👁️ autosurveillant 👁️ @pee_zombie@schelling.pt

and therein lies the rub; the grand dream of the FOSS movement was to build a world w/o money, a world where hobbyists donate their time and energy out of the goodness of their heart. money is the great evil, the corrupter; they wanted it nowhere near their crystal castles

cool decentralized system you've got there; what's ur plan for making it self-sustaining ? how will u fund upgrades & fixes, ensure operational continuity? what happens when u get bored or die?

if you can't answer these questions, how do you expect me to stake my business on it?

many passionate ideological technologists like to believe the world can run on hope and good intentions; this is unsustainable. just like you can't add on security as a feature, neither can you add on a business model, which, contrary to the beliefs of many, is all too necessary

passionate hobbyists have tried to compete with this mode of organization for years, achieving great feats in the process; open source software, free p2p networks, tools for activists & the oppressed

problem is, most of these efforts were never sustainable; people get burnt out

this simple fact has major consequences for the sort of systems corporations are capable of producing; they necessarily ship their economic ideology, which can be seen reflected in the structure of all contemporary software systems

the current state of consumer software is a direct consequence of the predominant modes of socioeconomic organization, a macro instance of Conway's Law; corporations using command hierarchies to deploy massive capex require legible and accountable business models

been wanting to write this for days but JDP put it much better than I can: DLT is solving the problem of how to radically reorganize people's relationship to information networks, ownership, digital sovereignty, anrblabor

crypto provides an alternative to command hierarchies
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RT @jd_pressman
Millennials see blockchain operations costing money as profiteering because they're used to "Web 2.0" where you are illegibly given free resou…
https://twitter.com/jd_pressman/status/1460415593849372673

type of guy held upright by the tensegrity between his parents' complementary neuroses

warlocks sharing arcane incantations they barely understand over Slack as remedies for glitchy spellwork

be your own gaslighter
be your own gatekeeper
be your own girlboss

when I'm navigating, I literally see a lil HUD minimap in my mind, which I can rotate, zoom, & pan around, w/ some areas clearer than others. never thought this was notable until I found out many people don't have one, usually the women I'd ask.

do you? leave a reply if other

a should is a delusion you create instead of looking at reality
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RT @carmenleelau
shoulds aren’t real
https://twitter.com/carmenleelau/status/1459676088636899328

cutting your own hair with clippers and a handheld mirror is the final boss of shape rotation

ok fine, you wanna play lets play. leave a comment here w/ something you think I'm wrong about & I'll respond in kind. if I can't find something on a cursory scrollthru of ur profile i'll make it up sorry

by participating u r signing away ur right to get upset
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RT @prerationalist
@VectorOfBasis @decadantism @pee_zombie time for thread of 1 comment = pz says what ur wrong about?
https://twitter.com/prerationalist/status/1459557827568091145

many intelligent people sort of lose their shit completely when financial incentives come into the picture

it's... okay

it's okay to use markets to incentivize behavior

I promise, it's fine

look people like yeah there's a lot of dumb shit going on in crypto... as has ways happened with every new technology. I'd seriously urge you to consider how your argument structures would sound if you swap out crypto with website/

many of these points really boil down to "j don't like it when people do dumb things and make money, especially when I'm not making money, and anyway people shouldn't want to do these things so they're bad for that"

some absolutely asinine "analysis" of crypto and NFTs being passed off as incisive criticism. stop making up a guy bro this is basic shit, you're just signaling, which, is fine I guess but it's embarrassing

I know this is naive but I very often find myself surprised by how utterly wrong some of you very smart people are

I guess I sort of ended up assuming if someone is around these parts they're mostly right on most things, which
a. obv not true and
b. is hilariously tribal of me

a certain class of nerd gets very mad at me when I say this, but it's true; thinking well isn't about effort, but rather technique. being wrong faster ain't it
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RT @boop
think smarter not harder 😌😌😌
https://twitter.com/boop/status/1459414268978229251