the REAL MTG

How it started. How it’s going.

Why don’t they just tokenize the oil in the Middle East and transport it across permissionless financial rails, thereby avoiding the Strait of Hormuz altogether

@user14201 @MotherJones I think they're using the number of deaths from the earthquake/tsunami

@MotherJones The meltdown didn't kill 20,000 people, don't be silly.

calling the revolution 'prolemogging the classmaxxers'

@Richard_Kadrey Death comes ripping…

I woke up way too early and am having trouble starting work. Maybe this will help. youtube.com/watch?v=yxZZ4A…

@jonathanbfine The Benjamin

Are you the Adorno or the Horkheimer in the relationship?

"Let them eat cake" - Marie Curie

@phi_lsw "buy" is an interesting metaphor here. What does one "buy" with the adoption of this or that philosophical perspective? Ideally, something that works. I suppose...

@phi_lsw always true, I suppose

@phi_lsw I would say, and have, that a method implies some ontological assumptions - it assumes what a thing is - but more as a heuristic than as a systematic conception of what constitutes being

@phi_lsw not according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

@phi_lsw lol. I knew it!

@phi_lsw "arguably" is doing a lot of work here. by this definition, evey science is an ontology insofar as it posits particular "beings."

Stoned ape theory but instead of psychedelic plants giving us language/abstract thought it's just the neurological effects of hours of repetitive highly articulative tasks like weaving

The rootless nature of the mind Is the root of all phenomena. ~ Guhyagarbha Tantra

u can just create discontinuities wherever you want no one can stop you.

USC, like Columbia, canceled commencement — first preemptively barred their valedictorian from speaking and then nixed the entire ceremony. See her reception among her peers. Maybe folks can take a break from competitive sneering at young people and question those in charge.

@ryanarsenault it's addicting

@charmreduction It's your ancient Rome

i think about this book synopsis at least once a day