Tag: memes
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Memes make War, or War makes Memes?
Did memes drive us to invade Venezuela, or did invading Venezuela drive the memes? Most likely Yes to both. But, let’s speculate for a minute. I think it might be mimetically possible that we have invaded Venezuela because “memes.” I.e., memes are funny > taking any big and serious action in present-day presents many meme-able…
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A meme to make sense of things
Watched this and immediately understood it. That COVID “ended” is sort of a misdirection. Or, it’s not the full expression of what we mean by COVID. Not for me anyways. “everything changed” – yeah, it did
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How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the American Economy
From Kyla Scanlon. More good things on memes and the economy. Always feels very “ear to the ground”. Something that troubles me is the idea that maybe everything is becoming financialized because financial markets are the last remaining system capable of aggregating distributed information and enabling coordination at scale. Like obviously the above example8 is wild…