Eric Mack

@ericmack

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Expanding on what Jo had to say here - we've come to focus on our national politics, which are as toxic, divisive and dysfunctional as they've been in a generation or two, if not longer. Meanwhile, a lot of important and impactful work on the local level is being neglected, ignored or not properly acknowledged. It can be easy to despair when your team takes a big loss at the federal level, but the best salve could be simply moving on and getting involved in your neighborhood, school or wherever. You'll probably find people with different points of view can still respect and work with each other. And even if that's not the case, you've a good chance of being able to repair that relationship compared to trying to do so arguing with strangers on the other side of the political divide through social media. Touch grass, shake hands and figure out how to get things built together again. https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/everyday-is-election-day

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Grover Cleveland finally making a big comeback in the zeitgeists!

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My colleague @sharmeen crushing it on why the the 3 Cs in Bangladesh could(should) soon be chai, cricket and.... crypto over corruption. https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2024/09/09/genzs-toolkit-for-a-new-bangladesh-blockchain/

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Had a great time talking life off-grid and a whole lot about decentralization (with a nod to Network States as well) on the Hotel Bar Sessions podcast with three practicing philosophers. But there was one question I didn't answer too well that touches all of the above, so hear it is - https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/is-this-life-about-community-or-independence

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Haha, thanks @ccarfi - I'm Web3 ride or die full time, but following space and rocket stuff is a very hard habit to break!

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tfw you read an article on forbes about the chinese rocket going boom and then re-read it the next day and realize the byline is @ericmack (hi, eric!) https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericmack/2024/06/30/rocket-test-ends-in-accidental-launch-and-huge-explosion-in-china/

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If you've got jokerace votes, we'd sure appreciate them in support of our proposal to do a Regen Network States season of Green Pill podcast - https://www.jokerace.io/contest/optimism/0xa26afb374589a493f1cf781f8c16877275319547 🙏

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Dropping some decentralization basics for normies on the pod... https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/decentralization-applying-the-off 🔆 🔆

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I finally got permission to say I married a badass b****. An origin story worth the read - https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/bad-ass-tumbleweeds

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In war we focus on the human cost, and generally this is the right approach, but we need not ignore all other impacts. While we tally casualties and argue, another toll is mounting. My wife looked into some of the data of the environmental costs. https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/the-environmental-impacts-of-war

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JournoDAO Town Hall coming up at the top of the hour DM for Zoom link if human.

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Decentralization is simply the ongoing process of trying to redistribute power and resources to the edges where they're actually needed more. The trick is doing so without creating new systems of centralized control. (3/3)

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Things that have become cliché like "the rich get richer" or the hollowing out of Middle America, or even the intolerable experience of trying to get any satisfactory customer service anywhere in 2024 are all symptoms of systems that have become overly centralized. (2/3)

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I think decentralization is actually something a lot of people understand intuitively, but we don't have common language to express. (1/3) https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/the-story-of-decentralization

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Well, shit. Time to talk about the nitty gritty of decentralized living: https://www.ouruncertainfuture.com/p/living-with-a-compost-toilet

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21 hours left to donate to our @gitcoin round for Seed Protocol!! We’ve had 142 contributors so far! Grateful & excited to get Seed into the world! https://explorer.gitcoin.co/?utm_source=grants.gitcoin.co&utm_medium=internal_link&utm_campaign=gg19&utm_content=program-rounds#/round/42161/26/57

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If these were the use cases people were talking about instead of meme coins, crypto wouldn’t have a PR issue, it would have a throughput issue.

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More digestible version of this thread here - https://journodao.xyz/blog/journalism-and-the-history-it-documents-are-disappearing-we-have-a-plan-to-change-that/

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Donating as little as a few dollars worth of token can go a long way thanks to the wonders of quadratic funding. And, of course, your support will be recorded for all of posterity.

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Seed Protocol helps preserves not only portfolios for journalists like me; it could preserve our sanity and help us all make better sense of the world. @journodao is building Seed Protocol as a public good. To support the effort, please donate to our Gitcoin campaign. https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/42161/26/57

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