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Agreed. Google isn’t as fun as they pretend to be but at least it’s an aesthetic. OpenAI brand language is just what you get if you ask ChatGPT to build you a broadly inoffensive visual style

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Plurality is the vibe 🤝 Tagging @cvl and @tokengay who were jamming on this topic earlier today.

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Yeah I loved the way cooking is shown in this. Jon Favreau ended up doing a cooking show on Netflix afterwards called The Chef Show. It’s ok. Pretty self promotional, but it’s clear he genuinely geeks out on chef-culture.

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Thanks friend 💚

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In The Next Chapter: Onchain Patronage, I revised a two year old piece about my experiences with web2 and web3 patronage to reflect the state of the creator economy in 2024. tl;dr onchain is the place to be https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/u3Ue1hNOb6ifdhzMWChzGyrS5h6u1yzyGwMVw0RHRmw

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In Tales From the Mushroom Commune, I explored the @owocki /greenpill concept of MyCoFi and how it correlates to mutualism and “venture communism” We also looked at @tbsocialist’s project Breadchain and their new GnosisPay partnership https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/YBai68ahURx92dWHbzyZz383a84brqDJEB6DlYYbioI

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In Peer-to-Peer Review I explored the history of filesharing and it’s importance for media preservation and for subverting the worst tendencies of capitalism https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/DrNLN5zBrYQU97ltWdczgqbuEJD-fs43HW99qmv3FKU

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Have you checked out my writing? My recent posts covered: → P2P filesharing’s history, role in subverting capitalism, and importance for media preservation → the magic of mushrooms and venture communism → onchain patronage and why NFTs are better than Patreon I’ll link them below 👇 blog.thumbsup.me

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Why did they have to put it on L1 😫

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Yep, it will all come down to what people willfully agree to do. I believe they will choose to coordinate towards goals and interests. Others might believe they will choose to do whatever enriches them the most. In either case being rich won’t mean as much or provide as much power in a truly decentralized world.

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"file over app" is just as relevant for businesses as it is for individuals — if you don't want your data to be used for training, then take sovereignty of it

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Was waiting for you to cast this

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This is iOS native? Or third-party?

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Yeah that’s fair. Most people don’t like these terms. So much of that goes back to historical propaganda though. I mean what is a commune but a federated network state? What is anarchism but decentralization.

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Yeah this is actually in some ways what the left has been fighting for for years. Abolish the police literally means replace the state fascist forces with community policing and effective services that likely eliminate the propensity to crime before it starts

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Well there’s two sides, centralized power and decentralization. But otherwise yeah, the worst sides of the so-called right and left can’t exist.

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The long term outcome of decentralization is almost certainly anarcho-communism in some form. But that name won’t be necessary. Federated networked cohorts, freely associating, self-defining their internal unit of transacting to mutually fund internally relevant projects, is what we’re moving towards. You in?

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Without a state to centralize power, the military becomes unworkable, as do the police. And since these institutions serve only the capitalist class, private property is essentially unworkable. Even the ancap dream of private militias is unlikely. Workers will own their economic output and diminish the role of capital.

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With power dispersed to the edges, especially around things like voting, contracts, and transacting the opacity that enables corruption is diluted. The middlemen that enable bureaucracy are eliminated. The state becomes less and less relevant.

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