I found this video's commentary on the recent Unity fiasco most interesting. While the sources and critiques it's drawn from strike me as Libertarian-Left, in terms of naming the behavior behind Hasbro/WotC's OGL 1.1 debacle and this most recent Unity install-fee situation, it's quite accurate.
The WEF's '15-minute city' 'own nothing and be happy' mindset dovetails with the concept of Techno-Feudalism quite neatly, too. The rules of our technocrat-driven dystopia will apply to the serf class, which the anointed become the new Techno-Feudal nobility ruling over.
"Techno-Feudalism" is a turn of phrase that neatly encompasses the whole agenda of those who would rule over us.
3,211,394 Directly (Dollar value of position?), with another 424,704 marked indirect, if I'm reading his SEC filing correctly. His trading strategy seems to be to sell any of the Indirect options as he gets them, as the 2000 shares indicated were sold. He hasn't touched his direct holdings-- which are massive compared to the options he's selling.
EDIT: By comparison, Robynne Sisco has sold 2/3rds of everything she held, and her position's value is much much smaller.
The Ex-EA shithead cashed out 2000 shares, or 80K. Upper Echelon reported in that video he notes that a another (less viral) exec sold 2/3rds of her stock the same day.
I fact checked it. Note Robynne Sisco's insider trades: 25,768 sold, 14,700 retained as of 9/6/23. A cool million cash-out.
The argument in far right circles is that the elites will crash the whole economy in the name of greed before then. They talk about the broader civilization being lucky if indoor plumbing remains standard, given the level of competence crisis that's coming.
Given the douchenozzle attitude displayed in the video above? They have a point.
You can't save a corrupt institution, you need to tear it down.
And therein lies my main dissent from James Lindsay and his New Discourses ilk, no matter how useful their translations from the wokish may be.
The Grievance Studies affair caused no self-reflection in academia. You cannot argue reformation is necessary in the face of unrestrained institutional zeal for wokism. To reform would require a counter long march through the institutions, decades of thankless toil against entrenched ideologues who (at this point) represent the institution.
It is easier to burn rotten wood than refinish it, and in academia the rot is terminally deep.
I can easily think of three more pressing issues than Carbon Dioxide.
-
Plastic Waste / microplastics
-
"Forever Chemicals" i.e. industrial solvents entering the water cycle
-
Radioactivity / Fukishima's backwash into the oceans. (notice how it's all sea salt now? yeaaah...)
All three will bioconcentrate with disastrous consequences, but yes. Keep worrying about the pollutant that plants will photosynthesize out of existence.
Pay no attention to the pollution that will actually ruin us.
Sacrifice more to change the weather, peons!
Playing the piano, of course.
Its a shame. The opportunity was totally there and the creatively bankrupt who aren't familiar with the source material botched things, as is usual in 'current year.'
If would bargain mightily to see what the whole arc of the Mule would look like in your version, the anguish of the psychohistorians as their algorithms fail and Foundation's faith is shaken by a vault that has nothing to do with their crisis....
It would have been a great second or third season.
"Don't dey got insurance?"
It is to laugh.