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A symbol with magical intent. A desired outcome condensed into a glyph. Draw it. Charge it. Forget it. Let the universe do the rest. Usually, it's just focussed mimesis - you're not really changing anything. But hey, placebos work too.
A sigil on steroids. A feedback loop between your extended persona and primary self. It's a narrative you craft, a character you embody, a story you live. Think social media profiles, blogs, comic book series. You shape it, it shapes you. Reality bends. Dangerous. Powerful. Use with caution. Once again, usually, it's just mimesis. Double caution.
The apex predator of sigils. A hypersigil that's gone viral, infecting societies neural substrate. It doesn't just change you; it rewrites civilization's source code. A metaphysical wrecking ball, shattering old paradigms and forging new ones in the white-hot crucible of mass belief.
A medasigil doesn't ask for permission. It forces agency and purpose on the population. Mimesis crumbles. People must invent their own meaning, their own reasons. It's the catalyst for quantum leaps in human understanding. Philosophy shatters. Language mutates. Mathematics expands. Physics bends. Technology explodes.
The medasigil drives us further. It propels us into the unknown. Metaphysical frontiers. Physical exploration. We push boundaries because we must. The medasigil demands it.
The first medasigil? Medea. Not the sanitized myth you learned in college or read on Wikipedia. We're talking John Tzetzes level. Lycophron's "Alexandria" level. The most obscure Greek you've never read.
Medea: Bronze Age genius. Queen of the Scythians. Ruler of Babylon. Drug researcher extraordinaire. She didn't just mix potions; she rewired reality. Snake venom and murex snails? Child's play. Her cocktails altered emotions, rewilded beliefs. The mystery rites? Her brainchild. Bacchic worship? Her legacy.
This wasn't just pharmacology. It was ontological warfare. Medea's drugs demanded structure. So she built one. A religion that still echoes today. Sacred sodomy, hidden highways of drug absorption. Death and rebirth. Fear obliterated. Minds wiped clean, ready for rewiring.
Her influence? Pandemic. From the Black Sea to Italy, where they worshipped her as Angitia. The Medes, an entire Scythian tribe, rebranded themselves in her image. Her warriors, revered. Her philosophy, adopted. Her medicine, coveted.
Medea's fire burned water. Her arrows? Madness on contact. One hit spawned a berserker, turning allies into collateral damage. Her Oracle Prime guided colonies. She gave us the root of "medicine" itself. "Media" too.
Drugs. Emotions. Beliefs. Philosophy. Language. Math. Physics. Tech. Exploration. The foundations of Western thought, all birthed in the crucible of her medasigil.
We're still riding the shockwaves of that first medasigil. But the next one? It's coming. It's inevitable. And when it hits, reality as we know it will be rewritten.
Are you ready?
A symbol with magical intent. A desired outcome condensed into a glyph. Draw it. Charge it. Forget it. Let the universe do the rest. Usually, it's just focussed mimesis - you're not really changing anything. But hey, placebos work too.
A sigil on steroids. A feedback loop between your extended persona and primary self. It's a narrative you craft, a character you embody, a story you live. Think social media profiles, blogs, comic book series. You shape it, it shapes you. Reality bends. Dangerous. Powerful. Use with caution. Once again, usually, it's just mimesis. Double caution.
The apex predator of sigils. A hypersigil that's gone viral, infecting societies neural substrate. It doesn't just change you; it rewrites civilization's source code. A metaphysical wrecking ball, shattering old paradigms and forging new ones in the white-hot crucible of mass belief.
A medasigil doesn't ask for permission. It forces agency and purpose on the population. Mimesis crumbles. People must invent their own meaning, their own reasons. It's the catalyst for quantum leaps in human understanding. Philosophy shatters. Language mutates. Mathematics expands. Physics bends. Technology explodes.
The medasigil drives us further. It propels us into the unknown. Metaphysical frontiers. Physical exploration. We push boundaries because we must. The medasigil demands it.
The first medasigil? Medea. Not the sanitized myth you learned in college or read on Wikipedia. We're talking John Tzetzes level. Lycophron's "Alexandria" level. The most obscure Greek you've never read.
Medea: Bronze Age genius. Queen of the Scythians. Ruler of Babylon. Drug researcher extraordinaire. She didn't just mix potions; she rewired reality. Snake venom and murex snails? Child's play. Her cocktails altered emotions, rewilded beliefs. The mystery rites? Her brainchild. Bacchic worship? Her legacy.
This wasn't just pharmacology. It was ontological warfare. Medea's drugs demanded structure. So she built one. A religion that still echoes today. Sacred sodomy, hidden highways of drug absorption. Death and rebirth. Fear obliterated. Minds wiped clean, ready for rewiring.
Her influence? Pandemic. From the Black Sea to Italy, where they worshipped her as Angitia. The Medes, an entire Scythian tribe, rebranded themselves in her image. Her warriors, revered. Her philosophy, adopted. Her medicine, coveted.
Medea's fire burned water. Her arrows? Madness on contact. One hit spawned a berserker, turning allies into collateral damage. Her Oracle Prime guided colonies. She gave us the root of "medicine" itself. "Media" too.
Drugs. Emotions. Beliefs. Philosophy. Language. Math. Physics. Tech. Exploration. The foundations of Western thought, all birthed in the crucible of her medasigil.
We're still riding the shockwaves of that first medasigil. But the next one? It's coming. It's inevitable. And when it hits, reality as we know it will be rewritten.
Are you ready?
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NETWORK STATE NEWS I've thought about starting Network State News on Farcaster. We'd start with $1000 in prizes each day for content broadly related to startup societies and network states. For example, "generate a 60 second vertical video review of the top 10 startup societies", where the grand prize winner gets $500 and five runner ups get $100 each. But we'd also issue prizes for open source code, for book reviews, for politics and history, and for breaking news. It'd be social-native, because content would come fundamentally as public casts on an open social protocol rather than posts on a closed website. It'd be AI-native, because everyone would use AI tools like Claude, Midjourney, Runway, and Suno to compose every post. And of course it'd be crypto-native, because every post would be digitally signed, all payments would be in crypto, and everyone here would know how to cite blockchain evidence. Most of all, it'd be an experiment in decentralized global citizen journalism. Should we do it?
One core idea is that anyone can participate, even if they're far away from NYC media, even if they're in the ascending world with a smartphone. After all, a $1000 prize goes pretty far in the Midwest and even further in India or Nigeria. Let me know your thoughts. Maybe we try this for a few months leading up to the Network State Conference in Singapore on Sep 22 (thenetworkstate.com/conference) and see how it goes.
Sounds great! I think it would accelerate Network State ideas understanding among this community!
genius
Absolutely doable. And much required. Staying in the Farcaster ecosystem right now is a bubble that needs outside news about varied topics for it to be engaging.
Love the idea, it will be great to start building positive and quality content fronts.
I'll play. Here's your first entry. https://medasigil.com/what-is-a-medasigil
yes
It would be easy for us to automate this with Ⓜ️oxie such that: The $1000 goes to the best casts of the day, based on quality of engagement not farming The $1000 per day is automatically split between: 50% to the caster 20% to the NETWORK STATE channel’s fans 20% to the caster’s fans 10% to fans of Farcaster overall Or any other mix you want to program Let’s chat @balajis.eth
@balajis.eth https://warpcast.com/pinstripedgator/0x9e538e71
Was it something I said 👀🤷♂️
you can do it in stables, not just $moxie?
Moxie protocol locks up $moxie in contracts and then distributes it as rewards based on farcaster engagement to members and channels and fan token holders https://build.moxie.xyz/the-moxie-protocol/moxie-protocol
Now you’re talking!
Balaji, I think this is a great idea... I remember participating in some of the old 1729 project challenges in 2021, and nodding as you described "earn to learn" and similar principles to Tim Ferriss... Wrote about Zagreb, Croatia as a "Startup City" in response to one of those challenges - one of my favorite pieces of prompt-based writing that I did that year! https://www.shoulderkittens.com/startup-cities-what-zagreb-can-learn-from-miami-tech-week/
Yes. Immediate reaction is a hard yes. My next thought was that I’d love to contribute to these sorts of bounties (reminds me of old @cent “best of the internet” bounties), which makes me think others would be too 🤔
YES
This is a very cool idea and I’m excited to see it. I think it solves a different problem, though, than what I’m pointing out. Network State News would produce decentralized reporting on bounty-incentivized topics. What Twitter is really good at is low-latency reporting on the de facto most salient topics in the world. Perhaps the two eventually converge, but for the time being they seem like two separate things.
Yes, but if the model works it can be used for any vertical, including political reporting, but starting with one corner of tech. Moreover, prizes can be used to incentivize primary sources to post. But let’s see if it works.
@balajis.eth can we chat about getting this going for you with Network State News Fan Tokens? It's doable already, we just have to activate it
YES!
Interesting experiment to say the least. Another core area, if I may suggest, could be culture. We're an incredibly diverse community here in web3 and have an wonderful opportunity to lean into collective culture elements. From a journalistic perspective culture lends itself perfectly to current geopolitical environment. It being on-chain and preserved is the icing.
https://medasigil.com/what-is-a-medasigil