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I wrote a few weeks ago about how the nature of our social networks and content platforms leads to cultural sameness via supercharging fad culture. But increasingly the social networks and content platforms themselves suffer from the same effect.

When anyone can create an entity that materially organizes the flow of value across borders, what can national regulatory regimes do to stop them? What will this do to labor and environmental standards? I can see massive benefits as well as grim consequences.

So with BitClout, I have an identity on that blockchain that's publicly accessible to anyone running an open-source BitClout node. To continue with the example of LinkedIn, if they were to rebuild themselves on top of BitClout, and they were to write their entire users table along with all its endorsements to the BitClout blockchain, then that data... See more

“Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Asking with condescension says: I have the power over you. But asking for help with gratitude says: We have the power to help each other.”

In order to protect exclusivity, stores had to commit to even larger buys, ordering more clothes than they could possibly sell. Then, when they couldn’t move the stuff, they’d return it. Thanks to the rise of fast fashion and the luxury market’s simultaneous attempt to keep up with its impossible pace, it all started to feel disposable. So detrimen... See more

Interestingly, Nike has been pulling out of what it calls “undifferentiated retail”: stores that are too broad in their target customer. One example of this is when they pulled their products out of Amazon.