chimney @chimney@osna.social

sometimes I wonder about analogies.

I mean the way some people think of digital terms like
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#bitcoin and #blockchain
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Example:
They praised El Salvador for being a “crypto state”.
Apart from Human Rights or Press Freedom today El Salvador also got a real existing financial problem.
Human Rights Watch says that President Nayib Bukele has “undermined basic democratic checks and balances” …
But now investors “expect” …
The yield on Salvadoran government bonds jumped from just under 9 percent a year ago to 34 percent recently. This would correspond to additional costs of over a hundred million dollars for a follow-up financing for bonds in the amount of 800 million dollars due next year and could drive the country into bankruptcy.

So:
If you want to save lives in a desert …
Would you put a bread baker in the middle?

Seid ihr auch schon so gespannt, ob die nächste Regierung eine Frau in die ersten drei Hierarchiestufen des @BMVI bringen wird?

Wir haben uns in einem offenen Brief u.a. an die @NdsLandesReg
und den Landtag gewandt. Darin haben wir gefordert pseudonyme Kontaktlisten in die Corona-VO aufzunehmen. Den Brief findet ihr hier: https://chaostreff-osnabrueck.de/downloads/brief_kontaktnachverfolgungsapps.pdf

Wir haben gestern Nacht eine neues Update für unseren Osnabrück COVID-19 Dashboard gebaut, nun gibt es auch Grafiken für die Inzidenz sowie die R Werte!

https://vc1.brainfact.de/corona_dashboard/

We pay to Steam, Netflix, Amazon prime, Spotify. But not to Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg, for our favourite Linux distro.

The huge asymmetry between corporate and community has not emerged naturally. It is a product of our choices of not supporting community oriented projects.

The short conveniences vs the long-term good. We always chose the former.

In face of surveillance capitalism, we must and must change.