Screenshot Essays
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For fans of screenshot essays and long-form content on Farcaster
Matthew's cast reminded me of this blog post i wrote 5 years ago: https://paragraph.xyz/@jake/preoccupied-with-occupations?referrer=0xBAb26F7BF91017F95F93Dcba800838D9663f41d4
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Chukwuka Osakwe
@chukwukaosakwe·22:57 27/02/2025
my favourite paragraph from @cyrus's essay on the pessimism encroaching on his soul.
as someone who is now a big skeptic of the value prop of social networks (at least in their current form), i've never really thought about their effects like this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cyrusclarke/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=d4voy
as someone who is now a big skeptic of the value prop of social networks (at least in their current form), i've never really thought about their effects like this.
https://open.substack.com/pub/cyrusclarke/p/why-an-optimist-is-slowly-veering?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=d4voy
“People are afraid to speak honestly,” said a doctor who immigrated to the U.S. from the Soviet Union. “It’s like back to the USSR, where you could only speak to the ones you trust.” If the authorities found out, you could lose your job, your status, you could go to jail or worse. The fear here is not dissimilar.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=d4voy
https://open.substack.com/pub/bariweiss/p/what-happens-when-doctors-cant-speak?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=d4voy
New blog post: https://paragraph.xyz/@jake/the-big-bunny
On what to do and what not to do, perhaps one of my most practically useful essays: https://paragraph.xyz/@jake/the-things-you-want-to-do-and-the-things-youll-be-glad-you-did
Who are the best thinkers and writers on Farcaster?
Mostly looking for medium-form (blogs / essays) as opposed to long-form (books) or short-form (casts)…
Thanks in advance for any recs.
Mostly looking for medium-form (blogs / essays) as opposed to long-form (books) or short-form (casts)…
Thanks in advance for any recs.
for reasons i cannot quite understand, i have been thinking about constraints all week. then i remembered that i wrote this essay in praise of constraints two years ago and maybe it's time to revisit the theme?
https://thechukwukaosakwe.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/in-praise-of-constraints/
https://thechukwukaosakwe.wordpress.com/2022/09/16/in-praise-of-constraints/
New blog post on my new podcast, a podcast for the people of Farcaster.
I'm starting to resonate with the writing style of this Hemingway fella.
Obligatory cross post of PG post to Warpcast because I haven't seen anyone else share it yet. This one is seriously good. After you read it you can read my comment below.
https://paulgraham.com/when.html
https://paulgraham.com/when.html
i'm trying to find an essay i read maybe last year by a guy who worked on a crypto project and got turned off the whole industry by the experience.
he specifically complained about most discord users being people (nigerians and indians) looking to win some giveaway contest.
kind of weird i remember this so vividly but forgot to bookmark the essay.
he specifically complained about most discord users being people (nigerians and indians) looking to win some giveaway contest.
kind of weird i remember this so vividly but forgot to bookmark the essay.
"Almost everything web3-related is a grift based on getting people to buy crypto."
- i wish we had more honest writing like this about what is really going on in this space in most places most of the time.
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/web3
- i wish we had more honest writing like this about what is really going on in this space in most places most of the time.
https://www.kooslooijesteijn.net/blog/web3
"You can't fake loving something you don't for too long. So maybe don't."
https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/taste
https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/taste
So, is solarpunk merely a euphemism for eco-anarchy?
Yes. While you will rarely hear it put forward this way, this is because of optics. After-all, if we called cyberpunk what it really is: "dystopian prolonged late-stage capitalism with fascist overtones," it would be a lot harder to sell movie tickets—Ryan Gosling be damned.
The reality is that anarchy by any other name smells very, very sweet. I've written multiple newsletters on this subject, and they are among my most popular. As an example of this, “decentralization,” a word with anarchist roots, is now used to pitch everything from Bitcoin to Instagram Threads.
Yes. While you will rarely hear it put forward this way, this is because of optics. After-all, if we called cyberpunk what it really is: "dystopian prolonged late-stage capitalism with fascist overtones," it would be a lot harder to sell movie tickets—Ryan Gosling be damned.
The reality is that anarchy by any other name smells very, very sweet. I've written multiple newsletters on this subject, and they are among my most popular. As an example of this, “decentralization,” a word with anarchist roots, is now used to pitch everything from Bitcoin to Instagram Threads.
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Thumbs Up
@thumbsup.eth·19:15 20/09/2024
Here’s a piece where I share some thoughts about degrowth vs accelerationism if you’re interested
https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/euoiYZXM1-j6KFcsGEnzoy4DYLVDomAX0V962TWjb3Y
https://thumbsup.mirror.xyz/euoiYZXM1-j6KFcsGEnzoy4DYLVDomAX0V962TWjb3Y
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John Hoang
@jhoang·03:38 17/09/2024
You can't spell culture without cult and community without unity.
In the last post, I mentioned that you can't expect a dynamic educational institution from a rigid process, and that the rigidity comes from having a small amount of people make all of the decisions. So if you want to build a dynamic educational institution, you need to start with including more people into the process, which means starting with community.
In the last post, I mentioned that you can't expect a dynamic educational institution from a rigid process, and that the rigidity comes from having a small amount of people make all of the decisions. So if you want to build a dynamic educational institution, you need to start with including more people into the process, which means starting with community.
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John Hoang
@jhoang·18:57 16/09/2024
Why I stay in the crypto space despite all of the scammers and grifters
Last year $5.6 billion was stolen from Americans through schemes involving cryptocurrency [1] , so it is no secret that the crypto industry has its fair share of scammers, and yet I am still in the space because I think it has the potential to change education.
Last year $5.6 billion was stolen from Americans through schemes involving cryptocurrency [1] , so it is no secret that the crypto industry has its fair share of scammers, and yet I am still in the space because I think it has the potential to change education.
A banger new essay from Bobby Hundreds
Curious what the /streetwear community thinks about this & nike
https://bobbyhundreds.substack.com/p/the-case-for-nike
Curious what the /streetwear community thinks about this & nike
https://bobbyhundreds.substack.com/p/the-case-for-nike
doing diligence on re: art markets a la (sufficient) decentralization. i have some buggy thoughts, which has put me into the founder mode.
a detailed reasoning can be found here in this X post:
https://x.com/0xgokhan/status/1834521278109171870
...and the /essay is (zoom in to have a better resolution i guess)
a detailed reasoning can be found here in this X post:
https://x.com/0xgokhan/status/1834521278109171870
...and the /essay is (zoom in to have a better resolution i guess)
"All the crypto metaverses now are bare wastelands..."
https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/owning-things?referrer=0x44bca7e527efc8ce8a8b2a83596ea66194dd9239
https://paragraph.xyz/@cryptonao/owning-things?referrer=0x44bca7e527efc8ce8a8b2a83596ea66194dd9239
Onchain was a growth tactic for Farcaster users to post screenshot essays with ideas could break out of our little bubble. Although it feels like an eternity, it was only ~8 months ago.
Less than a month later, Frames launched and Farcaster exploded.
https://warpcast.com/phil/0xb16a35ad
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xdd3fa8a8ad4fb9f30ee7bba9893f85b13f0dada2/1
Less than a month later, Frames launched and Farcaster exploded.
https://warpcast.com/phil/0xb16a35ad
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xdd3fa8a8ad4fb9f30ee7bba9893f85b13f0dada2/1
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phil
@phil·16:14 04/01/2024
Introducing Onchain: a Farcaster experiment in long-form content.
Next week, original thinkers will publish /essays on governance, economics, and culture.
Subscribe to follow along or cast your own contribution directly to the channel.
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xdd3fa8a8ad4fb9f30ee7bba9893f85b13f0dada2/1
Next week, original thinkers will publish /essays on governance, economics, and culture.
Subscribe to follow along or cast your own contribution directly to the channel.
https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xdd3fa8a8ad4fb9f30ee7bba9893f85b13f0dada2/1
Onchain | January 2024
Purple treasury
zora.co
Many encounters accumulate unnoticed and unacknowledged in the labyrinth of our minds. Now, let's revisit the memories of past encounters.
Are there any encounters that you can't forget, ones that you feel have left a mark on you?
Are there any encounters that you can't forget, ones that you feel have left a mark on you?
"Crypto is stunted by the proprietary mindset.... Users are farm animals.
But we need the opensource mindset. Make users powerful. Be the change you want to see. Opensource is power."
https://x.com/Narodism/status/1826962253309943859?t=cUfqDEVWSibhDpserS_t-A&s=19
But we need the opensource mindset. Make users powerful. Be the change you want to see. Opensource is power."
https://x.com/Narodism/status/1826962253309943859?t=cUfqDEVWSibhDpserS_t-A&s=19
baudrillard vindicated
"As for the increasingly horrific genocidal images that flood our screens, these are juxtaposed with thirst traps and shitposts, which shine a cruel light on the role that technology plays in dehumanising real crises, turning them into a narrative, a video-game lore, that feeds the entertainment industrial complex through clicks and engagement."
"As for the increasingly horrific genocidal images that flood our screens, these are juxtaposed with thirst traps and shitposts, which shine a cruel light on the role that technology plays in dehumanising real crises, turning them into a narrative, a video-game lore, that feeds the entertainment industrial complex through clicks and engagement."
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elle
@riotgoools·03:07 09/08/2024
"Want to match my freak? Reality shift into another dimension? Schizo-post your way to internet-sanctioned brainwashing? Nowadays, it’s not a matter of what exists, but what you choose to exist as. A recent report suggests that Gen Z don’t bother to fact-check information they see online, instead choosing to believe what like-minded peers or trusted influencers say – basically, what they see as important. Plugged into our personal psy-opticons we create our own mental maps to justify our own narratives, like Terrance McKenna’s ‘self-transforming’ machine elves on a DMT trip. It’s not a cosmic jump, then, to feel like everything is a psyop, everyone is a crisis actor."
kind of a depressing but accurate essay about our increasingly hypersimulated "realities". enjoy!
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/63208/1/why-does-nothing-feel-real-anymore-donald-trump-prada
kind of a depressing but accurate essay about our increasingly hypersimulated "realities". enjoy!
https://www.dazeddigital.com/life-culture/article/63208/1/why-does-nothing-feel-real-anymore-donald-trump-prada
found this gem in the @paragraph weekly digest. worth reading and reading again, and then reflecting on for a bit.
https://paragraph.xyz/@jd/taste-time-attention
https://paragraph.xyz/@jd/taste-time-attention
Leveraging digital goods to turn followers into customers. Inspired by Zora's low cost NFT model
https://nnewfield.substack.com/p/minimum-viable-patronage
https://nnewfield.substack.com/p/minimum-viable-patronage
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LGHT
@lght.eth·18:34 25/07/2024
‘everything happens for a reason’
in that you will inevitably make use of every xp whether chosen or befallen
in that you will inevitably make use of every xp whether chosen or befallen
The Benefits of Believing Everything Happens for a Reason
For the last several years, I have chosen to believe that everything happens for a reason. I was first opened to the possibility of this being true w...
paragraph.xyz
The LovePill Manifesto.
screenshot essay, and paragraph link.
screenshot essay, and paragraph link.
Here's Why Education Must Be Built Anew
