what do people on nostr (and hence who presumably enjoy it and are getting value from it) make of the whole DID/web standards/key rolling critique?
it seems to have become oddly partisan wherever you look so Iām keen to crowdsource some thoughts that may well be passionate but are at least also sober and disinterested ā¦
okay sure, maybe ādebunkingā is harsh, but I donāt think what you are looking for is possible given Selginās whole point is that you just canāt know this stuff. Graeber conflates an absence of evidence with an evidence of absence and Selgin says, āokay, not only is that silly, but if you think about what you are analysing, of course there is an absence of evidence. how could there fail to be?ā
yeah, soz, I didnāt even notice that. āHancockā tho š
youāre right, sorry, so I did. I actually meant Hancock as I typed it but I guess I also have such strongly negative associations with Hunt it was a Freudian typo.
well yeah but I am referring to the Oakeshott story specifically.
You have to wonder I guess but that doesnāt seem at all plausible in this case. The only (and correct) lesson anybody is taking is that the state is not only incompetent but very eager to lie to cover it up. āDistractionā doesnāt seem even nearly worth it. You could make up any stupid bullshit if all you wanted to do was distract people.
In case anybody outside the UK is unaware of this (which you almost certainly are, which is kind of the point) a journalist named Isabel Oakeshott signed an NDA with with Matt Hunt, who was the UK Health Security during early covid hysteria, to help him write a book, then breached the NDA and leaked ~100k WhatsApp messages to the press. The messages show - entirely unsurprisingly - that the UK government didnāt have a fucking clue what it was doing, then amidst all the lying and smearing to justify lockdowns, started lying and smearing to cover it all up as well.
Not that this in itself should be news to anybody, but two things stand out: i) thereās now undeniable proof in the public record of everything that has been a āconspiracy theoryā for 3 years, and ii) the mainstream media is flat out embarrassing itself in a hilariously tone deaf way by giving precisely zero shits about the actual story and pretending that the ānewsā here is the breach of the NDA.
Absolutely nobody is buying it. Itās all very cathartic. Nature is healing āŗļø
But seriously, for a less naive take consider that this all feeds into the increasingly undeniable realisation that state control of information dissemination was key to the catastrophe. The Muskificiation of twitter may be a very slight reprieve - and one that makes the regime shit itself much more than it really ought to because it has no idea how anything actually works - but if they understood nostr even a little the level of self-shitting would be off the charts š
I canāt tell if this is a serious question or a (very allen-esque) quirky troll š
(psssssst ā¦ they will be the same one ššš)
find me a āconspiracy theoryā from 2020-present that turned out not to be 100% true and Iāll find you one astroturfed by the regime.
okay but seriously does anybody here know anything about set theory coz I really wanna argue about it ā¦
Selgin more than adequately debunked Graeber as far as Iām concerned, and then Elaine put in a few more nails just for lolz:
https://www.alt-m.org/2016/03/15/myth-myth-barter/
https://elaineou.com/2020/04/10/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-myth-of-barter/
Selgin more than adequately debunked Graeber as far as Iām concerned, and then Elaine put in a few more nails just for lolz:
https://www.alt-m.org/2016/03/15/myth-myth-barter/
https://elaineou.com/2020/04/10/the-myth-of-the-myth-of-the-myth-of-barter/
