024 - Aesthetic Arbitrage, Breaking Points, and the Media of the Future

Cactus brings a positive update as political strategies evolve to combat disingenuous caricatures. As it turns out, preconditioning and prediction are useful tools for dealing with a static strategy of smears. Follow Cactus on twitter: https://twitter.com/meta_pol. Join us on clubhouse @metapol. R…

Israel-Palestine is a conflict that has hungered to turn hot for decades. However, foreign influence leads to the PR and lobbying war becoming even more important than the military one. In an increasingly common occurrence, differing sides see different realities and information is more about the s…

A cancer cell performs it's function, with one core exception: it doesn't know when to stop. Insular activism replicates this chaos, creating the confluence of uncontrolled radicalization, self-destructive incentives, and institutional sclerosis. Follow Cactus on twitter: https://twitter.com/meta_…

Liz Cheney's ouster shows the extent of insular activism in the Republican party - it isn't a Democratic Party - exclusive phenomenon. But it's much harder to remove this incentive from a party than a company, as the former requires activism to exist and gain influence. Across history, political pa…