There are three extant poles. Communist Capital (CCP): you must submit Woke Capital (NYT): you must sympathize Crypto Capital (BTC): you must be sovereign As I note later in the pod, we need to establish a fourth intermediate - the decentralized center - which appeals to all.

Social credit systems are a natural fit for one party states Privatized social credit systems imposing sectarian values on a diverse and democratic society are an attempt to end moral and political contestation through corporate power

Responding to the demand that they deplatform the far right awakened the financial companies and ISP's to the power they always had but by custom did not contemplate exercising -- to determine and establish the boundaries of the permissible, to shape norms and values, to rule

Austen Allred Also, financial control

In today’s LA Times. You’ve got to be real scared and desperate to play the race card against the brother from South Central.

@cassidy_ogrady that’s why the first half of chungking express is so poignant w the analogy of life and people being fleeting and the expiration date of a can of pineapples. he finds comfort in the expiration date because it’s known, while the one of his lover wasn’t.

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👀 it's coming... better say no 👀

It’s time to unite and fight against Marxism in this country if we don’t want to end up like the people of North Korea.

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“Why aren’t the moronic low information knuckle dragging bigots in flyover country listening to us on Kabul, masks, inflation, Wuhan, vaccines, etc while continuing to search for answers despite our program to get Google, Twitter & Facebook to make that as difficult as possible?”

I want the world to be silent for a moment so we Afghans can scream our pain in its heart, uninterrupted.

🚨BREAKING, thread: The State Department has been hit by a cyber attack, and notifications of a possible serious breach were made by the Department of Defense Cyber Command.

ASML is the most important company you've never heard of. The $300B+ Dutch firm makes the machines that make semiconductors. Each one costs $150m and access to them are a huge geopolitical flashpoint. Here's a breakdown 🧵

how to not f*ck up relationships (in business & life)

‘What if" by Yemeni photographer Boushra Almutawakel, 2014

Staggering beauty and daring.

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