twhid

twhid

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http://mtaa.net erstwhile net artist http://1stdi.bs engineering https://app.ens.domains/twhid.eth twhid.eth ✨ comments my own ✨

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How much of the “biological bootloader” (humanity) would he be willing to sacrifice to get to the “superintelligence?” This is pretty scary rhetoric.

Kara Swisher@karaswisher.bsky.social

Someone do a safety check

loser

Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov

If we enter a shutdown, Congressional Republicans would weaponize their majorities to cherry-pick which parts of government to reopen.

“A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius” What are the current thoughts? I haven’t read it in ~20 years. As #genx when I first read it, it was the first — only — time I had read literary fiction that mirrored my own internal monologue. It was as if the voice was mine.

Casually wondering what the GDP of a nation combining the west coast, reliably blue states like Illinois, the northern east coast (New England, NY), & Canada would be. Could that nation compete with China? Help reinforce Europe and NATO? Basically take the place of the US internationally?

Something that’s under appreciated about web3 is that companies market protocols, not platforms. It’s a big difference!

twhid@twhid.com

If you don't want your speech infringed, then use protocols instead of platforms. You also want your protocol to be decentralized. Not to sound condescending, but if you don't understand what that means, hit me up in the comments and I'll explain :)

If you don't want your speech infringed, then use protocols instead of platforms. You also want your protocol to be decentralized. Not to sound condescending, but if you don't understand what that means, hit me up in the comments and I'll explain :)

Lots of people are posting egregious bullshit from the Douthat / Andreeson interview, but the doublespeak in this passage is off the charts.

I actually really like the alt text I put on this: …Andreeson explains how he and his oligarch buddies will use social media to first destroy real journalism and then try to hijack the narratives that cement society.

His gripe boils down to: dems fucked up my crypto bags and I’ll be damned if I let them fuck up my AI bags. That’s it.

Lula: When'd you start smoking, Sail? Sailor: I guess I started smoking when I was about... four. My momma was already dead then from lung cancer. #davidlynch

“Old” media certainly had issues, but it was relatively fair, it aligned reality for the majority and that reality was based on truth. Overall they took their position seriously; acted ethically. It’s disappearing. We’ll have only chaotic info spaces where the truth is decided by broligarchs.

twhid@twhid.com

This is the correct take.

The reason for banning TikTok? The propaganda risk from China? These billionaires and their MAGA allies are ALSO an enemy of a free & democratic USA.

This is the correct take.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social

Dems are still operating in a political paradigm where the public has a set of concerns, roughly reflecting the reality of life in America, and elections are about who addresses them better. But that is not the political paradigm we’ve lived in, for a long time, and we’re getting further from it.

made this happen Connections Puzzle #538 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Everyone confused by banana art really don’t understand how much value in our society is based on abstract legal principles? Intellectual Property? They really don’t?

Crypto/blockchain has been right-coded for some time, but since the US election this year, it has become MAGA-coded. So, I'm wondering my center or left-leaning crypto folks. Why do you stay? My theory is that right-wing blockchain advocates are anti-govt but moderate/left are anti-corp. 👇

Crypto/blockchain has been right-coded for some time, but since the US election this year, it has become MAGA-coded. So, I'm wondering my center or left-leaning crypto folks. Why do you stay? My theory is that right-wing blockchain advocates are anti-govt but moderate/left are anti-corp. 👇

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But, to trade networked digital art (and other high-value digital assets), which is my main interest, then we need decentralized blockchain networks. You don't want digital assets with high cultural and economic value in some dope's database, subject to unilateral T&Cs, arbitration clauses, &c.

Crypto/blockchain has been right-coded for some time, but since the US election this year, it has become MAGA-coded. So, I'm wondering my center or left-leaning crypto folks. Why do you stay? My theory is that right-wing blockchain advocates are anti-govt but moderate/left are anti-corp. 👇

I'm center-left or "professional-class establishment wing of the Democratic Party" so I'm pretty ambivalent about crypto as a currency. Particularly if it knocked the dollar from its place as the world's reserve currency. That would be very bad for the USA! I'm not sure I like that...

Reminds me that I had this mondegreen as a kid, “I want to rock -n-roll all night, and partly every day”

NosferaPru@prufrockluvsong.bsky.social

I wanna rock and roll 2 hours tops and party maybe every 14 days

d’oh I see the web3 hash tag is a polluted garbage pile. Where are the serious people here? We need a new namespace.

If I’m ditching twitter entirely then I need to bring this with me. I’m proud that I was working in digital networked art since the 90s. And, love ‘em or hate ‘em, NFTs are the network-native way to sell that sort of work. #web3

IDK, man. I’m on iOS and the __feel__ of this app is just not right. I understand it’s written in React Native by someone who is top in the field, so I assume it’s the best RN app possible (?) If so, RN doesn’t seem to work for a social app where the subtle interactions are extremely important.