As much as I dislike Google I feel you really made a decent suggestion here.
sturlabragason
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“The world’s demographic structure passed the point of no return twenty to forty years ago. The 2020s are the decade when it all breaks apart.”
Peter Zeihan, The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
Information wants to be free.
This is also my argument in favour of internet piracy.
Scary bedtime read.
I’ve been using Brave search for a while as a daily driver. It’s usually pretty decent, but I fall back to google when looking for commercial stuff like local stores and products.
Aliens Vs Predator game was wiiiild back in 2000 playing as alien!
Geforce Now on my thinkpad is what makes modern games work.
Likewise! It’s been 8 years without nicotine and 2 years sober here.
Here’s a good one about the monkey on your back: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rUvzx73-cCY&pp=ygUSc3R5Z2dlbiBww6UgcnlnZ2Vu
But you gotts understand norwegian: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/styggen-p%C3%A5-ryggen-bastard-my-back.html
Haven’t kicked them. Stopped using nicotine and alcohol but man is the addiction still there. 🥲
I thought this book was pretty good at reasoning trough some scenarios;
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
This is the beach our 1st level characters landed on in our Eberron campaign. It's one of the islands in Shargons Teeth.
"Quest Portal is the virtual tabletop for Game Masters who want to boost their storytelling and be confident about the games they run. Create memorable stories, characters and visuals and bring them to your game with ease."
"Easily create characters, organize games, purchase content, find players, and customize your story for your group – all in your browser."
So I've spent a bit of time over the past few years trying to reason my way trough society breaking away from our capitalist overlords.
Let me try to summarize some of my thinking as simply as possible; you start a second economy, one founded using Blockchain technologies and algocracy, with an utter focus on human welfare and ensuring resistance to tampering and unjust accumulation of power and wealth. You siphon the global population over to this new economy effectively stifling the old economy where the totality of the 1%'s wealth resides and is therefore rendered worthless.
The above is by no means a complete summary and there are a bunch of other concepts loosely associated with this such as environmental sustainability, transhumanism, degrowth, fostering small communities etc.
I've written about DACs, one of the components of the above here: https://sturlabragason.github.io/blog/2023/07/04/Decentralized-Autonomous-Communities.html
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Hell yeah!