September 2021 Archiv

Shipcoin.

As with many stories about techno-libertarian fantasies, the tale of the Satoshi begins in an all-male, quasi-frat house in San Francisco in the late 90s.

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In his scheme, the Satoshi would connect, via two looping tunnels on the water, to human-made floating platforms designated for agriculture, manufacturing and parkland. From the air, the whole community would form the shape of the bitcoin B.

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Even scrapping the Satoshi proved to be a debacle.

Sophie Elmhirst: The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship (The Guardian)

Horn NO Thanks.

On April 30, 2015, the Government of Maharashtra banned the use of "Horn OK Please" on the rear of commercial vehicles, on the grounds that it encouraged motorists to honk unnecessarily and caused noise pollution.

en.wikipedia.org: Horn OK Please

Vlaggetjes.

Ook bij een Duitse vlag moet je opletten, bij een Nederlandse vlag is het 50/50 en bij bootjes met een Friese vlag dan weet je: dit komt wel goed, die kunnen wel varen.

Mark-Jan Enkhuizen // Omrop Fryslân: Sluismeester zijn op de Afsluitdijk is 'Tetris voor gevorderden' (2021-07-30)

Speakority.

Increasingly “creative coaches” and people with “keynote speaker” in their Twitter bios are making their quest to earn authority a higher priority than the very reason they got into this in the first place. Fueling the Complex is alluring catnip that feels like you’re advancing your career the same way answering a bunch of emails just feels productive.

Sean Blanda: The Creative World’s Bullshit Industrial Complex

Stadtsinn.

In 1975, the year it was completed, the Ihme Centre stood for a revolutionary concept: a city within the city. A complex that you hardly ever have to leave.

Volker Crone: KLOTZ

Siehe auch: Ihme-Zentrum (de.wikipedia.org)