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the board's search function is shit can you link me? also while were at it there was a thread discussing seeing like a state do you remember which one? how do you guys remember all the old threads/search them?

i would disagree with that 95 percent. I think there is a geniune number of gullible and naive people who really believe that the privatization of everything would be better. i was at some point. theres a kind of simplicity and first principles approach to it, ("blame everything on the...

i think theres more to it. crypto mostly attracts anti-statists, (those who wish to create an order with a weak or non-existent centralized state). left leaning crypto thinkers generally value inclusivity and community coordination outside mainstream institutions. they are almost always left...

Its quite weird because the collective behind the project is "diverse", POC and trans are much more common in the community and the artist collective behind the project. Not a very NFT "bro" community. I even saw that Dasha from red scare has one. Charolette, a major character in the project is...

you should look into miladies. Much more overt and accelerationist/post-ironic racist. Discord community is pretty much full of people who read land and fisher.

the problem for people like me, is that I actually sympathize with some of their critiques of the current order. but when you actually listen to how they want to go about fixing these problems you realize their vision for the world is even more dystopian than our current world.

yeah dark-enlightenment and associated, (as coopted by Thiel,) is basically reactionary politics dressed up in intellectual language and irony to make its implied authoritarianism more palpable. Yarvin and land are pretty much the big two that give the movement intellectual validation while...

the problem is that some people are stupid, and a bunch of people like to bet on stupid people. they love to gamble. in the last decade gambling has seen a meteoric rise. It's invaded so many spheres of life. Some of my "smart" friends bet on sports regularly. Even in video games do we see...

Yeah i figured they borrowed some USDT, my comment was in reference to USDT loaning dollars from its reserves to Celsius directly. https://tether.to/en/tether-condemns-false-rumours-about-its-commercial-paper-holdings/ Ofc this is directly from tether so its hard to trust on its face. But it...

what has prevented dollarization of these economies was the relative inability for everyday people to get dollars and the relative tx cost associated with using dollars. One either needs a connection or status, (and the right documentation) to setup a u.s/euro dollar bank account. Sending...

I was thinking of writing a piece about the implications of the rise of tether/usdc on global political economy. in general i think crypto won't end up hurting the U.S dollar hegemony- it will accelerate it. Where crypto is adopted the dollar is adopted. this implication will define u.s...

in general the biggest financial blow ups occur where they are least expected. tether surviving for many years despite immense FUD indicates that it is actually very unlikely to fail. Plus, I know many funds and people who have processed tens of millions in $ of redemptions via tether

nope. tether has zero liabilities in celcius. funnily enough tether has been processing redemptions and has come out looking relativley okay despite how opaque they are. Speculators attempting to short tether are being liquidated. tether has always been a red herring though.

this reeks of Stephen Diehl. one of the biggest hacks and hypocrites. @vimothy could have written a better letter.

now that I'm thinking about it he has worked with london artists and mentioned it in his music so he probably has a presence there. plus ny/london scene has crossover

Saw Mike recently open for gibs. no idea how well known he is in london but when I saw him in S.F his set was a little awkward. think the audience didn't know many of his songs. maybe a difference in demographics, (whats the overlap of gibs and MIKE? how popular is he in the west vs ny and...

there are many good reasons to be skeptical regarding crypto. i really like parts of this critique for example. but yeah the letter is laughably bad. i would take vitalik and associated crypto thought leaders over any web2 founder / ceo...

the letter is laughable. what's most striking is that it paints with such a broad brush. it doesn't contain a modicum of nuance. probably because it adopts the naive view that technology has an overwhelming causal role in determining social outcomes. once you take this view, you lose nuance...

of course since the collapse of the distinction between capitalist/worker when I say we I mean all of us.

i use we as in, we, the capitalist class.