No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Charles Dickens
The absurdity lies in pretending that infrastructure still dictates service when, in fact, services have become abstracted from the infrastructure that once defined them.
Email was once metaphorically aligned with postal mail because it mirrored a sequence of identifiable stepsāsender, envelope, address, transport, delivery. But the metaphor is now an anchor. It drags with it legacy concepts like "inboxes," "postmaster," and "sending," when what actually happens is instantiationācontent appears, synced or polled, with no van, no bag, no carrier.
Postal mail required physical intermediaries: boxes, post offices, uniformed workers. Email pretended to have these tooāSMTP servers, MX records, mail clients. But now, these are modules. Optional. Invisible. Swappable. And if you squint, mostly irrelevant. You can receive email with no inbox. You can āsendā without a sender. Identity is optional. Structure is divorced from essence.
We maintain ārecognitionā of services as if they are still coupled to a whole stack. But modularity exploded that illusion. You no longer need a post office to receive a letter. You no longer need a newsstand to publish a newspaper. You donāt need a university to learn, a bank to transact, or a theatre to perform.
The act of āservice recognitionā is revealed as pure theatreāritual vestiges serving the comfort of bureaucracy. Structural separation was once a regulatory weapon (telcos and pipes, content and carriage). Now it is the native condition. A podcast isn't a radio show. A bitcoin transaction isnāt a bank transfer. An email isn't a letter.
Yet the accreditation systems, legal treatments, and mental models still behave as if the post office is involved.
Itās not. It left years ago.
**If the Rooster Crows Twice**
*(Slavic polka in 2/4)*
**Verse 1**
If the rooster crows twice and the moon stays high,
Iāll be home by dawn, if the boots stay dry.
The cart rolls straight, the mare donāt stray,
The saints keep watch and the wolves keep away.
**Chorus**
Ay di di dai, with a jug in my hand,
Through snow or sun, Iāll cross this land.
The good Lord willing and the rivers donāt rise,
Iāll be back to your arms and your apple-pie eyes.
**Verse 2**
If the border guard drinks and the fiddle still sings,
If the vodka flows warm and the church bell rings,
Then Iāll dance through the orchard, step through the gate,
With a loaf in my coat and no more weight.
**Chorus**
Ay di di dai, with a song on my tongue,
The barrelās still turning, the night is still young.
The good Lord willing and the stove donāt smoke,
Iāll be telling the tales and Iāll laugh at the joke.
**Bridge**
Oh baba said, āWatch the stars for your path,ā
But I watch for your light and I dodge Heavenās wrath.
No general, no mayor, no beast of the wood
Can turn me from home, if the omens are good.
**Final Chorus**
Ay di di dai, through the birch and the rye,
Through thunder and hail, Iāll never say die.
The good Lord willing and the pigs donāt fly,
Weāll polka ātil morning with tears in our eye.
Perhaps, list⦠It's just amazing watching the same wrinkles appearing every new technology we create, often the best improvement is that things eutrophy and atrophy quicker than before so the mistake is clearer sooner.
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In an environment where truth and lies intermingle freely, the ability to discern between themādiscrimination in the sense of critical judgmentāis crucial. The phrase "every truth is told amidst a blizzard of every lie" suggests a chaotic information landscape, where accurate information is obscured by falsehoods, half-truths, and noise. This scenario mirrors the modern information age, where data overload, misinformation, and competing narratives make it challenging to identify reliable truths. Below, I explore why discrimination, as a cognitive and analytical skill, is vital in such a context, along with its implications and challenges.
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to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
It's not about fighting, it's about living those values in a way that makes the abuse of the State insignificant. Fighting, look around at the Waste and tell me it's deserved, or beneficial, except to some few sociopaths. If they want to lead, they want to rule, the end.