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links, etc ‘Chocolate Rain’ at 15: A 4,000-Word Interview With Tay Zonday About… Everything - Racket when asked why he was bullish on NFTs/crtypo, etc. No, I wouldn’t say I’m “bullish.” That’s over-simplified. Why doesn’t anybody accuse me of being “bullish” about the U.S. dollar fiat economy when I post about that ecosystem? I’ve talked about spending American dollars my entire life. The prejudice of this question is that we ought to normalize fiat economics as unremarkable and blockchain economics as noteworthy....

links, etc Why America Became Numb to COVID Deaths - The Atlantic there’s a lot to unpack here, well worth the read. C Isn’t A Programming Language Anymore - Faultlore i was more amused by this than i should have been. there’s a lot of truth in here. A homespun stitch in time could save us | Essay - Minnesota Reformer definitely a stop and make you pause article. i don’t have fond memories of my homemade clothes....

links, etc The Sick, Refreshing Honesty of Web3 - The Atlantic well, let’s all come to terms with reality and admire the grift. We Found The Real Names Of Bored Ape Yacht Club’s Pseudonymous Founders yawn… ‘It’s a glorified backpack of tubes and turbines’: Dave Eggers on jetpacks and the enigma of solo flight | Dave Eggers yeah … i’ll hold off on my jetpack. I Gave Myself Three Months to Change My Personality - The Atlantic...

20220101 can we survive technology in 1955 john von neumann wrote this for fortune magazine. there’s a ton of ground covered and it predates, but anticipates the rise of semiconductors, nods at the impacts of carbon dioxide on the climate, talks about weather control and climate control and the dangers inherent in the acceleration of technology. he is way ahead of the curve when it comes to seeing the impacts of what some of the most notable technologies to come out of the second world war would be....