OTHER LIFE

[jmrphy]

Video Game Syndrome

The greatest crimes of our generation have been committed by individuals with the ethical stature of Super Mario.

"In the video game of life, nobody is allowed to be evil and nobody is allowed to die. There is no coherent Law, just a zillion contradictory laws so insultingly nonsensical that they seem to say: The real Law is whatever you can get away with."

[hannahgoodall]

Francis Bacon’s Art studio at 7 Reece Mews

[jmrphy]

Alcatraz. "Prison is not that bad." —Martin Shkreli

[the-prodigal-stunna]

“If what you're doing is not a grift, it is going to succeed eventually […] and if your relationship with God is strong, if you can attest to the things that you believe in through your works, it’s going to work out. No one can take that away from you, because that’s not there’s to take.”

— Vincente Void, “Only God Can Cancel Us: On Immanent Cyberculture with Endproject”

[jmrphy]

lowkey goated

[jmrphy]

Instead of examining imitation and discovering its conflictual dimension, the eternal avant-garde has waged a purely defensive and ultimately self-destructive war against it.

The False Binary of Imitation Innovation

[jmrphy]

in a truly innovative process, it is often so continuous with imitation that its presence can be discovered only after the fact

The False Binary of Imitation Innovation

[jmrphy]

The losers try to demonstrate their independence by systematically taking the course opposite to that of the winners. Thus, they may act in a way detrimental to their own self-interest. Their pride turns self-destructive.

The False Binary of Imitation Innovation

[jmrphy]

Only two possible reactions to the mimetic contagion exist, and they make an enormous difference. Either we surrender and join the persecuting crowd, or we resist and stand alone.

Are the Gospels Mythical? by Rene Girard | Articles

[jmrphy]

myths are the voice of communities that unanimously surrender to the mimetic contagion of victimization.

Are the Gospels Mythical? by Rene Girard | Articles

[jmrphy]

loser theory says you should focus only on excellence (which is under your control) and preemptively embrace losing the game of prestige (which is not). Loser theory means taking your work seriously but not taking yourself seriously.

Loser Theory

[jmrphy]

It must be that what can be spoken and thought is, for it is there for being

Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek Thinkers – Primitive Accumulation

[jmrphy]

Qanon combines elements of Sudoku, 4chan, gematria, Satanic panic, Pokémon GO, Revelations and Boomer chain mail.

Cope

[jmrphy]

You find yourself strapped into a pleasure chair from which your galaxy brain bulges in all directions into infinite psychic pain. But the enveloping simulation’s power source must come from somewhere. From our helpless acceptance, our cope.

Cope

[jmrphy]

Ethereum co-founder, Vitalik Buterin, believes the network is on the verge of scaling by a factor of 100, predicting the Optimism will release its layer-two solution in the coming weeks.

Solution to scale Ethereum '100X’ is imminent and will get us through until Eth2: Vitalik

[jmrphy]

I’d go further and posit The Law of Conservation of Religion: Religion is never created nor destroyed, in any society, merely transformed from one form to another.

The Holy Church of Christ Without Christ

[jmrphy]

With more than 10 percent of the American population using Bitcoin, if enough people self-custody, then a 6102 attack would be of limited effect. Given that the keys to your Bitcoin account are typically in the form of 24 seed words that can be written down, hidden, encoded, or memorized, a military home-by-home raid couldn’t work very well and would constitute a mass set of human rights violations.

Can Governments Stop Bitcoin?