When I wanted to make a chyron for
popula.com it was ~langer and @ftrain who explained to me that we should just use a marquee tag. I was SOOOOO AMAZED and my jaw hit the floor because something I UNDERSTOOD! unbelievable and guess what, that is what we are using at this very moment. It's fun, if you have suggestions for our chyron please send to us at
hey@popula.com.
w/r/t sunrise. So little has gone the way we once thought and certain aspects of that optimism are lost and can never come back. Clearly, one gravely underestimated the malevolence and greed. To Erin's point on the other thread, the writing was on the wall as early as 1999 when
Amazon began solidifying its position as the intermediary controlling online
retail. eBay too. And Facebook began closing the doors between individuals very early on, increasingly controlling and mediating personal relationships--and still worse, relationships between individuals and the commons--for profit. All these organizations, including Google, succumbed to the same poison.
But the truth is a point of departure and so it's also possible to take heart. I have been working for years and years to find and demonstrate ways to protect freedom, democracy and speech rights. One way is to create cooperatively-owned enterprises
like this one, that are held in trust and concerned not with profit but with sustainability, making enough money to take care of the limited number of people who work there, so that any surplus goes in the bank and stays there for a rainy day. That's what I aim to do with Popula, leave all the equity behind me--the equity, I hope, of a thriving business, that can never be touched. (I got involved in the Civil blockchain project two years ago because of my interest in
blockchain archiving and
cryptoeconomics, and they bankrolled Popula with no strings attached. So that grant is at an end, and Popula is very small but also 100000000000% independent editorially, reader supported and has a little over a thousand subscribers and no ads, and it will never have ads, and it will never have investors. What if a lot of organizations determined to build to last, for sustainability, were to band together?)
Everyone here is understandably brought down by what has happened to our fallen Paradise over the last twenty years but it's also possible that we might have more resources than we think
starting with <marquee>
Also MLTSHP is AMZNG