Mastodawn

I love this post so much. For every ordinary person who might have briefly got a win out of crypto back in the day, you have multitudes more who just use it to scam and steal and control. #FuckCrypto

George Smiley Apr 14

#FUCKcrypto #DEFUNDcryptoBros www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/w...

Brazil Has a New Digital Spend...

Brazil’s Homegrown Payment System Is Target of Trump Administration

Brazil’s fast and free homegrown digital payment system, PIX, has become wildly popular. The Trump administration says it unfairly undercuts U.S. companies.

The New York Times

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George Smiley Apr 14

#FuckCrypto

Harry “Snapper” Organs Mar 19

Ah yes, the 2008 financial crisis. Which was caused by loosening the rules put in place after the Great Depression. And we need to lift them now because it’s getting really hard to find retail buyers of magic beans. #FuckCrypto

Democracy Matters

Mar 18

Tech bros will kill us. If we let them.

Paul Kingsnorth argues technocratic civilization is not merely misguided but malevolent. Blame "the Machine"
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-cassandra-of-the-machine

#FuckCrypto #FuckPalantir #FuckMETA #FuckElon #FuckBezos #FuckOracle #USPol

The Cassandra of ‘The Machine’

Paul Kingsnorth’s critique of technologized modernity is frustratingly broad. That doesn’t mean he’s wrong.

The New Atlantis

George Smiley Mar 5

#FuckCrypto #FuckCrimeCoin #SmashTheOligarchy

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Alexander Janßen Feb 17

The most unrealistic Scoobie Doo episode ever: "It was a Crypto Bro all along!!"

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/

#FuckAI #FuckCrypto

The obnoxious GitHub OpenClaw AI bot is … a crypto bro

On 9 February, the Matplotlib software library got a code patch from an OpenClaw bot. One of the Matplotlib maintainers, Scott Shambaugh, rejected the submission — the project doesn’t accept AI bot…

Pivot to AI

George Smiley Jan 9

#FuckCrypto #FuckIce

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