[FRIAM] Fwd: (not) leaving Twitter

[Steve Smith]

Of course I did... doh!



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Subject: 	Re: [FRIAM] (not) leaving Twitter
Date: 	Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:22:48 -0800
From: 	glen <gepropella at gmail.com>
To: 	Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com>



I think you intended to send this to the list?

On 11/17/22 09:13, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> On 11/17/22 9:32 AM, glen wrote:
>> IDK, man. I feel like this is the same homogenizing force as Spotify, 
>> or influencers on Instagram, driving us all into the same gravity 
>> well. What I'd *like* ... what I've looked for and failed to find, 
>> are ways to invest "locally", to bet on strangers' enterprises, sure, 
>> but strangers that satisfy a locality predicate, local in space 
>> mostly, but perhaps local in ethos (like B corps or co-ops), or 
>> domain (not the useless "tech" or "life sciences" but something more 
>> refined).
>>
>> Does your play with etoro suggest that's possible there?
>
> I do envy your succinctness...   if I read this first I could probably 
> have avoided the long-circuitious virtue-maunder in my last post.
>
> Anyone else read(ing) Harari's _Sapiens_?   His description of how 
> Homo Sapiens has gone from millions of Dunbar-sized tribes to one 
> giant global "community" was fascinating...   The roughly 5 or 6 
> universes of 500 years ago even (Eurasia, Subsaharan Africa, 
> Australia, Pacifica, MesoAmerica) which collapsed with the European 
> Explo(it)ration eruption.
>
> The inevitable pulse of differentiation/re-integration seems to be 
> (one of the?) pump(s) of complex adaptive systems (evolution in all 
> domains)?
>

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