The documentary skirts the real event: the moment the music industry stopped pretending it was about music. The old system was vicious and racist, but it still required songs, scenes, friction. Even its predators needed talent to misbehave. By the late ’90s that requirement vanished. Music was replaced by brand-safe su...
Just for finished the Sean Combs documentary. It’s nauseating how a generation of politicians and influencers gave cover to this demon as viable empowerment example for back people. Dems and less nativist reps loved it and flaunting their playlists. He was “proof” that the system worked. Not because the harm wasn’t vi
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Just for finished the Sean Combs documentary. It’s nauseating how a generation of politicians and influencers gave cover to this demon as viable empowerment example for back people. Dems and less nativist reps loved it and flaunting their playlists. He was “proof” that the system worked. Not because the harm wasn’t vi...
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The code is portable because the incentives are identical. Tobacco wrote the original script: the science is uncertain, regulation is premature, we’re being unfairly targeted, consumers choose this, and anyway the product is safer than it used to be. Oil adopted it almost verbatim for climate—uncertain models, transiti...
AT&T used to tell us the Bell System was a single vast cybernetic organism, too complex to dissect without plunging America into communicative darkness—a humming national nervous system held together by priests in white shirts and actuarial tables. Break it up, they said, and the phones would stop ringing, the switches
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AT&T used to tell us the Bell System was a single vast cybernetic organism, too complex to dissect without plunging America into communicative darkness—a humming national nervous system held together by priests in white shirts and actuarial tables. Break it up, they said, and the phones would stop ringing, the switches...
Tech’s sudden sympathy for oil makes sense because they recognize each other as structurally similar industries: both extract abstract value (data or hydrocarbons), externalize real-world costs, and rely on scale, infrastructure lock-in, and regulatory complexity to stay dominant. So the climate-“realist” argument isn’
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Tech’s sudden sympathy for oil makes sense because they recognize each other as structurally similar industries: both extract abstract value (data or hydrocarbons), externalize real-world costs, and rely on scale, infrastructure lock-in, and regulatory complexity to stay dominant. So the climate-“realist” argument isn’...
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I think Farcaster will be back when a16z’s tax burden rises 1%. It didn’t grow because users demanded decentralized social, because its UX beat Web2, or because its network effects were organic; it grew because a16z’s legitimacy pulled founders, funds, and media attention, because being there signaled alignment with th...
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What’s actually advancing isn’t the technology in a user-benefiting sense — it’s financialization. The “tech” layer mainly exists to package, disguise, and legitimize that financialization.
New tokens, L2s, bridges, restaking, points, yields, RWAs, etc. aren’t primarily solving user problems. They are creating more su...
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I really hope Farcaster doesn’t collapse. I just bundled all my followers into a Collateralized Disciples Obligation, tokenized it, fractionalized the tokens, and staked the fractions in a yield farm backed entirely by their future engagement. If the platform goes under, I’m going to have to explain to my LPs why my co...
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People who dislike people shouldn’t build social networks. You can’t design a public square if you resent the public. It’s not ideology; it’s temperament. When builders treat their own aversions as irrelevant, the product ends up haunted: features lean toward control, moderation toward sterilization, and the whole thin...
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Marc Andreessen arrived in Hell with the same expression he wore in board meetings: a serene, self-satisfied glow, like a man who had just discovered the concept of fire without noticing it was already burning him alive.
A demon with a clipboard—formerly middle management at a failed fintech startup—checked him in.
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They’re in too deep
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Doing this now. Moorcock’s multiverse is the first one that isn’t built like a strip mall of IP franchises. The real difference is this: in almost every modern multiverse, from Marvel to whatever franchise bolts on quantum hand-waving next, the rules stay the same. The physics is the same. The morality is the same. The...
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Update from Europe: I, Brayden ‘Sovereign-Individual’ Multisig, have discovered something deeply uncomfortable. After a decade of screaming that taxes are theft, safety nets are socialism for ugly people, and that society should run on 100× leverage and raw founder energy, I have to report the following treasonous fact...
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Deeply grateful to Gavin Newsom for personally ordering the premium, top-shelf Thanksgiving weather package. Really inspirational to see the #ThanksGav stepping up their customer service this year.
#BetterWithElites, #TaxMeDaddy, #LibertarianTearsAreSolarPowered, #DontTreadOnMeButMaybeTuckMeIn
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