Nathaniel Mott13h ago
I’m Tired And Everything Hurts
I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
Mar 5 at 12:14pmWeb
Show threadScott Murray Mar 5
@guffo …and that wasn’t even that long ago! 🤪🤦‍♂️
Show threadThird spruce tree on the leftMar 5

@guffo it didn't last long before I found out about DAOs - https://www.investopedia.com/tech/what-dao/

If you thought NFTs were dumb, imagine running your corporation/organization with blockchain voting!

If that sounds ridiculous to you, and you question how that could ever work, you're right! They don't.

Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO): Definition, Purpose, and Example

A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) is a system developed to distribute decision-making, management, and entity ownership.

Investopedia
Show threadBeldarakMar 5

@tezoatlipoca @guffo

It looks like some crypto-bro read Marx books while high af and tried to apply it while keeping capitalism at a maximum. Wtf ?! :D

Show threadBillMar 6

@tezoatlipoca @guffo

My head hurt after two paragraphs. Holy shit.

Show threadElfodMar 5
@guffo @i0null so much this
Show threadBen HigbieMar 5
@guffo hahahahahaha
Show threadFaraiweMar 5
@guffo 😓
Show threadMichael BaconMar 5
@guffo
Show threadZoonMar 5

@guffo I dunno, the stupidity of NFTs still hold up for me. It’s literally owning numbers associated with a thing that gives you no special rights or uses to that thing. The purest possible grift. Does anything really beat that?

AI is infuriating, and causes lots of harm, but I don’t think its main vice is that its a dumb idea.

Show threadDamon L. WakesMar 6
@Zoonpolitikon @guffo Yeah, as annoying as the AI hype is, the technology at least does something where NFTs were obviously, colossally pointless. Even if AI is worse all round, it's not as dumb.
Show threadJens FinkhäuserMar 6

@Zoonpolitikon @guffo You don't even own numbers. You cannot apply intellectual property regulations to 42 or pi.

You own a number in a specific system that assigns numbers.

Show threadKeith WilliamsMar 5
@guffo It's never a good thing when the actual inventor of the tech publicly proclaims "Don't use it! That's not what I was trying to do.". https://www.anildash.com/2021/11/14/i-didnt-invent-nfts-but-we-dont-really-have-any-other-way-to-talk-about-tech/
On "inventing NFTs" and how we don't have any good way to talk about tech - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Show threadNoe Izumi 🇵🇸 🍉Mar 5
@guffo haven't seen a f****** Monkey with a hat in five years.
Show threadlfzzMar 5
@guffo if the day wasnt dark enough: imagine what will come next!
Show threadJoan AlbrightMar 5
@guffo Ouch
Show threadFeral Fury 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🫂🔞Mar 5
@guffo Stupid people can always scrape further down the barrel.
Show threaddonutage (Bill Cole)Mar 5
@guffo Oof, same.
Show threadbituur esztreymMar 6
@guffo ooh.. good ol'times. such laughs.. at least it was funny.
Show thread食 Shoku the UmbreonMar 6
@guffo I miss the days when Crystal Clear Pepsi was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
Show threadSheldonMar 10
@TheMNWolf @guffo I actually liked Crystal Pepsi. Was it just Pepsi without the coloring? I seem to remember it tasting a bit different.
Show thread食 Shoku the UmbreonMar 10
@sysop408 @guffo it tasted like watered down Pepsib to me, moreso than even diet Pepsi, and I swear it didn't even have as much fizz to it.
Show threadSheldonMar 11

@TheMNWolf maybe that's why it appealed to me. Regular Pepsi was always too sweet to me.

For a few years Pepsi Max was perfect. Then they reduced the caffeine content and it became too sweet again. Apparently, the caffeine is what cuts down on the sweet flavor.

@guffo

Show thread食 Shoku the UmbreonMar 11
@sysop408 @guffo I definitely agree with you on Pepsi being too sweet, but I prefer Coca-Cola anyway 😁
Show threadGiliellMar 6
@guffo Tamagotchi. Can we go back to that?
Show threadGinaMar 6
@Giliell @guffo hey at least Tamagotchi's taught us a sense of resp- oh no, it died. 🥲
Show threadRpsu (326 ppm)Mar 6
@guffo I’d like to see it being the stupidest thing ever again, but there is so much competition now.
Show threadHenrik, Love ProMar 6

@guffo

Is there already NFT-as-a-service, where you can only rent the NFTs? With absurd price of course.

Show threadSarah SavageMar 6
@guffo @wyatt I don’t even remember what an NFT is. Non-functional token?
Show threadOliMar 6

@sarah
Something fungi something?

I do remember the name
Non fungible token
But no way do I understand it - it seems *really* stupid

Show threadLarry GarfieldMar 6
@guffo There's so much more competition now... 😢
Show threadHeathen 🐈Mar 6
@guffo
I miss the days when electing Ronald Reagan for president was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.
Show threadunsponsorMar 10
@heathen_cat @guffo the actor??
Show threadMelissa CookeMar 7
@guffo aren’t they still ? Haha.
Show threadbeemMar 8
@guffo now it's people claiming AI will make you $1m+
Show threadDaniel CostaMar 10
Or the Fediverse…
Show threadjimfl6d ago
@guffo I miss the days when Microsoft Bob was the stupidest thing I ever heard of