X is a grotesque fun house mirror of the worst possible bad faith takes and interactivity. The algorithm fuels this mania and shows you material to react viscerally too. However some of the biproduct of hate is also just the platform size and devolution of conversation at that size of scale. As countries like the Uk and Aus talk of banning X, Nostr use will increase and I am wearisome of that mentality infiltrating nostr. I don’t know how to protect against it, but X is a mind plague which threatens democracy and dissolves the center of politics, and we should try our best to protect what we have.

Plantasia - Garson utilised the moog as well as anyone. Total dreamscape

I always play this as background music to read - today I started “player of games”. Have never read banks before. I always think no pussy footing will be great background music for reading but goddamn that guitar playing and just wonderful sound draws you in.

Explaining bitcoin to normies is kind of like explaining why the Beatles are the best band to somebody who has never heard music. If you lead with the lyrics to I am the walrus, or the fact they all once had bowl cuts, or the equivalent in bitcoin speak, you’ve already tuned them out forever.

Been revisiting the shins these holidays. I can’t say I love all their stuff as much as I did when I was a teenager, but jeez some of it (oh, inverted world especially) is just great. Very skate video-esque