Notices by 🌱 Ruth Bright-Needle (brightneedle@sunbeam.city)

@sophia 😬😬😬😬remember when Alexa heard people talking and randomly sent it out as a message? https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/woman-says-her-amazon-device-recorded-private-conversation-sent-it-out-to-random-contact/755507974

the idea that you can stop working and travel and engage in hobbies and stuff is a good-ish kind of dream but it's very much a limited I-got-mine dream and doesn't fit with the majority of human history.

... a better dream would be for all of us not to have to wait until we're nearly 70 (if we live that long) and if we've had a job that paid much more than average and we had a retirement plan and we didn't have life catastrophes, etc. etc. etc.

... what if we could all travel and engage in hobbies and also work but in life-affirming ways and didn't have to wait for a mixture of privilege/luck/exploitation and living long enough to make that happen.

#thinkingutopia

“TIL that in Cemetery Keeper, a farming game where you are also a cemetery keeper, your donkey turns out to be a communist.” My husband, who is very supportive.