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Drawing from Debord and Heidegger, this film examines our subjective experience of time throughout history. It reveals how the relentless pursuit of productivity has shaped society and our perceptions of time, creating a perpetual present driven by an autonomous economy and accelerated by surveillance capitalism. The film explores the societal obsession with busyness and advocates for reclaiming time and leisure to foster true human flourishing.

yes, Meg Whitman

The Power of ‘No’: Reclaiming Leisure from the Commodification of Time in an Age of Hyperactivity

I have a customer who refuses to migrate away from his Palm Pilot Desktop software Palm Desktop (Windows 7/8/10) last stable release was in 2008. No features have been added in 24 years. The Palm Pilot itself stopped working about 20 years ago. He runs the software in a Windows XP virtual machine.

He runs his entire business off the contact list in the software. Customer has over 50,000 contacts, which the software supports a max of 8k. I got around this limit by using the "Profiles" feature in the software, which allows you to configure multiple users-Each user allowed max of 8k contacts.

I created 10 profiles by dividing the English alphabet into 10 groups based on the frequency of last name first letter in his set of contacts:

Contact Group 1: A, K, T Contact Group 2: B, L, U Contact Group 3: C, M, V Contact Group 4: D, N, W Contact Group 5: E, O, X Contact Group 6: F, P, Y Contact Group 7: G, Q, Z Contact Group 8: H, R Contact Group 9: I, S Contact Group 10: J

Of course, when he needs to search or get data from his contacts, he needs to constantly switch profiles. I can only imagine how mundane that must be, but whatever floats your boat.

The _last_ thing I want more of is news. I quit news in 2020 and I'm been happier.

HotTake: the result of this should be to nationalize Amazon to be the defacto national provider of AWS services, delivery, logistics, and backstopped retail services.

dont' mistake a beautiful map for the territory, you'll find yourself lost amongst lines that aren't a real place.

This outcome is obvious when an ostensible ad-company (the Fox) builds the web browser (the henhouse).

The Alzabo is a monster from Gene Wolfes 'Book of the New Sun' series where it eats its victims and absorbs their thoughts and memories. It then speaks in the voice of its victims to lure the kinfolk of those hes eaten.

Banks also have a MASSIVE amount of CRE Commercial Real Estate (office buildings) that are completely empty, without lease payments flowing in, and since COVID-19 has shifted knowledge work to remote-first in many cities, these office will be empty for a long time.

The CRE bubble is going to burst in the next 18 months as the 5-year commercial office leases signed in 2017+ are all going to come to an end, and the banks will be realizing these losses starting now and the next few years. Its going to get ugly soon.

It is crystal clear no-brainer that municipalities need to disincentivize non-resident ownership of single, double and triple-unit residential properties with massive taxes.

TL;DR If you don't live there, you pay big massive taxes. If you live there, you don't.