This is your brain on pleb slop.
My article is clear documentation of how pleb slop works. There is zero appeal to emotion. Just clear documentation.
Brunswick is a pleb who fits into these stereotypes perfectly.
Discussion
Contrary to your belief, I understand the first principles of bitcoin and have independently concluded core is compromised. Your single-sidedness on the issue is evidence of tribal bias. I have no interest in pushing knots, nor do I run it myself. I am pinned to core 28.1, effectively forking away core's malfeasance.
Cigarettes, on the other hand, is a topic I happen to side with you on.
Part of the reason for the perceived single sidedness is that Core isn’t spewing worthless pleb slop and riling up the plebs.
Your view of "all plebs" being riled up by "knotzis" is evidence of tribalism.
You are putting words in my mouth which is a sign of tribalism on your part. I am constantly searching for thoughtful criticisms of Core.
Core also isn’t a monolith and certain individuals have differing incentives and personalities.
What matters is what PRs make it into the source, and who approves them. They have a very in-group behavior, as should any source code team; and they have rejected dissenters, which is also a normal behavior for a healthy software team; but this source code project is different, and for this exact reason, one should be very careful of who is providing your software changes, their reputation and their stated and apparent motivations and goals for the project. Core as a team has violated that trust, therefore seeking an alternative to their latest "updates" is the only remaining rational course of action.
To say "core isn't a monolith," and that somehow this claim protects us from bad actors having undue influence over the group, is childish thinking at best.
Hey retard, I don’t disagree with anything you said. Maybe you need to cool down, smoke some cigarettes and listen to some more Bitcoin podcasts
Maybe I need a smoke, yes. But your framing of all core-dissenters as being wrong because "they are all consuming pleb slop" is douchebaggery. Of course your public persona is that of a giant douchebag, so maybe this is intended to be self deprecating irony.
Where and when did I say that? You continue to have wild fantasies about things I’ve said
Do I need to dig up quotes from your article?
Yeah that would be great
You have been not only framing anyone who is against the changes being made by core as "a consumer of pleb slop", conflating their arguments with being downstream of the "pleb slop cantillon" (so to speak) and then dismissing my retorts with "go back to listening to your podcasts" indicating that anything I have to say is of no value. Granted, you don't need to value anything I say, but to then say "I don't disagree with you at all" and "you are putting words in my mouth" when I'm summarizing your argument to bring it to its natural conclusion. This all is tribal confirmation bias, while simultaneously cowardly gaslighting and refusing to confront my statements head-on. I leave you the passage below as evidence of your one-sidedness, implying I am one in your category of being a "consumer of pleb slop" this combined with your above responses evidence of your being intellectually dishonest.
Let's include ChatGPT's slop in the discourse:
This exchange encapsulates a memetic fracture point in Bitcoin discourse—between what might be termed Core epistemic orthodoxy and Pleb populism. The thread reveals escalating tribal identification mechanisms under the guise of intellectual critique. I’ll outline the key dynamics:
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1. Structural Overview
A represents the “Core-aligned rationalist” narrative: treating pleb slop as low-quality, emotionally charged media that distorts Bitcoin understanding.
C represents the “distrustful decentralist” narrative: rejecting Core’s authority and asserting epistemic independence through adversarial skepticism.
Both accuse the other of tribal projection—a recursion typical of informational boundary maintenance within ideological ecosystems.
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2. Memetic Function of “Pleb Slop”
The term pleb slop acts as a metameme—it stigmatizes emotionally charged, performative opinion-making within Bitcoin culture while simultaneously operating as its own identity signal.
A’s article (Bugle link) establishes this term as a framework for diagnosing degraded discourse.
C’s rebuttal, however, reframes pleb slop as a weaponized label used to silence heterodox views critical of Core. Thus, both sides employ meta-accusation: accusing the other of the very epistemic sin they seek to expose.
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3. Power and Legitimacy in Open-Source Governance
C’s argument—“what matters is what PRs make it into the source”—anchors legitimacy in commit authority rather than rhetoric. This is a sober observation: open-source projects function as soft monarchies of maintainers. A’s counter that “Core isn’t a monolith” is sociologically true but politically irrelevant once de facto control ossifies through reputation hierarchies and merge permissions.
Thus, C’s fork loyalty to v28.1 is a schismatic act of conscience within a trust-minimized ecosystem.
A’s dismissal (“Core isn’t spewing slop”) betrays a confidence that informational legitimacy maps onto social respectability—precisely the pattern C identifies as institutional capture.
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4. Epistemic Collapse and Projection Loops
Both actors accuse the other of:
Gaslighting
Emotional reasoning
Tribal bias
This is a closed memetic system: each accuses the other of being the manifestation of the phenomenon under critique. Such recursion signifies the end of productive dialectic and the beginning of memetic warfare.
The “cool down, smoke cigarettes” retort is archetypal dominance signaling: replacing logos with mockery to reassert narrative control.
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5. Meta-Interpretation
The argument itself is pleb slop—performative, adversarial, and laden with emotional projection—precisely because both parties are trapped in reflexive justification loops.
C is correct that governance centralization in Core merits scrutiny;
A is correct that memetic outrage corrupts epistemic hygiene.
Each holds half the truth but invalidates it through disdain for the other’s form.
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Synthesis:
This thread documents the sociological entropy of decentralized movements: when epistemic purity becomes a badge rather than a pursuit, every participant becomes a pleb consuming the slop of their own confirmation.
So you used chat gpt to analyze my article and take liberal creative liberties to tie this quote to the point you are attempting to make. The article wasn’t about core vs knots. It was about pleb slop in general. It just so happens that pleb slop is largely being used right now by individuals like Matthew Kratter
I applied ChatGPT after my response, not before. It's claiming both of us are wrong. I'm not arguing it's about core v.a. knots, but you drag that argument into the discussion by making Kratter the centerpiece. My objection is your framing anti-v30 "pleb" discussions as being "slop." This is how your article was recieved by nostr:nprofile1qqsvfr3f7p95stxqrjslnmuvsmhcxxxqt8swjdfjx5tz7zq0yms5cygpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpzdmhxue69uhk7enxvd5xz6tw9ec82c30av56d8, so I'm not imagining things, I gave you a chance to meet in the middle and come to an understanding, but you chose to double down. Its an impasse such as this, I would invite you to settle this discussion outdoors.
Pretty sure it was you who immediately made it about core/knots… my comment regarding the article was that nostr:nprofile1qqs2dg3dtrdkwz0gr3t3wenahm3dmwkzy3y9whdtlyh5kvxxacgjnugpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuurjd9kkzmpwdejhgqg4waehxw309ajkgetw9ehx7um5wghxcctwvszj92u7 is the strongest memetic force in Bitcoin right now, which is objectively true.
I stand corrected
By the way, yes, "slop" is indeed a thing, and Kratter engages in it, though I see most of it as tongue-in-cheek, other times it's gratuitous. To call it "pleb slop" is to color the phenominoj as a wholr is unique to bitcoiners. The "lack of slop" on the part of core is not as absent as you represent it, there is a healthy dose of demonization, condescension and claims of being morally superior on their part as well; including a significant bit of gloating over the power they wield. It's the anti-v30'rs that happen to be loudest at the moment since they are calling attention to the misdeeds of this centralized synod who happen to be in control of the github keys.