Posts tagged Transparency
A Coin in a FiSh’s Mouth: Who Pays My Temple Tax?
- 28 May 2026
Banks cannot clear transfers fast enough, and GoFundMe payouts are slower still, so neither can stop the June-1 auction of the first units of my life’s research. So here is a direct, public ask. In the Gospel story, the coin in a fish’s mouth paid the temple tax for two — and my “temple tax” is a storage debt somewhat below $10,000. Who will be the FiShFus: the dozen-or-so who step in now as All-Stadia Backers, each giving about $1,600, within a hard cap (~$716,800 ceiling) that makes buying influence impossible — with half of everything given back out to others in urgent need? Held with open hands, not as a demand.
When the Dung Ball Goes to the Auctioneer
- 26 May 2026
Why I am publishing — rather than hiding — the live auction of my life’s research materials, and what a dung beetle, a canary in a coal mine, and the famous scientist James F. Crow have to do with averting accidental nuclear winter. If you want to watch a modern “book burning”, here is your chance. Gone are the spectacles of the past. Modern book burnings are clean, efficient, unceremonious, and everyone believes they are doing the right thing because nobody can envision an alternative. This is part of my application to become nobody in order to envision a ResearchCity, where valuable research materials like these will no longer be blindly burned for “lack of funds” to keep them. When a researcher dies a library burns. More often it happens before they die.