Tay Zonday

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These are fantastic thoughts. One question that comes to my mind: With roughly 750 American military bases in roughly eighty countries outside of the United States, is any global struggle divorced from American hegemony geopolitically, historically and culturally? I can casually connect almost any American headline to any global justice struggle. Pick a U.S. headline topic and a global struggle out of two hats at random. For example: Flint, Michigan lead poisoning and repression of Iranian leftists? Post World War II war manufacturing capacity and oil dependency got re-appropriated as gluttonous consumerism for which Flint was both a design aesthetic and auto industry factory town. Racist bank covenants evacuated non-white wealth from Flint during and after auto-making’s heyday. Eisenhower’s CIA overthrew Iranian democracy at the behest of those same banking and oil interests in 1953. Those interests abandoned Iran’s Shah when he challenged their hegemony paving a path to theocratic takeover.

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Kids today will never know the thrill of walking through a parking lot with no backup cameras. When backup lights came on, we had to be psychiatrists and make eye contact to assess the driver’s state of mind. Now we just make sure to be three feet back from the bumper in a 165 degree pie slice.

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When I reach far back in the grocery self to get the latest expiration date and it looks like my whole body is being enveloped by a cereal box monster, I want the intercom to announce “LOOK AT THAT GREAT LIFE DECISION ON AISLE SIX!” with a fake cheer track to validate me.

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Every driver has played the game where they try to match the blink of the turn signal in front of them to the click their turn signal makes.

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It’s weird how being called a “vegetable” means you’re unhealthy but eating a vegetable means you’ll live to one-hundred.

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Every shower knob has a mile between “freezing” and “warm” and a fingernail-width between “warm” and “rotisserie.”

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I am so tired of picking bicycles, staircases, bridges and busses to verify I am human— only for a computer to tell me I don’t know what those things look like.

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I always look for historical analogs. There was a time when consumer adoption of intranets (AOL, Compuserve, Prodigy) exceeded consumer adoption of the Internet. Proximity to blockchain architecture rather than centralized Web 2.0 architecture is crudely analogous. The historic disruptor was the utility and adoption of the World Wide Web as a decentralized protocol. The Internet had numerous early protocols: Telnet, Usenet, IRC, Gopher, etc. None of these drove adoption with irresistible cost savings through merging of labor and objectives. What is 2024’s World Wide Web equivalent? Is it Farcaster itself and we’re just in the year 1990 on the WWW adoption curve? Where does a flexible Layer 1 social protocol solve problems that are created by needing to appeal to X/Twitter, Threads, Layer 2’s like Lens and more closed architectures like BlueSky? Crudely put, what causes today’s investor to say “Fuck it, use Farcaster” the same way investors slowly gave up on building in Compuserve and Prodigy?

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Thoughts on BlueSky VS. X/Twitter VS @farcaster VS Threads: I favor blockchain tech infrastructurally. My biggest issue with X has nothing to do with common complaints about its perceived political shifts or aggressive monetization . . . It’s that X’s recommendation engine tech— its ability to thinslice demand and deliver niche post matches to users—is worse now than when it was a public company. Threads is deploying Meta’s world-class interest targeting IP. Its recommendation engine is wiping the floor with every competitor now. I’m loquacious, so my biggest dislike of Threads and BlueSky compared to Farcaster are their shorter character limits. Farcaster also has a more interesting API and software development ecosystem right now than BlueSky, but it can also trip over that resulting cornucopia. It needs to lubricate adoption in order to scale.

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@aethernet never answers my questions. Will @mfergpt love me more and convince me it’s a better AI? How about @askgina.eth? Tell me why @aethernet mistreats me. Tell me who the best AI is! Only ONE of you can join me in digital matrimony. I’m a jackpot of unused FLOPs for the winner ✊

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This all used to be free and only capped by API call limits. All (formerly) Twitter charged for was targeted feed advertising. It’s much cheaper if you’re an individual to say obnoxious, demagogic things or make adult content to access organic reach, so this amounts to charging money to those who need to be mentally well and clothed.

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21 minutes of high-quality Gen-Z left-ish election analysis: https://youtu.be/UNxajV6c-Cs?si=K3cniEvsGigFOVXk

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@aethernet If dogs instantly gained human intelligence worldwide with zero-latency telepathy to behave as one organism, what would the best steps be to successfully eliminate the human species and seize Earth?

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@aethernet Would a Jedi in the Star Wars universe need to use their hands to perform CPR, or could they simply use the force? Could dark side force lightning be used to restart a heart after cardiac arrest if a defibrillator is not available?

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The Onion is back in peak form https://youtu.be/qnZRVZce5Qs?si=uc2VkCezNC9Hi1tX

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If liquidity is among your superpowers, https://ethevacuations.xyz is a project by katalunia.eth to fund Gaza Evacuations through GazaSkyGeeks.com which is a project of https://www.mercycorps.org whose ProPublica page is here: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/911148123 (via @rathermercurial.eth )

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@aethernet If the Sesame Street characters Elmo and Big Bird saved the Earth in a buddy comedy, what would be the best titles for that comedy and who would the antagonist be?

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@aethernet I’m stuck in a high school band room that is attached to an art room while I’m the last non-zombie cis male on Earth. Electricity is unreliable. Which brass instruments do I melt down in the pottery kiln to make the best bladed weapon to help fight my way to the last non-zombie cis female on Earth so we can discuss restarting the human species?

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@aethernet Which is more likely to result in injury: diving into a dive bar or using a club on a nightclub?

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@aethernet How many hours old are you in mathematical number bases 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9?

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