:cassandra-flummoxed:
> trend has obvious flaw
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> flaw leads to inevitable conclusion
> surprisetfw what you purchased was not an ape, nor an image of an ape, but a claim to a link to an image of an ape
‘rare’
Extinct
NFTs made me dislike humanity more as a whole. A large percentage of influencers were using them to scam the public.
hey its the thing that was extremely obviously going to happen happening
Probably should have just downloaded the image.
This is such an obvious thing to happen, I can’t spend a hundred bucks without looking into it, let alone a million
man spends a million dollars and cant be arsed to encode the image in the blockchain
he forgot about his slurp juice
this is what happens when you don’t use multiple slurp juices on one ape
They weren’t putting the image’s base64 encode on the blockchain or something like that? Just a URL?
yes. It’s too expensive to put the actual image on the blockchain so they just put the urls
immutable ledger my ass
theres no way its too expensive when youre paying over $1m for it.
well the url is still in the chain isn’t it? put up one of the classic shock images or a ytmnd of nelson laughing.
Yep people were clowning on it from day 1 for this exact reason
Well, among other reasons you could also put exactly the same image onto the chain as often as you wanted because there’s no actual relationship between the NFT functionality and whatever it was linking to or defining.
You could also copy and paste it for free
Yeah we all know right click save, but I feel it’s a deeper critique that the asset itself can be infinitely reduplicated on the same chain because there’s no guardrails or security or relationship between token and asset.
Moxie Marlinespike had a good bit where he sold nfts that would change to the poop emoji
It depends. Some of the pixel art ones are. Some of them are hosted through IPFS which means any computer can host the same data at the same url. Others obviously use regular urls that can change.
IPFS is torrent magnet stuff?
The concept is pretty similar, but it is its own thing. The important bits are that it has a new protocol (IPFS instead of http). But there are http forwarding websites people use to play nice with browsers. Another key concept is that a file’s contents is effectively the url id. A url may stop having “seeding” users, but if someone has a copy, it can be seeded again.
no
They got funged
Such a simpler time. When a Paris Hilton could go on Jimmy Fallon and show him her ape. It aged like bejeweled Von Dutch trucker hats.
Those things have the possibility of coming back, unlike a deleted jpg
Not if I downloaded it first…
They also provide shade unlike a jpg
Right click --> save enjoyers vindicated again
push me to the ETH
all my apes are dead
Are we back to laughing at people who believe in IP now?
We never should have stopped
Wait, who stopped? Show yourselves!
some liberals overcorrected against “ai” even though there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to not want it around and especially to not have corpos owning the output.
some liberals overcorrected against “ai” even though there’s plenty of legitimate reasons to not want it around and especially to not have corpos owning the output.
I’m convinced the hyperfocus on generative ai models somehow iNfRiNgInG upon holy copyright protections was entirely a corporate psyop to begin with, because at the end of the day that line of arguing further enshrines the power of corporate property and gives an easy pivot to whitewashing proprietary corporate “not InFrInGiNg” models.
The closest to ethical that AI gets are open source models that can be run locally, and they’re coincidentally the most “infringing” models, while the least ethical ones are the secretive proprietary corporate models being trained on data that’s laundered by corporations unilaterally claiming the right to license it for that purpose.
Like what are the biggest problems? Endless mountains of low-grade slop, mostly coming out of corporate hosted models; companies trying to replace workers with dogshit chatbots, which are 100% proprietary corporate services; media companies threatening to eliminate actors using internal proprietary models they claim they have the property rights to train; etc. Not one problem comes from copyright not being expanded to also cover being able to license and restrict how someone looks at a copyrighted thing, and almost every problem comes from huge corporate property holders with most of the rest coming from petty bourgeois grifters.
What if I call it the people’s democratic intellectual property, is it cool now?
one time i read about some libertarian scheme to fund some kind of UBI with “royalties” for ancient inventions like the wheel and firemaking.
Lol I’ll let you argue with them.
Say what you want about IP rights but at least they’re real. You can go to a court and have your trademark or copyright or whatever enforced. NFT’s were hyped to be somehow a superior form of “owning” art but reality it is just in-game poker chips with an URL attached.
Later versions did put the data in the blockchain. NFTs are just the logical
conclusionprogression of IP.
This is just like when my parents sold my beanie babies at a garage sale. Had my shit all figured out. The babies. Pokemon cards. I was gonna live large but look at me now
Pokemon cards are still out there selling for obscene amounts of money. Beanie babies, not so much.
(Image is legible when opened in new tab)
E) also, underrated subtle detail is the ex-husband representing himself vs the ex-wife who hired a lawyer for the “divvying up the stuffies” civil case
Maple the bear was the first to go
One of the worst #1 picks of all time. Like when the Clippers took Michael Olowokandi over Vince Carter, Dirk Nowitzki, and Paul Pierce in '98
No tag protectors on top-middle and bottom-right…what is this, amateur hour?
They did draft picks? For stuffed animals. Our ancestors hunted mammoths with spears FFS … we have disgraced them.
Hard agree. Should have been Nanook.
This is one of the funniest things this site has shown me
I been keeping this one in my back pocket for years :smuglord:
If I were that judge I would quit on the spot. It would send me into an existential crisis about what this society is and how many years of education and training were undertaken for this moment.
well you are certainly not judge gerald hardcastle
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/hardcastle-says-hell-quit-bench/
He drew controversy in recent years for his handling of the Brittney Bergeron case. He refused to grant Brittney’s request to terminate the parental rights of her mother, Tamara Schmidt.
Authorities said the girls were stabbed in January 2003 by two Utah teenagers in revenge for a bogus methamphetamine deal orchestrated by the Schmidts, who were girlfriend and boyfriend at the time.
Brittney, then 10, was paralyzed from the waist down, and her 3-year-old sister, Kristyanna Cowan, was killed.
Hardcastle’s decision was on appeal to the Nevada Supreme Court in February when Tamara Schmidt, still a prisoner, formally relinquished her parental rights and signed an open adoption agreement with the foster parents who have shared their home with Brittney for five years.
“This job is pretty hard on people, especially in Family Court,” Kathy Hardcastle said Wednesday.
She said Gerald Hardcastle builds model ships for relaxation, and she still has one on display in her office.
https://lasvegassun.com/news/1999/nov/05/judge-plays-solomon-with-beanie-babies/
“This isn’t about toys. It’s about control,” Family Court Judge Gerald Hardcastle told the couple. “Because you folks can’t solve it, it takes the services of a District Court judge, a bailiff and a court reporter.”
There was snickering among the five or six people in the gallery.
“I don’t agree with the judge’s decision to do this. It’s ridiculous and embarrassing,” said Frances Mountain, moments before squatting on the courtroom floor alongside her ex-husband to choose first from a pile of dozens of stuffed toys.
The courtroom was silent for about three minutes while the two took turns picking babies.
There was snickering among the five or six people in the gallery.
lmaooooooooooo
In contrast: I imagine the lawyer was having a great time billing for this.
Joke’s on him, he got paid in beanie babies
Lol yea, the beanie baby craze is really funny i first learn about it from a hobbydrama post, there was some stories that they lead theft and even a murder
even a murder
Pardon me?
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Good detail, like the audience too.
Lol, I remember when that happened.
You see any of those videos where adult children were storming costcos to fight over a pallet of cards? Just omg living in this country is a daily humiliation ritual
For a while, big box stores like Target and Walmart stopped carrying trading cards of any kind because people were getting into physical altercations in the store and parking lot over Pokémon cards. People would go in and buy a whole display, then get jumped in the parking lot by people casing the place.
The shitty part is, these are scalpers doing the “buy for$1, sell for $2” way of making money. The cards aren’t being bought by children who enjoy Pokémon. They’re being bought by adults trying to make extra cash in a niche market with no regulations that’s a complete black hole and a total void.
Oh yea i saw that in tiktok with the new pokemon cards, sometimes they dont even make a profit because they take too long to sell them.
Not those, but I’ve seen vids of people walking into target and just grabbing entire fresh displays and taking them directly the register. Pretty messed up.
