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MOLOCH — The Puppeteer Pulling the Strings of a Machine Fueled by Our Collective Rage

No one's pulling the strings — the strings pull themselves. How algorithms, outrage, and social-platform incentives emerge into a system nobody designed and nobody wants.

2024-01-29 · 8 MIN READ · MEDIUM
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EAR DEATH EXPERIENCE — My Journey Through Hearing Loss & Back

What it was like to go deaf overnight, what the doctors couldn't rule in, and the salicylate-elimination + hyperbaric-oxygen path that brought hearing back over two years.

2024-03-12 · 11 MIN READ · MEDIUM
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THE FATAL FLAW IN MUSIC NFTs — Rethinking Web3's Approach

Music NFTs copied the wrong model. They should have copied the painting, not the .mp3. The argument for treating original recordings as singular art that coexists with Spotify — not competes with it.

2024-01-25 · 8 MIN READ · MEDIUM
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