I was really struck by the news images of wrecked cars being stacked in Valencia’s growing car graveyards.This is adapted from a photo by Anadolu for Getty Images

Best wishes to all the Americans of Mastodon today

…Tech efficiency aside, I still think Jathan Sadowski summed up the hubris at the core of blockchain when he said that crypto-currency related tech is “a libertarian fantasy looking to replace society with a decentralised frontier that’s doomed to fail because it has… an atomistic view of a fundamentally relational world”