Ha! There's no such thing as coincidence, only pareidolia:
TechScape: They used my identity to flog a doomed cryptocurrency – and then
things got weird
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/01/cryptocurrency-tsuka-alex-hern
"In the meantime, the Telegram channel was moving so fast that I could see history
being corrupted in real-time."
I'm currently trying to read this:
The open past in an indeterministic physics
https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.11547
What's "real" here? I have no idea what's goin' on: https://youtu.be/1Y_7P9Ce9Uc
On 6/1/22 07:14, glen wrote:
Interesting take. It reminds me of Stockholm Syndrome and abusive
relationships. I've made disruptive runs at ad hominem, hume's guillotine,
appeal to authority, and petitio principii. I have yet to make a run at the
slippery slope. I had 2 recent opportunities to do so, 1) regarding consent and
2) re: populism. My bougie post is a bit of a start and your defense of MLM
propogation is similar. Peter Singer gives us a foundation by arguing that
bestiality doesn't *necessarily* represent the abuse of animals. Maybe the
sheep likes it when the farmer has their way? Maybe we should take Alison
Mack's explicit *consent* to becoming a branded slave and slave recruiter
seriously? Maybe the wife enjoys being beaten?
These slopes are obviously slippery. But one that's not so obvious is the
asymmetric relationship between the actually powerful and the bougie. E.g. when
*I* buy crypto, given that I not only know what they are, what distributed
ledgers are, how to do some cryptography, a bit of math, a lot of programming,
a lot of systems engineering and supply chain analysis, I really am giving my
consent. Like you say, the person selling the Amway products just because they
enjoy it and like some of the products isn't necessarily being scammed or
scamming others.
The problem is analogous to the redefinition of racism. Racism used to be widely used to
*cover* individual prejudice. But as the language evolves, racism is coming to target
less visible, systemic infrastructure. The small-minded right doesn't see that. The
intellectual right does see it, but purposefully obfuscates. Buying Amway products makes
you complicit, whether you understand that or not. ... similar to the insanity defense. I
actually don't care if you murdered 17 children because you're insane or radicalized by
Fox News or whatever. You still need to die, humanely, regardless of your motivations.
Ideas don't matter. Actions do. Maybe that's why I can't bring myself to make a
full-throated defense of slippery sloped conclusions like bestiality or "radical
democracy".
On 5/31/22 21:29, Eric Charles wrote:
Alternate take: Web3 is doing just fine.
Identity politics is bad in all contexts, including when it's used to get
people to buy things they otherwise wouldn't buy (which is the main focus of
the Molly White article). Also, Pyramid schemes are bad anywhere you find them,
not just on the web, and certainly not just in web3. Oh, and also you can
manipulate people by giving them a false sense of security... well... no shit.
But also, if people are getting a thing they want, then that isn't a scam. If
you go to a tupperware party put on a friend, because you need tupperware, and
might as well buy it there, and then you buy it there, and later the tupperware
that you wanted arrives, that simply isn't a bad thing. The tupperware sales
scheme might even be an MLM, but that doesn't mean you got scammed when you
bought a container, it just means your friend probably isn't going to get rich
off the whole thing.
Here is a link to an NFT that looks to be a pure pyramid scheme, you shouldn't buy
it.... but hey... if you get in early maybe you will get lucky and the scheme will
work:
https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xa8089bf595f2b2ada60b24224fcdc411cf0a40da/300
<https://opensea.io/assets/ethereum/0xa8089bf595f2b2ada60b24224fcdc411cf0a40da/300>
Here is a link to an NFT minting that is being put on by PokerGo, which is a known,
real world company, that runs tons of tournaments, has a production studio, and has
its own streaming service for poker (including the biggest back list anywhere), and
if you get the NFT it comes with free membership to their streaming service. So, if
you figure you are going to pay for their streaming service for a year or two, you
probably want to buy this NFT. PokerGO Genesis NFT Collection - Collection | OpenSea
<https://opensea.io/collection/pokergo-genesis-nft-collection>
If eth goes to zero tomorrow (which it won't), as long as PokerGo honors the
streaming membership, it will be a fine purchase. If eth goes up and/or there
is a run on PokerGo NFTs, and I can sell at a profit in a year or two, that
would be even better, but it isn't necessary for the purchase to make sense.
(Technically the PokerGo NFT is still in mint, so you actually want to "mint" not
"buy", but let's not complicate things....)
Best,
Eric
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Eric P. Charles, Ph.D.
Senior Workforce Analyst
Human Capital Management Office
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA)
American University - Adjunct Instructor
<mailto:echar...@american.edu>
On Mon, May 30, 2022 at 7:47 AM Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com
<mailto:wimber...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I have too many subscriptions but there's this from the source
https://blog.mollywhite.net/predatory-community/
<https://blog.mollywhite.net/predatory-community/>
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140 Calle Ojo Feliz,
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505 670-9918
Santa Fe, NM
On Mon, May 30, 2022, 4:53 AM Roger Critchlow <r...@elf.org
<mailto:r...@elf.org>> wrote:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/05/29/molly-white-crypto/>
-- rec --
On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 8:17 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com
<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Ha! No, I won't be buying any NFTs. I do still hold out some hope
for distributed computation, however naïve. My Ada is staked. And I'm
sporadically re-piqued by FileCoin and AR. But the anti-crypto rants are
fantastic. Perfect examples of healthy criticism. This one was a lot of fun:
Web3.0: A Libertarian Dystopia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-sNSjS8cq0>
On 5/27/22 17:02, Roger Critchlow wrote:
> The longer-form, less sarcastic thoughts on web3 are also good reading,
https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/ <https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/>
<https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/ <https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain/>>,
though the rate at which things are going great is pretty hilarious. Who knew the future would
bring us serial rug-pullers?
> -- rec --
>
>
> -- rec --
>
>
> On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 6:31 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com
<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com> <mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com
<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>>> wrote:
>
> So you won’t be buying commemorative NFTs of the Heard/Depp
verdict?
>
> > On May 27, 2022, at 1:51 PM, glen <geprope...@gmail.com
<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com> <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com
<mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>>> wrote:
> >
> > ...and is definitely not an enormous grift that's
pouring lighter fluid on our already-smoldering planet.
> >
> > https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ <https://web3isgoinggreat.com/>
<https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ <https://web3isgoinggreat.com/>>
> >
> > --
> > Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙
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