I don’t want to make this into a whole thing but the Republicans have posted the GOP party platform. The Silicon Diaspora is now such an important constituency we’ve got enough sway to move policy. A network state of e/acc, crypto builders, Bitcoiners, El Segundo hardware startups, deep tech autists and white pilled Space dorks […]
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Day 1284 and The Average Person
I am in the middle of a “don’t try this at home” biohacking experiment in which I am using a low dose nicotine patch to treat my week seven Covid malingering. A quick overview of the method of action. Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) have been proposed as potential therapeutic targets for COVID-19. Research suggests that […]
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Day 1283 and nAChRs
Never one to take things laying down, I started a crazy “n of 1” experiment today. My family doctor prioritizes keeping up on literature. We’d chat about anti-inflammatory research in reputable journals. But I am on week seven of Covid symptoms simply not clearing. I’ve been coughing when under stress or exertion, my seasonal allergies […]
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Day 1279 and Not The Whole Story
I have recently been prioritizing correcting mistaken impressions of the world. As the rationalist set say, I like to update my heuristics. It’s just not all that uncommon to believe wrong things and for the wrong reasons. We find out with alarming about retracted studies, updates to long held beliefs about culture or politics, or […]
I’d like to think I’ve got a talent for understanding how hype and momentum are built. I learned this skill set by doing. I picked it up simply by being a cool kid working in the trenches of the business of style. How does hype turn into capital? Well it’s complicated. Consider two significant trends […]
Everyone has their entertainment and mine is makes me a little bit of a stereotype. I hate podcasts but do most of my chores while listening to Bloomberg’s Odd Lots podcast. I was catching up today with an interview with equities analyst Tom Lee. My attention got caught and stuck on his description of Bitcoin. […]
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Day 1275 and Old Goat
I miss living in a world where nothing happens. I suspect well-off Americans took for granted the artificial smoothing of conflicts & markets that our global dominance granted. That era seems to be over. And blame must be apportioned. Like many people, I watched the presidential debate last night between former President Trump and President […]
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Day 1274 and Anger is Secondary
I am in a pocket of emotions today that I’m working through by writing. I’ve been told that anger is what’s called a secondary emotion. Some metaphors that are helpful to understanding what is meant by a “secondary emotion” are thinking of anger as a boiling cauldron or a volcano. What you see isn’t the […]
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Day 1273 and Context Window
The fracturing of the social web has made it harder to connect person to person. The enjoyment of sharing a platform or a protocol with other humans is undermined as grifters and opportunists bang against artificial intelligence slop and algorithmic manipulation. It’s just not as fun to be online in that atmosphere. I happen to […]
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Day 1272 and GWOT
As an elder millennial fascinated by the mass media I have a lot of mixed feelings on the American government and how it waged the “war on terror.” It is heavy on my mind with the current news of Julien Assange’s agreement with the American government. I think a lot about media, and in particular […]