Normie Nakamoto

I member the Covid crash; one night while vacationing in Greece, I was scrolling Bitcoin Twitter, watching people sweating the drop to a $3k Bitcoin. At the time I laughed at the collective panic and bought more. Five years later, people are sweating a Bitcoin price ranging within $80k-100k. Everything gets memory-holed nowadays, the masses remain profoundly ignorant, and I continue to buy Bitcoin.

The average American reads at a middle school level. How is this not considered a national emergency? For the love of all that is holy, read a book. To that end, I will shout out into the void a daily recommendation. This morning, might I recommend: The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu #books #literacy

The average American reads at a middle school level. How is this not considered a national emergency? For the love of all that is holy, read a book. To that end, I will shout out into the void a daily recommendation. This afternoon, might I recommend: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole #books #literacy

The average American reads at a middle school level. How is this not considered a national emergency? For the love of all that is holy, read a book. To that end, I will shout out into the void a daily recommendation. This evening, might I recommend: A Naked Singularity by Sergio de la Pava #books #literacy

Manufacturing Consent

The average American reads at a middle school level. How is this not considered a national emergency? For the love of all that is holy, read a book. To that end, I will shout out into the void a daily recommendation. This evening; might I recommend: Manufacturing Consent by Chomsky #books #literacy

The average American reads at a middle school level. How is this not considered a national emergency? For the love of all that is holy, read a book. To that end, I will shoot out into the void a daily recommendation. This evening; might I recommend: The Trial by Franz Kafka #books #literacy

“As I have walked among the desperate, rejected, and angry young men, I have told them that Molotov cocktails and rifles would not solve their problems. I have tried to offer them my deepest compassion while maintaining my conviction that social change comes most meaningfully through non-violent action; for they ask and write me, "So what about Vietnam?" They ask if our nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without first having spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence I cannot be silent." -MLK-

In a country that miraculously rediscovers an endless treasure trove of funds w/n the banana stand for Israel, Ukraine, and wherever the latest foreign adventure is unilaterally deemed warranted; how/when was it normalized to expect the American citizenry to donate our way out of disasters w/n our own boarders? When did it become normalized for a viewer of an American football game, a presentation that is shamelessly sponsored by intuit TurboTax, to continuously encourage to donate to the LA fires? To be clear, this is not a critique on the act of raising resources for your fellow citizen; charity is clearly a commendable cause. However, is it lost on the average viewer that corporate media is not so subtlety asking you to pick up the slack for the broken institutions that taxpayers pay into, while simultaneously reminding you every commercial break of this years round of tax obligations?

My overall use of Twitter (both Bitcoin Twitter and my normie account) has been waning for months now. After being on the bird app since around 2012, I finally just went ahead and deleted it entirely. The site has devolved into an unmitigated cesspool. Without actively viewing or searching for such things, my respective feeds became inundated with ads, fight videos, and some of the worst gaslighting political/social takes one could imagine. It’s inconceivable to me why someone would actually pay money to use their current product. It is unmistakably pumping out bad vibes and fucking with people’s minds.

Go watch #Blackberry. Dope soundtrack, captured the era, and Baruchel/Howerton crushed it.