@alxd @pluralistic

I have mixed feelings on this one. It absolutely sucks for Ukrainians, of course. But OFAC and similar sanctions specify an embargo on Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine. If any system, subprocessor, or service can't make the region distinction, and can only identify Ukraine as a whole, and you can't replace it easily, you find yourself in a tough spot of blocking all of Ukraine or needing to shutdown all US operations.

@alxd In this regard my conclusion is that there is more sense to not use a global payment platforms at all and take a special attention to locally available ways to accept payments available in your own country, including some APIs or services in bank where you have account.

@alxd @pluralistic True, but the alternative is "corporations have more power than nation-states" and I'm not entirely sure we want that either...

Every time I encountered someone pitching a DAO or a Blockchain to an organization, they specifically bundled several things together to make them indistinguishable - the culture with the technology, the way a community is organized with the tools they use. With that, there fewer footholds for any kind of question, insight into what is really happening.

This is what I mean by saying that the technology is transparent and it's not always a good thing, because it makes us unable to discuss it.

@alxd @jmeowmeow I found /Ministry/ somewhat disappointing, but I interpreted it rather differently: it undercut itself, but not as parody, more as tragedy.

I take it that he thinks the bottom-up communal approach you approve of in the imaginary /Sustainability/ *won’t work*. You might argue that he’s wrong to assume it would fail, but that’s a different argument than the one you’re making. (1/7)

@alxd I just can’t take a book seriously which proposes central bankers and cryptocurrency as the sovereign solution to our troubles, you know?

@alxd thank you! I've had so many people recommend this to me and never picked it up. Now I'm wondering whether they were recommending to dissuade my worldview or whether they are so far removed from thoughts of the future they can't tell the difference.

@alxd This is madly beautiful, can't believe what IA is capable of these days.