Elon Tusk @srs@schelling.pt

with the mainstream able to obtain timeshares to Amazon's massive datacenters, we become easily deluded into mistaking this access for a universal utility

the unassuming term "vendor lock-in" obscures the nature of the relevant power relations, & who owns the means of production

Idee: Ein Restaurant spezialisiert auf Suppen und Soßen, in dem die Rezepte alle öffentlich sind und in der Community gemeinsam verbessert und als unterschiedliche Distributionen auf der Speisekarte landen.

Das Restaurant nennt sich dann "The Open Sauce - Git your own Flavor"

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Talking to my dad last night I learned that when he was a kid, there were devices in shoe stores that let you see live x-rays of your feet. Whenever he was there he would sneak onto one to watch his toe-bones wiggle until a clerk told him off.

"According to Hootsuite, the number of Global Internet users has already reached almost 4.66 billion, or about 53% of the global population."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_usage

IMHO means global democracy over the internet is already tractable and defensible.

scaling up communication channels without scaling up empathy & human decency = our current state