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ANECTHROPOLOGY

Anecthropology (n):A soft science that examines human experience and culture through the systematic collection, analysis, and contextualization of anecdotes, recognizing subjectivity as a critical lens in the internet age. It posits that data emerges from countless individual stories, and when nuanced effectively, these anecdotes reveal meta-patterns about collective behavior, beliefs, and societal trends.Ironically enough, much of the regurgitated data on the internet already follows this th...

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Note to Self: You don’t live on top of the mountain.

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coming to terms w the realization that i’ve likely exhausted my curiosity matrix with regard the sliver of crypto that provides the most valuable, and meaningful, rewards personally things like social mechs, network architecture, & opportunities to market experiment with tech & humanities logic an ironic period of mourning due to the integration of the technology in my workflow henceforth. as well as the conviction in the tech stack and lack of desire to extricate from the ecosystem at the sa...

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Technocapitalism Is a Trojan Horse for Culture, Capital, & Conversations We’ve Been Having Since Recorded History

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Technocapitalism, especially the version forming in the blockchain, ownership software, fintech, public goods world, is an interesting amalgamation of ambitious software development, innovative socialist principles, and free market capitalism, all tied into computers, codebases, smartphones, applications, and people who have been people throughout the test of time. It’s also an immature philosophy in terms of its tenure and market participants, with the oldest among us in the mid-40s and the ...

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Technology, Money, Design, and Media: Is This the Matrix They Keep Doomposting About?

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Jeff Bezos in 1999 for Wired:If you had been a reporter covering the electricity industry, you would have been asking people about what kinds of vacuum cleaners were going to be invented. But the big winners were things like refrigeration. The Internet is still at that stage—nobody knows what the big winners will beIn 2025 you'd think we figured out the big winners due to Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, WeChat, Telegram, and VR computer companies. But have we really? Do we ...

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Internet Kids: Turning Post-Ironic Memes Into Grassroots Brands That Grace Parisian Fashion Week Runways

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In a sea of Crypto Bros are a bunch of Internet Kids. Mid-to-late Millennials and early Zoomers that grew up with corded home phones, streetlights as the universal time to go inside, and vivid memories of using Yellow Pages. Those same internet kids have memories of AIM messenger, Yahoo, Chat Roulette, MySpace, Tumblr, Vine, and the death of ethernet cables. Being at the start of the social web (referred to as web2 in crypto), one could argue this is the first digital generation with regard t...

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Note to Self: You don’t live on top of the mountain.

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coming to terms w the realization that i’ve likely exhausted my curiosity matrix with regard the sliver of crypto that provides the most valuable, and meaningful, rewards personally things like social mechs, network architecture, & opportunities to market experiment with tech & humanities logic an ironic period of mourning due to the integration of the technology in my workflow henceforth. as well as the conviction in the tech stack and lack of desire to extricate from the ecosystem at the sa...

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Technocapitalism Is a Trojan Horse for Culture, Capital, & Conversations We’ve Been Having Since Recorded History

The Network Company

Technocapitalism, especially the version forming in the blockchain, ownership software, fintech, public goods world, is an interesting amalgamation of ambitious software development, innovative socialist principles, and free market capitalism, all tied into computers, codebases, smartphones, applications, and people who have been people throughout the test of time. It’s also an immature philosophy in terms of its tenure and market participants, with the oldest among us in the mid-40s and the ...

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Technology, Money, Design, and Media: Is This the Matrix They Keep Doomposting About?

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Jeff Bezos in 1999 for Wired:If you had been a reporter covering the electricity industry, you would have been asking people about what kinds of vacuum cleaners were going to be invented. But the big winners were things like refrigeration. The Internet is still at that stage—nobody knows what the big winners will beIn 2025 you'd think we figured out the big winners due to Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat, WeChat, Telegram, and VR computer companies. But have we really? Do we ...

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Internet Kids: Turning Post-Ironic Memes Into Grassroots Brands That Grace Parisian Fashion Week Runways

The Network Company

In a sea of Crypto Bros are a bunch of Internet Kids. Mid-to-late Millennials and early Zoomers that grew up with corded home phones, streetlights as the universal time to go inside, and vivid memories of using Yellow Pages. Those same internet kids have memories of AIM messenger, Yahoo, Chat Roulette, MySpace, Tumblr, Vine, and the death of ethernet cables. Being at the start of the social web (referred to as web2 in crypto), one could argue this is the first digital generation with regard t...

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