memoji video szn

some shit's cooked with my phone tho but once i figure that out will give it a shot

Crypto is interesting in that using a product or being too close to it can shake you out of the token too early

When you adopt this framing it makes sense why the investor class doesn’t use the apps

power outage in building means key fob system and keypad both don’t work

luckily roommate is inside so he can let me in but if he went into office today or smth, I’d be trapped outside lol 

the struggles of modernity

if you as a poster are still participating in cluely discourse, you're a boomer who's going to get left behind. social media metas no longer last a week, they last a day. being on top of the topic du jour is hard and is a skill.

kinda surprised 100 degrees is all it took for infrastructure to start breaking down here

Streets be like “this new behavior is not an existing behavior, thus it will fail”

Congrats you would’ve been the hacker news dropbox guy 15y ago

Books

Great Expectations

Orphan Pip grows from boy to man.

Seemingly in real time. I felt like I spent a third of a lifetime reading this. 

What is it about Dickens’ tone, in Great Expectations especially, that makes him so smug and self satisfied and sentimental? He’s like a midwit spinster aunt pressing petty morality stories and a delusional worldview on captive nephews. 

And I’m not just talking about the impossible moral perfection of Joe, or Pip’s shame as he grows. There’s this insidious statement between the lines that Dickens has it all figured out, and that the oppressed are inherently just, and that anyone who doesn’t see the world through Dickens’ lens is a heartless fool.

Some of the writing is good in a longwinded way, but I found it difficult to enjoy any of the narrative because I couldn’t stop thinking about how awesome it would be to go back in time, rip the pen out of Dickens’ hand, and punch him in his sanctimonious face. 

Highly recommended for socialists, people who move their lips when they read, and adults who wear mouse ears at Disney World. 

Functioning adults should avoid it.

NYC is not even a top 10 city in the world by population

Coop

Feel like crypto has hit a bit of a stalemate right now. 

Everyone understands the name of the game is bringing new people onchain but yet 99% of all volume is still driven by the same cohort of ~25,000 crypto-native users.

I'm not seeing real interest or demand from people to "get into crypto" and the most successful apps (like Polymarket) don't really have any downstream effects which makes those users want to check out other crypto apps or go deeper down the rabbit hole.

More and more my friends simply net out at "buy more Bitcoin" and frankly I don't think that's a bad take given how safe a bet it is relative to the slaughterhouse that's the memecoin trenches these days.

Am I alone in this thought or do other people feel this too?

> Everyone understands the name of the game is bringing new people onchain

This is an assumption that is not necessarily true imo

Screens

Squid Games season 2 part 2 this week

I thought part 1 was dogwater honestly, that being said i will still be watching

toly candles chillhouse up 80% or so with a tweet

dude is pretty in tune w the culture, but also is not so dilutive that his tweets don't have an effect. these feel like little treats he gives to the community every now and then lol

shai writing slam poetry in the ig captions is such an aura reduction

replacing the flooring in my apartment. really digging this laminate gray faux wood

there's a huge collective overindexing on cb <> farcaster 

it's like a form of "narrative path dependency"

the closest thing to a digital nation/network state atm would be something like spx6900

borderless, internet native, united by belief in a shared vision instead of geography, all citizens have ownership/upside in the project

used to think "what comes after the nation-state?" but the more i think about it, it feels potentially like the final form of geography-based civilization, which will always exist as long as humans need to coordinate over physical resources

so "network states" are more of a digital expansion to the nation-state as opposed to a replacement

projects like that aim to invent new cities or new countries are the "sustaining innovation" to digital/tokenized networks' "disruptive innovation" (h/t jacob for that mental model)

the flippening is/will be when individuals identify more with their digital networks than their geographic ones

as a man if you've been blessed with good beard genetics you have an obligation to grow it out imo

BREAKING: Shell is in early talks to acquire BP, per the WSJ.

w farcaster as my default social, this unusualwhales account on my home feed is actually lately how i am hearing about some breaking news

six

@six