I love how folks still think people farmers like Google have a trust problem.
In 2024!
They don’t have a trust problem.
They are untrustworthy.
And they’ve always been untrustworthy. It’s just that your friends happen to work there and your agency gets scraps of work from them sometimes and maybe they sponsor events you speak at that you’re even still questioning this. And, by doing so – still, even today – helping legitimise them.
@aral> It’s just that your friends happen to work there and your agency gets scraps of work from them sometimes and maybe they sponsor events you speak at
Or they're a patron of your FOSS project or Linux distro you use.
“The same goes for the flying of an #AppealToHeaven flag at Justice #Alito’s vacation house along the NJ shore. Like the #UpsideDown flag, this #flag is viewed by a great many people as a banner of allegiance on #partisan issues that are or could be before #SCOTUS.
“…In 4 decades as a #federal#judge, I have known scores, possibly hundreds, of federal trial & appellate #judges pretty well. I can’t think of a single one, no matter who appointed her or him, who has engaged or would engage in conduct like that. You just don’t do that sort of thing, whether it may be considered over the line, or just edging up to the margin. Flying those flags was tantamount to sticking a ‘Stop the steal’ bumper sticker on your car. You just don’t do it.”
On frontenddogma.com, I had a “soft block” in place that I used not to attribute people I mistrust.
I’ve dropped that block.
It’s not that the mistrust went away, but I don’t feel like I need to “retaliate.” I much rather like to acknowledge that I could err in my judgment. I also believe that nothing improves if we all think “eye for an eye.”
To keep it short, the spirit matches what I wrote in “Reasons to Listen to Whom You Don’t Agree With”:
Cryptocurrencies promise decentralization, transparency, and security, but trust remains a fundamental issue. This article dives deep into the challenges and solutions surrounding #trust in the crypto economy. #divaexchange
While trust in Government is failing (see earlier post) this has not merely been caused by recent actions of the Tories.... Inquiries into the Horizon IT persecutions & the infected blood scandal have again & again revealed duplicity & malpractice by Govt. & associated institutions.
Certainly the Tories have compounded the issue, but our political class' contempt for normal people & their difficulties has also driven the longer-term decline in trust!
This Bible verse really helped me today:
Psalms 37:4-5 ESV
Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. #Bible#Trust
A major driver of the current dystopian political and social dysfunction is a complete and utter loss of #Trust in just about everything. Folks just don’t trust anyone or anything anymore - or so it seems. We don’t trust corporations to do the right thing in any situation; we don’t trust professional of all stripes to be genuinely concerned about our issues; we don’t trust schools to protect our kids; hospitals to keep us healthy; the police to not brutalize or shoot us; we don’t even trust bishops and priests to keep their hands off of small children. And, of course, we don’t trust government unless one is lucky enough to live in a Scandinavian country (where it appears governments do everything right). Trust is fundamental to societal cohesion, healthy communities, and a sense of wellbeing. It underlies healthy relationships, well functioning families and resilient communities. And rn in the USA, trust is at an all time low. https://www.amacad.org/publication/fifty-years-declining-confidence-increasing-polarization-trust-american-institutions
Can us humble peasants move to a furtile #PostGrowth system when #HyperCapitalism rabidly feeds from the bleak industrial farmlands of #Distrust?
In the huge Fields of the Majority where us wilfully oppressed forced laborers daily sow Seeds of Doubt for our masters. We see pellets hit the hardened soil, and pray in vain that something healthy will sprout this time. While we eat the bile that's served.
In our dogmatic way of life can we discern patches of #Faith and #Trust to grow Humble Deeds?
@Wen Dunno if I've mentioned this to you before but you should seek out John Oliver's investigation into seed churches in the US - the grandaddy of all these grifts.
Trump stands to gain billions… from the merger between TrumpMedia & Tech & the blank-check co [#SPAC] #DWAC, which took the parent company of #TruthSocial public.
But #TrumpMedia almost didn’t make it to the merger after #regulators opened a #securities investigation into it in 2021 & caused the co to burn through cash at an extraordinary rate as it waited…for its IPO.
The situation led TrumpMedia to take emergency #loans, incl’g from an entity called #ESFamilyTrust, which opened an acct w/ #PaxumBank, a small bank registered on the #Caribbean island of #Dominica best known for providing #financial services to the #porn industry.
Postolnikov, the nephew of #AleksandrSmirnov, an ally of the Russian president, Vladimir #Putin, has not been charged w/a #crime. In response to an email to Postolnikov seeking comment, a lawyer in Dominica representing #PaxumBank threatened legal action for reporting the contents of leaked docs.
TOMORROW is the deadline for applications to the #Trust and #Identity Incubator #Mentorship Programme (TIM). #Students can get paid while they study, and learn from the best in the field.