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This is my conversational account. For my work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian.

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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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    I'm really quite astounded by people who think twitter doesn't matter simply because so few (and so weird) people participate in it. "Normies care about it" is not just a meaningless measure of consequentiality... it's a measure of INconsequentiality.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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        Every important thing is important precisely because some small group has managed to pwn it and *prevent* normies from generally accessing it, via institutions, subcultural modes etc. Normies also don't care about how any tech works, how bills are started, or how wars are started

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jan 20
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        You only let normies have a piece of the action when a) you can predict how they'll react and you can control that reaction b) all the really important pieces of control/leverage have been used up and the "crowd" is the last source of control.

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      1. Sarah Constantin‏ @s_r_constantin Jan 21
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        This is very validating tbh, and I’ve seen it to be true; my “weird kid” peers in more than one subculture/environment have turned out to be influential & successful in a way that seemed surreal until I realized “oh, I’ve been in elite environments a lot.”

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      1. Cristian Rocca  🌐‏ @free_shilling Jan 21
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        Wealth is unimportant because so few people have it is an argument no one has ever made.

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      1. Abdallahi Mohamed Taleb‏ @abmtaleb Jan 20
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        You are 💯 right. But you need a 🚬

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      2. Matt Guttman‏ @RealtimeAI Jan 21
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        Twitter is the new 4chan. It’s the source of memes, and it accomplishes this by being the biggest meme grinder.

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      3. Nikhil kaushik‏ @kaushik_nickhil Jan 22
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        With the amount of unfiltered and uncensored content that 4chan has, I think otherwise. It's like Twitter on steroids.

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      1. quavious le fou‏ @realeigenvalues Jan 20
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        normies have taken over twitter anyways

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      1. Moist Clowns‏ @OldDreyfusard Jan 21
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        This is somewhat related but I'm assuming you've read Hazlitt's "On the Pleasure of Hating?" It was all I could think about when reading your "The Internet of Beefs."

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