Aaron Parecki

Indeed. Web3 is Web2 is Web1. Each of them doomed not because they became centralized, but because they each are rooted in the false premise that disintermediation = democratization, & that enhancing modalities for communication, without regard to rules, is a form of empowerment.

Portland Startup to Mine Artisanal Bitcoin Using Only Slide Rules and Graph Paper #pdx https://theneedling.com/2022/01/08/portland-startup-to-mine-artisanal-bitcoin-using-only-slide-rules-and-graph-paper/

Here's a really wild chart.

Shares of Hilton have now matched the performance of Zoom since February 19, 2020, the market right before the pandemic.

Just incredible reversal of the "COVID winners" trade. The hotel business is booming. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-15/hilton-has-now-nearly-outperformed-zoom-video-since-the-pandemic-hit?sref=vuYGislZ $HLT $ZM

I also look forward to the day when I lose access to my car because someone exploited the smart contract.

At this point, people are just playing say what they see and sticking "but with NFTs" on the end without ever stopping to ask if it actually makes sense.

Just like has happened with email, it's likely to tend towards centralization over time - with the majority of custodial wallets managed by a few giant services

At which point, again, why are we bothering with all of the negative blockchain externalities?

I remember the day I got my first OAuth 2.0 token. It was just a few weeks after I joined this start-up and I was so proud of myself.

“I had six shots in me. Two were bourbon. Three were Pfizer. One was a .38 slug that the doc never bothered to fish out of my shoulder. And on a night like this I was feeling all of em.”

Not really sure what y’all expect from me at this point 😂

i like my men like i like my programming languages
- takes care of dates
- pretty to look at
- has abs included
- takes out the garbage for me