She shared memes about noted Bitcoin maximalist executive Michael Saylor and began regularly tweeting “gm 𝕏”—which nominally stands for “good morning,” but is also kind of a whole thing across the engagement-farming cryptolands of Elon Musk’s X.
Survival of the fittest doesn’t always mean survival of the truth. All you have to do is browse the social media platform formerly known as Twitter to notice the way the evolutionary pressures of today’s online ecosystems select for traits that range from the performative to the contrarian to the proudly dishonest. (You can also watch a clip of Dawkins and Jordan Peterson recently attempting to converse; there are cathedrals everywhere, etc.)
“A simple replicator, whether gene or meme,” Dawkins wrote, “cannot be expected to forgo short-term selfish advantage even if it would really pay it, in the long term, to do so.” As Patrick Redford recently pointed out, an entire generation has now been conditioned to believe that playing the long game is probably futile, and so you might as well just let that gleam in your eye be your guide. Et voilà: We wind up with something like $HAWK, described in marketing materials as “the Meme Coin for Everyone” and “the entry ticket to begin your degen roller coaster ride.”— Read on www.theringer.com/2024/12/31/tech/hawk-tuah-haliey-welch-cryptocurrency-memecoin
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