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NFTs aren't art; they are game tokens in a game where you pretend to be an art speculator. twitter.com/malwaretechblo…

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I’d be like 50% more open to the idea of NFTs if all the popular ones weren’t ugly. It’s basically the digital equivalent of the tasteless billionaire home decor.

Marcus Hutchins (@MalwareTechBlog)Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:25 GMT

Laurie Voss (@seldo)Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:48 GMT

https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1489430934843629568

And for those who claim to care about “supporting artists”, ask how much of what they paid went to the artist(s) who drew it. Hint: probably nothing.

Jacob Singer (@yaycoblee)Fri, 04 Feb 2022 04:08 GMT

https://twitter.com/seldo/status/1489430606857396229

Fun game: ask an ape holder the name of the artist(s) who drew their "art". Hint: not only do they not know, they never knew.

Laurie Voss (@seldo)Fri, 04 Feb 2022 02:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/charkie/status/1488620507306119178

Also, props to the developers working with Team17 who came out immediately to say they disapproved of this scheme.

Charkie (@charkie)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:11 GMT

Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project. We have listened to our Teamsters, development partners, and our games’ communities, and the concerns they’ve expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space.

Team17 (@Team17)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:00 GMT

Never, ever, ever shut up about how much you hate N///F///Ts. Being loud works.

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Team17 is today announcing an end to the MetaWorms NFT project. We have listened to our Teamsters, development partners, and our games’ communities, and the concerns they’ve expressed, and have therefore taken the decision to step back from the NFT space.

Team17 (@Team17)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:00 GMT

Charkie (@charkie)Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:09 GMT

My personal opinion: NFTs and sustainability do not go together. Building sustainable ecosystems that support the creation and maintenance of #OpenSource is important. But "Maximising the GDP of software creators" is an anti-goal, and is unlikely to be sustainable economics.

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In this week's episode, Rodrigo Mendoza-Smith (@r0dms) fills us in about Quine (@quine_sh), a data-driven professional network for software creators and, @GitNFT, an NFT minting platform for GitHub commits. 🎧 at podcast.sustainoss.org/106 #opensource #sustain #NFTCommunity

Sustain Open Source (@SustainOSS)Fri, 28 Jan 2022 15:00 GMT

Matthew S. Wilson (msw) (@_msw_)Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:18 GMT

“What the attacker did is take advantage of a logical error in Qubit Finance's code.” Silly me: and here I thought that the code is the law. zdnet.com/article/qubit-…

Grady Booch (@Grady_Booch)Sat, 29 Jan 2022 04:46 GMT

https://twitter.com/Grady_Booch/status/1487285944810045443

it baffles me that when presented with "i'm going to need you to write code in basically-javascript, and there cannot be a single bug or we could lose millions with no recourse other than asking nicely to give it back" a non-zero number of software developers said "sounds great"

Molly White (@molly0xFFF)Sat, 29 Jan 2022 04:53 GMT

https://twitter.com/parismarx/status/1487468864107593730

Ah yes but if they were NFTs then they would still be broken but you’d have ape malware on your computer too.

RedIvy (@BlueIvyRedWorld)Sat, 29 Jan 2022 16:59 GMT

https://twitter.com/_noid_/status/1486817285973032962

Cyber-Suarus-Rex (@crime_bears)Fri, 28 Jan 2022 06:04 GMT

https://twitter.com/ohJuliatweets/status/1486063637659885576

"That's right, I rent a jpeg. This is in fact very cool and not the most embarrassing thing a human being could do."

JC Goodmuffin (@jamesmcorlett)Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:02 GMT

We live in hell :)

Julia Claire (@ohJuliatweets)Tue, 25 Jan 2022 19:49 GMT

https://twitter.com/hankchizljaw/status/1485707544085549057

it’s good and detailed but I know it’s confirming what I already know about crypto: it’s short-sighted tech bro dogshit, so I don’t want to waste any more energy on it (it wastes enough as it is)

Andy Bell (@hankchizljaw)Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:19 GMT

Choosing violence

Matthew @SwordsComic (@_mjwills)Tue, 04 Jan 2022 08:59 GMT

EU Regulator Wants to Ban Proof of Work Crypto Mining to Avoid Climate Disaster dlvr.it/SHQky8

Gizmodo (@Gizmodo)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:04 GMT

The crypto folks who really break my heart are the ones who deeply, sincerely believe they've found a new model for solving every problem that also makes them rich but cannot explain why they believe that's true. They have been suckered and they just don't want to believe it.

Laurie Voss (@seldo)Fri, 21 Jan 2022 01:11 GMT

New survival guide for Twitter just dropped.

Ethan! (@Ethan8bit)Thu, 20 Jan 2022 19:11 GMT

2000s iTunes: "hey buy this content! It has DRM!" 2010s Bandcamp: "hey buy this DRM-free content!" 2020s N F T marketplaces: "hey buy this content-free DRM!"

Tom (@NowWeAreAllTom)Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:19 GMT

https://twitter.com/TheSpiceDAO/status/1482404318347153413

and enough champagne… to fill the nile!! (@GuyBeinDude)Sun, 16 Jan 2022 19:38 GMT

Out of curiosity I dug into how NFT's actually reference the media you're "buying" and my eyebrows are now orbiting the moon

Jonty Wareing (@jonty)Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:30 GMT

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A new tech startup wants to gamify the U.S. court system by allowing everyday Americans to bet on lawsuits using tradable crypto tokens. It calls the process an "initial litigation offering." I spoke to one of the founders about the concept. vice.com/en/article/v7d…

maxwell (@maxwellstrachan)Fri, 07 Jan 2022 15:59 GMT

Sy Brand (@TartanLlama)Sat, 08 Jan 2022 13:21 GMT

Last week, we tweeted a reminder that Mozilla accepts cryptocurrency donations. This led to an important discussion about cryptocurrency’s environmental impact. We’re listening, and taking action. 1/4

Mozilla (@mozilla)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:30 GMT

Looks like they bought a non-fungible Tolkien

Alexander Demling (@alexdemling)Thu, 06 Jan 2022 06:24 GMT

One might say they have bad ApeSec

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https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1477703853944434688

look i know all this shit sucks beyond comprehension but “did not take proper precautions when moving his ape” is just an objectively funny sentence.

Yeet Takeshi (@alex_navarro)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:11 GMT

Ed Zitron (@edzitron)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:13 GMT

https://twitter.com/edzitron/status/1477703853944434688

look i know all this shit sucks beyond comprehension but “did not take proper precautions when moving his ape” is just an objectively funny sentence.

Yeet Takeshi (@alex_navarro)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 18:11 GMT

https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1476951030638260225

Hi, I'm sure that whoever runs this account has no idea who I am, but I founded @mozilla and I'm here to say fuck you and fuck this. Everyone involved in the project should be witheringly ashamed of this decision to partner with planet-incinerating Ponzi grifters.

j͕̠̦̪͕̓͛̊̾̄ͅw̧̧̳̪̘͊̋͗̾͢͠z̢̘̞͈̺̞̩̓̽̐̋͗̆̋̚͟͜ (@jwz)Mon, 03 Jan 2022 15:15 GMT

Yeah I stole your ape pics. What are you gonna do, draw some police

Viktor Winetrout (@Cpin42)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 07:08 GMT

it appears your tokens are more fungible than you claimed, mister bond

matt (@mpopv)Sat, 01 Jan 2022 08:06 GMT

gatorsafterdark (@gatorsafterdark)Sat, 01 Jan 2022 21:03 GMT

In no functioning society should the sentence “Someone stole my ape cartoon” be followed by “now my life savings are gone”

Jess Dweck (@TheDweck)Sun, 02 Jan 2022 21:26 GMT

yes, I know, cryptocurrencies are hot right now

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Gambling boom in 2021 sets new record after pandemic slump wapo.st/3HnZfKe

The Washington Post (@washingtonpost)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:28 GMT

Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:54 GMT

cryptobros: everything is a smart contract and so it’s totally good and fair also crypto bros: awwwww I got scammed bc the smart contract had malicious code that i didn’t spot 😭😭😭 there’s a reason real financial systems have so much regulation and insurance 🙃🙃🙃

danielle 🏳️‍🌈 (@endocrimes)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 18:56 GMT

Kristi💪YamaGucciMane (@wapplehouse)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:36 GMT

Code is law. Now imagine you had the mafia drafting contracts. This is why we have professional experts reviewing terms, and a legal system to prevent illegal contracts from being enforced.

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https://twitter.com/cat5749/status/1476813280844738561

With this happening, the contract evolved into a honeypot where people could only make purchases but not any sort of sales. This meant that on a DEX chart, people would see the candles going up only and induce FOMO to buy more before it spiked up further. 10/

meows.eth (@cat5749)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 07:11 GMT

Terence Eden (@edent)Fri, 31 Dec 2021 14:57 GMT

Planet of the Apes (1968, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner) - what an ending!

Alex (@geewhiz_wow)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:00 GMT

absolutely incredible

Ian Coldwater 📦💥 (@IanColdwater)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 18:56 GMT

Tragic events like this could be avoided if only there was a central authority in charge of ape ownership 😞

pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat)Thu, 30 Dec 2021 08:48 GMT

I’m fucking crying

invader sim 🍌 (@mutantsimian)Tue, 28 Dec 2021 01:47 GMT

BRO THEY'RE STEALING FROM EACH OTHER NOW I 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

#FreeAster LEVI 🔜 TFF 2022 (@LeviSnoot)Sun, 26 Dec 2021 15:45 GMT

Carbon offsetting is like promising to have a baby for every person you murder.

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We know our community has a lot of questions about this new direction, including how it will benefit creators, and how we’ll stay true to our environmental commitments. We are listening. We’ve started an FAQ at kickstarter.com/protocol with what we’ve been asked the most. twitter.com/Kickstarter/st…

Kickstarter (@Kickstarter)Wed, 15 Dec 2021 18:01 GMT

John Reppion (@johnreppion)Thu, 16 Dec 2021 10:59 GMT

Guy in Plato’s Cave: “Okay but what if I owned one of these shadows on the wall, with the blockchain?”

Abigail Thorn (@PhilosophyTube)Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:21 GMT

Gotta bring this back

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Guy in Plato’s Cave: “Okay but what if I owned one of these shadows on the wall, with the blockchain?”

Abigail Thorn (@PhilosophyTube)Thu, 16 Dec 2021 11:21 GMT

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT)Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:35 GMT

Going to create a collection of NFTs that randomly generates a picture of a thing you could've otherwise spent your money on

Kelly Vaughn ☀️ kvlly.eth (@kvlly)Sun, 19 Dec 2021 21:50 GMT