The nice thing is, this time around I’ve been prepared for exactly this contingency. This is what Project @basicmansion is about
A personal Second Foundation for a Dark Age.
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Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao
Previously on the doomscrollhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1323775147044564992?s=21 …
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Venkatesh Rao @vgr“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.” H. L. Mencken.Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 8 likesShow this thread -
Commercial break. At least our Dark Age TV lineup is lit. Brought to you by
@kneelingbus for Mayor of NYC. The mayor who will bring you the first Asimovian Cave of Steel in 2030.pic.twitter.com/i6aDUDWPr62 replies 1 retweet 14 likesShow this thread -
Things to look forward to tomorrow - Breakfast burrito - 50% reduction in scenario planning complexity for us futurists - Grand narratives are back. Dark age! - Can think long-term again - Great Weirding officially over, and into the Permaweird - Anthropocene Whiskey Sour
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The long arc story for the last 20 years has been urban vs rural. Every passing year, city-state future looks more real.
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Underlines why Covid is so huge. In one sense it explodes the geopolitical foundation of urban political power. OTOH thatvoower itself is demographic not location-based. it is unclear what it will mean if the urban world floods out into the hinterland like a dam bursting.
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Biden’s randomly making a statement. Sounds confident and doughty. Rallying the troops saying he feels on track to win this.pic.twitter.com/lkPu6Udh8a
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Weirdly hypernormal. This is unfolding similarly to every election night I’ve stayed up tracking since 2000. Yet feels completely different.
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Since this is a livetweet of the election I must capture this inevitable inflammatory tweet. Now *this* is different from every other election.pic.twitter.com/Q9HLFDycCu
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That was the second version of the tweet. Here is the original:pic.twitter.com/ohIU28ADvH
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I’ll give him his typo. Feeling generous.
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