Severin Matusek

As we train our sights on what we oppose, let’s recall the costs of surrender. When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We abet the acceleration of a social media gyre that everyone admits is making life worse. We accept the... See more

Memecoins must graduate from being nonproductive images onchain to becoming productive and sentient social currencies that drive crypto forward.

Changing attitudes toward social media created another breakthrough for the 1,000 True Fans model. In 2008, few people seemed interested in venturing beyond the social-media ecosystem, because this was where much of the excitement about the Internet was concentrated. As I learned from personal experience, to have expressed skepticism about these... See more

Today was a special day for our government relations efforts at Pudgy Penguins. When we first started making trips to the Hill, the vision was clear: lead the charge in showing lawmakers the retail and mass-market use cases of crypto through the Pudgy Penguins brand. After more than a year... See more

The "checks and balances" no longer come from Congress or the courts, but from the feed.

If a technology has emancipatory potential, it is not the would-be feudal lords who will realize it: It is the community of power-users, the weirdos and dreamers—working together—who will bring it to fruition.

What’s notable is the rhetoric about Sora introducing a Cambrian explosion of human creativity. Liberated from the bottlenecks of charisma, skill and craft, real creativity – i.e ideas – can now flourish and be channeled via text prompt.

Artificial intelligence can generate abundance in creation, it can even create new currencies, but it cannot convert attention into currency. Only human beings can do that.