{"id":189,"date":"2025-01-01T07:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T07:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/one-kind-of-american-dream-the-year-in-hawk-tuah-and-crypto-memecoin-the-ringer\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T07:58:45","slug":"one-kind-of-american-dream-the-year-in-hawk-tuah-and-crypto-memecoin-the-ringer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/01\/01\/one-kind-of-american-dream-the-year-in-hawk-tuah-and-crypto-memecoin-the-ringer\/","title":{"rendered":"One Kind of American Dream: The Year in Hawk Tuah and Crypto Memecoin – The Ringer"},"content":{"rendered":"

She shared memes about noted Bitcoin maximalist executive Michael Saylor and began regularly tweeting \u201cgm \ud835\udd4f\u201d\u2014which nominally stands for \u201cgood morning,\u201d but is also kind of a whole thing across the engagement-farming cryptolands of Elon Musk\u2019s X.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Survival of the fittest doesn\u2019t 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\u2019s 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<\/span> <\/span><\/span>attempting to converse<\/a>; there are cathedrals everywhere, etc.) <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/head>\u201cA simple replicator, whether gene or meme,\u201d Dawkins wrote, \u201ccannot be expected to forgo short-term selfish advantage even if it would really pay it, in the long term, to do so.\u201d As Patrick Redford<\/span> <\/span><\/span>recently pointed out<\/a>, 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 voil\u00e0: We wind up with something like $HAWK, described in marketing materials as \u201cthe Meme Coin for Everyone\u201d and \u201cthe entry ticket to begin your degen roller coaster ride.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Read on www.theringer.com\/2024\/12\/31\/tech\/hawk-tuah-haliey-welch-cryptocurrency-memecoin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

She shared memes about noted Bitcoin maximalist executive Michael Saylor and began regularly tweeting \u201cgm \ud835\udd4f\u201d\u2014which nominally stands for \u201cgood morning,\u201d but is also kind of a whole thing across the engagement-farming cryptolands of Elon Musk\u2019s X. Survival of the fittest doesn\u2019t always mean survival of the truth. All you have to do is browse […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}