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Changing the Github link for my work-in-progress fictional story "Network Rising". Regrettably, I'm still shoulders deep in the centralized world, so I need to move stuff like this away from my more Web2-oriented digital footprint. https://github.com/marwan42069/network-rising-story

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Is the algorithm pushing memecoin stuff more or am I just unlucky? My feed has been filled with dickbutt content the past couple of days. For the record I am not a memecoin trader of any kind.

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The thing I enjoy most about being on here is that it’s the only social media where I feel like I can be 100% me.

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Does anyone have any book recommendations for explanations of the foundations of today’s institutions and the harm brought by industrial-era bureaucracy and centralization? I really enjoy the book The Sovereign Individual because it predicted a LOT of the capabilities we see today. I started reading “Seeing Like A State” by James C. Scott, but I want to read more books that describe some of these foundations as well as where we might be headed.

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I just thought of something funnier than 2024…

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I finally started writing detailed commit messages instead of the one-liners I’ve always done pretty much since I first learned how to use Git. Life is much better like this.

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As a hobby, I'm writing a fictional story about starting a network state to help make the process more vivid in the imagination and inspire more action! I'll try to get around to making it a frame in the near future. Things are busy busy busy! ---------------- Mistakes and arbitrary decisions from his employer, his bank, and his country have thrown Richard Cabeza's life thrown into a tailspin. Feeling completely shafted by the existing establishments, he starts learning about blockchain in order to take private decentralized custody of his assets. While studying and investing, he stumbles upon a groundbreaking paradigm for using modern technology to build new kinds of communities, cultures, and countries. His frustration and those of the people he meets along his journey spur him forward to implement a network state... https://github.com/MarwanNakhaleh/network-rising-story/blob/main/README.md

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An office chair with enough space for yourself and a large dog.

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Do you think dogs follow you into the bathroom because you follow them to the bathroom and they just think that’s how it works?

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When you meant to type “work hours” but accidentally typed “worm hours”:

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I decided to play around with making a logo for network culture specifically, modeled after that of the network state. Thoughts and suggestions? I'm a software developer by trade, this was just half an hour of goofing around in GIMP and I just wanna see what people think of the concept lol. The book icon was created by Freepik: https://www.flaticon.com/free-icons/book

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Never forgetti.

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Network state road trip.

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One easy way we can categorize all of the projects under the broad "network state" label is to take all the facets of society associated with nation-states and attach "network" to the name. For example, a state has manufacturing, education, health, culture, and governance. We can have "network manufacturing", "network health", "network culture", etc.

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I’m excited to meet some of you here!

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I can now get around halfway down in a pistol squat on either leg (this is progress) and I didn’t realize how hard this is on the knees.

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I don’t care where you come from or what you look like. If you understand what I’m saying and believe in my values, you are my fellow countryman.

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Is anyone else enamored by the network state for cultural reasons? As a non-religious American-born ethnic Arab who doesn’t speak Arabic well, I find that I really don’t fit in well with “other” Arabs or “other” Americans. Throughout my life I’ve switched a couple times between identifying between one or the other. But when I learned about the network state, I realized that I am not really “American” or “Arab”, but something altogether different.

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I’ve been learning Dutch for the past four or five months. I wanted to keep going to ~B1 but when I realized yesterday that I might actually know more Dutch than I know Arabic (I am an American of Arab descent), I felt kinda depressed lol. Has anyone else experienced something similar?

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