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Love and Leopold

15 Feb 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

Trevor Getz makes some heavy claims about Leopold in his article about the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, which was convened by said Leopold. He writes that: "The immediate reason for the Berlin Conference was the jealousy of the king of a small cou...

Farewell Valentino: Father of Italian Couture

25 Jan 2026 2 minute read 0 comments CondividiSulWeb

Italy's fashion world bids a heartfelt farewell to Valentino Garavani, the legendary designer who passed away at 93 in his Roman residence, surrounded by his loved ones. A master who reshaped the boundaries of luxury, leaving an everlasting mark on...

Candid Confrontation Couched in Couture

18 Jan 2026 1 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "From Songs to Silence to Words: On Building a Body of Work and What Comes After" I like this candid statement by Smoljanović: "These spaces are treated not as stages, but as archives. There is no algorithm to please here, no trend to chase." This...

Crypto and R.E.C.O.N.C.I.L.I.A.T.I.O.N.: Empathy

11 Jan 2026 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

"We may soon see a rise in crypto therapists, Web3 wellness coaches, and mental health DAOs committed to trauma-informed economic models." This is the bold claim by Christine Walter of christimewaltercoaching.com in her article "Crypto and Mental Hea...

Bitcoin's wild price moves turned into music (and fashion?)

25 Dec 2025 3 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In "Brazil Backs a R$1.08M Bitcoin Orchestra That Turns Live BTC Prices Into Real-Time Music" Isabella Flores reminds us about Matt Kane's 2020 programmable artwork "which visualizes itself in response to the price of Bitcoin. As the BTC grows or dec...

Coinbase Co-founder/CEO Comment, Couture/Concerts Co-owned by Customers, Consequences of Conference that Carved up a Continent

8 Dec 2025 2 minute read 2 comments mildandred

Coinbase co-founder and CEO, Brian Armstrong, recently posted that "Tokenization is going to reinvent finance. Everything that can be tokenized, will be. It's much better for the end user." Everything? Including the products and services that Afrogot...

Exploring Code Gavel's Web3 Founder's Checklist

30 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

Code Gavel's 18th November blog post outlines a checklist for Web3 founders, including founders building "a DeFi protocol, an NFT marketplace, or a DAO-driven social platform". I have been exploring the pros and cons of Afrogoth being a Decentralized...

Phi-LESO-phy, Sabotage and "The Case Against Extreme Wealth"

17 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

"Invisible. Secure. Untraceable." is the tagline of the website goingblack.org and one of the posted articles titled "The Morality of Sabotage: When Is It Justified?" by Benjamin Tucker begins by acknowledging that acts of sabotage "deemed by many as...

Ubuntu, Decentralized Finance and Decentralized Fashion

12 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

In the age of blockchain, Ubuntu is alive and well! Dr. Tyrone Moodley, in his article "Building Pan-African Collaboration Through Technology" writes that: "“I am because we are,” has always been Africa’s original consensus algorithm. Blockchain just...

Lesos, Pesos, Ethos: Swahili sayings that make shillings and sense.

11 Nov 2025 2 minute read 0 comments mildandred

An important feature of the leso fabric is the saying or proverb printed on it, the "ujumbe". Eduardo Porter, in a New York Times article, notes that: "though we clearly understand money’s power to debase character, we have less certain a grasp on wh...