Gargantuan Change (Issue #192)
Crypto and AI memecoins, US election wrapups, AI vs culture, bond market carnage, UK farms tax discontent, workers rights, private equity & debt slavery, Marc Andreessen & the tech scene, Javier Milei
Hello and welcome to my newsletter!
Another season 2 instalment…
It’s a little bit of an odd week in that there’s so much going on post elections that it’s all very chaotic, and there isn’t an obvious through line, an obvious narrative as it were.
Having said that, I can see that it’s really a moment of gargantuan change, like enormous tides are changing and many many places throughout the economy and societies are in flux. And it’s all happening as the bitcoin and crypto bull market is getting going. There’s both many people very enthusiastic about the future and many people very confused about the future. There’s also a lot of new information emerging about questionable practices that have been going on.
The tea leaves still have to settle.
In all this frothiness there were some really phenomenal podcasts this week. Honestly some of the best I’ve listened to in a while. If you are able to spend some time to listen to even just a few from this week’s selection you’ll get a sense for all that is happening. Crypto, memecoins, AI and tech in general are really transforming things enormously. And there are massive changes in politics, business and money all around the world too. Exciting times.
I think my favourites this week would have to be the Freddie New, Marc Andreessen and Javier Milei interviews. UK politics and money, the US tech scene, and the global shift in politics. All fascinating. The Javier Milei one is a bit weird at first because it’s translated from Spanish by a Milei AI, but actually it’s pretty darn good and after a while you totally forget it’s an AI translation. It was a really great week for interviews.
I’ve been waiting for my build minutes to reset so I can publish to the website. It’s Friday as I write this, so should be later today. Lots of code I’ll need to merge and test over the weekend.
I did write a few sort of interesting blog posts, at least I think so:
Bitter sweet symphony this life https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/11/26/bitter-sweet-symphony-this-life
Our strange AI angels and demons future https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/11/27/our-strange-ai-angels-and-demons-future
Peter MacCormack and Freddie New on the UK government front bench and value extraction by private equity https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/11/28/peter-maccormack-and-freddie-new-on-the-uk-government-front-bench-and-value-extraction-by-private-equity
The future is turning out to be way way weirder than I expected back when I got online. The next 20 years are going to be very mindbending.
In all this chaos I sure could do with some donations. Still desperately trying to buy a new laptop. Really feels like I’m missing the boat again. I so want to be building websites! It would make the newsletter so much better. If you can, please donate :) Thank you.
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And now, the podcast selection:
Podcasts
Magic Eden: The Everything Platform For Crypto (Raoul Pal: Journey Man Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4473895?episode=30438211917
DOGE unveils a roadmap, Unlocking GDP Growth, WWIII escalation, Fat cell memory(All-in Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/1015378?episode=30495459662
Can the AI revolution decentralise our politics, culture and economy? Ep#2252 (Keen On Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/240566?episode=30499285031
Is the Bond Carnage Over?! (Eurodollar University Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/276832?episode=30540556892
Gareth Wyn Jones on the War On Farms: Labour’s Cruel Inheritance Tax Ep#24 (Mr Obnoxious Podcast) https://www.mrobnoxious.com/episodes/the-war-on-farms-labours-cruel-inheritance-tax-gareth-wyn-jones
Are We Sacrificing Growth For Worker’s Rights? (The Rest is Money Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6582865?episode=30633701553
Freddie New On Debt & Politics Driving Economic Decline Ep#25 (Mr Obnoxious Podcast) https://www.mrobnoxious.com/episodes/how-debt-politics-are-driving-economic-decline-freddie-new
Marc Andreessen Ep#2234 (The Joe Rogan Experience Podcast https://podcastindex.org/podcast/550168?episode=30584684350
Javier Milei: President of Argentina, Freedom, Economics, and Corruption Ep#453(Lex Fridman Podcast) https://lexfridman.com/javier-milei
AI ROLLUP: Base vs Solana | Ai16z | Goat | Albxt | Virtuals & Zerebro (Bankless Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/357756?episode=30649686451
That’s all from me…
Best regards,
Mark
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