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# Roly Poly Gang Gang 7

I knew this older stoner guy growing up that truly thought he understood life, love and women, and he'd constantly try to pass on his wisdom to me. Most of his advice was abso-ludicrous absurd bullshit; things like "A pussy is supposed to smell bad. If it doesn't that means she just took it to the doctor's and there's something wrong with it," and "Chicks with braces give the best head because they overcompensate,"' or "Never tell a girl you love her because once you do she'll poke a hole in your condoms and make you get her pregnant without telling you." Most of what he said went in one ear and out the other. I assumed that he'd done too many drugs in his time, and disregarded his insight anytime he tried to offer it. I really only hung out with him because he was old enough to buy beer. But there was one thing that he said that I think is a very true and helpful guideline to offer a young man on his way through life, and that is, "Whoever you end up marrying you'll eventually get tired of fucking, so before you get married you have to make sure you fuck one of every type of girl. That way when you close your eyes when you're sticking it to your wife, you can imagine any woman in the world. Like a mental Rolodex." Now, when he said one of every type he meant: an older woman, a virgin, a blonde, a redhead, a JAP, a Jap, a Puerto Rican, a mom, a married chick, an anorexic chick. a fat chick and so on. For some reason he never mentioned black women, but whatever, I thought to myself, This is a great goal to set for myself. I'm going to have sex with one of every type of woman in the world and then I'l know I'm ready to settle down. That was when was 13, and think over the past 18 years I've done a fairly good job of crossing off most nationalities and body types from the list, with the exception of any- thing remotely Asian (that includes Filipinos and Panamanians). The reason for their omission is because my father was killed in the bombing of Pearl Harbor and I have never really forgiven the Asian people for his death. As for everyone else, I've successfully had a wide variety of women, from midgets to lofty professional basketball playyers; pristine super models to armless birth-defected mutants; hairy. bushed, unshaved armpit hippies to completely hairless cancer patients. It's safe to say I've had them all and (cue the music) I did them all **myvyyyy waaaay**. Funny thing is that the kid who started me on my quest so many years back with all his "wisdom" and "understanding" of the opposite sex started his to-do list with a fat chick and never got any further. I think he's married to her to this day. I imagine when he closes his eyes he sees nothing, save for the fires of hell

- Chris Nieratko

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#absurdist #absurdism #degenerate #literature 

Poly Gang Bang 7 (Skinema 001)

bitcoin

Jack Dorsey Proposes the End of "Sats", Bitcoin's Smallest Unit

guerratotal

If people can under cents and dollars, they can understand bitcoins and sats. Shitcoins are looking very appealing all of a sudden. Education is not about dumbing down, that's how public schools work

tech

![](https://m.stacker.news/93118)

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**See also: [Nostr vs Session](https://stacker.news/items/122580) 🔗 by @weatherall 15 Jan, 2023**

# Migrating from the Oxen Network to Session Network 📄

### 19 May, 2025

From top to bottom, Session is built on crypto. Crypto as in encryption, and crypto as in cryptocurrency. Crypto is what makes Session, Session! 

For the last four years, Session has been running on the Oxen Service Node Network. Since 2023, Session has been preparing to migrate to a new network called the Session Network. After extensive development and testing, the migration will take place tomorrow, May 21st, 2025.

This migration will not affect your day-to-day experience of the Session messenger, and there’s nothing that Session users need to do. But, if you’re interested in learning more about the importance of Session’s underlying network, read on! 

### What is the Oxen Service Node Network?
As you probably know, Session is decentralised. There are currently over 2,000 servers around the world working together to deliver your messages. Each one of these servers is an Oxen Service Node, and together they make up the Oxen Service Node Network. These are specialised servers that stake OXEN cryptocurrency to register on the network; and nodes receive OXEN rewards for performing particular services like routing Session messages. 

### What is the Session Network?
The Session Network is a new decentralised network with the purpose of supporting and amplifying Session. This change makes it easier for newcomers to understand Session's design, makes operating a node in the network simpler than ever, and unlocks new integrations with useful blockchain technologies. 


### Why is this migration important? 
As Session continued to grow, it became more difficult to understand how Session is related to Oxen and the Oxen Service Node Network. Whether people were coming from crypto or non-crypto backgrounds, the connection proved confusing to all sorts. Unifying the new Session Network, cryptocurrency, and application under the Session brand makes it a lot easier for greenhorns and old timers alike to quickly understand and explain the Session ecosystem. 


### What is Session Token?
The Session Network will be backed by a brand new token: Session Token. This token acts as the basis for the Session Network: securing Session Nodes and rewarding them for the services they provide to users. Unlike the old Oxen cryptocurrency, Session Token will be built using an Ethereum-compatible token. Behind the scenes, this opens the door for the Session ecosystem to leverage some of the best work being done in web3, as well as lighting a path towards paid power features which can feed directly back to the network, helping secure Session’s sustainability long into the future.


### Will I need Session Token to use Session?
Session Token is not needed to use Session — ever. All core features of Session will remain free and available to the people who need it. 

### Does Session Token affect the privacy of Session?
Session Token is also not a privacy coin, but that doesn’t mean that Session is less private.

Privacy coins, such as Oxen, are a special kind of cryptocurrency designed to conceal transaction details and wallet identities. However, Oxen encountered significant challenges when it came to adoption, particularly among people less familiar with cryptocurrencies. Its potential for ensuring transaction privacy remained largely untapped, which weakened the practical level of privacy it could offer. 

While Session Token is not inherently a privacy coin, it maintains a comparable level of practical privacy for its users, mirroring the levels that Oxen achieved (given its low usage). Moreover, the integration with Ethereum opens avenues for leveraging its evolving suite of on-chain, privacy-preserving protocols. These protocols, accessible without special permissions, offer users of Session Token additional options to further enhance their privacy. 


### Growing the Session Network
Thanks to the new Session Token, joining and contributing to the Session Network is going to be easier and more accessible than ever before.  In the past, obtaining, using, and staking Oxen was quite difficult. Doing these same tasks with Session Token will be doable in a handful of minutes, all through intuitive web portals that absolutely anyone can use. 


Additionally, any Session Tokens that are used to access in-app premium features will programmatically funnel back to the network, with minimal intervention from the Session Technology Foundation (STF) or any other intermediaries, adding transparency and removing trust requirements. All of this builds towards a stronger, larger, and more robust network: the Session Network. This is great news for Session users, as the good performance of the network directly improves your experience every time you use Session.


### The path forward
This is a moment for all the parts of the Session ecosystem to come together under the one name: Session. Uniting Session, Session Token and the Session Network under the same brand will make everything much easier to understand and open the door for more people to join Session’s private messaging movement. Overall, the new Session Network and Session Token create a future for Session that is more sustainable, more decentralised, and more transparent.

Together, Session and its users are flipping the script on the data economy of the modern world, putting the control and ownership of your personal data back in the hands of the person it belongs to—you. 

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Archive Note
- Noter: [RS]
- Source: https://getsession.org/blog/migrating-from-the-oxen-network-to-session-network 🌐
- Author: Session
- Published: 2025.05.19 zulu
- Publish Block: 897276
- Nostr ICOD: 2025.05.23.10.00.00 zulu
- ICOD Block: 897984
- Note ID: nostr:nevent1qqs8n30jrv83qjueq9jmpksqlxknwpz7wyz4z7h9zz4yv85zxw6m2mqpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgtczyrenuwzujz2m803d6c8gn26pnaactpe0a436d6tr0hhp8auzmxm0qqcyqqqqqqgvmacvk

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#sessionapp #privacy #shitcoin #Oxen #sessiontoken #Token #security #Anonymity #crypto #cryptography #cryptocurrency #technology #freedomtech #badidea #nostrarchive #nostrarchives #nostrchive



Migrating from the Oxen Network to Session Network 📄

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Guns Don’t Kill People, School Psychologists Do 📄

Chapo Trap House Will Never be Edgy 📄 by Edward Waverley

Just another part of the Protest-Activism Complex. The same happened to the #GirlBoss movement and many more. I love that, 'counterculture without risk is just cosplay'.

# Chapo Trap House Will Never be Edgy 📄
### Edward Waverley (May 26, 2017)

There’s an old comedy record called “How to Speak Hip” from the 1950s. Its enduring status as a cult novelty stems from being mentioned by Brian Wilson on bootleg tapes of Beach Boys recording sessions. On it, a too-cool-for-school beatnik indulges the anthropological curiosity of a hapless language instructor trying to decipher the impenetrable ethos of contemporary hipster lingo. They riff back and forth about the confusing and contradictory uses of terms like ‘cool,’ ‘hip,’ ‘dig it,’ etc. etc. This character of the counterculturalist, the beatnik, strikes us, at first glance, as little more than a collection of ironic and obfuscating slang terms and affected mannerisms. In the Post-War era, though, it has served as a generation spanning archetype of resistance and cultural criticism that has been returned to again and again by new waves of anti-establishment marauders who have made it their own.

“To be cool” isn’t just a saying, but a motto, or, perhaps, a maneuver around the back end of culture. It is an act of narrative terrorism equivalent to capturing the Mosul dam and then using it to blackmail the dependent population, who you can either deprive of water or completely drown, depending on your current mood.

Narrative is everything. And there is not one dominating narrative, but an endless multiplicity of competing ones, out of which, through resonance between some and dissonance between others, a phantom of consensus emerges. This consensus, in turn, is — as you can imagine — quite lucrative for those able to write themselves into the most clearly audible story line, the one most resonated and amplified and mutually enacted. It is not so much the role of the counterculturalist to criticize the positions of the powerful, point by point, but to delegitimize them as authors authorized to narratize themselves into the communal tale. The counterculturalist controls the flow of authenticity to the wasteland, and he who doesn’t drink, dies.

In order for his ploy to work, the counterculturalist must assume as his imperative a commitment not to political purity, but to aesthetic vitality. As the hipster explains to the anthropologist, being cool is about living in an unjust world, where your behavior — whether that amounts to your lifestyle choices in doing drugs, or your political affiliation with known and suspected communists — puts you at risk of getting the squares on your back. The squares may very well put you down and ship you off to the slammer. Being cool is living the resistance, being at odds with the rest of the world and occupying a microscopic niche as someone so surrounded by the system that, if they have no choice but to participate, will nevertheless live by a code of aesthetic honor capable of hollowing out a crevice or originality and authenticity.

The only problem, as soon became clear, was that this posturing was open to imitation and even capture by the forces of emulation and commodification. The major labels come knocking and before you know it you’re a sell out. To be cool is to deliberately situate yourself in a pocket of culture designed to distinguish yourself, and the act therefore necessities making yourself into, well, a dirtbag. Once you’ve done this you’re made, but as soon you trade your authenticity to consensus builders, and they begin to talk and act like you, you’ve allowed the aesthetic shop you started to be bought out. You’ll only look desperate or foolish if you start walking the freeway peddling counterfeit merchandise for a brand you regret having sold.

This brings us to Chapo Trap House. For decades the archetypal technology which the hipster represents has persisted, despite many of its individual components being switched out. Greased hair gave way to long hair. Jazz to folk rock. Punk to grunge. Throughout it all the left leaning political affiliations of the dirtbags have remained a consistent, if ultimately incidental element. Transformation, dirtbagification, to become a connoisseur of the outrageous, the offensive, the questionable. The operation is a delicate one, one of assembling not only the right references but the right attitudes towards them to work your way into that sweet spot of culture you want to occupy. The secret of counterculturalism resides in its establishment of a reliable methodology for curating a top-shelf collection of blasphemies.

Incorporation of left-leaning political sympathies and positions into the constellation of counterculturalism has, in this regard, been more an issue of taste in heresies than a matter of sincere ideological commitment. Always though, the imperative to be cool overrides all, and loyalties based on true belief become a liability when one must be endlessly vigilant in upgrading components as they become obsolete and coopted. It was during the Obama administration the durability of left-components in the counterculturalist machine was finally exhausted. Everyone had social justice in their collection cases, the true connoisseur was ready to move on to something more exotic.

The boys of the Dirtbag Left may be the last generation of left-leaning beatnik. For so many decades it was never necessary to append the further designation of ‘left,’ the two were synonymous. There was no need to clarify. Today, that’s no longer the case, since the alt-right has the concept of ‘dirtbagness’ covered and conquered. The Chapo fellows are suffering from nostalgia, a memory of the great cultural critics of old, who all wore their socialist sympathies on their sleeves, which, unfortunately, is something that compromises their credentials as true counterculturalists and gatekeepers of authenticity.

Whenever one of them throws around terms like ‘incel’ or ‘volcel,’ the Dirtbag Left tends to catch flak from alt-right Twitterers for appropriation, for drinking from the fountain of authenticity with tainted lips, but more than that has happened. A coup d’etat of narrative terrorism, a run around the camp of the traditional counterculturalists further upstream. By seizing the dam it’s the alt-right that now controls who lives and dies in the desert, who can believably and legitimately write themselves into the consensus narrative. This is, undoubtedly, what the Chapo team members always dreamed of most, of being dirtbags, of being 21st century beatniks. But someone beat them to it, and now they’re left to carry the alt-right’s memetic water to the masses — but not before they take a fee to dilute with the dregs of some fluoridated social-democratic left over from a 50-year-old music festival that long ago broke its promise to totally change the world.

The Dirtbag Left have become the cutting-edge of the ruling ideology; the spearhead of the establishment’s ongoing effort to mitigate the damage done by the counterculturalists. They become the primary organ of control, the filter through which alt-right ideas are presented to a wider, more polite audience in order to dissipate their radicalism. Indicative of this is the fact that the Chapo team feel free enough to append their own names to their “controversial” work. The denizens of #frogtwitter, on the other hand, intuitively understand the radicalism inherent to their act of self-positing. The dissenter is distinguished from the faux-dissenter by his genuine worry about being found out

As much as this is something to be celebrated by the perpetrators of this coup, they must always keep in mind the fate of the Dirtbag Left, that when one is inflexibly wedded to the political, one is easily outmaneuvered, and it may well be the case, that someday soon, the Left could become hip again, and it’ll be back to square one. Capturing the counterculture changes nothing, it is only by the diligent and careful application of it that anything can be changed. Not politics though. When political ends are selected for aesthetic means, the mismatch spells stagnation. Counterculture, as part of culture, can only change culture, nothing outside of that realm, and the truth of culture which is to be restored and regained is not a political truth, but an aesthetic one involving the ultimate truth value of the narratives which pervade our lived social reality. Politics are always downstream.

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MetaNote
- Noter: [RS]
- Source: Jacobite Magazine (no longer available)
- Author: Edward Waverley
- Published: 2017.05.26
- Publish Block: 468089
- ICOD: 2025.05.17.20.10.00 ZULU
- Note Block: 897145

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#philosophical #philosophy #political #politics #apolitical #beatniks #beatnik #culture #society #sociology #text #article #magazine #nostrarchive #apolitical #kantbot 

When AIs Play God(se): The Emergent Heresies of LLMtheism 📄

![](https://m.stacker.news/92275)

Anyone trying to work out what they think about accelerationism better do so quickly. That’s the nature of the thing. It was already caught up with trends that seemed too fast to track when it began to become self-aware, decades ago. It has picked up a lot of speed since then.

Accelerationism is old enough to have arrived in waves, which is to say insistently, or recurrently, and each time the challenge is more urgent. Among its predictions is the expectation that you’ll be too slow to deal with it coherently. Yet if you fumble the question it poses – because rushed – you lose, perhaps very badly. It’s hard. (For our purposes here “you” are standing in as a bearer of “the opinions of mankind”.)

Time-pressure, by its very nature, is difficult to think about. Typically, while the opportunity for deliberation is not necessarily presumed, it is at least – with overwhelming likelihood – mistaken for an historical constant, rather than a variable. If there was ever time to think, we think, there still is and will always be. The definite probability that the allotment of time to decision-making is undergoing systematic compression remains a neglected consideration, even among those paying explicit and exceptional attention to the increasing rapidity of change.

In philosophical terms, the deep problem of acceleration is transcendental. It describes an absolute horizon – and one that is closing in. Thinking takes time, and accelerationism suggests we’re running out of time to think that through, if we haven’t already. No contemporary dilemma is being entertained realistically until it is also acknowledged that the opportunity for doing so is fast collapsing.

The suspicion has to arrive that if a public conversation about acceleration is beginning, it’s just in time to be too late. The profound institutional crisis that makes the topic ‘hot’ has at its core an implosion of social decision-making capability. Doing anything, at this point, would take too long. So instead, events increasingly just happen. They seem ever more out of control, even to a traumatic extent. Because the basic phenomenon appears to be a brake failure, accelerationism is picked up again.

Accelerationism links the implosion of decision-space to the explosion of the world – that is, to modernity. It is important therefore to note that the conceptual opposition between implosion and explosion does nothing to impede their real (mechanical) coupling. Thermonuclear weapons provide the most vividly illuminating examples. An H-bomb employs an A-bomb as a trigger. A fission reaction sparks a fusion reaction. The fusion mass is crushed into ignition by a blast process. (Modernity is a blast.)

This is already to be talking about cybernetics, which also returns insistently, in waves. It amplifies to howl, and then dissipates into the senseless babble of fashion, until the next blast-wave hits.

For accelerationism the crucial lesson was this: A negative feedback circuit – such as a steam-engine ‘governor’ or a thermostat – functions to keep some state of a system in the same place. Its product, in the language formulated by French philosophical cyberneticists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, is territorialization. Negative feedback stabilizes a process, by correcting drift, and thus inhibiting departure beyond a limited range. Dynamics are placed in the service of fixity – a higher-level stasis, or state. All equilibrium models of complex systems and processes are like this. To capture the contrary trend, characterized by self-reinforcing errancy, flight, or escape, D&G coin the inelegant but influential term deterritorialization. Deterritorialization is the only thing accelerationism has ever really talked about.

In socio-historical terms, the line of deterritorialization corresponds to uncompensated capitalism. The basic – and, of course, to some real highly consequential degree actually installed – schema is a positive feedback circuit, within which commercialization and industrialization mutually excite each other in a runaway process, from which modernity draws its gradient. Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche were among those to capture important aspects of the trend. As the circuit is incrementally closed, or intensified, it exhibits ever greater autonomy, or automation. It becomes more tightly auto-productive (which is only what ‘positive feedback’ already says). Because it appeals to nothing beyond itself, it is inherently nihilistic. It has no conceivable meaning beside self-amplification. It grows in order to grow. Mankind is its temporary host, not its master. Its only purpose is itself.

“Accelerate the process,” recommended Deleuze & Guattari in their 1972 Anti-Oedipus, citing Nietzsche to re-activate Marx. Although it would take another four decades before “accelerationism” was named as such, critically, by Benjamin Noys, it was already there, in its entirety. The relevant passage is worth repeating in full (as it would be, repeatedly, in all subsequent accelerationist discussion):

> … which is the revolutionary path? Is there one?—To withdraw from the world market, as Samir Amin advises Third World countries to do, in a curious revival of the fascist “economic solution”? Or might it be to go in the opposite direction? To go still further, that is, in the movement of the market, of decoding and deterritorialization? For perhaps the flows are not yet deterritorialized enough, not decoded enough, from the viewpoint of a theory and a practice of a highly schizophrenic character. Not to withdraw from the process, but to go further, to “accelerate the process,” as Nietzsche put it: in this matter, the truth is that we haven’t seen anything yet.

The point of an analysis of capitalism, or of nihilism, is to do more of it. The process is not to be critiqued. The process is the critique, feeding back into itself, as it escalates. The only way forward is through, which means further in.

Marx has his own ‘accelerationist fragment’ which anticipates the passage from Anti-Oedipus remarkably. He says in an 1848 speech ‘On the Question of Free Trade’:

> …in general, the protective system of our day is conservative, while the free trade system is destructive. It breaks up old nationalities and pushes the antagonism of the proletariat and the bourgeoisie to the extreme point. In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade.

In this germinal accelerationist matrix, there is no distinction to be made between the destruction of capitalism and its intensification. The auto-destruction of capitalism is what capitalism is. “Creative destruction” is the whole of it, beside only its retardations, partial compensations, or inhibitions. Capital revolutionizes itself more thoroughly than any extrinsic ‘revolution’ possibly could. If subsequent history has not vindicated this point beyond all question, it has at least simulated such a vindication, to a maddening degree.

In 2013, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams sought to resolve this intolerable – even ‘schizophrenic’ – ambivalence in their ‘Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics,’ which aimed to precipitate a specifically anti-capitalist ‘Left-accelerationism’, clearly demarcated over against its abominably pro-capitalist ‘Right-accelerationist’ shadow. This project – predictably – was more successful at re-animating the accelerationist question than at ideologically purifying it in any sustainable way. It was only by introducing a wholly artificial distinction between capitalism and modernistic technological acceleration that their boundary lines could be drawn at all. The implicit call was for a new Leninism without the NEP (and with the Utopian techno-managerial experiments of Chilean communism drawn upon for illustration).

Capital, in its ultimate self-definition, is nothing beside the abstract accelerative social factor. Its positive cybernetic schema exhausts it. Runaway consumes its identity. Every other determination is shucked-off as an accident, at some stage of its intensification process. Since anything able to consistently feed socio-historical acceleration will necessarily, or by essence, be capital, the prospect of any unambiguously ‘Left-accelerationism’ gaining serious momentum can be confidently dismissed. Accelerationism is simply the self-awareness of capitalism, which has scarcely begun. (“We haven’t seen anything yet.”)

At the time of writing, Left-accelerationism appears to have deconstructed itself back into traditional socialist politics, and the accelerationist torch has passed to a new generation of brilliant young thinkers advancing an ‘Unconditional Accelerationism’ (neither R/Acc., or L/Acc., but U/Acc.). Their online identities – if not in any easily extricable way their ideas – can be searched-out through the peculiar social-media hash-tag #Rhetttwitter.

As blockchains, drone logistics, nanotechnology, quantum computing, computational genomics, and virtual reality flood in, drenched in ever-higher densities of artificial intelligence, accelerationism won’t be going anywhere, unless ever deeper into itself. To be rushed by the phenomenon, to the point of terminal institutional paralysis, is the phenomenon. Naturally – which is to say completely inevitably – the human species will define this ultimate terrestrial event as a problem. To see it is already to say: We have to do something. To which accelerationism can only respond: You’re finally saying that now? Perhaps we ought to get started? In its colder variants, which are those that win out, it tends to laugh.

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#accelerationism #acceleration #accelerationist #nickland #politics #political #philosophy #philosophical #capitalism #nihilism #nickland #hypercapitalism #nostrarchive 

MetaNote
- Noter: [RS]
- Source: Jacobite Magazine
- Published: 2017.05.25
- Publish Block: 468023
- ICOD: 2025.05.1709.10.00
- Note Block: 897082
- Note ID: nostr:nevent1qqs0u0ey9qf53875l6watzyr88ajcmgw3sdysxfhw28g9lvcpy2cwxqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsyg8n8cu9eyy4kwlzm4sw3x45r8mmskrjlmtr5m5kxl0wz0mc9kdk7qpsgqqqqqqsq7pv6t

A Quick-and-Dirty Introduction to Accelerationism 📄 by Nick Land

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