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I Have No Mouth and I Must Stream

thought digest, 11.29.2024 + guest writing from Prester John's Revenge

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Katherine Dee and Prester John Andrews
Nov 30, 2024
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Friend-of-the-stack Trace1 brings up an interesting point on X, one that may be familiar to long-time Deetards: social media forces people into fiefdoms.

This explains why Urbit fits so naturally in Moldbug’s philosophical universe. Urbit is the concretization of what we can only approximate online. Who is the lord and who is the vassal on social media? A…

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Navigating the trials of modernity through the wisdom of the past. Dispositionally cynical, defiantly optimistic. Shitposter in the notes, cloyingly sincere in the posts. Author of Dispatches From The Golden Horde and host of The Xanadu Review.
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