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Having Fun and Building

In Meta’s latest attempt to try and copy someone else’s idea, they announced they’re trying to build a decentralized β€œTwitter alternative.” This observation from Jean Baudrillard’s π™Žπ™žπ™’π™ͺπ™‘π™–π™˜π™§π™– 𝙖𝙣𝙙 π™Žπ™žπ™’π™ͺπ™‘π™–π™©π™žπ™€π™£ (published 1981) could serve as the terms of service for new users:

As fiat clown world scrambles to put together a plan to keep the system going tomorrow despite the inherent insanity in doing so this reflection felt particularly timely. Thankfully now there’s Bitcoin.

β€œThis time, there really is nobody flying the plane. …We are living in dangerously weird times now. Smart people just shrug and admit they’re dazed and confused…There is an eerie sense of Panic in the air, a silent Fear and Uncertainty that comes with once reliable faiths and truths and solid institutions that are no longer safe to believe in. …”

- Hunter S. Thompson

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