NFTs (thread now extremely NSFW)

the history of presidential administrations

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not sure if you're kidding—sincere apologies if so!—but Fordism refers to Henry Ford (and his method of organizing production) not Gerald

it is me who is not loling now, i'm a fool! i should do more than skim, sorry.

sometimes when i log into ilx in the morning and see 20 bookmarks, i don't give it my all, sad lol

Plz prioritize NFT thread, thx.

haha no problem Karl, honestly it was a bit tryhard grad student of me to post that anyway

Anyone wanna buy my NFT of this sign?

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/media/img/posts/9777235064_8c0259fc59_c.jpg

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Burn down the Amazon to get a better Patreon tier on the Discord to find out more tokens you can buy to get to the next tier!

Reading about/trying to understand NFTs feels to me like trying to understand this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ydd9Z4p8mM

i've almost finished watching the "Line Go Up" video posted upthread. it's a very thorough, well-reasoned takedown. i'd like to see someone attempt a rebuttal, might look for one when i get through the rest of the video.

Idk if the community (if there even is one) would have the wherewithal to make a reasoned counter-argument for NFT.

The closest thing you might find is this guy, who is the equivalent of Elon Musk, but in crypto, explaining why he *doesn't* think they're worthwhile.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK5aDgopt9o

The Troemel NFT Report is worth watching, I think.

where do crypto heads hang out online?

discord

invest early to gain access to special discord invite-only channels, where you can figure out what your crypto will do

It seems to be more on Telegram for some reason.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/seneca-bored-ape-yacht-club-digital-art-nfts-1280341/

lol NFT equity loans.

the economy is absolutely fucked pic.twitter.com/OAxyZ3Aoq3

— posting eternally 🧊 (@postingwhilegay) January 28, 2022

fortune favors the brave god loves a fool

you just know they're gonna use that loan to buy more nfts

the most depressing part about celebrities buying these things is when they pretend they actually like the art

The art really might be mindblowing to Jimmy Fallon.

the most depressing part about celebrities buying these things is when they pretend they actually like the art

they're being paid to

Yeah I just assumed the celebrities shilling NFTs were being paid to.

"just LOOK at this badly drawn cartoon monkey"

https://i.imgur.com/88qe8TZ.jpg

finally decided to mute "NFT" on Twitter, looking forward to living a nice, quiet life of simplicity and contemplation, kind of like a modern day Thoreau

But what if the National Film Theatre announces their summer season?

If you could own color on the blockchain—and earn royalties from it each time an NFT that uses those colors trades, which colors would you mint? This is what we're going to make possible at the upcoming @colordotmuseum NFT market.

— Omar Farooq (@curator1of1) January 29, 2022

Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky

"Who owns the color blue?"

A question a child might ask, but not a childish question...

https://www.businessinsider.com/colors-that-are-trademarked-2012-9?op=1

"The color PURPLE is a trademark of 3M," reads a 3M box, BoingBoing reported in 2010.

https://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/prince.jpg

I tried muting NFT, crypto, cryptocurrency and blockchain but Twitter still recommends me cryptocurrency posts all the time

Good one

pic.twitter.com/MMsHl7DJ8I

— Crypto Bros Taking Ls (@CoinersTakingLs) February 1, 2022

imagine having to report a monkey avatar as income for tax purposes

I’ve only dabbled in the space, but the taxes are still confusing. Ultimately I’ve funneled most things through Coinbase, so I’ll go with whatever they send me on the 1099 and hope for the best.

IRS, don’t read that.

https://i.imgur.com/xYFabrm.png

Uh so Hitpiece then! What the fuck.

good thing it's all anonymous so nobody can be held accountable

/s

MC Serch being revealed as the guy behind Hitpiece is fuckin hilarious

I give it the gas face

anybody know how i can remove my band's music from hitpiece

https://supportcenter.godaddy.com/Infringement

twitter says you can probably bug godaddy (they're apparently hosting it) to take action at this link. what they've done is so big and blatant a lot of people are very mad, they're probably going to get sued out of existence very quickly. the magic blockchain thinking says "we're not selling the actual music, just a link to the spotify page so we're not violating any copyright" but there's still album art, trademarks, likeness etc. that people can take legal action on.

not entirely sure how this is any different from betting on fantasy football tbh

it's basically just album cover trading cards right? you're purchasing conceptual cache.

obviously the accompanying artwork/photography/iconography has no business being involved but honestly it seems no less morally bankrupt than the racist fame monkeys

*cachet

Looks like Hitpiece has been taken down, for the time being at least.

lol
http://i.imgur.com/87fofVI.png

no less morally bankrupt than the racist fame monkeys
it's using other people's art without permission as a base for a stupid scam which makes it worse than just doing a slightly-less-stupid (in that it's not going to attract the same level of legal attention immediately) scam that's not piggybacking on the art of others.

there were legal challenges to fantasy football in the past but it was determined that statistics are public domain and not covered by any intellectual property or right of publicity laws but obviously the same argument doesn't apply here.