WMC News Letter - 6 September 2022
"Secrecy and repression bred only corruption and dysfunction"
-- From an article in the Economist.
Down the rabbit hole:
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Politics
I am not a supporter of Donald Trump and when I watch clips of journalist on MSNBC and CNN I find their schadenfreude while reporting the current trials and tribulations of Donald Trump and the Republican party unbecoming.
Thought Exercise
The EU is opening an "embassy" in San Francisco to formalize previous informal connections with global tech companies (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) and the tech industry, because the power, impact and reach by these companies rivals that of small countries and should be treated at least on some level as a country.
This got me thinking...
If enough people got together could they create a country which exists primarily in cyberspace.
What would a virtual country look like?
Down the rabbit hole #2
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Some biologists estimate that New York harbour was once home to half of the world’s oysters. Early European visitors described finding some a foot long. Their beds lined Brooklyn and Queens and encircled Manhattan; Ellis Island was called Oyster Island.