The Polythróna with Hadrian Archo

  Introduction I was about to begin my drive back home and before I did I thought that I would go ahead and open Discord to check on any messages or pings that I missed while I was volunteering today. On my opening of the app, I was prompted with a pop-up screen that announced that Discord is changing its policies. At first I thought it was likely just their privacy policy since those seem to change on a dime these days due to constantly shifting trends, regulations, and laws regarding privacy [1] . However, I headed over to the discord blog and I was surprised to see that they were doing more than just their privacy policy. I set out to figure out why exactly they went along with these changes. Summary of Changes The changes of the policies according to the official blog are as follows [2] : In the community guidelines section of their terms, they no longer allow the sharing of: Anti-vaccine content Medically unsupported and dangerous cures for disease Content that distorts

 Introduction Continuing in our discussion over the fine piece of analysis that is the Metaverse Primer by Wall Street financial firm Jefferies, I wanted to take some time to highlight and discuss some of the more strange and peculiar aspects of what the metaverse economy will look like. In addition to our source material from last week’s Part 1 (link below), we’ll also add a video released by Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) about Mark Zuckerberg’s (The Zucc) vision of what the metaverse will look like to him, and likely a siginificant portion of the future metaverse for whatever that will look like. Beginning with the Jefferies article before we move on to the video from the Zucc, we’ll slide into the first peculiarity below. Link to original article:  https://assets.website-files.com/61152de79f1b0a81f1dcf4b7/615e101cf1cda13c40ee4d13_Metaverse%20Primer.pdf Peculiarity 1: Digital Consultants for Everything? One of the strange things that authors of the Metaverse mention on page # of

  Introduction It was October 2021, and I was perusing my favorite investment-related website, Seeking Alpha. All the sudden, there was an interesting bit of news that appeared on the right-hand side of my screen. It said, “Facebook has a new corporate name: Meta” and I thought to myself that this seems reasonable given the high amount of negative publicity Facebook was getting at the time regarding issues with censorship, discrimination, data integrity, privacy, and anti-trust issues [1] [2] [3] . But around this time, the term Metaverse appeared everywhere in the financial news, and I found this to be odd, and almost astroturfed [4] [5] [6] . It seems my assumption at the time seems spot on judging by the Google Trends Analysis chart shown below. So, I’m not sure how every financial media outlet and some mainstream media outlets became so enamored with the term. Some part of me thinks that Facebook gave money to outlets to run a campaign to popularize the concept. Quick Sum