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40 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 5 Aug \ parent \ on: Bitcoin Custody & Treasury Summit - Sept. 17 & 18 - Nashville events
Boycott.
Love this idea. Probably a number of different tech solutions (what comes to mind is reversing embedding distance, trivial to implement) but I find the human issue more compelling: how to think about things in a way that other people aren't?
And related: what are important things to think about?
I think the intersection of these + having an audience is bleak, which is probably important to some people. I don't personally care about that, though. At least beyond the online equivalent of a few friends at the bar.
I wonder if the "knowing transmission of illegal proceeds" is basically due to the explicit shitposting to that effect on Twitter?
Had they just kept their fucking mouths shut, does this plea happen?
I like Shinobi but this is fucking stupid and gross. Lamenting the scarcity of "innovations" like assassination markets and then pearl-clutching that "of course that is terrible" is next level.
Stay tuned for my article about missing the heady days of innovations like suicide bombing and sarin subway attacks. That was the real punk rock.
Seems like we have yet to really have the 9/11 moment, and the ease with which established practices can be catastrophically exploited has not been fully internalized. Or even internalized at all.
In December of 2021, three of us got together and connected our houses together in what we now call The Promised LAN. The idea is simple—fill the hole we feel is gone from our lives. Build our own always-on 24/7 nonstop LAN party. Build a space that is intrinsically social, even though we’re doing technical things. We can freely host insecure game servers or one-off side projects without worrying about what someone will do with it.
I've had a similar experience to this guy in some ways. I remember the weird intersection of hyper-social and hyper-tech. I never really thought about bringing it back; the default thing to drop into is to assume that all that stuff we did was in service of what we now have, in vastly improved form, instead of being for its own sake.
Sometimes, metaphorically, the barn-raising is for the act of shared work, and the fellowship and interdependence, not because you want a barn so bad. It was easy to miss that. It's still easy to miss.
I love these brief S&S anecdotes, it's like a serialized Dickens novel.
The absolute essential heart of btc is that it's non-governmental sound money. Is there a way to explain that in 30 seconds to a normie? Seems a bridge too far. But that would be my angle.
Sound money, not btc. Btc just looks like a shitty and over-complicated Venmo, otherwise.
When it rains it pours, I guess. Thanks v much. A good lesson as both a sender and receiver on the power of a kind word.
This comes as a very welcome message to me right now for reasons you will never know. (Ha, so meta!)
Thanks for taking the time.
I will certainly forget to watch this / be otherwise occupied, but I hope someone will post a follow-up once it's happened!
All of these context questions are equally interesting to consider wrt people. The power of what you try to bring to mind is significant in constructing reality.
Has it had more influence on how you act or how you view the actions of others?
Both. I view it kind of like a law of social physics, or socio-biology. I see it unfolding in myself intimately, and others coarsely.
But I think I'm not exaggerating wrt its power, and its pervasiveness in this new online reality.
There's something really important in this. I had a Gurwinder post on audience capture here someplace that gets at a similar idea, though this one has some more threads to pull.
The idea, regardless of what you call it, is one of the biggest influences on my thinking in the last five years. Hard to think of one that's had more impact.