Supercuts, Urban Art, Bitcoin, AI & Aliens (Issue #178)
Bitcoin public corporate playbook, bull market predictions, Thiel on AI and aliens, culture jamming with urban art, exposing media manipulation with supercuts
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Another season 2 instalment…
They tried to murder me this morning. It was a setup, a local bloke that had been anger goading me all morning, pretended to be clearing his nose, basically jumped me from behind, right as I was about to cross a very busy road in the morning rush hour. Distracted and holding very heavy bags and thus had much momentum, I ended up walking straight out into on coming traffic. It’s a fucking miracle I wasn’t killed. There were hundreds of motorbikes and cars passing by very quickly. I managed to get enough of them to slow down, by shouting extremely loudly, to get to the other side of the road.
Yet another day here in Vietnam feeling shaken and food starved. They are starving me again, so I’ll run out of drinking water and electricity soon, so I’m putting together what I can of issue #178 to ensure something gets sent out. It’s only Tuesday. I also got sunburnt somewhat a couple of days ago, even though I was in the shade. That appears to have been part of another mutilation campaign. I’ve written more about that on the website.
Lots of interesting things in any case in this week’s issue. There’s some top quality crypto bull market analysis from Ledger who had been very quiet recently, so it’s great to hear his takes again. There’s also a phenomenal interview with Peter Thiel by Joe Rogan. They get into so many interesting and far out there topics it was hard to keep up, both were on top form, and the discussion was one of the best long term futurism discussions I’ve listened to in a while. And finally Dylan LeClaire was on What Bitcoin Did to discuss in detail Michael Saylor’s now famous approach to Bitcoin corporate investment. He’s also been working on an exciting project in Japan to give the japanese some Bitcoin exposure. They also talk about using Bitcoin to lead a football team to the premiership. There’s a ton of interesting things you can do in the corporate world with Bitcoin on the balance sheet.
I wrote a couple of interesting blog posts, quite upbeat and positive given the circumstances. I think some of you, heck all of you will like them :)
The culture jamming qualities of urban art https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/08/18/the-culture-jamming-qualities-of-urban-art
Supercuts show you the manipulation https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/08/18/supercuts-show-you-the-manipulation
Rory and Alistair on the treatment of palestinian prisonershttps://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/08/22/rory-and-alistair-on-the-treatment-of-palestinian-prisoners
Steph and Grace on how education affects collective organising & action https://markjgsmith.com/blog/2024/08/22/steph-and-grace-on-how-education-affects-collective-organising-and-action
That’s all for this week’s intro. I’ll add to it if the week takes a turn for the better. For now, I need to conserve on power and body energy.
Update 1: I’ve added a couple of blog posts and I’ve added another 5 podcasts, all amazing, but my favorite so far d the Pieter Levels interview on the Lex Fridman podcast. It’s cool to hear about solo developers that have made it through to the other side. To be honest it still feels totally impossible to me right now, is he even living in the same universe as me? Anyway enjoyed that one, also I’m part way through the Rogan Symes interview, solving the evil god problem, kind of fascinating. As usual crazy synchronicities that I won’t get into, I’m very exhausted, the world is doing it’s yes yes yes yes no, thing again, turning everything into a contradiction, then blaming me for it. Life goes on regardless.
Podcasts
Bull Market Price Predictions With Ledger (Bankless Podcast) https://www.bankless.com/bull-market-price-predictions-with-ledger
Peter Thiel (Joe Rogan Experience Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6786106?episode=26516150431
Microstrategy, Metaplanet, & Real Bedford with Dylan LeClair (What Bitcoin Did Podcast) https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/microstrategy-metaplanet-real-bedford
All in on Bitcoin with Will Reeves (What Bitcoin Did Podcast) https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/all-in-on-bitcoin-will-reeves
Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomadism Ep#440 (Lex Fridman Podcast) https://lexfridman.com/pieter-levels
The ‘Capitalist Lie’: who’s really in control? (The Rest is Money Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6582865?episode=26748306051
I Lost Everything: How Ran Neuner Recovered From Bankrupcy (Raoul Pal: The Journey Man Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/4473895?episode=26763591771
Jack Symes (Joe Rogan Experience Podcast) https://podcastindex.org/podcast/6786106?episode=26780818620
That’s all from me…
Best regards,
Mark
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