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    "content": "SETTING:\nThe year is 2069\nEurope is rubble, instead of expanding, it collapsed and returned to a patchwork of micro-crypto nations/states, its map resembles one from 1444 AD.\nA conjuction of sovereign cities, privately owned.\nThe unemployment rate is 99.7%\nYou receive your 700 EU tokens universal basic income from the \"government\"\nthe entire economy is ai data centers and gambling your life savings on real life tragedies and events\nYou have 3 days to gamble it on a prediction market to make your 2,800/mo rent on a Palantir owned studio apartment in the sovereign city of New Neukolln.\nIf you can’t quadruple the money, the government seizes your clothes and send you to be on Season 9 of Beast Games \nThe loser of the season is hunted alive by the elites for sport, live streamed on TikTok.\nThe data is used to train new biological intelligent drones for war."
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    "src": "content/cover.png"
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  {
    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/eumap.png"
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  {
    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/3.jpg"
  },
  {
    "type": "keyword",
    "content": "YOU ARE SYBIL."
  },
  {
    "type": "keyword",
    "content": "YOU ARE IN DEBT."
  },
  {
    "type": "keyword",
    "content": "You must go on. You can't go on. You will go on."
  },
  {
    "type": "video",
    "src": "content/sybil1.mp4"
  },
  {
    "type": "video",
    "src": "content/sybil2.mp4"
  },
  {
    "type": "text",
    "content": "We follow SYBIL on his daily trip to survive in this environment."
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  {
    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/bike.png"
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  {
    "type": "link",
    "title": "IAN CHENG'S BIKEY",
    "description": "literary style I would like to use",
    "url": "https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2019/06/18/worlding-raga-6-world-to-live/"
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  {
    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/map.png"
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  {
    "type": "text",
    "content": "he meets someone and explains his job:\n\nIMA SCROBBLER HONEY. \nWE SCROBBLE ALBUMS ELECTRONICALLTY SO THE NUMBERS GO UP"
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  {
    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/cage.jpeg"
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    "type": "text",
    "content": "It is important, to my mind, that he has only a poor peasant’s tools—no sword, no fine machete, no chainsaw. With clumsy tools, he almost has to chew his way through the awful thorn hedge—so slowly that it keeps growing back, so it takes him ages. Just the opposite of the Prince, whose sword whips the way through at a touch. The Prince of course is the “right one,” the Chosen. The peasant boy is a transgressor, the wrong one, the one with no right to succeed. It cannot be easy for him. Only intense passion and obsessive patience can bring him through.  Sort of like the practice of an art, yes. Passion, patience, obsession."
  },
  {
    "type": "text",
    "content": "prediction markets will replace buying stuff. \ni want someone to bring kiwis to my house.\ni make a prediction market about whether someone will deliver 4 kiwis to my doorstep and load $15 into \"no\". a guy with an ebike sees it and picks up some kiwis.\nbefore dropping them off on my doorstep, he bets yes. he drops them off. the market resolves to \"yes\" and he gets $15.\nrest in peace, amazon, doordash, ubereats, etc."
  },
  {
    "type": "keyword",
    "content": "YOU HAVE A SIMPLE DEVICE."
  },
  {
    "type": "keyword",
    "content": "A POTLACH BETWEEN THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE SYSTEM"
  },
  {
    "type": "text",
    "content": "Dice & Wagers (Mesopotamia, 3000 BCE) Playing Cards (China, 900 CE) Stock Exchanges (Amsterdam, 1602) Slot Machines (USA, 1894) Derivatives Trading (Chicago, 1973) Online Poker (1990s) Crypto Exchanges (2015) Money Console (DEGN, 2025)"
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  {
    "type": "video",
    "src": "content/device.mp4"
  },
  {
    "type": "text",
    "content": "We've become both the gamblers and the house, the product and the consumer. This creates a new form of labor: users working for free to generate their own dopamine hits. Users working via incentives for outsized positions."
  },
  {
    "type": "keyword",
    "content": "a world where dopamine hits drive real market momentum"
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  {
    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/snake.png"
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    "type": "image",
    "src": "content/digger.jpg"
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    "type": "text",
    "content": "I'm posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don't care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I've been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can't sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine.\nYou guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I'm a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of \"human assets\" (that's literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent.\nFirst off, the \"Priority Delivery\" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a \"psychological value add.\" Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up.\nWe actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones \"feel\" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better.\nBut the thing that actually makes me sick—and the main reason I'm quitting-is the \"Desperation Score.\" We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior.\nIf a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as \"High Desperation.\" Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: \"Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he's desperate enough to do it for $6?\" We save the good tips for the \"casual\" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust.\nThen there is the \"Benefit Fee.\" You've probably seen that $1.50 \"Regulatory Response Fee\" or \"Driver Benefits Fee\" that appeared on your bill after the recent labor laws passed. The wording is designed to make you feel like you're helping the worker.\nIn reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for \"Policy Defense,\" and that fee feeds directly into it. You are literally paying for the high-end lawyers that are fighting to keep your delivery guy homeless.\nAnd regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't \"steal\" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay.\nIf the algo predicts you are a \"high tipper\" and you'll likely drop $10, it offers the driver a measly $2 base pay. If you tip $0, it offers them $8 base pay just to get the food moved. The result is that your generosity isn't rewarding the driver; it's subsidizing us. You're paying their wage so we don't have to.\nI'm drunk and I'm angry. Ask me anything before this gets taken down."
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