Billions of dollars. Millions of followers. Thousands of attendees. Half a dozen governments. And one idea whose time has come.

A few thoughts: (1) How would you implement this? It’s easy if the devices are pre-configured to talk to each other, like a multiple monitor setup. Then it’s just a gesture recognition via cameras, on top of a copy/paste and an Airdrop. (2) Moroever, the devices would have to

Digital telekinesis.

Blue America once produced world class music and film. Then it fell to woke fundamentalism. As we know, that ended humor. But it also ended art. All culture moved to the Internet instead.

This scene from Iran is reminiscent of Seattle in the 90s. But as Seattle fell to fundamentalist wokes (eg CHAZ), it became much more holy & much less cool. Meanwhile, as Iran secularizes away from fundamentalism, parts of it have become cooler than today’s Seattle.

This is Iran now.

These are both deep human drives. But you can also see how they come into conflict. Wokes wouldn’t feel the need to force their way in past the “bad guys” if they felt they got a sufficiently large slice. And MAGAs wouldn’t feel the need to push the bad guys out if they’d been

Underneath it all, MAGA just wants to be left alone. And underneath it all, wokes just don’t want to be left out.

Solana Spaces pop-ups hit different. Go ahead. Try to prove me wrong.

A common pattern in history is when bloodthirsty communists are opposed by arguably corrupt nationalists. See: CCP vs KMT, Castro vs Batista, and Bolsheviks vs Russian Whites. Spoiler: the communists were in each case far worse. And actually more corrupt.

The pardon was deserved, because the prosecution should never have happened in the first place: https://t.co/hdRtkkuMLh

CZ deserves his pardon. His show trial of a prosecution was a combination of regulatory railroading and ethnic persecution for being Chinese-Canadian. Imagine if Macron was held personally responsible for every crime committed by the 67M citizens of France, and you'll get the

"The old rules do not apply any more, but the new ones have not been written. And we must brace ourselves for more turbulence ahead."

The old world is fading, while the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of popups. A joke, yet also true. Because the postwar order is melting down, while the post-Internet order is just booting up. That means translating internet communities into physical realities:

Popups are the new startups. https://t.co/shz1ICWBmJ

Refuting Zcash FUD (thread):

From the regulatory state to the acceleratory state.

What comes next for AI? Perhaps physically specific intelligence, more than artificial general intelligence. Here’s a draft thesis. (1) First, AI is now entering the trough of the hype cycle. Every tech, no matter how amazing, goes through this. It’s actually one of the best