Dark sun

- Chris Long #art

Scary anon accounts?

As someone also on Twitter, #Bluesky, and threads, I can honestly say #nostr is the only place I’m unapologetically myself.

Anything goes. Stream of consciousness notes? You betcha. Dog pics? Obviously. Beautiful AND ugly feet, sned ‘em. Hot selfies or bucolic landscapes, both sexy. Podcasts, articles, intelligent content, that’s here too! There are no rules.

We’re all a bunch of early adopters from around the world who (for the most part) are having a grand ol’ weird internet time.

Oh, and there’s also magic internet money.

So who am I? Idk I’m still figuring it out.

🤙🫂 PURA VIDA NOSTRICHES

#plebchain #intros #grownostr

Eggplants before they're ripe

This explains so much

The future of Social Networks is much less social.

Today, Instagram and Facebook are full of ads and sponsored posts. TikTok and Snapchat are awash with videos from influencers promoting soaps and dating apps. And soon, the most visible Twitter posts will come mostly from subscribers who pay for exposure and other perks.

In many ways, social media is becoming less social.

Then it's time to look for options, and above all teach more people. 👍

⚡️🎵 nostr:note1dq9jmxqxd8v5ke5z0nhvkzl89m0p4esj2xtdcpuly9d6qmq8r7pqhq2ewc

Too many people have given Elon a pass. Don't give him a pass.

He's a marketer, not a founder or an engineer. He didn't found PayPal or Tesla; he bought into them early. He's good at selling narratives and equity valuation for perpetually unprofitable companies.

Everything for him is a narrative. His green revolution was a narrative to sell more cars and get more subsidies. His bitcoin purchase was to gain appeal among bitcoin/crypto people in a bull market. And he shilled doge like a dumbass. His SpaceX narrative is to get money from the government.

His rooftop solar thing was an outright scam; the technology isn't ready and went nowhere because of that. His full-self-driving-in-an-intermediate-term timeline was a scam, and is going nowhere because of that. He makes scams to draw people and capital in, because for him it's all about narratives and equity valuation.

And then he dug unproductive holes, suggested unproductive hyper-tubes, built meme flamethrowers, for what? It's a narrative, not a business. None of this is real productive shit to make peoples' lives better.

His latest "we need free speech" narrative was a scam too. He tapped into something real, which is what marketers do and why it kind of worked. Yes, we need free speech. Yes, Twitter had censorship issues. He saw that and jumped on it maliciously rather than productively.

But what did he replace it with? He replaced it with arbitrary journalist censorship about his private jet, arbitrary censorship of Substack, selective Twitter Files release, won't talk seriously about any of his China connections because Xi Jinping fucking owns him economically there like Jack Ma, has his balls firmly in his grasp, etc.

Elon's playing the narrative, the anti-woke meme of the day. He's a master meme-momentum-player. Don't fall for it.