I really strongly disagree. The reason is discovery, or rather the complete lack thereof. The "hallway" algo in CH is a catastrophe. It seems to key off of the first few rooms you went into early on the platform, so it only shows you that kind of room & you're stuck.
For instance, in one of my first CH sessions soon after login, I clicked on a room about "Yoruba Demons" thinking I was about to learn something interesting about African religion. Sadly, no. 🤦‍♂️ To this day, the algo thinks I'm keenly interested in all things related to this. Image
I basically don't go on anymore, because all I see are LA-centric rooms about spirituality & the music industry, African dating rooms, & adjacent stuff. Apparently I really messed up bad in those first few clicks. It is so, so busted.
These things are not entirely uninteresting to me -- I do have an interest in spirituality & what people think about it. (Not so much dating & African pickup artistry.) But it has me in this box and that's pretty much all it will show me. So, I don't use it.
The rooms I've been in that were good were very, very good. But I've also had my time wasted by ppl who don't know how to talk and/or when to quit. If I had more control over the experience, so I could zero in on higher-signal convos somehow, I'd go back to it.
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18 Jan
Oh god yes bring it. Your terror at people having conversations you can't control gives me life. spectator.co.uk/article/the-to… Image
I plan to cover this "rapid flow of brains, resources, and attention" to all things encrypted and decentralized, and watch the would-be censors get rekt.
Can you imagine trying to introduce the original telephone system in 2021?

"My god, people will TALK to one another & we cannot control it. There are even these 'party lines' you can dial into & talk to strangers. Dangerous ideas will spread like wildfire! We must stop it."
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18 Jan
This is something I've been expecting for a really long time. I keep telling friends: you'd better figure out which prison gang will have you, & start trying to eat chow with them & get used to the idea of having new tats. Know that you'll have big problems w/ all the options.
This @bariweiss essay where she had dinner & found common ground with a leading opponent of gay marriage? That's what this looks like. It's about time to join or die.
What's shaping up was never going to be another "North vs. South" civil war type thing. It was always gonna be a prison riot, where all the different groups that have been beefing turn on the guards & on each other.
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18 Jan
Personal news: Friday was my last day as a full-timer at theprepared.com. It's a great (& shockingly well-timed) project that I was proud to work on for the past 2 years. I'll stay attached to the site as a Contributing Editor, as I move on to work on my next thing.
What's my next thing? Glad you asked! I'm not yet sure where the whole thing is headed, but my plan is to start as a one-man shop via a Substack at doxa.substack.com, with a launch focus on AI/ML, & the emerging ecosystem of censorship resistant comms, money, & media.
There are second & third steps planned after that, which are already in the works to some degree, but my (currently soft-launched) Substack is where I'll start. So hit that up to enter your email and keep abreast of when it formally launches.
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17 Jan
All of these capitol protests are coming from the Boogaloo Bois, meanwhile Oath Keepers & gun rights orgs have warned their people to stay away. So for the millionth time, if you thought the Bois == 2A supporters or right-wingers, you thought wrong.
The Boogaloo Bois, to the extent that they're a real thing outside of forums where guys trade memes, are just anti-government. They don't care if you're right or left, they'll march w/ you if you're trying to burn it down. They're where the two ends of the horseshoe meet.
The Boogaloo Bois seem to be much more of a force in the minds of the media than in actual American politics on any side. Their presence this weekend at the capitols has been pretty pitiful. Again, tho, the group's center of gravity is memes & lulz, so it's to be expected.
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17 Jan
Good rant on problems with "journalists" & activists now rushing to help law enforcement dox the capitol hill insurrectionists. A lot of "back the blue" energy from a crowd that had nothing good to say re: cops summer newrepublic.com/article/160873…
These doxxers are also using face recognition to find insurrectionists online. There are a lot of problems & concerns re: this tech when deployed by law enforcement, but all that goes out the window when the cause is just, I suppose.
One of the contrasts that's worth thinking about is how disciplined the BLM marchers were about keeping their faces off-camera, to the point of assaulting the press & sending flyers warning of doxing.

Contrast the capitol insurrection, where they mostly took no care for OPSEC.
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16 Jan
A short thread about "crazy":

On the block where I lived in Louisiana, there was an hunchbacked old lady w/ a yard full of random junk that included a 50's-looking rocket shell. There was a guy who had his license revoked for being nuts, so he drove a lawnmower around the 'hood.
The lawnmower had a basket on the front where he'd put his Pomeranian. There was a creepy tall guy who just walked around all day & smoked. One day on the way home from school me & my friend saw him kneeling in his yard w/ his eyes closed. We ran. There was homeless guy...
...under the crosswalk who people hired for odd jobs. There was a Masonic temple, & next door this one lady had really loud peacocks. This was all in 1 block. When I went to grad school in the Northeast, ppl thought I was lying about this stuff & doing a "colorful southerner" bit
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