I trended yesterday, but reach on @farcaster does feel like American real estate: The closer you began to the founding and Diamond-handed a theme, the more exponential the outcome.
I’m also 47 different content genres here. The appeal Venn diagram is smaller than if I spun biz analysis, corny jokes, mental health, social policy, music, philosophy, history and non sequitur platitudes into separate umbrellas.
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Once Windows removed the ability to have the taskbar on top, which is objectively the BEST position for function and utility, I knew to surrender all hope.
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I tip well out of fear because most places I eat at once are places I eat at twice.
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I just made the same post on Farcaster (184 followers at time of post), Facebook (67,000 followers) and Threads (5,515 followers). After 1-2 hours:
Farcaster= 8 replies / 24 Likes
Facebook= 4 likes
Threads= 5 likes
My actual reach on those platforms is just the tip of the Zuckerberg
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My understanding is that a key role of American attack submarines is to coordinate with undersea microphone networks to shadow adversary ballistic missile submarines. There aren’t that many ballistic missile subs in the world. The UK and France have four total (no more than 1-2 patrol at once) and get ruled out as strategic threats. India and Israel’s four subs are regional and get ruled out as strategic threats. That leaves Russia’s four total and China’s six total.
Only Russia’s are equally stealthy as UK/France/US. So right now the threat is two stealthy Russian ballistic missile subs and three older/noisier Chinese ones (assuming 50% continuous deployment). They are hunted by 53 American fast-attack submarines and undisclosed undersea monitoring capability. Part of the impetus behind AUKUS (the trilateral US/UK/Australia strategic partnership)— as well as American attack subs being based and built in Australia— is China’s expected transition to Type 096 missile subs with equal stealth.
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I find it vital to distinguish blockchain technology from cryptocurrency in defining the onboarding problem and its solutions. Cryptocurrency is a referential perspective on a subset of blockchain transactions, but blockchain technology deserves more than being under-imagined as a fiat replacement. It’s a centralized-data power and authority replacement that can go in utopian and apocalyptic directions.
Many human pain points can be related to fiat being an inaccurate and manipulated value ledger— but telling a consumer they’re harmed by fractional reserve banking and other fiat theatrics is like telling a fish the water is dirty. What else is the fish supposed to dream of?
The fish must believe there’s a continent it can evolve for and learn to walk on.
Humans living as derivatives of centralized data must believe that owning their data, from currency to social media to healthcare to the car they drive— is a continent worth evolving for and learning to walk on.
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Owning my data means I can search the Internet and choose my recommendations without my behavioral telemetry choosing them for me.
Owning my data means I can syndicate the content of family, friends and mentors without my ad cookie cache, the speed I scroll the page, my geographic region and my age being weaponized to maximize my click-through-rate, session starts and session duration.
Owning my data means I live in a world where my devices and my platforms are use-agnostic— where they value me abandoning my screen to go hike a mountain the same as gluing my eyeballs to one.
Owning my data means I decide the machine the metrics of my life get assembled into. I am not the unwitting, unpaid Transformer in an oligopolist’s dystopian comic franchise— required to submit to assembly into the latest AI-CRM-KPI monstrosity from my cradle to my grave.
That’s what owning my data looks like.