Better to be a discord employee who wanted all along to help the CIA appoint rulers of other nations
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So wait he didn't even write the stuff himself, it was just meme ammo?
Why can’t a judge say “I denounce the Supreme courts authority for their failing to uphold the spirit of the law and now I shall follow this other courts rulings”?
The constitution clearly says they can't, so if their notion of the law is claiming to be based in the constitution such a declaration would be obviously bullshit. If their notion of the law is not based on the constitution, that's an attempt to dissolve our government.
Conceptually, isn't content that focuses exclusively on being content and pandering to the algorithm slop in the same way AI stuff doing the same thing is slop? Isn't that what the term is getting at, the quality of being a hollow product devoid of sincere expression?
So what's with everyone trying to lossify Saddam Husein all of a sudden?
At least it's an honest argument, unlike pretending that gun ownership has no effect on deaths, or changing the subject to avoid addressing it.
I'm not assuming that, I just don't see why would it even matter if it's from another instance.
I need to make one now
Is it a mistake? Wouldn't federated content still count the same way legally, since an instance is also a website?
I don't think this is true, but a lot of this impression is probably because much of the growth in actual use of cryptocurrency for everyday finance is happening outside of places like the US or Europe:
In the 12 months ending June 2025, APAC [Asia-Pacific] emerged as the fastest-growing region for on-chain crypto activity, with a 69% year-over-year increase in value received. Total crypto transaction volume in APAC grew from $1.4 trillion to $2.36 trillion, driven by robust engagement across major markets like India, Vietnam, and Pakistan.
Close behind, Latin America’s crypto adoption grew by 63%, reflecting rising adoption across both retail and institutional segments. In comparison, Sub-Saharan Africa’s adoption grew by 52%, indicating the region’s continued reliance on crypto for remittances and everyday payments. These figures underscore a broad shift in crypto momentum toward the Global South, where on-the-ground utility is increasingly fueling adoption.
There is also the way stablecoins are now a growing top 20 holder of US debt, and major financial institutions moving to have infrastructure on crypto networks. Change is happening even if it isn't immediate or directly visible to everyone.
Don't count out gambling. NFTs are a gambling game, where you win if you aren't the last one holding the bag. There's no hard guarantee that the traffic for a given NFT is real or not, but if its origin is something scarce and noteworthy (like being minted by the subject of a popular meme) then that can be a Schelling point for gamblers to converge on and reasonably conclude that other gamblers will be trying for the same NFT.
At some point the game ends when sources of new players are exhausted and everyone stops playing, but at one point I believe people were playing. Of course at the time people tried to describe why someone might buy a NFT as being some vague other buzzword laden reason, probably because the game ends sooner if everyone knows everyone else is also just hoping to flip it for a profit.
The main point is, Discord is a totally centralized service under US control, you can't know whether the outcome of Discord polls is at all real. That doesn't mean it's necessarily fake, but as a choice of tool it seems really stupid to me. There's precedent, incentive, and means for significant interference and deception here, whether not it did in fact happen. If this type of use of services like Discord continues going forward, it will be safe to assume that it is happening, because of course it will.
This type of shit is what cryptography is good for, it should be used when it matters. I think adversarial use of cryptography is really cool, and it honestly pisses me off a little bit that the article keeps namedropping cryptocurrency, as if unconditionally trusting Discord is what it's all about, when it should really be the opposite.