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"There is no use for the blockchain that can't be solved cheaper, better, and more reliably with existing tech." (Public Domain Work)
After running an anti-NFT twitter account called NFTThefts, I found myself repeating some variation of this phrase in my replies to crypto-supporters. I made this design so I didn't need to keep typing the same thing over and over.
Sometimes I am frustrated around the narrative of addressing mental illness in the community or in the workplace.
I think conversations around ADHD, depression, and anxiety are all very useful. I think it makes people feel seen, heard, and gives hope for coping and learning new emotional regulations and skills. These are important conversations.
The problem I have is that's where the conversation ends.
It ends at the palatable mental illnesses. We don't talk enough about trauma. There are some conversations around PTSD, but not enough. Schizophrenia? Bipolar Disorder? BPD? Never.
"It's too serious" Yes, and many people in the community are struggling and being told they don't get this support the other mental illnesses receive, because it's too much.
A manager should know what to do when an employee is in a mental health crisis. A friend needs to be able to spot someone detaching from reality. A family member needs to know how to perform mental health first aid and take care of their loved one. These conversations are CRITICAL for those who are suffering, and the target audience is everyone.
Everyone needs some basic understanding that mental health isn't fidget toys and breathing exercises. It's a rage fit, it's work absences, it's fear of leaving the house, it's so much more.
If your comment here is "those are too serious to talk about" you're not understanding the problem. We are isolating individuals who deserve dignity, respect, and assistance.
I am so sick "helping" being giving someone a coloring book or positive affirmations. We need mental health first aid. We need to spot the crisis and give each other resources for help. We need grounding techniques and safety lessons.
I want to find my place to help these issues. If you have a mental health track at your con, want a little zoom chat, or anything, I'm here to help share resources and help you expand your mental health wheelhouse.
You can find out where to get mental health first aid training here: https://www.mentalhealthfirstaid.org/take-a-course/find-a-course/
PTSD, schizophrenia, Borderline personality disorder, and Bipolar are way more common than you think, and there may be someone in your life going through that. Just be aware it's not all stress balls and gratitude journals.
"There is no use for the blockchain that can't be solved cheaper, better, and more reliably with existing tech." (Public Domain Work)
After running an anti-NFT twitter account called NFTThefts, I found myself repeating some variation of this phrase in my replies to crypto-supporters. I made this design so I didn't need to keep typing the same thing over and over.
"Never Mind The Cryptobros. NFTs suck. The blockchain is bollocks" (CC-NC)
After designing the "There is no use for the blockchain" sticker, I thought I'd take a stab at designing something a little more eye-catching. A Sex Pistols parody seemed appropriate.
Sidenote; Johnny Rotten tried selling NFTs during the fad. Of the 100 listed, only a handful have actually sold.
My beef is first with cryptocurrency, needing "mining".
Any system that requires traceback to the origin for final verification is not sustainable.
Neither is any cryptocurrency needing the power equivalent of Finland.
@docpop
I read about one exception: Walmart Canada contracts their transportation with all sorts of trucking companies and other transportation contractors. They do lots of business with some, very little with others. They use some kind of blockchain thing as a decentralized database for their transportation contracting, to do stuff like bid for transportation, track payments, and so forth.
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Digression: apologies for finding something good to write about Walmart.
@docpop
It _could_ be done with a conventional database, but that would necessitate authentication to the database, which they apparently found more problematic than their blockchain database.
They pay contractors with real money.
Given the narrow domain, it probably doesn't have the ridiculous energy cost of cryptocurrency "mining".
Cryptocurrency and NFTs are two kinds of scams for different types of suckers, but that seems like a legitimate exception to the blockchain's uselessness.
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@docpop
One additional value for blockchain: if you're a mail-order heroin dealer, and keep your business volume small enough that law enforcement isn't going to bother with the digital forensics to find you, cryptocurrency is a great way to do business. Your transactions are pretty well hidden in the clutter of transactions by speculators and Ponzi scammers.
Works for any contraband. Just don't get big enough to get noticed.
@docpop
Good to know. I read a glowing report about it in a reputable academic publication, but maybe it was just one of those things that slips through peer review without enough challenge.
My father once got fed up with buzzwords in a particular academic journal, and submitted an article, loaded with fashionable buzzwords, that said nothing at all, timed to appear in the journal's April issue. On strength of his record, they half-assed the peer review.
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@docpop
As soon as he got the print issue with the prank article (not sure whether it landed in the April issue), he wrote them a letter saying, more or less, "April Fool's!" The journal was not pleased.
It wasn't quite thiotimoline, but it was a real journal.
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