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appears screenshot didn't load properly but there was a screenshot showing options to connect wallet vs give socials (email)

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random thought: wallet is a weird mental model for sign-up / sign-in in web3. This is for @fileversee. I don't want to sign up with my wallet for product / company that is new and doesn't have obvious social proof / trust to me as a new user. Real cost to wallet vs email downside is capped

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Love this sentiment, basically opening the frontier of what social tech could be as opposed to doing essentially variations of twitter or snapchat clones. Want to see more zany stuff!

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Anyone down to have a meetup next week?

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What are other tech-culture internet zines / publications along the lines of Reboot, Works in Progress, Palladium?

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On now @nayafia and @timber talking about Nadia’s new antimemetics book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ze9pqaIrebY

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I've 10x'd my reading time over the last Month just by picking up and dropping any book as I feel like it Used to stick to only one book, cover to cover, before moving on to the next one. In hindsight, seems very midcurve of me

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@ethdenver are there any people who are or have done ethnography-type research related to EthDenver? Phrased another way: people who have looked at EthDenver (or Ethereum gatherings) from an anthropology lens?

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Palladium Magazine: https://www.palladiummag.com/ Asterisk Magazine: https://asteriskmag.com/ Passage Publishing: https://x.com/PassagePress Asimov Press: https://press.asimov.com/ Stripe Press: https://press.stripe.com/ JRP Editions: https://jrp-editions.com/ Franco Mario Ricci: https://www.francomariaricci.com/en Who do I miss?

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Day nine: The Ancient City An incredible portrait of life in ancient times, centered around how early religion grew into early civic life. If you think about the Roman Empire every day and you haven’t read this yet, you should treat yourself. It’s so juicy and homey compared to the sanitized and streamlined histories of wars and large scale politics. I keep multiple copies in my house to give away so that I don’t end up losing my personal copy. The most vivid and human look at life in classical Greece and Rome. Pound for pound my favorite book on ancient times. Five stars. Keep the home fire burning 🫡

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This is the kind of thing that really excites me about Akiya Collective & Zujapan. Cool to get a glimpse.

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Are you looking for upcoming popups, past popups or both? If upcoming, it's difficult to project what populations are (and difficult for organizers who may want it to be a certain size and will say it will be that but unclear if it will be there).

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This is an issue that I’ve grappled with for years and have written about (https://mazmhussain.substack.com/p/what-bitcoin-and-crypto-are-for). I’ve tried convincing more left-leaning people about the possibility of crypto but come up against much opposition. This opposition has been built on a belief that crypto is simply a scam that utilizes effective storytelling to inflate hyper-speculative assets. After years, I’ve stopped trying to convince people. This is because I’ve come closer to their perspective and developed a more negative view of the crypto world. This is not about the technology, which is neutral and can still have uses, but about the broader “crypto industry” which really is overrun with scamming and abhorrent behavior. I wrote about my evolving views here after years of observing this industry (https://paragraph.xyz/@unmediatedthoughts/casino-killed-the-computer-star?referrer=0x2503b70933119084c26df4c8d3e96d282de10743). I still have some hope which is why I keep an open mind.

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The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. Edward O. Wilson — American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist

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“Technology replaced geography as the chief determinant of whether a city prospered”

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Jorge Luis Borges dream

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Come to the dark side of pure electronic books lifestyle, including the slow, painful process of confronting past highlighted books (I am slowly screenshotting 100 pages of highlights in books to convert to PDFs)

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Database of OG Homebrew Computer Club newsletters from the 1970s: https://www.digibarn.com/collections/newsletters/homebrew/V1_01/index.html

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(Opportunity cost in the former staying in school, tho I guess it’s the same for the Phil major - they aren’t as gainfully employable as a dropout but they still likely benefit from dropping out and spending that time in another way)

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Having software eng skills (comp sci dropout) in a time when that is highly in demand is different from having general essay writing / critical thinking skills (philosophy dropout). There’s a real opportunity cost to the former but the latter likely needs to learn new set of skills to be employable

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