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I don't really understand how someone in the chain of the festival organisation up to the event manager wouldn't be piping up + saying hmm perhaps it's not a great idea and actually extremely dangerous to blast a crowd of people with cornea burning UV light.

― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, November 6, 2023 12:46 AM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

presumably someone bought the lights and didnt realize they were the bad kind, same thing happened at a hypebeast event a while ago, also in hong kong https://hongkongfp.com/2017/10/26/partygoers-left-burns-light-sensitivity-hypebeast-event-landmark

According to Philip’s website, it emits 12.0 W of UV-C radiation and is mainly used for disinfection purposes.

bruh

i thought about buying a uv-c light once to stick inside a leather boot that had a moldy smell. never occurred to me to use one as a vibe light

seems very appropriate that this happens in hong kong, bastion of unregulated, free-market capitalism where nothing is unavailable for purchase to the general public, not even cancer-causing skin burning UV-C bulbs

going to also put my response in the “bruh” column

UV-C wtf

https://i.postimg.cc/ZR55wqNV/Screenshot-20231106-172742.jpg

honestly feel bad for these doofuses hope none of them have permanent damage, if they dont then its funny

look how shitty this is lol

not a single woman in sight at the bored ape fest pic.twitter.com/tVSUv6VSAr

— kate bush's husband (@airbagged) November 6, 2023

tbf i think i see two women in the video

more energy there than at that Bored Ape event with LCD Soundsystem last year

When I say I want to see these guys get burned by the lack of regulations I don’t mean that literally

rip CZ

i will also pay $4.3 billion in fines

finally, mark s admits his crimes

only the little ones

Extra toppings at the DOJ pizza party this year

“Binance” just feels like a pun a bisexual banker would make.

lol

I'm a Bisexual Binvestment Banker from Binancesylvania

everyone these days, they’re bi. bi-sexual or bi-tcoin

trinance:

https://c.ndtvimg.com/2019-04/jq0otaso_fancy-winnie-the-pooh-pooh-memes_625x300_09_April_19.jpg

all my apes gone

A massive theft appears to be happening right now --- all these NFTs have been stolen from wallets... some of the absolute top tier apes. pic.twitter.com/fHPqTT8Vqg

— NFTstats.eth (@punk9059) December 16, 2023

the worst part? they are absolutely top tier apes

were not talking about your everyday apes here just to be clear

top notch apes get the most not the lesser

"It's hard to put to words how devastating this is."

maybe instead of words they can convert it to nfts

https://i.imgur.com/qAZ8FTs.png

pump time bb, just gotta find someone to dump on now

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/over-2-percent-of-the-uss-electricity-generation-now-goes-to-bitcoin/

they should stop that no one even likes the coins anymore if they ever did

This new SBF album goes hard pic.twitter.com/D06hjBysuA

— MelloProto (@MelloTheProto) February 20, 2024

ha a#z bribed kickstarter into going blockchain with predictable results https://archive.ph/UZv4s

am i being dim or is it nowhere explained in this article what actual specific benefits the blockchain was intended to deliver?

allowing people to make their own kickstarter inside kickstarter? i mean its crypto it doesnt have any benefits

Users, meanwhile, would be able to create mini platforms of their own around niche interests like anime, bringing in more people and splitting any profits with Kickstarter. This structure, which would echo other initiatives like Farcaster, did not require donors to pay with cryptocurrencies but would entail Kickstarter’s creating an entirely new, open-source version of its existing software that would be built on top of a blockchain that had never been tested by a massive consumer application.

the benefit of blockchain was they were getting $100M

"Be it so," I said, replacing the tool beneath the cloak and again offering him my arm. He leaned upon it heavily. We continued our route in search of the Blockchain. We passed through a range of low arches, descended, passed on, and descending again, arrived at a deep crypt, in which the foulness of the air caused our flambeaux rather to glow than flame.

why is a 15-year-old company called a "startup"?

the benefit of blockchain was they were getting $100M

― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Monday, March 11, 2024 1:03 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

interesting they were buying out shareholders rather than investing in the company, also the deal wasnt contingent on kickstarter actually doing the blockchain stuff, effectively they were just acquiring shares and recommending crypto

wonder if they got rid of the old ceo cause they needed a new one to tell andereeson they werent doing blockchain

he is kind of imposing

Sam Bankman-Fried being sentenced today, time to place your bets on how long he gets

25 years

https://x.com/innercitypress/status/1773356442629574987

This is such a concise version of the "he's just an adorable boy" story they kept trying to sell. Such a weird element.

SBF's statement was infuriating word salad. Right after an FTX customer/victim mentioned other victims committing suicide you have SBF saying "I agree with most of what Sunil said ... what matters are my colleagues." My COLLEAGUES?!?!?

honor amongst thieves

I don't know why I hate this guy so much. Maybe it's the hair.

something that bothers me is people just dumped all this money on him calling him a generational genius then you hear him talk and hes all yeah so uh you put money in the program then uuhh so its a ponzi scheme and more money comes out, hes keeping spreadsheets called crimes go in here, just not even good at scamming, but silicon valley rolled the red carpet out for him, shameful, media repeating all his blatant bs about trying to save the world, i want to see a master manipulator at work not this privileged dweeb

there's probably an argument to be made for a smart but socially tone deaf kid getting way in over his head and cutting corners in ways he didn't know were illegal and committing major errors which he didn't know how to dig out of but that really doesn't seem to be the case here

he repeated the lie today about how ftx couldve survived if there wasnt a run on deposits which was just not true, i wonder if he believes it, seems like vcs giving him all that money went to his head, when the story first broke his plan was to go to congress and persuade them that everything was cool, he considered himself the best salesman in the world, lol

that really doesn't seem to be the case here

― frogbs, Thursday, March 28, 2024 1:24 PM (fifty-eight seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah theres tons of evidence he was knowingly doing fraud the entire time, i mean maybe he thought it was ok because hes a crypto guy so laws dont apply idk, pretty dumb if so

He just seems like a sociopath who developed a schtick that was close enough to his "real" self that it kind of fooled some people for a while. Although my theory is that low interest rates are kind of like booze, and the lower they are and the longer they last, the lower the bar gets for hot. Like the guy came off as a buffoon, and the narrative seemed to be "he comes off as a buffoon which proves he is a genius." It was all kind of thin to begin with.