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26 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I was exposed to the mind virus of 'Fleabag' by the gf, and now I'm watching season 2 to make up my mind about which character I detest the most, given they're all loathsome.
One of the oddities of publishing narrative non-fiction like 'Chaos Monkeys' is the number of readers who feel they have to like the characters, as if literature is some sort of popularity contest. Rather than the reverse: a gallery of personalities you can relish despising.
Why did nobody mention Kristin Scott Thomas is in this thing!!

Always a delicious shock when one of the greats rolls in on a cameo.
We need a VR game that's just the sister's husband making obnoxious comments and punching him in the face, like in the restaurant scene.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
27 Dec
Since the intersection of ads and Web3 seems to be rather ... desolate ... at the moment and nobody has written much here (kudos to @aripap for doing so), I'm going to do a point-by-point analysis of this thread, some of which I agree with (and some not).
@aripap True, and one of the great open questions to me is whether tokens are enough to bankroll Web3 or if you still need ads (or if Web3 can contribute to the existing ads ecosystem in some way). Nobody has a hard, informed answer here yet. Early days, etc.

Yes, much of Web3 interest is not necessarily that it's vastly superior technology, it's the fact it undermines the existing media firmament, and is still an unregulated frontier. It's not just a better mousetrap, it's an unregulated and un-dominated one.

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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
23 Dec
It's hard to convey to the present generation what literary figures like Didion, who defined a time and a literary style, once meant.

We just don't have such people in our culture anymore. The very role itself, much less the talent, just doesn't exist.
Didion penned the best portrait of the wild 1980s Miami of my childhood, and the scheming and imperious Cuban exiles who populated it.

Told by a wide-eyed New Yorker, of course, but still....a snapshot of a budding metropolis and its febrile origins.

amazon.com/Miami-Joan-Did…
'Miami' opens at Woodlawn Park Cemetery, where many a generation of Cuban exile, victims of volatile politics, were laid to rest instead of the island that obsessed them.

(My family's plot is a stone's throw from the lapidary flags described there.)
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
20 Dec
Finally! My conversation with @benshapiro is out.

We discuss dominating Facebook, what Israel should do about the Temple Mount, and why I should keep kosher more.

thepullrequest.com/p/ben-shapiro-…
Both @benshapiro and @realDailyWire absolutely dominate Facebook, driving more traffic than any other network.

And yet, per Shapiro, recent moves by Facebook have made their engagement numbers decline, favoring once again legacy media.
We did agree that the entire narrative around the Russians somehow throwing the 2016 election via Facebook was patently absurd, a cope for a political side that didn't want to accept an electoral defeat.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
18 Dec
Let’s play a game called ‘Will I Make It To Dry Pavement Or Will I Lose The Tesla To The Snow?’
My life does resemble a reality TV show sometimes.

If I don’t make it to the Christmas party, @DavidSacks, you’ll know what happened.
Made it to the highway!
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
18 Dec
This piece is making the rounds, and it seems wrong in interesting ways, in that it embodies much of the Web3 critique, particularly from technically savvy people whose thinking is totally Web2.

usenix.org/publications/l…
Taking the compute implicit in the ETH blockchain alone, and assuming that's the overall compute seems like parametrizing the early Internet by looking at the DNS routers: it's just not an accurate representation of the overall ecosystem.
Put another way, if we were to try and quantify the computation going on in the NFT marketplace, we'd have to take all the servers backing OpenSea, whatever compute goes into bidding and pricing etc....not just the chain, which after all simply records ownership.
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Antonio García Martínez (agm.eth) Profile picture
16 Dec
My latest for Pull Request!

As someone who straddles various worlds, I often find myself trying to explain one world to another, or at least, mounting a last-ditch defense.

thepullrequest.com/p/there-is-no-…
Still...I felt a bit ambushed at a shabbat dinner in LA last week, when I was suddenly called to account for the depredations of tech.

It reminded me of backpacking in Europe in the 90s and suddenly having to defend America, mostly against a chasm of misunderstanding. Image
If you’d asked a Bohemian peasant in 1618 if the printing press was a good idea—that’s the first year of the Thirty Years’ War, the bloodiest war in European history until WWII—they’d also say it was probably a horrible mistake.

Ditto the internet, but my co-guests disagreed.
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