So much for cash anonymity. Unless a payment system is completely anonymous whilst supporting secure transactions, it’s a non-starter. Unfortunately the EU does not appear to be able to tolerate privacy for its citizens, hence constant attempts to undermine and curtail any privacy/anonymity-first technologies or concepts.

There’s little evidence that debate changes people’s ideas.

…or organize, start/join unions, get involved with your local community and build up some real resistance that isn’t based off obscene wealth, lawfare or media brainwashing. Once you have experienced something real, it’s quite hard to understand how or why anyone would fall for the alternative.

Well, there’s the Defined Benefit pension, however typically these pension funds then become institutional investors who seek to own shares in… you guessed it - stocks.

At least those institutional investors are at least somewhat responsive to public pressure campaigns, as the state/local comptrollers are a politically appointed position.

When you give your money to a 401k, the fund manager gets all the voting rights on the corporate board and is generally only accountable to “A reasonable rate of return”

just without the hope in the future, investment in human capital, rise in living standards etc…

The same author did another similar novel called Thin Air, which you might like - it maintains that tech noir theming.

The first season does the detective noir thing pretty well, and doesn’t deviate too far from the novel. They tried rolling the second book (Broken Angels) and the third book (Woken Furies) into one season, it didn’t work out at all.

Now I want to make an ai slop Altered Carson poster.

There’s so many great book series out there. Ian Banks’ Culture Series, Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Ruin series, could re-do Altered Carbon properly and base it on the second book more faithfully; which was actually quite interesting. Alastair Reynold’s Revelation Space series. Terry Pratchett’s last contribution in The Long Earth series. What happened to the supposed adaptation of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars series? Neal Asher’s Polity series. Dan Simmon’s Hyperion, anyone? And that’s just a small fraction of more modern SciFi.

None of these series really get a look in because we’re still busy repeating the same formula ad nauseam until the fan base literally can’t take ingesting another two hours of recycled dross.

Let’s try something new.

There is also the cost of power and computer hardware to factor in, which probably raises the barrier to entry, but you’re right. Once you have all the equipment or have it anyway for other purposes, it’s very cheap.

Give me something like Talos2 with a full OSS firmware and a performant CPU… and hell, a half-competitive open source graphics core too. It doesn’t need to be peak performance, it needs to be good enough.

I’ve been trying to work with SBC’s for a while for video decoding platforms and just wound up getting stuck on x86 because the ARM situation with weirdo custom kernels for anything useful is just… annoying.