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.@pmarca on Marshall McLuhan's concept of the 'global village':
"Modern media is gonna turn the entire world into a village."
"You can basically have a direct relationship with like 150 people, famously called the Dunbar number in sociology."
"The global village expects you to have a Dunbar number of like 8 billion people."
"It's a really, really brain melting experience."
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
It's time to monitor the situation.
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happy for the MTS team and hoping they get crazy after hours. a bit of lore, I had a college radio show at 4am called ‘lucid monkey lamp’ and we just did a lot of queens of the stone age and muse and me ranting about politics etc. you can be weird at night. very formative!
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.@pmarca defines the concept of 'Randomonium', a term adopted by CNN's first president to describe the fluid, chaotic mix of content that filled the early 24-hour schedule.
"At any point in time, there is something happening in the world that is the most amazing, interesting, controversial, bonkers, compelling, transfixing thing that you can imagine. The current thing."
"What should a 24-hour news channel be? It should cover the currently thing continuously, and then he called it Randomonium because for that period, whatever you get, you put on screen."
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WORD OF THE DAY: Randomonium
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.@pmarca says we may have lived through an era of 'suppressed volatility' from the end of the Cold War to around 2014, where centralized media suppressed political volatility.
"If you track how distributed is media versus how centralized is media, centralized media sort of peaked somewhere around 1970."
"Literally like all the newspapers in every city consolidated down to like a single newspaper."
"Obviously those days are over."
Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸@pmarca
It's time to monitor the situation.
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Oh you get your news from the mainstream media? I get mine from a a16z funded livestream of an Australian guy scrolling Twitter to read OSINT accounts aggregating the New York Times
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.@balajis: "Free speech is open borders for ideology."
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(1) One way of thinking about the last ten years is that the American left busted the physical borders of the right, while the right smashed through the digital borders of the left. (2) Because the left relied on mind control, on controlling the discourse. And the busting of those digital borders by the Internet is what hurt them the most. They wanted stern penalties for crossing the line, for saying the wrong thing. So then the left tried to re-impose speech controls, but lost control. Will the right succeed in re-imposing border controls? We will see. (3) Btw, of course I am aware that these are different, and you can argue for the merits of both digital and physical borders, or neither. But if you argue for only one you may soon need to impose the other. (4) That is: if you open the physical borders you will be letting in people with new ideas, which will bust the digital borders you had around thoughts. (5) Conversely, if you open the digital borders with free speech, there will be many who push for more permissive migration, which may eventually bust the physical borders. Hence, totally free speech may inadvertently lead to open borders. (6) Let’s call the case with two borders “Chinese Control”, where there’s both a Great Firewall and a Great Wall. Here there is a strict and unmistakable combination of a digital and physical border. All speech is not allowed and all people are not allowed. (7) Conversely, let’s call the case with no borders “American Anarchy”. Here, there are no digital or physical borders at all. It’s just a North American continent where everyone is completely free to post online and move offline. Note that this ostensible freedom may look more like anarchy, hence the name. (8) My view is that we’re going to need an Internet Intermediate, which is neither coercive Chinese Control nor chaotic American Anarchy. In that third form, you create startup societies with both digital and physical borders…but all residents freely opt in to those constraints, and can opt out at any time. (9) In general, it’s obvious that open borders means invasion. It’s a little less obvious, but free speech in the age of the Internet means *ideological* invasion. That is why most practical forums (from Slacks to Discords) have moderators and moderation policies and banhammers. (10) Anyway. Thinking about the last ten years as mutual border busting by left and right is an interesting lens. That’s why they are both so heated. I may be more sympathetic to one side, but it’s always useful to understand both.
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I had the pleasure of working with the MTS team on their brand identity design
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Introducing MTS: The first timeline-native news network that's always on. Monitoring tech, finance, geopolitics and culture — as it happens. We are Live Now.
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.@balajis on public disclosed AI vs. public undisclosed AI:
"Whenever I see a slide deck that has AI content in it, it just shows that either they're dumb or they think you're dumb."
"They're dumb because they can't tell the difference between normal text and AI text, or they think you're dumb and they can get one over on you and spend a little bit of effort to just flood you with a bunch of words."
Philippe Lemoine@phl43
After the exchange between @NateSilver538 and @nikitabier, I did a little test to check whether that was true and, to my surprise, what I found suggests that link deboosting was indeed reversed. What I did is randomly sample 15 tweets by @nytimes between 2019 and today, compute the weekly average number of likes and retweets they got and plot the results along with a trend line. The idea is that likes and retweets are probably a decent proxy for reach and @nytimes only posts tweets with external links, so by looking at this, we should be able to see any changes in the algorithm with respect to how links are treated. As you can see, it's pretty clear that, starting around the spring/summer of 2023, posts with links started to be penalized and eventually they were completely nuked until the spring/summer of 2025, when a reversal of that policy seems to have started. To be honest, this isn't what I was expecting to find, so even if that's just a quick and dirty test and it's hardly a definitive proof, it's good news and I thought I should share the results.
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SF local legend @creatine_cycle joins us at 3:15 pm PT
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Welcome to MTS | April 20 x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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.@balajis's thoughts on Clavicular and looksmaxxing:
-"Bro science" is going to be the next major market; will transition from a joke to reality
- We currently have Ozempic for weight loss, but we'll soon get Ozempic for longevity, Ozempic for cognition, etc.
Barragers@barragers
Clavicular at Bacara’s premiere night in Miami 👀
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.@balajis on the single most important force in the world that's still underestimated: the internet.
"What's upstream of ai? The internet. What's upstream of drones? The internet. What's upstream of your finance? Feed? The internet. What's upstream of the data center spend? The internet."
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Introducing MTS: The first timeline-native news network that's always on. Monitoring tech, finance, geopolitics and culture — as it happens. We are Live Now.
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