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17 connected korrents · 10 moments from 9 Mar 1776 to 17 Sept 2026.

Everything filed under happiness happiness Everything filed under open source open source Everything filed under LLMs LLMs Everything filed under design design Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Labour should be paid at a fixed rate, with good workers hired and bad ones left unemployed Labour should be paid at a fixed rate,with good workers hired and bad ones leftunemployed JR John Ruskin — holds since c. 1860–1862 — tap for who they are Same subject: Just wages should buy back at least as much labour as the worker gave — tap to centre the map on it Just wages should buy back at leastas much labour as the worker gave JR John Ruskin — holds since c. 1860–1862 — tap for who they are Same subject: Most wage-earners would welcome even a servile life-contract of guaranteed employment as a boon — tap to centre the map on it Most wage-earners would welcome evena servile life-contract ofguaranteed employment as a boon HB Hilaire Belloc — holds since c. 1912 — tap for who they are Same subject: As people grow more civilized, rewarding good work is far better than punishing bad work — tap to centre the map on it As people grow more civilized,rewarding good work is far betterthan punishing bad work BR Bertrand Russell — holds since c. 1917 — tap for who they are Same subject: Putting young people to work prematurely may be a loss to industry itself, destroying their free labour quality — tap to centre the map on it Putting young people to workprematurely may be a loss toindustry itself, destroying theirfree labour quality JA Jane Addams — holds since c. 1906 — tap for who they are Same subject: If a company wants a maintainer to work to its standards, it has to start paying them under a different licence first. — tap to centre the map on it If a company wants a maintainer towork to its standards, it has tostart paying them under a differentlicence first. Last stated 4 years ago 31 Dec 2022 TD Thomas Depierre — holds since 2022-12-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: People should be paid and credited for the skill and time they put into their work, not have it taken. — tap to centre the map on it People should be paid and creditedfor the skill and time they put intotheir work, not have it taken. Last stated 4 months ago 8 Jul 2026 KL Karen Lord — holds since 2026-07-08 — tap for who they are Same subject: No society can flourish when most of its members are poor, and those who feed and house everyone deserve to be decently fed and housed — tap to centre the map on it No society can flourish when most ofits members are poor, and those whofeed and house everyone deserve tobe decently fed and housed Last stated 251 years ago 9 Mar 1776 AS Adam Smith — holds since 1776-03-09 — tap for who they are Same subject: Machines should do the parts of a task that people are bad at, so that people and technology work as partners on human terms. — tap to centre the map on it Machines should do the parts of atask that people are bad at, so thatpeople and technology work aspartners on human terms. Last stated 7 years ago 26 Jul 2019 DN Don Norman — holds since 2019-07-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: “Happy Juneteenth” is an oxymoron, since the promise it marks has been perpetually broken. — tap to centre the map on it “Happy Juneteenth” is an oxymoron,since the promise it marks has beenperpetually broken. Last stated 4 months ago 19 Jun 2026 RJ Robert Jones, Jr. — holds since 2026-06-19 — tap for who they are Same subject: A country may boast of its government only when its poor are well off — tap to centre the map on it A country may boast of itsgovernment only when its poor arewell off TP Thomas Paine — holds since c. 1792 — tap for who they are Same subject: A deep life is a good life — tap to centre the map on it A deep life is a good life CN Cal Newport — holds since c. 2016 — tap for who they are Same subject: A business making hundreds of millions from an open source project owes it money or contribution, and can be refused its trademarks if it gives neither. — tap to centre the map on it A business making hundreds ofmillions from an open source projectowes it money or contribution, andcan be refused its trademarks if itgives neither. Last stated 2 years ago 26 Sept 2024 MM Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: A codec does not really exist until everyone can decode it. — tap to centre the map on it A codec does not really exist untileveryone can decode it. Last stated 5 months ago 31 May 2026 JK Jean-Baptiste Kempf — holds since 2026-05-31 — tap for who they are Same subject: A company that will not accept a project’s terms is free to go and use a more permissive project instead. — tap to centre the map on it A company that will not accept aproject’s terms is free to go anduse a more permissive projectinstead. Last stated 2 years ago 26 Sept 2024 MM Matt Mullenweg — holds since 2024-09-26 — tap for who they are Same subject: A badly written AI outbound email is evidence of a bad vendor, not of a limit of AI. — tap to centre the map on it A badly written AI outbound email isevidence of a bad vendor, not of alimit of AI. Last stated 10 months ago 1 Jan 2026 JL Jason Lemkin — holds since 2026-01-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does notgive you a smarter model; theintelligence of the model is whatdecides how much of that window itcan actually attend to. Last stated 4 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A body of publications is easy for AI models to consume via pretraining corpora but cumbersome for most humans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts, and paywalls. — tap to centre the map on it A body of publications is easy forAI models to consume via pretrainingcorpora but cumbersome for mosthumans due to CAPTCHAs, accounts,and paywalls. Last stated a month ago 17 Sept 2026 PC Patrick Collison — holds since 2026-09-17 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Labour should be paid at a fixed rate, with good workers hired and bad ones left unemployed Last stated c. 1860–1862 Holds John Ruskin Read this korrent →