KelsonV @KelsonV@wandering.shop

I walk into the law office

name: bartleby
occupation: scrivener
preference: not to

I am forcibly removed from the law office

18 Years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote an important treatise that I think still holds up very well

Especially so with what seems to be discussions of the platform itself, creating its own rolling phenomena. Influence of platforms on people is self-reinforcing

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2003/03/03/building-communities-with-software/

as we talk about the morality of vaccine patents

i think it is a nice time to also remember historical precident

jonas salk did not patent the polio vaccine. he went out of his way to make sure it was not patented.

he never got rich. he actively made sure he didn't get rich off of it.

but that history is full of stories about how for the rest of his life, jonas salk did not have to ever pay for a beer in any bar in this country. he would get on airplanes and once somebody recognized his name, the entire damn plane would stand up and clap for him. he constantly had hotel rooms comped, meals for free at restaurants, thus and so.

because he was surrounded by people who knew he had saved their children from having to ever consider the fear of an iron lung, and were overwhelmingly grateful for it.

he was always modest and demure when recognized thusly. but i think that when people start saying "well why else would someone make a vaccine, if not to get paid for it and hold the patent", i think it is good to remember these stories. the world did not punish jonas salk for not patenting the polio vaccine. the world loved him for it. maybe not in the structures that billionaires are most used to. but they did love him for it, in small ways, in humble ways, on the individual level.

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SMBC - "Wacky 90s fads" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fads

This one hurts.

@Creaturista Maybe not as much of a resource, but jwz has a way of articulating the fuckedupness https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/03/bitcoin-mine-cargo-container-literally-incinerating-planet/

Hey, fedipals - what are some of your favorite resources on the evils of cryptocurrencies, NFTs, all that bullshit? I need concrete facts to cite, but all sources are welcome here.

This is a real place

Ready for split views and Gempub? #Lagrange v1.4.0 is out:

https://gmi.skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-05_lagrange-1.4.gmi
gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2021-05_lagrange-1.4.gmi

The announcement post as a Gempub: gemini://skyjake.fi/media/lagrange_v1.4.gpub

#Gemini