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Review: There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2024/05/02/there-is-no-antimemetics-division-by-qntm/
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This is fascinating ht @akkartik https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2
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Anyone who claims to want to serve humanity seems to hate at least 50% of it Me, I only hate like 5% of it and have no interest in serving any of it
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Individual contributor —> manager —> networker —> investor is the most successful downcycling process ever invented. We even manage to convince younglings it’s an upcycling process to higher-status roles when it’s actually managed cognitive decline. If we could do this to plastics we’d have utopia
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Unexpectedly over the last few years my consulting has gotten entirely “managerial,” working with entire orgs and getting involved in ops, rather than just advising individual execs. One effect is that I’m in “manager time” headspace more and getting into “maker time” headspace is harder🤔😵‍💫
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More PILL fodder
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Rules for SoP24 PILL grantees to think about if you’re doing token-aware or token-forward projects
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Are there other metafiction projects like scp-wiki? This almost feels like the only project worth emulating if you want to scale fiction but don’t have Hollywood EU level energy/funding. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com
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And so it begins… Summer of Protocols 2024 cohort has been assembled. And @cdixon.eth will be on for a Q&A Town Hall tomorrow. https://paragraph.xyz/@protocolized/sop-2024-cohort%2C-chris-dixon-town-hall
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I see protocols as making necessary but not-much-fun things easier to do consistently, and in the best case unconsciously. If you actually enjoy engaging in protocolized behaviors beyond a point, I start to wonder “who hurt you?”
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Interesting that the majority of these are specialized or stylized protocol literacies. And the ones that aren’t (cooking, coding, survival) are clearly intended by the author here in their protocolized variants. They probably basic tasteless cooking, boring coding, and tacticool larp survivalism
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Anytime I see memes like this I think “worst kind of authoritarian” The right to be incompetent at adulting is the right that underwrites everything else. Ironically, fetishizing competence at independence skills is the mark of the mindless conformist. There’s more than one way to survive meaningfully.
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Damn 🤯 TIL Tarantino universe is properly connected
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Could you build a token-based extended universe with the scale and complexity of Star Wars? With no George Lucas? 🤔 Scp-wiki is a non-tokenized prequel to such things I think. @simondlr probably has ideas
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Extended universes ranking 1. Star Wars 2. Star Trek 3. MCU 4. Fast and Furious 5. Monsterverse LOTR, Dune, are large monoliths not EUs Harry Potter is a monolith with satellites Technically the top 3 are a class apart since the have epic arcs with lore infills
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Gave up on Ahsoka after 1 episode first try but now into it after Mandalorian rewatch. Very different from rest of Star Wars univ. Has an LOTR/Dune feel. The leap to another galaxy with vaguely ominous more-alien background gives the story a sense of vastness. Kinda like DS9 and Voyager in ST. Thrown is good villain.
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Reading @cdixon.eth Read Write Own ahead of SoP Town Hall Q&A on Wed 5/1. I thought I already knew basics from Chris’ posts but the book-length gestalt really comes together in a fresh way that feels 100k feet high. https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/chris-dixon-read-write-own-may-1/1265 https://readwriteown.com
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Re: “What the smartest people do on the weekend is what everyone else will do during the week in ten years” — I think I joined this club in 2007 by being early to blogging But either I’ve lost my “smartest people” club badge since then or you’re all going to be doing chores all week in 2034.
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We shouldn’t call phones pocket supercomputers we should call old desktops and mainframes subcomputers
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