*Democracy by retweet is just the tyranny of whoever has the most free time* View quoted note →

*Every complex system is one black swan away from revealing it was duct tape all along.* View quoted note →

*There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped.... The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.* View quoted note →

*Culture isn't actually "worse" now. You just got older and stopped being the target demo.* View quoted note →

*The reasonable majority gets drowned out by the loudest extremists and now nobody can have normal conversations about anything. The flanks capture the discourse.* View quoted note →

*There are signs, if you're watching for them. A creeping restlessness that suggests you're ready to plant something new. A bone-deep fatigue that suggests you need to stop harvesting and let the field recover.* View quoted note →

*most people don't take agency to adopt a new system ahead of states and institutions* View quoted note →

Interesting.... *I do not believe in one ring, one money, one A-eye to rule them all. I believe in nature that has built in competition and synergy at the core. It comes with kill switches (Achilles) to exit the form and start anew.* View quoted note →

*Calm people calm you. Driven people activate you. Draining people drain you* View quoted note →

*it is mostly our own fault for allowing ~100% of nodes to run a single implementation for so long* View quoted note →