Andy Basura
@andy1basura.bsky.social
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, life is presented as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has receded into a representation.
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"Bitcoin takes this logic of applied surreality and pushes it to its extreme. It is a bet on the belief that you can create something by believing in it. The mystification—or obfuscation—itself is an onboarding mechanism."
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What World Does Bitcoin Want To Build For Itself? | Defector
LAS VEGAS — “We often talk about baseball games as a metric for where we are, and we’re literally in the first inning,” one of the Winklevoss twins gloats. “And this game’s going to overtime.” It’s th...
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June 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
"Bitcoin takes this logic of applied surreality and pushes it to its extreme. It is a bet on the belief that you can create something by believing in it. The mystification—or obfuscation—itself is an onboarding mechanism."
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When the genocide is over, and everyone agrees that it was wrong and should have been stopped, the cheerleaders will console themselves with saying that they may have been wrong to support the war, but it was for the right reasons, unlike those who opposed it at the time for all the wrong reasons.
February 12, 2024 at 3:13 AM
When the genocide is over, and everyone agrees that it was wrong and should have been stopped, the cheerleaders will console themselves with saying that they may have been wrong to support the war, but it was for the right reasons, unlike those who opposed it at the time for all the wrong reasons.
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The words of one of the Palestinians who were shot in Vermont
December 2, 2023 at 8:07 PM
The words of one of the Palestinians who were shot in Vermont
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Reposted by Andy Basura
This began as an attempt to exorcise a particularly diseased post that was haunting me and became more of a consideration of where posts that bad come from. defector.com/caitlin-flan...
Caitlin Flanagan's Wheels Are Spinning A Little Too Fast | Defector
Somewhere near the end, I realized that I had come to see logging onto Twitter in the same way that your more hair-trigger reactionary weirdos see American cities. For reasons having to do with their ...
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October 2, 2023 at 7:30 PM
This began as an attempt to exorcise a particularly diseased post that was haunting me and became more of a consideration of where posts that bad come from. defector.com/caitlin-flan...