“Haute finance, an institution sui generis, peculiar to the last third of the nineteenth and the first third of the twentieth century, functioned as the main link between the political and economic organization of the world. It supplied the instruments for an international peace system, which was worked with the help of the Powers, but which the Powers themselves could neither have established nor maintained.”

–Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation

What is different now is that the major corporations and the defense industry find crisis capitalism to be more profitable, so disasters and wars are welcomed if not actively created. Why is it different, and what altered the balance? I am not sure. Still thinking about that one.

Whatever dumbass decided to make Live Photos by default active on the iPhone deserves to be blasted into the sun.

If I’d know that feature was enabled by default and difficult to turn off, I would’ve likely gotten an Android. Apple is definitely getting worse since the death of Jobs. It’s a slow slide, but definitely a slide.