Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
Glut is never cool. And to be entertained, humans need some form of novel or complex stimulus that goes beyond what they already know. And you can't just "tune the AI" to be innovative, since we only accept idiosyncratic artistic decisions when we feel human intention behind them.
A 2023 Look-back: the internet dies, etc.
[...] the bullshitter is an antirealist, treating “reality as inherently risky and under construction,” fraught with a greater degree of uncertainty. [...] Bullshitters engage in “deferred epistemic gratification” by throwing a variety of ideas and claims out there without regard to the weight of the evidence.
foxwizard • 💌 How to Be a Better Imposter
Despite working with DeFi teams for the last 5 years, I think onchain finance is a better name for whats happening.
Decentralization is an important substrate, the real pull is the increase in utility and value when an asset comes onchain turns into a money lego.
Whether an asset is blockchain-native or a real-world asset will matter less and less.
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Decentralization is an important substrate, the real pull is the increase in utility and value when an asset comes onchain turns into a money lego.
Whether an asset is blockchain-native or a real-world asset will matter less and less.
E... See more
Ken Deeter • Tweet
Greed will make the system, no? @victoriajane ?
Who in the public sphere is stoking your fears and pushing these messages that fill your TV sets and social media feeds? Who is telling you to be angry? Which politician is tossing you the red meat that tells you that it’s okay to hate or even harm others whom they are casting as rivals?
Stephen W. Porges • Our Polyvagal World
Streaks, of course, have the wonderful quality of being unbounded. You can maintain as many streaks as you like. If you don't think social capital has value, you've never seen, as I have, a young person sobbing over having to go on vacation without their phone, or to somewhere without cell or wifi access, only to see all their streaks broken. Some... See more