05.03.2026 12:03
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I’ve been reading words written by a friend from inside the war. Not rage, vengeance but a personal sense of love. They are already winning the deeper battle because the real occupation isn’t on a map. It’s the one within. The survivors who don’t allow that colonization will be the ones who rebuild.
So far I’m okay with Starfleet Academy but it pisses me off that they wont show the Cerritos or Protostar in the beginning 60th anniversary thing. You can do better @startrek.bsky.social
I’m perfectly fine with ChatGPT being used to spy on me by the government. I can just imagine a robo-pigeon going “Before we continue, are we pretending this isn’t being monitored?”
It’s still the 80s
Bummed that there is no 'Days of Ramadan' event on Steam this year. It's a great time for games to be showcased vibing with Next Fest like they did last year. Free Fire is doing an amazing job as always running their Ramadan event. Garena has always done a great job at building around communities.
I still have not gotten @paulmurphyetc.bsky.social to listen to Castle Rat. But he will... one day.
youtu.be/iWKmiTwjjHA?...
I switched proteins because there was a big red t-Rex on the tub and no other real scientific reason. This is what happens when @paulmurphyetc.bsky.social starts influencing you.
This could qualify for SA/ME but then... it wouldnt.
Charlie Jones is one of my favorite bassists and I was pleasantly surprised to learn that beyond playing for Robert Plant in his post Led-Zep years, he also co-wrote 'Please Read the Letter'.
I could do without the news.
I think I really love stringed instruments made in Brazil. I know tonewood isn't a thing but it sure as heck feels like it.
Knowing which story engine will power your game is the difference between success and failure; especially when it comes to Transmedia. Fallout's TV show led to $80mn in additional game sales without Behtesda spending a dime. Arcane, despite it being awesome, failed to add to LoL's player base.
In Part 2 of my 'Casino Macroverse' series, I discuss how Gen Alpha is developing herd resistance against the casino economy through collaborative grinding.
Gen Z tried to beat the house by becoming dealers, Gen Alpha beat the system by routing around it!
That state where you look at current events and your mindset goes from apathy to rage and disgust. The Western hemisphere does not need it's version of the CFA Franc. Nothing, and I mean nothing has destroyed post colonial nations like it and somehow you can rationalize doing something similar.
'The Singing Neanderthal' is my favorite book of 2025 - Mithen's core idea is that ancient humans came up with the holistic "Hmmmm" communication system—Holistic, Multi-modal, Musical, Mimetic, Manipulative to survive. This book is a charming mixtape of anthropology, archaeology, and neuroscience.
I've been studying the casino economy for some time. Building upon @kyla.bsky.social @pkrugman.bsky.social and W.Eadington's 1999 work, I've noticed my Gen Alpha child and his friend's group building system resistance through collaborative grind strategies. Gen Alpha seems to building herd immunity.
When you said "Chess" I was like aaaaaa but I've been playing it for the past hour - its a great commendation.
This is a really fun book. I've always enjoyed @kyla.bsky.social's takes and i love how she's basically gen-z'd economics (long overdue). I would like to say I wasted seven years of my life studying econ and I wish I had a book like this instead of being force-fed Milton Friedman (IKR).
I am the Madam of this web. I am Madam Webb!
1. Colonial exploitation → funds liberal democracy
2. Erosion of exploitation → erodes that material base
What if Western democracy was never primarily about values?
What if it was, at least partly, about what extraction could afford? (5/5)
Eventually those neo-colonial arrangements fray. Former colonies build new alliances, new partners. The old circuits don't deliver like they used to.
Suddenly the "core" countries are economically exposed in ways they haven't been in generations. (4/5)
The sequence: Colonies win independence → but colonizers leave behind structures (comprador elites, extractive institutions, rigged trade) that keep value flowing outward.
For about 50 years this works. The wealth pump keeps running through subtler channels. (3/5)
Those democratic systems were never fully self-sustaining. They were built on – and subsidized by – the economic dominance of colonial extraction and empire.
The "liberal democratic miracle" was, in part, a massive wealth transfer dressed up as enlightenment values. (2/5)
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For years I've been tracking the rise of authoritarianism – especially in former colonial powers that spent the 20th century branded as "developed democracies."This pattern felt deliberate. Less like a breakdown, more like a system revealing what it always was. (1/5)
This reminded me of Baudrillard’s Illusionary Balance - I committed to reading @ianschreiber.bsky.social this month out of supporting your friends and for someone as big of a mental laggard as myself it was a great read. I don’t know Brenda Romero but my circle raves about her - I can see why.
My highschool band used to watch it after practice. There was a small black and white TV in the basement that couldn’t have been more than 14 inches which was via an AFRTS/AFN feed in Berlin.
So on my list of things to get is a watch called the Murphy- it’s from one of my favorite movies but I’ll keep it in your honor.
