This documentary isn't about blockchains themselves, or the geeks who develop it out of radical fervour. It's about the [huge cloud of MOPs and sociopaths](https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths) who orbit around that nucleus, spreading misinformation (eg goldbug takes, antisemitic banking conspiracy nonsense), and conning people out of their savings.

Many points on the body politic that came to harm are documented here, with rigourous referencing;

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

I'm still sceptical that BitCoin is anything more than the GNUtella of online payments. I agree with much of the political economy analysis of this post. But for that very reason, I don't think asymetries of economic power are undone by changing the way value is tokenized, for exchange with strangers. So I'm more excited by projects like GNU Taler and InterLedger because they're token-agnostic, and thus lack the logical centralisation distributed by blockchains.

Why are some people such insufferable fuckwickets?

"Have you been there?"

Yup. Decades ago.

Yawn. Bog standard Stalinism = communism nonsense.

"Stalin was worse than a 'flawed' or 'corrupted' communist. Rather—with the single exception of Hitler—he was the most lethal anticommunist of his time. In fact, the epitaph of virtually every prominent European socialist to die in the years 1928-1945 reads either 'murdered by Hitler' or 'murdered by Stalin'."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/03/stalin-will-never-be-redeemable

"... trying to set up RSS to “Whatsapp Channel“ automatic posting so people can subscribe to our latest articles there."

Just so we're clear, you want to enable people to subscribe to your Noste feed from WhatSapp? Or is it the other way around? Or am I totally off the mark?

I think a CMS makes sense in some use cases, eg formal organisations, particularly those large enough to have some kind of in-house IT team. Does it make sense for a solo project, run by someone with the skills to build an efficient site from scratch to meet their needs (ie you)? It probably doesn't. Although there *might* still be advantages in sharing the maintenance headaches that emerge over time?

One cool thing about Ghost in particular is that if you use version 6.0 (once it's out), you can use the AP integration to make everything you publish natively available in the fediverse. I'd love to see this syndication engine tweaked so plugins can be added to publish over Nostr, ATProto, and any other protocol someone wants to write a plugin for.

Not for a while, but yes, many times 😆

The death of Socrates is the first recorded example of a cancel mob in action. The Cultural Revolution in China is probably the most well known example of puritan popular condemnation escalating to mass murder. Following a similar model to the Inquisition and the Salem witch trials. Although more recent examples include the Rwandan, Myanmar and Palestinian genocides.

We're lucky that recent puritan populism in the anglophone world hasn't usually resulted in murder. Although there are a handful of counterexamples, what's protected us for the most part is also democracy, but in the non-majoritarian sense of the word. Human rights protections, due process and jurisprudence, media diversity ("freedom of the press"), adversarial legal and political rituals into which antipathy towards The Other can be channeled, and so on.

"I thought that was a joke."

From the rest of the world's POV, the entire US administration is now a joke. We've got our popcorn ready, and we're unlikely to take any political pronouncement from the US seriously until after the next election (if there is one).

"Something like Lu.ma could totally be build on Nostr and would be cool."

Fediverse did it;

https://joinmobilizon.org/

I agree overall, although I was totally underwhelmed by Dark Fate. I hated T3 so much I don't think even saw Salvation, so maybe I'll give that a go.

I agree with your bleak assessment of Hollywood system. There have been some signs of new growth in the last couple of years. I enjoyed M3gan and The Creator. But I suspect the place to look for innovative movie-making now is everywhere else but the US; the Europe, China, India, etc. Basic digital visual effects are so cheap now that I suspect it will have the same effect on movie-making that digital audio had on music production from the early noughties.

Facepalm.

He was most famous for the TV series Twin Peaks, and the first movie adaption of Dune. If only the studio had given him 2 films or one long one, instead of making him condense the whole story into one standard feature film.

If you want to understand who David Lynch is, watch Eraserhead.

Health warning: Don't watch while tripping, nor while anyone you care about is pregnant (made the mistake of doing both at same time, can confirm).

Haven't seen it, can't imagine why I would. The franchise, like Terminator and most other 20th century franchises that are being endlessly retreaded, is totally played out. Alien: Covenant was the final straw.

If I want to watch an Alien movie, I'll watch the original, 2, or *maybe* Resurrection or Prometheus. Everything else isn't even canon in my books.

The TikTok ban is yet another legacy of Trump 1.0. It's almost certainly a violation of the first amendment. It's deeply disturbing that Biden progressed it, and that Trump 2.0 will probably continue it.

How about you go take a long walk of a short pier? Even if that picture is generated by an algorithm, it's got fuck all to do with anything.

"Trump makes no sense."

A bunch of people have been trying to point that out for quite a while.