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-Permanent data storage - We cannot keep locating our social connections and memories inside servers controlled by for-profit companies.
Ric Burton • Social Networks & Sociable Protocols
The Washington Post may like to gravely intone Democracy Dies in Darkness (particularly when they’re trying to upsell you on a subscription), but our democracy was actually birthed in a journalism culture closer to Twitter and Substack than anything the WaPo has put out for sixty years.
Antonio Garcia Martinez • Twilight of the Media Elites
The productionization of AI systems is nascent, but net net, it seems to crush crypto on value creation.
John Luttig • Is AI the new crypto?
I believe in the second inning, network bonding curves will also increase the income disparity at a geometric rate: Transparency of the value of an individual to a network creates a ruthless meritocracy. Meritocracy is good for the most talented, motivated or lucky. But for the bottom 90%, everyone can now see that they rank in the bottom 90% in pe... See more
James Currier • Network Bonding Theory: Grow Your Startup By Making It A Network
An NFT serves as a digital certificate of authenticity, backed by math, on a public ledger, that incontrovertibly proves that the holder owns a one-of-a-kind digital (and sometimes physical) asset.
Packy McCormick • The Value Chain of the Open Metaverse
The system manufactures students who are smart and talented and driven, yes, but also anxious, timid, and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose: trapped in a bubble of privilege, heading meekly in the same direction, great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it.
William Deresiewicz • Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
self-promotion is important:
In the months leading up to pub day, I sent approximately 8,613 emails out to friends, professional contacts, people I talked to once in a buffet line at a writing workshop 3 years ago, people who follow me on Twitter, and people who have never heard of me or my little book, offering them galleys and (in some cases!) dir
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