Ryan

@ryanfmason

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“Your book is called The End of History? So you obviously must mean that history is literally ending? Or are you just referring to one specific context of political change and want it to sound cool?” “I want it to sound cool”

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The two options presented here: 1. Wonkish technical minded tax policy 2. “Memetics” But the actual reason for this is that Trump is just rewarding his base. These are exactly the people who tend to to vote for him

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Interesting part of internet history is that a lot of people were convinced the devices to interface with the internet were going to be TV’s with these weird clients that used TV’s for display. In the late 90’s there were a few of these from startups and big legacy telecom companies. General Magic (PBUH) did one with Viacom I think called web TV that got sold to Microsoft and eventually became MSN -> MSNBC

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The Eurocels are absolutely right about this one. Before you post you need to ask yourself “what would my shareholders think?”

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The ratio of “discussing the debate” to creating shareholder value on here is disgusting. You need to log OFF and get caffed UP

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> Log on to LinkedIn this morning > What 9/11 taught me about B2B sales > Log off

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Online leftists getting ready to vote in lockstep for literally any name with a D next to it after insisting they’re VERY different from Democrats for 4 years

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The most likely driver of actual tax reform that I can see is not legislation. It’s open source E2EE software you run locally that does everything for you with precision and maximum deductions based on prompts it gives you. Seems technically feasible but there would be heavy lobbying to make this illegal.

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The other thing about this is that people have heuristics their brain just automatically reverts to like an immune system. And like an immune system if it doesn’t recognize the pathogen it doesn’t know how to respond. So they may try to use the heuristics they’re used to but it doesn’t have the same effect

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Every other week JD Vance does an interview where he’ll do something like look outside and go “fuck there’s some dumbass bird shitting on my car” It’s not really anything super bad or offensive it’s just clearly against PR training & its weird how out of place it seems for how current politicians act

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Anybody doing a domain marketplace right in FC? Huge community for it on Twitter that may have a better time using FC especially for all these .xyz domains everybody loves here, FC users needing them may prefer the experience here vs typical third parties

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Wow 16 billion from spam messaging people about online MBA programs

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Good series on Henry 4th/5th. Interesting as an American to hear it from British guys who, despite being historians clearly have some mythological pride around Henry 5th. Especially interesting after hearing them do a dispassionate series on the American Revolution that Americans have that same mythological pride about. I imagine countries that are/have been great empires have a wider range of these mythologies but there have to be smaller countries that also have some very interesting secular national mythologies like this. https://open.spotify.com/episode/46u2DfVt6bhTl8RNaWFWFi?si=91CqvGheQaGERDzDqDDXXA

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On Palmer’s question “Is it heretical to believe we should keep expanding?” Yes but in an understated way. The status quo of 2010’s egalitarian culture war is a negative vision of the past (woke) vs a positive vision of the past (MAGA). They don’t really know what to make of a positive vision of the future because it kind of ignores the current fighting and just starts doing something else.

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“Is it heretical to believe we should keep expanding?” https://youtu.be/Ef09eK5zHSk?si=_oYWdau9hFbGUiUs

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Yeah Winston Churchill was an antisemite or something ok now cough up those 5 bucks you stupid robot

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Flatland fans please back me up

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Good take. 2 things: 1. Has to be partly a product of being super ironic. Irony poisoning reduces our ability to be sincere and increases our ability to criticize. 2. Since the internet has brought barrier to entry on access to information in general down to ~0, it’s easy to feel reasonably confident poking holes in anything. New structures of power need a consensus mechanism. In the past they’ve always had to either deceive or have undeniable power. On-chain truth could be the new consensus mechanism that gets people to believe in something without being susceptible to ironic criticism.

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22% gang who’s up

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