Kirk Dameron
@EmergenceKirk
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Fascinated by bottom-up self-organization facilitated by technological institutions. What will grow on top of the open state structure & web3 tech substrate?
Denver, CO
Joined February 2017
If you aren’t getting happier as you get older, you’re doing it wrong.
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🚨 BREAKING — Tehran – IRAN People across Iran have taken to the streets chanting: “Death to the dictator.”
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Horrific footage from Iran. A journalist traveled 1,000 km just to publish these images. According to him, in a single day, he witnessed approximately 2,000 bodies of protesters killed by the Ayatollah regime. The Iran International editorial board has declared that "the
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Absolutely Iran has been colonized by Islamist radicals since 1979 when that group won a victory over normal apolitical Persians, socialists and other groups. The current revolution is an act of "decolonization."
I get into enough trouble with the "good people" so whatever, I'll just say it: Iran's revolution is an act of *decolonisation.* Failure to appreciate this is a failure to understand Iranian cultural and political dynamics.
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A quick primer on the Islamic Republic: 🚑 Ambulances = kidnapping vans 🕌 Mosques = regime posts + Basij bases 🏥 Hospitals = arrest sites for wounded 🕯️ Funerals = arrest family members 📡 Internet blackout = cover for massacres 🎥 State TV = forced “confessions” propaganda
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This would turn X into Instagram, where the only posts you see are hyper optimized viral posts that have already been liked by a hundred thousand people. X is great because of repeat interactions, which lead to tons of little communities and the feeling that you know people.
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Ethereum's differentiated production characteristics: • open specs allowing anyone to implement the software • many independent client implementations promoting diversity and pluralist power distribution • no onchain governance, which constrains capital influence
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🇮🇷 This is how an Iranian girl, a follower of Zoroastrianism, explains everything "on her fingers": 🔴"Hello, I am Iranian. Everyone keeps asking the same question over and over: what's wrong with the leftists? Why are they so noisy, why do they support the Gaza Strip, but
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With the Venezuela issue still unresolved, President Trump shifted attention to a new direction - Greenland. He reiterated the claim that "the United States needs Greenland" for defense purposes, citing Russian and Chinese presence. The response from Nuuk and Copenhagen was
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Never deleting this app. Where else could you get this level of engineering analysis and open debate from two very smart engineering project leads, who both know a great deal about spaceflight systems design? (on super challenging design concepts that have not yet been built;
Why would an aerospace engineer not start with at least εσAT⁴? After you remember the panel is also an absorber, you should be working out orientation, coatings, and temperature, and realize you get pretty close to two free cold surfaces. When you think about the fact that the
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As of today, Putin's war in Ukraine has gone on longer than the Soviet Union's participation in World War II. In this time, Putin has occupied 3.4% of the territory liberated and then taken by the USSR during that war.
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8 Years ago and I wouldn't change a word. 8 more years, 8 more years!
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A number of significant preference cascades are happening on several societal and world stages right now, in early 2026. These are highly self-reinforcing; so expect them to continue.
What happens when society-wide preference falsification unwinds in a sudden cascade, from the work of @timurkuran, explained by Professor Claude: Preference falsification occurs when people publicly express preferences that differ from their private beliefs due to social,
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In response to prior protest cycles, mobilization and reaction within the Islamist pillar was fairly energetic. Their relative absence today is maybe the most interesting aspect of these protests.
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Aristotle explains how tyrants maintain their power, asserting that they’re preferred by women and slaves and surround themselves with foreigners instead of citizens
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Fixed that for you: 99% of the Iranian Army have said nothing about supporting the country's leadership, while the comms unit and senior generals have stated they will support Iran's leadership.
The Iranian army has declared full support for the country’s leadership.
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Blockchains are social systems produced in a political economy, not just technical constructions or isolated software The software, network, and asset's characteristics depend on the producer
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Price controls on the (risky) lending market typically moves the borrowing & lending of high-risk individuals into the black market, where gvmt will have even less control. And will make such credit harder to obtain. Will be interesting to observe the effect on decentralized
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