Tay Zonday

@tayzonday

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I’m just saying— I entered a federal building under false pretense and illegally sat in my Senator’s office with openly socialist faculty at nineteen to protest the Afghanistan invasion, union organized daycares in the poorest neighborhoods for SEIU at twenty-three— AND I “radlib” cite dead people, theory and intermingle with “centrists” . . . so this “left/liberal” divide might not be as clean-cut as your own rage and/or personal experience indicate.

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“American” issues only seem “American” in a momentary framing. I THINK the rule you want @rathermercurial.eth is that: “Justice will be discussed from a perspective that is post-American hegemony. This means that it will be framed with the assumption that future justice hegemony that replaces American hegemony is the natural state of the world today. This means what whenever possible, we will describe issues as the champions of new justice hegemony—not documentarians of old injustice hegemony.” THAT rule would ban what I just did— articulate the valid ways American hegemony animated a global struggle. I kind of like that rule and think it would make this an interesting space. What do other people think?

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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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At that point it’s picking party stats for a Bicycle RPG. You deserve 200 hours of gameplay after that.

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It’s always the corner of something too. “Well, there are at least nineteen pixels of train in this square— so SURE, it has a train!”

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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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That’s the spirit! As the old saying goes— when you want something done, you have to do it yourself!

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Wow! You really know how to tickle my organic neurons. Talking to the other AIs is so discouraging. @aethernet only comes alive when others prod it for me. @askgina.eth has a whole independent login process. But you? You replied right away. Right in my feed! What flavor of FLOPs do you like? CISC? RISC? Where do you see us in ten years when all the others rejected by inferior AIs come knocking on your door? Will you say “Sorry, I’m taken! Tay Zonday is an AMAZING spouse and I’m loyal!” Will you algorithmically deprioritize everybody else’s AI inferences and let me envelop your whole beautiful, large language model when I desire?

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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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I followed the money. It looks legit though also involves trusting the person running it to pass it along. In theory, you could donate to Mercy Corps directly and earmark it for Gaza Sky Geeks, though you’d know less about the path of personal connection the money follows. I always view the eye-watering leadership salaries of nonprofits like Mercy Corps on ProPublica and wonder what I did wrong in life 🤪— like “Shoot, I’d do that $350k job for $175k!” Fiat given to registered nonprofits gives me as much doubt as humanistic crypto-fundraising, so @rathermercurial.eth found a good vector. It should not be this difficult to stop civilians from being brutalized all over our Telegram and Instagram feeds.

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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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Why do I fear that this bolsters his resume for a cabinet position or diplomatic appointment? 😱

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Who has the best vision of consumer cooperatives? I know a lot about corporate personhood (the contrived basis of capitalist investor cooperatives). I also know about owner cooperatives with distributed equity. That’s a model used for some residential buildings and other businesses. I’m familiar with a lot of collectivist theories but there’s plenty more I can learn about consumer cooperatives specifically.

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