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9 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
see that's the thing about modern fascists -- it's not really possible to earnestly believe this shit any more; modernity won already. it's self-consciously a sort of atavistic pageant where they 'choose to believe' in the nonsense
the first go-round really did believe in volk and all that shit but the current crop doesn't have that option; they can only intellectually cling to a position that believing would be better
consider how jordan peterson is too much of a diminished little nub of a man to really talk about believing in witches and dragons; instead he has to have all those mental contortions to argue that believing in witches and dragons is good actually (but never that they exist)
don't get me wrong those motherfuckers are still incredibly dangerous, but it is true that they're reduced to the abject condition of posting online all day about 'rejecting modernity'
so of course fascists might latch on to ideas like 'nfts can restore the aura of original artworks'. it's all placebos and body pillows over there. if any of them *actually* rejected modernity there'd be nothing left of them afterwards.

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10 Mar
Okay, sure, let's try a short explanation.
A 'block chain' is just a file structured in a special way. It holds an accounting ledger. Bitcoins exist only as values recorded on transactions on that ledger, much like how real money largely exists as numbers on bank ledgers.
It's a blockchain because new transactions are added to the ledger in blocks. Anyone can generate a block -- doing so is misleadingly called "mining," but it's really processing transactions.
At any given moment, millions of computers are trying to generate the next block on the chain. But only one will be the chosen one that actually becomes part of the "real" block chain, and therefore only its transactions will be considered valid and real.
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7 Mar
Another scam-friendly aspect of btc and its ilk is that all the terminology is either obscure to laypeople or in some cases actively misleading - talking about 'mining' particularly tries to leverage people's intuitions in pretty deceptive ways
I think a lot of people think 'mining' relates only to bringing new coins into existence, or involves somehow 'discovering' bitcoins, which are themselves solutions to math problems

neither of those notions are true but the cryptogriftosphere doesn't try too hard to dispel them
and it obscures one of the core problems with btc, eth, et al, which is that 'mining' is really 'validating transactions' and consequently that the cost of moving one of those coins around is astronomically more than what you'd pay visa to validate a credit card transaction
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7 Dec 20
this isn't "failure," this is a deliberate choice to kill people because the faceless mass of imperial interests that is the us government decided it was more profitable
the us government, and really almost every western government, chose mass death. they willingly and openly engaged in a policy of killing their own citizens.
the reasons are varied: some thought it would be politically advantageous if a lot of people died. some thought it would make them more money if a lot of people died. some were afraid of the ramifications of not letting a lot of people die.
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4 Dec 20
the single most important lesson you can learn as a game designer is that not everyone thinks like you or has your perspective, least of all the players
here's a fun example from this week. so Fallen London has a mechanic where you can build dubiously authentic skeletons out of spare parts and sell them. each part has some inherent value that it adds to the skeleton.
due to a mismatch between our internal documentation and actual in-game scripting, this one skeleton part - the Ivory Humerus - added about twice as much value to a skeleton as it was "supposed" to
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29 Oct 18
The experience of the aftermath of center-left governance - in Brazil, in the US, in the UK, and elsewhere - shows that it's pointless to try and soften capitalism, to redistribute wealth without redistributing power.
The property-owning class always reasserts itself, violently if need be, with the aid of media power and economic power. They will sabotage a center-left government and then undo whatever progress was made.
Meanwhile, center-left policy provides no basis for resistance and, in some cases, actively alienates the working classes from themselves and each other.
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9 Oct 17
The thing about rick and morty is that people confuse "media that flatters your intelligence" for "intellectually challenging media"
remember when sherlock fans convinced themselves that the show sucking was actually an ARG to tease a secret, non-shitty episode
like the point of mystery stories is to make you feel smart. that's the emotion they try to elicit, at least in part.
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