Notices by David D. Levine (daviddlevine@wandering.shop)

@lilithsaintcrow @cstross They're as real as money ever is. If you own those stocks and bonds, you can sell them or use them as loan collateral and buy real stuff. But since the demise of the gold standard, money has an imaginary component (bookkeeping in complex numbers?) and is subject to evaporation in a way it wasn't centuries ago. When the stock market crashes, (some of) those dollars don't go elsewhere, they are GONE.

@lilithsaintcrow @cstross My guess is that it's in the stock and bond markets. It's in the same place that the billions that vanished in the subprime crisis or the tech bubble were before they were destroyed.

"Being alive is as special an occasion as it gets" 😍

Most of you are happy buying most or all of your books on Amazon and won't listen to my arguments about how harmful it is to the book industry. But Amazon is killing authors and publishers by degrees. https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/throwing-the-book-at-amazons-monopoly-hold-on-publishing/

Oh honey. That does not convey the message you seem to intend.

Cryptocurrency is, and always was, nothing but a scam. https://wheresyoured.at/p/requiem-for-a-meme

Time to update your Apple devices again! https://tidbits.com/2023/09/21/%ef%a3%bfos-security-updates-address-three-more-exploited-vulnerabilities

We had NO idea what was coming.

Global investment firm KKR has acquired OverDrive, which threatens the #enshittification of #ebooks at 95% of US public #libraries. (cc @pluralistic) https://karawynn.substack.com/p/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries?utm_medium=email

This is why I will not be going to see #SoundOfFreedom