Kevin

@esherick

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Newlyweds - In Utero by @esherick on EXPANDED.ART I collected this piece in June last year, not long after my wife and I left Singapore to embark on our honeymoon in the Americas—a journey that is still currently ongoing. It's been a year and a day since our wedding on 21 January 2024, and tomorrow will mark exactly 8 months of us travelling together. As I reflect on how far we've come and how far we still have to go, I can't help but turn back to Kevin's artwork, which unwittingly serves as an apt artefact for this moment of our lives.

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Latest read. On to The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner) and Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion)

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This is AI-generated just so y'all know, don't go hunting this place down lol

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https://x.com/kev_esh/status/1857211016066539919

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Context + enough repetition to bring it into common parlance

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Going to AG Cook concert tomorrow night will lyk

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Programmable money 🤝 Programmable [social] media

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Double-posted from Twitter, not sure what the vibe on doing that here these days is. Just link post to the original tweet? Anything goes?

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“This is ridiculous. I’m gonna go by a UUID and everyone can have fun with that.” —my girlfriend after telling her I hung out with my friends 0x113d and @0xfff recently

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Vitalik talks here about using prediction markets for verifying info in tandem with Community Notes. I had thought about this a few months back (screenshot of what I jotted down 👇) Worth reading the original post from Vitalik

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Is it still subscribers only and if so what's the pitch (to users)?

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Can you expand on who you mean by “faux-conservative schizo market liberals” and in what way he’ll get steamrolled by them? Not sure if this is counter to, in agreement with, or irrelevant to what you’re saying but Vance is a big fan of his

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Deneen is really good, worth reading regardless of where you stand on things. Why Liberalism Failed is his better known book but haven’t done it yet bc my library system doesn’t have the audiobook (Audible does tho if you’re a listener)

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@phil how do I get added back to /books ?

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Important reading for understanding the current moment

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My idea in saying it might reveal things we didn't know we were missing out on is that I don't know what they would be because they would be novel, creative features that the platforms would be compelled by competition to mine for. Things like autoplay was for youtube, or like frames here on FC. But simple ideas like more advanced search capabilities, search by transcript, better creator analytics—really any feature that would be desirable to add to youtube, having competition will spur the development thereof Mostly agreed re: downside risk but isn't that a large part of why so many of us are here on FC? It's why I joined in 2022. And more than just censorship resistance, there's a positive vision of owning one's own content that I think would speak to the content creators and create a draw to such a platform. And where the content goes the users will follow

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Like it's crazy that Youtube has such unilateral control over our content and its distribution Generally it feels like a pretty great product to me, so the competitive benefits of disrupting the monopoly feel less salient than with something like twitter, but the introduction of real competition might reveal to us things we didn't even know we were missing out on. And the concerns for varying degrees of censorship on Youtube and platforms of its kind are real

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Video is such an important vector for free speech in today's media ecosystem and that's not changing any time soon We need protocols. Protocols foster competition by freeing users from platforms. Protocolize everything

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