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This book should really be mandatory reading in every Econ 101 class around the country right now Here are some key points and takeaways thus far: Behavior as raw material: Platforms harvest “behavioral surplus” far beyond what is needed for service delivery, then package it

“Censorship produces an insatiable appetite for greater and greater speech limits, and today’s censorship supporters often become tomorrow’s censored subjects.” zerohedge.com/geopolitical/m…

“Institutions are coming” are words we’ve been hearing for 5+ years but that wasn’t even close to being true…Until now Institutions require a level of privacy when moving and allocating capital and assets. There are standards in TradFi and Web2 that had to be met if they were

Looking forward to this one 😎

The level of sophistication and volume of scams is annoying and disheartening. Recently I was contacted by someone claiming they worked The Defiant and were writing founder profiles. I’ve received this legitimate request recently so this didn’t seem out of the ordinary. Four

Unpopular opinion: Bitcoin downturn isn’t because of tariff fears and rate hike concerns. It’s standard issue May Go Away. See you in October for one last pump to $130k territory before the Bear.

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Went to the Spy Museum today in Washington DC and saw this quote from Cardinal Richelieu to King Louis the 13th. Inside every democracy, monarchy, dictatorship; there has been, and will always be, men and women with this particular intention and set of skills. It is why

Reminder that “January 6” lasted a grand total of 3 hours, and nobody stole a single thing except one dude who randomly took a lectern

Getting closer

Check out the full panel talk about AI + Web3 Convergence at Unchained Summit Dubai alongside Ben, Cofounder of gensyn, and hosted by Caroline York of Seratonin We discuss the challenges and the promise of AI built on crypto rails. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=wFveG_…

Instrumentarianism: (n) a system where individuals' behavior is instrumented and instrumentalized for purposes of modification, prediction, monetization, and control. Social media companies have been doing this for years. But AI agents will scale it to a threatening level.

Stablecoin szn initiated

Some great lines and thoughts from a16z recent article on AI + Crypto: "As the open web collapses into a prompt bar, we have to wonder: Will AI lead to an open internet or a maze of new paywalls? And who will control it — big centralized companies or broad communities of

A new day one 🏁

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