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Dancing With Foucault: Knowledge and Power

17 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

When some of us hear the name Foucault, we let out a sigh, others ask “Who,” and some even say, “What did you say to me?”. For a time in my life, I was of the first variety. I had heard of Foucault vicariously and, through osmosis, I’d acquired some...

Elon Musk Labels State-Affiliated Media as State-Affiliated Media, Hilarity Ensues

15 Apr 2023 3 minute read 4 comments LateToTheParty

Co-published on Read.cash and Zirkels. Not a week goes by without some drama regarding Elon Musk and Twitter. There was a big hoopla regarding Twitter Blue and the new checkmark system; Twitter open-sourced some of its algorithms onto Github last mon...

Tyranny: Liberalism's Child

14 Apr 2023 32 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Throughout this week, I’ve been reading de Jouvenel’s On Power: The Natural Growth of Its History. On Monday and Wednesday, I covered the first four parts or books of de Jouvenel’s work and today I will be reviewing the last two. The last two section...

Crypto, inflation and currency competition

14 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Vladan Lausevic

The following text is based on my work with cryptocurrencies and monetary policies.  Pierpaolo Benigno is a professor of macroeconomics who, among other things, is discussing cryptocurrencies and monetary policies. According to him, the potential imp...

The Current Situation with DAOs and The Idea of Leveraging this structure with Entities like OpenAI

12 Apr 2023 5 minute read 3 comments Cje95

Late last week I stumbled across an article that suggested that OpenAI would best be served to move from a company to a DAO. Naturally, this idea caught my attention since it would result in a monumental shift in corporate America that I am not sure...

The Barbaric and Beautiful Face of Power

12 Apr 2023 19 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

"For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm." - Conan On Monday, the 10th of April, I covered the metaphysics and history of de Jouvenel’s Power. Today, what I will endeavor to cover is Power’s essence or character a...

Joe Biden’s Crypto Tax: What Does it Mean for Crypto?

11 Apr 2023 4 minute read 12 comments MintDice.com

President Joe Biden's proposal to introduce a tax on cryptocurrencies has sparked a heated debate within the crypto community. While some argue that the tax is necessary to address the environmental impact of crypto mining and prevent tax evasion, ot...

Robert F. Kennedy puts the CBDCs Vs. Cryptocurrencies debate in the American political arena. Let's hope that the general public understands the urgency to act to protect themselves.

11 Apr 2023 3 minute read 5 comments ssaurel

Bitcoiners have been telling you for years that governments around the world are planning to introduce CBDCs (Central Bank Digital Currencies) sooner or later, which will be a horror for the citizens and a joy for the society of mass surveillance tha...

Power's Immutability

10 Apr 2023 15 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

As soon as I finished the works by Burnham I could get my hands on, I immediately turned to another mid-20th-century political scientist: Bertrand de Jouvenel. His work On Power: The Natural History of its Growth is monumental. Its lofty aims are mad...

Power's Need for Chaos

7 Apr 2023 14 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Do the Progressives worship the gods of chaos? Maybe.  The Managerial Revolution was primarily driven by ideology put into praxis. While I think James Burnham does a much better job explaining how ideologies work in Machiavellians, I also think he do...