farcaster failed because ted forgot to send luciano that tax form one time
Farcaster didn’t fail because of onboarding friction, a crypto bias, token rugs, node centralization, spooky VC money, or poor stewardship.
Farcaster ultimately failed because of LinkedIn-level PGness in the feed. Everyone here (myself included) was just too polite, polished, and milquetoast (which is not the same as
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great run
but glad they pulled the plug quick
someone should make a bare bones text client that just works and we can call it a day
much was made out of the monthly running costs
although it's true that the running costs are high, it wasn't really a factor in our decision making. it might be a factor in the next team's decision making which is why we are public about it.
our balance sheet can absorb current running costs for what is infinitely l
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Truly remarkable how leftists are the *anti* working class faction now
The data is/are indisputable
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technology is truly evil, huh?
things were certainly better 300 years ago, when most humans lived in proximate servitude with an average life expectancy of 35
the wall-e outcome is the best we can hope for, innit. humanity writ large as impotent baby, kept safe by a benevolent technology it didn’t invent, doesn’t understand, and can’t control (except to fidget with knobs and buttons; the placating illusion of control). rly tho it’ll be children of men meets alien earth.
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very scary seeing what billionaires are trying to do to new york politics
Joseph Hernandez
@hernandezforny
3mo
The left-wing @DemSocialists aren’t just trying to elect one candidate. They are building a movement to fundamentally reshape New York and, ultimately, America.
You may ask: who’s funding many of these DSA candidates and causes?
I did some digging.
Two of the largest outside https://t.co/KZNrahnYSS
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My latest Substack piece
Tracks a strange company called Ajinomoto, which controls a monopoly on a critical component in the GPU supply chain, but seems reluctant to exercise any pricing power, despite price increases up and down the chain
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