crypto is digital money

…and it starts with a digital wallet—a crypto wallet which is likely deliberately confused with a digital wallet (e.g. Apple Pay, Venmo, etc.—see “14 Best Digital Wallets of 2024”). ## cold wallets 👛🧊 The “old-fashioned” way to get a crypto wallet is to…

Loser-Dad Home Economics

Let’s start with angsty teen cynicism and be partially correct when we say that mid-20th century home economics classes were scams to lure a new generation into grocery stores. By the way, previous versions of home economics educational programs were ways…

I do not want to write about this Netflix Cleopatra shit

Adele James as Cleopatra I do not want to write about this Netflix Cleopatra shit because it is a Bene Gesserit waste of time. This project makes me feel even more miserable because it appears to me how well-intending-but-irretrievably-indoctrinated youn…

TÁR (2022): would Tár respect the work of Shimomura and Sakimoto?

TÁR (2022), directed by Todd Field and starring Cate Blanchett did the outrageous: they made a work of art that places 21st-century identity politics front and center in a serious way that I thought would be political/capitalist suicide for North American…

today’s finance: imposing an IRA on a teenager

According to someone at investopedia.com, people other than me think that setting a child up with a retirement account is not a terrible idea designed to torture young Americans with delayed-gratification challenges. But most of these people assert that t…

the happy few: my alternative energy stocks

This exercise is a test of my financial prose-writing skills and is a journal entry recording what the hell was I thinking. By no means do I flatter myself, talking about my investments and my process is embarrassingly simplistic: 1) purchase tens of a st…

i think there should be a black woman podcast about contact management

I have had about five decades to figure out how little my opinion matters in the public square darkly packed. I have lived long enough to see, starting with my mother, Black women suffer deeply when actions in agreement with my opinions were not taken. To…