October 20, 2018
Interesting Things on the Internet: October 20th 2018
- Elites like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos think they’re being philanthropic. But they could do so much more. This is all good. There were too many sections I wanted to quote here, so just go read it all.
- Destroy Bitcoin. Smash the mining rigs "Is this how it will actually end? With the hum of a billion mining rigs ultimately drowned out by the gurgling inrush of the sea?"
- Sidewalk Toronto has only one beneficiary, and it is not Toronto. "If we are to build viable digital cities for the benefit of Canadian citizens, we will need transparency and accountability between the government and its citizens, not a secret deal between an unelected, rogue public corporation and a foreign multinational in the business of mass surveillance."
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