It was 1970 and 23 year old engineering student Gary Anderson invented the recycling logo. Today it is one of the most duplicated non-product logos in the world.
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“The most courageous decision that you can make each day is to be in a good mood.” — Voltaire
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In the Shadow of Mt. Ararat: Impressions from Ishak Pasha Palace, Doğubeyazıt, Turkey
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"To err is human, to forgive is divine" - Alexander Pope
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Hotel Belvedere in Oberwald, Switzerland
Let's play a game: Close your eyes for 30 seconds and simply imagine what stories and dramas might have occurred in this peculiar place over the past centuries. Please share if anything interesting arises.
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"Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs" is a 2h critical analysis video about NFTs. If the time is to valuable for you to spend on this topic (it should be, go visit a forest instead), here is my short Comment:
In the early 2000s, "P2P" Communities like "BitTorrent" thrived around the vision of making all media and knowledge accessible for everyone for free by removing key barriers and ending (artificial) scarcity. It was a radical departure from the age old philosophy of the dominate power "elites", defined by concepts such as Scarcity, Property, Competition, Surveillance, Policing - and above all, financialization & commercialization of everything.
After years of dirty fights by the "elites" and diverse "middle men" against the P2P, Commons and Open-Source movements, they seemingly have achieved dominance over the narrative once again. The result are things like NFT's, which implement the vision of creating more artificial scarcity by creating more (Intellectual) Property through more technological policing - and above all, more financialization & commercialization of everything. NFT's lead to a plethora of bad outcomes, including opening the (philosophical, cultural) door for all kinds of DRM maximalism nightmares, incl. patents on life.
Members of Hyperledger, indicative of the wider situation Despite the ubiquitous marketing messaging ("Decentralize power!"), unsurprisingly the hidden owners of the Crypto/NFT space are the same criminal gangs and empires of the 0.0001%, that have been running the show for centuries. Never forget rule N.1 of the blockchain: He who owns the biggest (quantum) computer and dominates the (power/fiber) networks, de-facto owns everything.
NFT's represent a massive failure of imagination. In the very moment that creating a post-scarcity, open-source, commons-based economy has become feasible, an entire generation has been enticed to become "wannabe investment bankers" engaged in a giant Ponzi Scheme instead.
More critique of Crypto & NFT's, here, here, here, here, here, here and here
