Incentivizing Fandom
How do you reward people who work hard to share your work? Utilizing a specific set of apps and crypto, you can create a way to reward people for sharing clips of a podcast. You don't have to think long about this to see a way to share profits with the part of your audience that evangelizes for you.
Independent work is . . .
Capitol City Dusters - Reasons
A gem of 2ks indie rock
It’s fun when you go digging in your own crates and find a gem. DC in the early 2ks had this specific mix of discordant(pun intended) and aggressive that was just right. Alas, this never caught on the way that Fugazi’s post hardcore did and it wouldn’t be long until the country was buried in a mass of boring Screamo . . .
Reviewing Religious Texts
I recently finished reading through the Dhammapada and once it was done was asked to rate it. It's just one of the central books in Buddhism, but probably the least approachable. I dunno three stars? I'm not sure what my star rating can add to the several thousand-year discussion of the Buddha's teachings. On the other hand, the . . .
Outsourcing Mass Surveillance
What the law won't allow, coin will provide.
Ars Technica reports on the EFF investigation into the outsourced surveillance tool, Fog Reveal. The only constant in American politics in my lifetime is the growth of the surveillance state. There's a tag in here where counties with less than 100k people are buying this off the shelf software to build their tiny little panopticons. . . .
Podcast Queue: Religion As A Social Adaptation
How Religion Evolved with Robin Dunbar — Factually! with Adam Conover
This was a fascinating interview about the evolution of religion in human society. Looking beyond the facile argument that reduces the debate to one of truth, Dunbar talks about the way different religions affected the ways humans settled. Thinking about religion . . .
Tech Whine: Safari for the iPad
One of the more frustrating things about Apple declaring Safari on iOS as "Desktop Class" is that you don't get access to developer tools. Instead, you need apps that use a wrapper to achieve the same thing. Thankfully most of them are free, but if they're going to pitch Swift Playgrounds as a way to get new devs it should . . .
Bookshelf: No Gods No Monsters
No Gods, No Monsters by Caldwell Turnbull was totally an impulse purchase based on the title. Who could resist a book titled with an anarchism pun? The story did more than enough to live up to that promise and exceed my early assumptions. The story starts out with Laina finding out that her brother is dead, shot dead by the police . . .