Severin Matusek

There is a competition going on for authority online — not just authority in a particular subject matter, like politics or finance, but the authority to provide a comprehensive view of what matters on the internet, pointing out what to pay to attention to.

Web3 creates tools and new digital realities where this becomes practical.

Elon Musk buying Twitter was like the closing of Studio 54.

Joshua Citarella argues that Gen Z and Millennials used irony as a defense mechanism against late capitalism’s perceived betrayals, from a soaring cost of living to the increasingly precarious nature of labor. “Irony as culture became: ‘The band I like will sell out, so I’ll buy-in early.’ Irony as politics became: ‘Movements get corrupted, so I’ll... See more

but their apparent pervasiveness underlines the consensus that the public internet exists only for the purposes of yelling into the void