It seems like Gmail is Blocking Some FluxGarden Registration Emails - got a few bounces today with (more)

Erik Hoel: When video game addiction strikes. In college I played World of Warcraft too—my first semester I spent way too much time on it, and I too would dream of it, occasionally. We were both inside the supersensorium. And by “supersensorium” I mean the entertainment analog to a “supermarket” with all its conveniences and stocked shelves. (more)

Jacob Falkovich: How to Choose a Goddess (Using a Spreadsheet). (Dating market). The Why and How of Matrixcraft (more)

Ben Hunt: This is the Great Ravine. This is all going to get much worse before it gets any better....In The Dark Forest, volume 2 of the Three-Body Problem science fiction trilogy, Cixin Liu mentions almost in passing a 50-year period of immense social upheaval, destruction and (ultimately) recovery across the globe. He never goes into the details of this period that he calls the Great Ravine. (more)

Ben Hunt: The Four Horsemen of the Great Ravine, Part 1. Every so often, things fall apart. Every so often, human society collapses into violence both economic and kinetic, both large-scale and small-scale, a war of all against all where life is nasty, brutish and short. (more)

concept from James Scott (more)

see t-bill and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Treasury_security

frame of jackpot/collapse (more)

Tang Feng (Chinese: 唐鳳; pinyin: Táng Fèng; born 18 April 1981), also known by her English name Audrey, is a Taiwanese politician and free software programmer who served as the first Minister of Digital Affairs of Taiwan from August 2022 to May 2024.[1] She has been described as one of the "ten greatest Taiwanese computing personalities".[2] In August 2016, Tang was invited to join Taiwan's Executive Yuan as a minister without portfolio, making her the first transgender person and the first non-binary gender official in the top executive cabinet.[3][4][5] Tang has identified as "post-gender" and accepts "whatever pronoun people want to describe me with online."[6] Tang is a leader of the Haskell and Perl programming language communities, and is the core member of g0v. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Tang (more)

neo-Enlightenment for a Network Society: see (2021-07-07) Network Enlightenment (more)

is a type of economic system involving social ownership of the means of production within the framework of a market economy. Various models for such a system exist, usually involving cooperative enterprises and sometimes a mix that includes public or private enterprises.[1][2] In contrast to the majority of historic self-described socialist economies, which have substituted the market mechanism for some form of economic planning, market socialists wish to retain the use of supply and demand signals to guide the allocation of capital goods and the means of production.[3][4][5] Under such a system, depending on whether socially owned firms are state-owned or operated as worker cooperatives, profits may variously be used to directly remunerate employees, accrue to society at large as the source of public finance, or be distributed amongst the population in a social dividend.[6] Market socialism can be distinguished from the concept of the mixed economy because most models of market socialism propose complete and self-regulating systems, unlike the mixed economy.[7] While social democracy aims to achieve greater economic stability and equality through policy measures such as taxes, subsidies, and social welfare programs, market socialism aims to achieve similar goals through changing patterns of enterprise ownership and management. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_socialism (more)

sounds like a SmallWorld-oriented Libertarian model. (more)

aka labor union

a branch of Anarchism which focuses on the labor movement. Syndicalisme is a French word meaning "TradeUnion-ism" - hence, the "syndicalism" qualification. Anarcho-syndicalists view Labor Unions as a potential force for revolutionary social change, replacing capitalism and the State with a new society democratically self-managed by workers. (more)

Venkatesh Rao: The Meaning Crisis Conspiracy. The meaning crisis was a psyop invented in a secret Murdoch-funded lab in 2015 to distract younger Millennials and Zoomers from the fact that the rent was too damn high, and it worked. (more)

William Gibson book series: Peripheral (Oct28'2014), Agency (Jan21'2020)..... (more)

book by Douglas Allen ISBN:0226014746 (more)

Unblocking NetworkSociety; miro map, originally scapple (Jun'2020) - levels (from HugeInvention down to ShitPosting) vs problems (Climate Change, pandemic, BigWorld: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVOAZ0xb0=/

Ban private jets to address climate crisis, says Thomas Piketty. Questions of social and economic class must be at the centre of our response to the climate change crisis, to address the huge inequalities between the carbon footprints of the rich and poor and prevent a backlash against climate policies, the economist Thomas Piketty has said. (more)

a medium for creating new media, cf media inventor (more)