I think licence/government only financed must stay if it’s public interest. It’s not public interest the public compete with private business where the latter is more resourced and indifferent to the product, as adverts adds
eg
I want a weird Stone Tapes thing
The advertisers want Spotify in It

I really like that the BBC is run by a licence fee
And I say this wanting to cut it for our own Irish broadcaster, RTE - Because, unlike the BBC, RTE is run primarily on advertising. So, we’re guilted to pay a licence to have products sold at us
- If that is floated as an option, push it in the sea

This reminds me of a paper this year on how congenitally blind people can talk about colour in detail (wonder if relevant to Molyneaux problem too):

Liu, Van Paridon, and Lupyan. 2025. ‘Learning about Color from Language’. Communications Psychology 3 (1): 60. doi.org/10.1038/s442...

This is what I had to engage with when thinking about how a theory or description (depending on your confidence) of
a. what there is (eg, philosophy of time)
b. what there appears to be (anything whatsoever)
c. how to explain b
- a doesn’t just impact a
But a AND b

My point isn’t those fearing cameras weren‘t also projecting

But that their reasoning was more rational than the racist ‘stealing souls’ projection upon them

For the colonisers were projecting that upon them (again, Warner is good on this)

Anyway, Im thinking about this with illusion and time

And
AND
Such projection becomes particularly nasty when

The other’s rational is interpreted as irrational

As Warner also notes, any hesitance by the colonised (or invaded, the ‘primitive‘) to stand still for a photo

Makes sense

if the camera is like a gun
& the wielder is a coloniser

I guess I‘m thinking about what’s captured by ‘suspicion haunts the guilty mind’
We obsess to the point of worship material
so read others’ behaviour the same

Another related one: the following is a myth (according to Marina Warner): ‘primitive people thought photos took their soul‘
Nope. WE did

another thought on this

There are ‘cargo cults‘, arising from colonialism. Brings to mind Pacific Islanders

Which if you think about western society is hilarious

The Pacific Islanders (‘John Frum’) made fake airplanes out of straw and carved headphones from wood

Prosperity pastors beg for planes

Generally agree

But: for me, the problem is not my personal computer
And I expect bit yours either - if it’s not an apple Mac anyway -

It’s probably one of the most repairable + customisable techs to have.
Unlike the iPhone
Thing Watch
Ear bud
roomba

(Cory Doctorow is interesting on this)

This issue is a struggle for me so looking forward to listen. (Working on the subject of where, I find, intuitions are strong and in conflict.)

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And the same to you in Cork :)

Just brilliant - congratulations!