Moel
Moel@fountain.fm
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Inventor of the word “spywall”. Proof: https://damus.io/note1crepuk77r7dxpugv8vqh5de8xnatxlu2rmztxd70nuhs686pdfssw28plm
I do bitcoin stuff. Heard about Bitcoin in 2011. Didn’t act on it until years later. 😅
Origineel bericht: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/114338144470097721 
Saw the new Snow White movie recently. I wonder if the CGI face of Grumpy which is clearly based on Tommy Lee Jones’ face, earned him a nice fee?
In terms of inflation, a 1917 dollar is currently worth about $23.
If you had bought a dollar of gold in 1917 instead of this dollar, it’d be worth $83.
As a collector’s item sold on eBay, this is worth $80-$250.
If you take it to a mint, treasury office, or bank, they’ll give you $1.
If we wanted to digitize all ancient texts, what would it take? How many are there? Starting at the beginning of written history ~5,200 years ago to ~2,000 years ago, how many texts do we have from each millenia or century? Are they accessible to be digitized?
What about earlier symbols and similar potential communication? For example, caves sometimes have marks that seems to have some symbolic meaning, such as slashes that seem like counts. How many are there to digitize?
I'm curious about the scale of it.
Some brilliant observations about the value of doing less.
Read the article here: 
Ant Murphy
Why You Need a 'NOT Doing' List, not a Todo List — Ant Murphy
We usually think in additive terms. Building the next feature, the next
In Princes and Powers, James Baldwin observes that only a culture in crisis would ask for a definition of “culture.”
Article:
daverupert.com
Enshittification as a matter of taste
“Enshittification” is a termed coined by Cory Doctorow in 2023 to describe a pattern of decreasing quality observed in online services and prod...
Work in IT, a department head was rude to my colleague, his entire department now has to change passwords weekly for "security reasons" 😆
When, if ever will @Cash App come to Europe 😅 ?
#weekend
