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I think Trump SV MAGA’s strategy will be to weaponize instability with a crypto wrapper. They’ll offer bastard financial instruments—part cryptocurrency, part sovereign debt—designed for maximum leverage. These won’t be sold on merit but forced onto pension funds and sovereign wealth managers across Europe and South Asia. It will work like this: Create an impossible-to-value derivative that’s essentially radioactive waste with a AAA rating sticker slapped on it. Then, instead of promoting it, they’ll wield it as a threat. “Nice retirement system you’ve got there. Shame if something happened to it.” The implied warning: buy our crypto-treasury bastardizations, or watch your currency get hammered and your trade deals collapse.

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Stablecoins aren’t a revolution. They’re a reenactment. A high-frequency redo of every monetary collapse since Rome debased its denarius. The actors change—suits to hoodies, gold to GPU farms—but the script’s the same leveraged systemic myopia.

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People keep talking about inflation—can you believe it? They say, “Sir, prices are up.” Well, guess what? The stock market, folks, has never been lower. Just tremendous, really. Stocks are down! Way down! Some of the lowest numbers in history—since I’ve been president, at least. So really, shouldn’t we be celebrating? I mean, if you think about it, everything is cheaper… if you’re buying companies instead of groceries. Very simple. Basic economics. But the fake news won’t tell you that! Very dishonest people. Very sad!

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The whole crypto ethos was built on the idea that it’s an escape from traditional finance, a revolution that supersedes the old system. But the reality is that it was a product of that system—specifically, a product of zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP). Crypto thrived in a world where capital was desperately seeking returns. With rates at zero, institutional money had to move further out on the risk curve—tech stocks, venture capital moonshots, and eventually, digital assets with no intrinsic value beyond the belief that they’d appreciate. Crypto wasn’t a hedge against the system; it was the system, just in a more volatile, deregulated form.

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I mean culture seems to always oscillate back after periods of concrete brutalism (software being a class of brutalism)

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The thing about crypto being immutable is that it's a digital problem, not a real one in the sense of Philip K. Dick's idea of reality. Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop thinking about it. Cold mediums like records, paintings, and sculptures don't need that upkeep. They persist whether or not someone maintains them. A vinyl record warps, a painting fades, a sculpture crumbles, but they don't disappear the moment a network goes down or a consensus protocol fails. Crypto, by contrast, is built on digital fallibility—what's called "immutability" depends on an infrastructure that demands constant energy, maintenance, and belief. It's a forever subscription model. The moment you stop paying into the system—whether in attention, in computing resources, or in raw belief—it starts slipping away, like a lapsed domain name or an abandoned MMO.

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Time for an exclusive, luxurious, totally tremendous series of fine wines—Shar-done-ayyy, Chardunnae, Sharnduhnay, or Charduh-nay. Only the best. The greatest. Everyone says so.

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Google is AT&T with the soul of Blockbuster but propped up with better servers

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Here’s 10 1. Productivity – The entire modern focus on efficiency, streamlined labor, and maximizing output comes from this analysis. 2. Human Capital – Free education repackaged as “talent investment.” 3. Growth Incentives Through Taxation 4. Healthy Competition Through Anti-Monopoly – 5. Consumer Purchasing Power –6. Brand Strategy as Ethical Labor 7. Real Estate Market Expansion 8. Economic Shock Absorbers 9. Business Enabler Public Infrastructure – State-funded, privately exploited. 10. Innovation – Most criticisms are valid and eventually incorporated into capitalism

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Imagine you’re a fisherman on a vast, unpredictable sea. Some days, you’re out in a small, sturdy boat, anchored close to a rocky island where you know the fish are plentiful, but the weather is slow to change, and you can’t catch much until the tides turn. Other days, you’re on a fast sailboat, darting across open waters, chasing schools of fish that seem to appear and disappear without warning, sometimes only to find out they weren’t really there to begin with. You might find yourself believing there’s treasure on the horizon, even if it’s just a mirage. In this sea, you can’t always rely on the currents to guide you, and what you think is a sure catch might be nothing more than a wave of excitement that vanishes as quickly as it appeared. Some boats sail with certainty, but the rewards are slow, while others seem to fly with the wind, promising riches, but their direction is often as fickle as the breeze. Steady waves roll by, Chasing winds on restless seas, Truth lies in the drift.

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Just a few years ago, under the golden dusk of late-stage empire and the gig economy, the vampire was a vibe. They stalked the night murmuring Baudelaire under neon rain. They were gentrifiers with fangs, lurking in curated lofts, sipping plasma spritzers, whispering about the aesthetic of the hustle. You were supposed to want the job and you wanted them to bite you. Queue Orlock/Nosferatu rising again, rat-faced and ravenous, creeping through the rotting infrastructure. He doesn’t need permission to enter. He does not do brooding glances or existential regret. He feeds. You, in turn, wither. Your friends don’t get a sexy leather-clad eternity. They get hollowed-out husks, drained in alleys, discarded like expired product. Then there’s plague. 2025 vampires don’t love you. They don’t even like you. They are here to consume, and no, you will not be transformed into some midnight demigod. You will just be someone’s sustained nutrition.

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https://www.youtube.com/live/6WElL4goB9Q?si=Stfkqx2os_iFCY9B He appears refreshingly unencumbered by the usual ideological baggage that plagues Western leadership. He seems unafflicted by the Democrat Party’s performative moralizing and institutional inertia, Europe’s self-perpetuating officialdom—where process is mistaken for progress, and immune to the Republican habit of mistaking sycophancy for statesmanship. I guess we’ll see 🔜 enough

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Who knew that making things catastrophically worse would be the perfect way to highlight just how bad they were all along. Thanks, no thanks.

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This is a big deal. Neon winning two Best Pictures off the Cannes-to-Oscars vector isn't just a statistical anomaly—it's a signal flare in the smog-choked wreckage of commercial cinema. The Hollywood IP-industrial complex is a zombie protocol, endlessly self-replicating, stripping its own archives for collagen. Meanwhile, China's film industry is an airlocked simulation, pre-sanitized for ideological hygiene. Neon's success is a glitch in the corporate entertainment stack, an unexpected breach where a different stack syncs across circuits. It means the old arthouse-to-mainstream feedback loop, presumed dead, still has some cycles left as combustion accelerant. European and South Asian cinema with American money as completion bonds aren't just a holdout; they're the beachhead of what comes next. A speculative tech stack producing artifacts that remind us the future isn't locked https://deadline.com/2025/03/oscars-best-picture-neon-record-anora-1236308125/

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Enjoying this with a healthy dose of 😬 I think the East India Company is a better analogy for our present than the Mongols. It didn't conquer with banners and cavalry, but acquired nations like distressed assets—strip-mining their value, installing puppet executives and selling it for parts That's the Silicon Valley neoreactionary dream: not Genghis burning libraries, but something sleeker. The Mongols ride in, raze your capital, and take your daughters. The East India Company sets up an app store where you pay them for the privilege of keeping your own daughters. The MAGA hijack isn't conquest but franchising governance. Why burn Washington when you can buy it, running it like customer support? Mongols kill kings; the Company keeps them as mascots while real power shifts to directors controlling who gets paid and banned.

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Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey is the perfect microcosm of personal responsibility larpers—a floating gated community moored on a microbial petri dish, of fine slurry bacteria and toxic sludge. A low regulation leisure zone bootstrap waterfront utopia dream where the free market decided the water quality. Just no swimming.

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The U.S. crypto reserve is a Wall Street bailout DNA spliced onto a blockchain that once promised to immolate it. It mocks the very premise of decentralization or sufficiently decentralized baking in institutional control while opening fresh vectors for bad actors, a safety net for institutional bagholders—like an ETF with bailout mechanics hardwired into the ledger. Meanwhile, whales bleed vaporware into retail veins while, the market itself is wheezing through the last cycles of its liquidity churn, a final lap of exit strategies disguised as innovation, and what once looked like an expanding ecosystem now appears to be undergoing controlled demolition.

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Tired: build in public Wired: destroy in public Inspired: Disappear in public

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Think of it like this: empires aren’t toppled by barbarians at the gates. They’re hollowed out by the *optimizers*—the ones who promise efficiency but deliver entropy. England lost the colonies because the EIC’s greed turned tea into tyranny. Empires don’t fall. They fork—

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Reading this now. Silicon Valley’s not trading spices; they’re trafficking in unlicensed faith of a species dumb enough to think Andrew Jackson Roman legions is a backup drive. The playbook’s the same: monopolize the infrastructure, rebrand extraction as “innovation,” and let the chaos metastasize. The East India Company wasn’t lobbying governments; it was subletting them. It was a vertical monopoly that collapsed when its greed outran the Crown’s patience but not before losing America in the war of independence in the process. Which begs the question who’s gonna pull the plug on our slow-rolling corporate singularity when democracy’s just another app draining battery? History doesn’t repeat. It open-sources

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