https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg5az/the-quest-to-put-bitcoin-in-mouse-dna-with-a-genetically-engineered-virus

After namechecking artist Eduardo Kac’s genetically engineered phosphorescent rabbits, BitMouseDAO then rambles about how cool it will be to make a living thing into literal money. “We have tied the value of the mouse directly to Bitcoin, and it will fluctuate with the daily value of Bitcoin,” they said. “Maybe in ten years it will be worth $100 million, or maybe it will be worth nothing.”

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    it could just be the internet exposing stupidity that was always there, but there's also the possibility that we genuinely are all getting progressively more brain damaged from the various poisons capitalists dump everywhere - we already know about the effects of leaded gasoline, there's ongoing study about the cognitive effects of air pollution, there's microplastics everywhere and who knows what they're doing to us, it's potentially pretty grim.