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https://bdsmovement.net Align with a rule-based order silently. By thoughtfully choosing where to invest and who to engage with, you can quietly support meaningful change. Your boss doesn’t need to know, nor does their VC partner. Actions speak louder than words

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The War of the Rohirrim is terrific. It seems no direct rotoscoping of scenes but 2D on 3D whatever that means

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The point is, good engineering, like good music, or good writing, is not really necessary therefore it will not be rewarded until it becomes necessary. The thing we do is to keep thing we can’t control unnecessary

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If any product you create doesn’t inherently allow for a degraded version—one that pulls in eyeballs, that keeps users locked in and interacting—you won’t survive without having to build artificial barriers against the relentless forces of capitalism. Because the game, at its core, isn’t about delivering value anymore; it’s about maximizing attention. And if your product doesn’t serve that need, if it doesn’t have the built-in mechanism to trap people in an endless cycle, it won’t be long before you’re left scrambling to keep up. The market isn’t looking for solutions; it’s looking for a way to keep users hooked. Without that, the product won’t matter, no matter how good it is.

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Just want to say that I’m a proud supporter of minorities in the Dark Arts. Whether it’s Orcs, Goblins, Nazgûl, or Balrogs, everyone deserves equal rights, fair treatment, and a seat at the table. No more “monsters”—just misunderstood creatures looking for a fair shot. #LORDS #EqualityInMordor, #LeagueofOppressedandRepressedDarkStereotypes

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My review of “The Man Who Created the Middle East” by Christopher Simon Sykes, Somewhere in a smoky corner of The Green Dragon Inn, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin found themselves with the unenviable task of dividing up Mordor. Gandalf had vanished in a puff of “wizardry business,” leaving a note saying: “Take care of this, will you? Back in a fortnight. Don’t forget the furnaces.” “Well, Mordor’s a right mess,” said Frodo, staring at the ash-streaked map. “Who’d want it anyway?” “Humans might like it,” Sam offered. “Big, gloomy sorts, aren’t they? They’ll think it’s dramatic.” “Humans?!” scoffed Merry, snatching the quill. “Mordor’s perfect for Dwarves. All those mines, all that lava. They love that sort of thing!” “Hang on,” interrupted Pippin, dipping a sausage into gravy. “We Hobbits deserve a slice too! Imagine all the mushrooms we could grow in the ash!” “Oh, for the love of lembas, let’s just split it up and be done!” Frodo sighed.

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I see Luigi Magiones everywhere

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Nothing like a 90 seconds commercial before the tag scene in a sitcom to really capture that crusty cable experience—streaming spent years killing cable, only to just microwaved as new

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So you could say that Luke Skywalker is the first decentralized archetype in fiction. Not sure what Lucas had in mind for Episodes 7, 8, 9 but Luke by ROTJ was already a mix of Jesus and Paramahansa Yogananda

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You’re so worried about imploding like a blackhole that a gravastar gets you

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Hot Medium <> Easy engineering <> Optimization Cold Medium <> Hard Engineering <> Deconstruction

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This drive to make all stuff align with a hyper-optimized, productivity-driven zeitgeist fundamentally distorts its essence. Stuff is often about exploration, contradiction, and questioning—things that don’t always fit neatly into efficiency or marketability. By demanding every piece of of the culture gap fit within a framework of immediate utility or technological optimization, we risk losing the very complexity that may sees through the next hard engineering era that is “apparently” upon us

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The internal clock demands a precise emotional or narrative “hit” at just the right time, and TV series are purpose-built to deliver it to our optimized attention span better than genre books. By contrast P.G. Wodehouse, Douglas Adams, and similar authors thrive in the mind’s theater, where the reader’s imagination supplies its own comedic pacing and emphasis. Also Adaptations of lit struggle because they often flatten or over-explain the intellectual

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That’s the paradox of billionaire hype: they’re gnawing at the very scaffolding that holds them up, like termites with trust funds. They seem to have made it their life’s mission to “disrupt” the system, to upend the institutions they claim are slow, outdated, and inefficient. Yet, those same institutions are the only reason their hallucination can be converted into cash Take it one step further: billionaires thrive on the system’s stability while pretending to be renegades. They need functioning courts to enforce contracts, central banks to bail out their bad bets, and governments to police the streets when the pitchforks come out. Every time one of them stands up and screams about tearing down “the old order,” they’re hacking away at the collective hallucination of stability that props up their valuation

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“But I can turn this into dollars!” Sure, you can transform Ethereum, Bitcoin, or any other crypto into dollars but what you’re describing isn’t proof of intrinsic value—it’s proof that the collective hallucination still holds, for now. Crypto has the same problem than fiat ie when everyone rushes for the exit at the same time—see FTX, Luna, or any number of implosions—the illusion shatters, and the hot potato burns a hole in your hand. Sure, dollars aren’t “real” in the gold-standard sense anymore. But they have inertia. They’re tied to debts, taxes, and transactions across the globe. Crypto doesn’t have that stickiness. It’s speculative, volatile, and unmoored. Remember, tulips could be traded for gold once, too. When confidence erodes—be it in Ethereum, the dollar, or the billionaire class—it doesn’t matter how many people believed yesterday.

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So maybe the real question is: how much of what we call capital is grounded in the material world, and how much is a collective hallucination? And when the hallucination ends, what’s left? The bicameral mind theorizes that early humans experienced consciousness differently, as though one part of the brain “spoke” to the other in the form of auditory commands, like hearing the voice of a god. It was a system of authority and action without introspection. Now, pair that with the idea of modern capital, and things start to click. Consider “made-up” capital—cryptocurrencies, inflated stock valuations, speculative VC bets. These are not grounded in tangible goods or production but in belief. They require masses of people to act on faith, responding to the “voice” of market forces or charismatic leaders. It’s almost a reawakening of the bicameral mind, with billionaires, algorithms, and media acting as those commanding voices, directing the collective hallucination.

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https://youtu.be/SAFlRSftffc?si=f0hYLEQohzyWN9nX I had been wondering why some billionaires were shouting from their trash cans this week. I should really keep up

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This Grand-Seiko commercial is something else https://youtu.be/9q6dOyH0k9I?si=JN3-oXg7UydqqlUs

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Tbh you need real anarchists (not ancaps larping) from central casting for this to work. It wouldn’t look like some utopian redesign of blockchain—it’d be tactical, subversive, and it will burn the tokenomics playbook

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