reach them all. Nurture them all.

I question the sacredness of: “A cohousing community must be designed by its future residents.” Eventually every community will be populated by residents who had nothing to do with the design. The paradigm of having amateurs get together with good intentions and try to develop a settlement of 30 houses…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBiV1h7Dm5E

Here you will find five handheld brooms and dustpans with children’s names on them, a persimmon tree coveted by squirrels and tended by tired humans, a laundry line not infrequently decorated with the linens of an old, fierce woman, a time capsule deep in the ground that doesn’t contain the jeans my husband hates…

If nuclear weapons exist there will someday be an unfortunate outlier circumstance where they get used and it will be tragic. They must be gotten rid of. If nuclear power plants exist there will be unfortunate outlier circumstances where meltdowns occur and they will be tragic. They must be gotten rid of. https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-missiles-target-cities-across-035609558.html The attack put Europe’s largest nuclear plant at risk by knocking it off the power grid for hours before it was reconnected. Because nuclear plants need constant power to run cooling systems to avoid a meltdown, the latest threat to the Zaporizhzhia plant again raised the specter of a nuclear catastrophe.