borged.eth

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I still think this way. People seem to have given up on alternative clients (at least for now and perhaps for good reason). That said, I wonder how things could have played out if 10 FC clients competed for various niches (leading to a network effect in aggregate) instead of one client competing with X head-on.

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BTC did not hit the ATH in euro yet :( We europoors will never have it good.

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back to the dialogue form, as the old masters intended. Reading a book unattended as we do now would be pretty unusual for Plato or Socrate as they thought any transmission of knowledge should also tightly control how the recipient makes sense of it, hence their focus on dialogues.

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last 2 years gave me a better perspective on how so many people and so many institutions ended up so complicit during the holocaust https://x.com/Basement_Films/status/1923450605642609046

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DENNIS & THE MANGO TREE by @ernestoasch

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Short form: Curated outputs are part of the collection Long form: Any random output can be part of the collection Full form: All the possible combinations are part of the collection Full form obviously shows the most systemic approach to generative art (borrowing the framework of @monkantony here) as it exhaustively explores the rule space, forcing the viewers to sensitize themselves to the minute changes of each parameter. One example to full form is 923 Empty Rooms by Casey REAS.

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is marbled paper the OG gen art? I thought hard about what other traditional craft or art has that much emergence and couldn't think of any other that comes close. Maybe east asian pottery glazes. any other ideas?

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Hopefully we are done with VCs pushing narratives and false trade-offs on eth (that it lacks a north star, has to choose between SoV or world computer, etc.). In reality, ethereum as a world computer ensures eth value (utility as medium of exchange and pristine collateral). Mechanics beats narrative.

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Struggle for Pleasure, easily my favourite gen art project from 2024, by @harmvandendorpel

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Trump, the reality star, is the perfect politician for our era. Just pick your side, cheer for it, and enjoy the spectacle.

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remarkable article. My only nitpick is the superficial treatment of the economic interests that enabled Trump's comeback. https://www.persuasion.community/p/we-are-uncomfortably-close-to-1933

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if I were Canada or Mexico, I would put *export* duties of something like 10% for all the goods heading to USA, just to provide some certainty to the businesses 😅 Taxing exports sound absurd, but they exist in practice, mostly in the form of export duties on raw materials (to incentivize companies to build processing plants at the country and capture more of the value chain).

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An often ignored aspect of occupation is the utility of Palestine as a testing ground for Israeli defense-industrial complex. Very likely that they will be looking for the next target (e.g., Lebanon) as a testing ground even if they completely occupy and cleanse Gaza + West Bank.

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"If anyone is going to dismantle the American Empire it will have to be by a right-wing populist." You might not agree with Graeber's politics but his one wild prediction is coming true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCQDq1oG0vA&t=370s

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one of the most essential (if not obvious) thing about blockchains, also my main mental model when thinking about "strict global consensus"

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what the artist promises (before the mint) vs. the reality (17 months later). @harmvandendorpel, it is time to fix this.

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recently went back to this 1996 book on why SF has beaten Boston in tech (listing a host of cultural & institutional factors). It would be super interesting if someone did a similar in-depth web2 vs web3 comparison.

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https://x.com/SuppressedNws/status/1842678217125093554

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Still think this way: FC hubs need some incentive to provide client-agnostic infra. Also there should be a way for MM to make money in case warpcast gets outcompeted. Otherwise they are in a very tricky spot (trying to maintain dominance at all costs, to the detriment of decentralization).

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