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imagine being a time traveller from the 1999 WTO protests and trying to understand 2025 tariffs. Teleporting personas through time is fun. But it’s ultimately deceptive. https://jamesbeck.mirror.xyz/yuyKLCxMXdyqtOrjaQRjRDdeziQ51Se3PZrRYq9Zrv0
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One thing that I keep coming back to is how the internet is fundamentally changing how we attempt coherence in a web of increasing global interdependency. These stories are told by sign-spinning Presidents; by podcasters with Shurr microphones; through the endless cultural image regurgitation on Instagram; by journalists; by researchers ; by poets. (It increasingly seems seems like this is our new descending order of mass reach.)
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More and more we are seeing these stories collide in ways where our information diets are so divergently extreme that people can’t even agree on any shared understandings, let alone cause and effect. These collisions are a key feature of Musk’s X algo, where Wall capital managers describe the effects on tariffs on the production of t-shirts as an AI image PFP responds that American’s will gladly pay extra for a T-shirt given our newfound DeFi yield. Our stories are splintering.
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