[FRIAM] Fwd: (not) leaving Twitter

[glen]

Took me a minute to find it. But I previously mentioned this re: Sapiens:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/07/the-dangerous-populist-science-of-yuval-noah-harari

I'd love to eavesdrop on a conversation between people who've read Harari's work. But I doubt I'll read it.

On 11/17/22 13:11, Steve Smith wrote:
> Of course I did... doh!
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> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> 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>
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> I think you intended to send this to the list?
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> On 11/17/22 09:13, Steve Smith wrote:
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>> 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).
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>>> Does your play with etoro suggest that's possible there?
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>> I do envy your succinctness...   if I read this first I could probably have avoided the long-circuitious virtue-maunder in my last post.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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