I finally made it through #ThisIsFinancialAdvice and it is the masterpice of storytelling we all expect from #FoldingIdeas
Watch it, if you have just the slightest interest in how the whole Gamestop thing actually never ended and people are still waiting for a short squeeze that will never happen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pYeoZaoWrA
1> be exploited like this
2> get shaken down [so] they have no other choice but to become #grifters themselves […]
3> have their ego and security ground down to the point that there’s no escape, no reason to step back and admit defeat, no reason to reflect
"Just as every company a few decades ago created a webpage, and then at some point every company created a Facebook page, I think we’re approaching the point where every company will have a real-time live 3D presence, through partnerships with game companies ..."
Produced by Folding Ideas, it's a deconstruction of the VR hype cycle though the lens of "Metaverse" rhetoric. As a specific example, a crypto pump'n'dumper's online utopia called Decentraland.
Oh my...I searched for the word 'climatism' online as part of understanding whether it would be better to prioritise narratives on more tangible things (remember the old days when environmentalism was about, well, the environment?), rather than something so complicated and abstract as the climate. To my disbelief (am I really surprised?) 'climatism' opens to a whole new level of conspiracies that are as fascinating as unbelievable. And, yes, dangerous, too.
@gsymon Yes, a very interesting podcast (I listened to it last week).
Here also a video from Dan Olson of #FoldingIdeas about the Flat Earth movement gives a lot insights on how conspiracies work and how leverage on people's insecurities