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Reintermediation, consolidation and capitalisation – or in the cant of crypto-valley evangelism, *democratisation, disruption* and *paying creators –* are also characteristics [identified by Langley](https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13563467.2020.1766432) in *fintech* platforms (such as Swish, PayPal, cryptocurrency exchanges like CoinDesk, and a new breed of decentralised finance, or DeFi, powered by blockchains like Ethereum) designed to supposedly include the bottom of the pyramid while in reality they just profit from them.
The Ghostchain. (Or taking things for what they are)
paletten.net
Connell couldn’t think of any reason why these literary events took place, what they contributed to anything, what they meant. They were attended only by people who wanted to be the kind of people who attended them.
Normal People
Sally Rooney
The carefully constructed self can be undone in any number of ways and in an instant—by a disabling accident, by a psychotic break, or, these days, by a hacked account or a deep fake. This is the perennial appeal of doppelgangers in novels and films: the idea that two strangers can be indistinguishable from each other taps into the precariousness at the core of identity—the painful truth that, no matter how deliberately we tend to our personal lives and public personas, the person we think we are is fundamentally vulnerable to forces outside of our control.
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