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New article on why what's happening on the Italian Brainrot side of TikTok right now is....actually pretty cool https://terrraincognita.substack.com/p/why-italian-brainrot-gives-me-hope

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gm from Bombay Beach

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guess how tall @cliffordusher.eth is

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https://warpcast.com/lani/0xda98a098

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Serious question: I don’t buy the “AI will kill us all” argument. If AI is so smart, wouldn’t it develop a sense of recognition and respect for other highly complex systems like the planet, billions of years of evolution, and recognize the value of human consciousness, emotion, and perception in contributing valuable information that it can’t gather itself? Why do we assume AI will act as a selfish agent rather than a systems thinker? Am I way off base? If AI is so smart, why wouldn’t this be the most likely outcome?

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@titles is working on some cool stuff

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is there anything like this for *non-technical* people to contribute to web3?

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went to a concert last night

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my hobby is learning stuff

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I believe in technology as a spiritual force

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I actually think the tariffs will be good for fashion because people will start shopping at thrift stores instead of shopping at Shein

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these tariffs gonna be great for the “underconsumption-core aesthetic” girlies

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I have a theory that America is diverging into two separate status hierarchies, one based on wealth and one based on cultural knowledge. In the past, the people who controlled economic capital also controlled cultural capital. Now that is less and less the case. What do you think? Is it still possible to be Cool and Rich at the same time?

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Another trend we’re seeing in the Regime of the Image is a return of luxury into craftsmanship. Except this time, craftsmanship is biological, and the tools are scientific. Think plastic surgery, longevity hacking, vampire facials, state-of-the-art spa treatments. Luxury becomes the craftsmanship of the body itself. https://open.substack.com/pub/terrraincognita/p/your-designer-bag-is-giving-you-away?r=2zm2aj&utm_medium=ios

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There’s a part of the fashion world that’s moving in an increasingly conceptual direction. Brands like Balenciaga take remixing to the extreme, appropriating symbols from across the landscape of visual culture, not just fashion (think leather tote bags that look like IKEA, collabs with Erewhon and eBay). This design logic is in direct response to the logic of the internet, which frees and fragments information. https://open.substack.com/pub/terrraincognita/p/your-designer-bag-is-giving-you-away?r=2zm2aj&utm_medium=ios

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We’re seeing fashion go increasingly conceptual (Balenciaga is the master of this), which means status hinges not only on $ but also on “getting the joke” My essay LUXURY ACCELERATIONISM talks about this more in depth: https://open.substack.com/pub/terrraincognita/p/your-designer-bag-is-giving-you-away?r=2zm2aj&utm_medium=ios

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Fashion in 2025 is still mostly downstream of mid-2010s normcore

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the thing about me and @cliffordusher.eth is that we have 12-16 feral cats living in our backyard at all times

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