Conversation

Notices

1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 17:13:20 JST Aral Balkan

   in reply to

   • wet forest moon folklorist

   @seachanger I’m afraid you’re too late… Schnailmail has been doing this for almost ten years now ;)

   https://ind.ie/archive/summit/videos/opening-keynote/index.html

   https://ar.al/notes/schnail-mail-free-real-mail-for-life/

   #schnailmail #freeRealMailForever #SiliconValley #VC #PeopleFarming #surveillance #capitalism

   • wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 17:13:21 JST wet forest moon folklorist

     in reply to

     imagine someone pitching this as a start up and you can see how far today's VC-driven "innovation" is from the kind of public goods and services that society used to run on and still could

   • wet forest moon folklorist (seachanger@alaskan.social)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Aug-2023 17:13:22 JST wet forest moon folklorist

     pretty cool how you can still hand write numbers and letters with a pen on a paper envelope and people will read those and hand deliver it to other people thousands of miles away. for less than a dollar.