YouTube Poop, Brainrot and Neo-Nihilism in the Hypermedia Era valhallaresearch.substack.com/p/youtube-po...

I’m getting ICE ads, not emails but actual ICE ads, in my GMail inbox now

brxh

anger and fear sell. creation relative to anger and fear is extremely high effort and high agency. this is why every radical political position can convince millions of people to be angry and afraid but can't convince more than 1% of them to create anything.

short-form content feeds are just an infinite singular video with extremely choppy, random editing, and algorithms tend to make the video styles and topics converge to a fairly limited pool. YouTube Shorts Feed/TikTok's For You Feed are basically just YouTube Poop with an algo.

if you can sell people a product you can sell people a future

Polymarket has an 83% chance of the shutdown going over 30 days now. Record is 35 (DJT’s first term) and we’re at 21 days right now

employees who are laid off should be able to sue their employers for materially lying about the financial state of the company before the layoff

straight up a society where your bed is connecting to the cloud and has “disrupted features” when there is a cloud outage is a failing and broken society. this is rampant consumerism to the point of societal death.

on top of, obviously, ending pay for all elected and unelected politicians during the shutdown, I propose that every time the government shuts down, all non-essential workers in the country are awarded PTO from their employers (who receive requisite tax benefits to offset the cost) equal to...

very few localities are directly downstream of discourse. touching grass and talking to normal people makes you realize that 99% of people in your community are 5-10 years behind what is going on. they're more directly downstream of the effects of tech and politics, but not the information

I find it extremely interesting (positive) that it seems like GLP-1's are going to serve as the gateway drug for us to culturally become comfortable with biohacking at large. I thought it was going to be testosterone or some other PED/hormonal supplement, but this is significantly better

Top single front squat at 220lb after a 4 mile run 🤣

got this bad boy in The Progressive Technologist n*wsl*tter drafts, hoping to have it out this week or next.

download NextDoor. this is not an advertisement for the app. you need to take a good look around at the society that's around you, and most of you will not go and touch grass to see it for yourself. you would be shocked at just how behind the average person is on media literacy, tech literacy, etc

memetics is just information theory for people who spend too much time on Twitter. there's nothing special about "memetic information" compared to other information. information spaces can be manipulated, ... culture/sub-culture can create viral information types that are more prone to attaining...

just finished this book. phenomenal. lots of important historical lessons to be learned from this book. lessons that are directly applicable to today.

broke: trolling is making the internet worse and is ruining discourse woke: trolling is a form of discourse and is often a very fair response to conversations that deserve very little more than ridicule and disinterest reminder: not every topic of conversation is deserving of debate or air time.

this is so dope www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bBV...

there's a direct lineage that can be drawn from: YouTube Poop, to The Lazar Collection/Stick Figures on Crack, to Short form Vine and early TikTok memes, to Channer and TPOT meme culture, to neo-YTP/neo-Dadaist Zoomer memes like Italian Brain Rot and Skibidi Toilet and that lineage is important.

broke: “those day in the life of an engineer videos are stupid because they’re being lazy and not doing anything! I work 80 hours a week!” woke: “we should strive for more people to have more free time and enjoyment in their day to day”

"it's like using an F-35 as a coffee table" is a phrase Somewheresy used in the @concept.country group chat and I can't stop thinking about how applicable that is to so many tech systems we have today

a picture is worth a thousand words.

it really is incredible how intuitive Blender is as a software. I am functionally a 3D modeling idiot when it comes to Blender and I was able to whip up this planter model for a game I'm working on in less than 10 minutes. it's basic but even just to get something super simple done, it was v fast.

game dev is awesome (for me) because it takes me back to square 0. I know nothing. this means that being able to spin around a little capsule with two twig arms feels cool.

Makerlog for the week of 14 October valhallaresearch.net/blog/makerlo...

picked up a new drawing tablet (my old one both broke and was incredibly large and clunky) that I'm kinda hyped to use for a few projects

it's really interesting how little innovation there has been in the B2C security space. the excuses I've seen are: - most hackers are going after enterprise money, so the focus should be on enterprise - Microsoft Defender works well enough for most end users ...

no kings day protests are tomorrow. go to one. if you can't find one near you, nokings.org has you covered. they are all over the country. there is almost definitely one near you.

the extent to which the right has captured tech via hypercapitalism will need to be studied for decades. we went from hacktivism and cypherpunk to complete corpo takeover in the span of my lifetime.

in times when everything feels like an emergency, it's even more important than before to slow down and act with intention. new worlds are built in years, decades and generations with daily intentional action. empires are destroyed very slowly, and then all at once

Depending on technological limitations to ensure a high trust society (ie. before AI there wasn’t as much rampant disinformation as there is now, but AI made it exceedingly easy) was always a failing strategy.

this is probably the best video I've watched this year. this is the message that needs to get out www.youtube.com/watch?v=akSH...

working on a neat game dev project in Godot that I'm excited to have at a point where I can show it off

LLM's for use in coding contexts are significantly better if you tell them exactly what it is you want them to do. they are not nearly as good if you're trying to tell them to do something you don't really understand.

in a rare turn of events, I've found a way that blockchain technology and art actually have created something novel, interesting and progressive

when fighting as insurgent forces, you cannot launch all of your operations from the middle of enemy territory. this is the battleground. you have to create enclaves, safe places, to fight from a position of strength, to retreat to and to gather forces to.

this week's makerlog brought to you by: taking on 9,000 projects at a time to see what you end up being interested in. (that's the best way to learn new stuff at high velocity btw) valhallaresearch.net/blog/makerlo...

any discussion of rejecting gun law reform due to Second Amendment concerns should be completely moot after the last several months and I'm not going to elaborate on why because it should be obvious and I don't feel like catching a ban

on building the now, the before, the after and hope open.substack.com/pub/valhalla...

you have to wonder just how innovative and industrious the US economy is when the primary weapon they use in the global market is less "innovation" and more "we will use the power of the USD as a global currency to bludgeon you to death while we whine about how unfair your trade practices are"

on building the now, the before, the after and hope open.substack.com/pub/valhalla...

hey so if your decentralized currency's prices are all highly dependent on the whims of The United States President is it really decentralized? is it really the future of finance? or is it just "USD but with more gambling"

re-skinned ScrollWise to use a sidebar and I like the UI/UX a lot more, even in its currently vibe-designed form. you can now add/remove tweets and posts from the sidebar that are relevant to the prompt and automatically inject that content into your prompt. still aiming for a mid-November launch!

it's good to see that in times which require at least an ounce of spine, some members of the mainstream media are still deciding to stand up.

they're using the shutdown as a weapon.

on building the now, the before, the after and hope open.substack.com/pub/valhalla...

since we're re-upping the Trade War with China again, it's important to note that CN's exports are _increasing_ while the US is tanking its relationship with CN and several of its allies.

driving a golf cart on a five lane highway is crazy southern suburbia coded

limitless potential constrained primarily by a lack of hope, imagination and willpower