Just screaming into the void at this point.
Good luck getting your name/gender changed now.
Good luck changing your name if you're trying to get away from abusive people.
They did it. The nerds finally did it. A fucking permanent record like what teachers used to hold over kids' heads, but fucking real this time.
This isn't the nerd's dream, this is the apple-polishing nerd's dream.
Well social credit means assholes have to fly coach , rather than being able to flaunt that you were at the Burning Man Orgy Tent™ powered by Jira & IBM for everyone to see, forever on the Blockchain.
I wanna go to the Burning Man orgy tent.
Burning Man is so funny because people spend thousands of dollars on machines and equipment made in other countries to go in to the most inhospitable desert in America and practice "radical self reliance".
I was at Burning Man 20 years ago when it was still cool art hippies and weirdos and every tent was the orgy tent. Then techbros took over and started bringing in air conditioned RVs.
I have a lot of sympathy for the nice hippies who go, but I still think it's funny when they start talking about "principles" while billionaires are flying in on private planes.
Yeah, I'm not old enough to have experienced "San Francisco", but even the changes I've seen in the bay over the last 25 years are sad to me. I can only imagine how horrifying it is to the OG hippies. I do love that the anarchist bookstore in the Haight is still holding on.
They've been saying this shit for years to be honest. They've been wanting to convert medical records, licensure, property deeds, everything into a publicly accessible thing on the blockchain and the fact that they think this is a good idea shows just how obscenely out of touch they are with reality and how these processes work.
Love to lose my entire identity permanently bc some bureaucrat contractor being paid pennies in a third world data processing center entered my name as Buttle instead of Tuttle.
There are literally entire science fiction movies that are very specifically about why this is a horrible idea.
and also... why??? there are no compelling technical arguments for doing so.
If I might spitball my generally baseless personal theory, it's that Cryptocurrency and NFTs (Especially NFTs), due to their inherent worthlessness, can only increase in value through speculative hype. Unlike a share of stock in a corporation, which is (nominally) tied to real ass transactions and the profits of a company that exists in the real world; The only possible way your completely intangible internet money/picture of a monkey could appreciate in value is if you can convince people that it's the next big thing. Investing in cryptocurrency/nfts essentially REQUIRES you to evangelize about how great they're going to be in the future because with 0 inherent backing there's nothing to actually show value. This is why so many cryptobros act like this shit is the most revolutionary invention in human history and why they make so many absurdly outlandish claims. It's the only way they can get the line to go up
Probably. I don't know, I'm not an economist. I could be making shit up here
also fight crypto scams
Literally all it's useful for. Basically they're doing a Rube Goldberg machine to flip a light switch. We shall create this convoluted scheme of dystopian digital horrors instead of just not seeking rent on stupid pixelart monkeys.
Hey guys, look, we invented digital signatures! It's a brand new thing and totally not the same as that ancient 30 year old tech some nerds might have told you about. We're businessmen now!
vitalik looks like he's a smart guy but it's all a ruse he's actually dumb as shit
mom: we have neil patrick harris at home
neil patrick harris at home:
Ethereum's cofounder says we'll soon use 'soulbound tokens' to verify things like school and employment — all stored in a 'souls' wallet
no we won't
an extremely slow, decentralized, publicly viewable, and energy intensive append-only database is not actually useful for fucking anything
techbros are all fucking unhinged
and then the old grandpa turned himself into an NFT, funniest shit I've ever seen
Honestly least dystopic and invasive tech company. Even the ones that aren't actively collecting your personal data, are reconstructing your identity from publicly available data.
this dumb motherfucker could have just been normal and rerolled to a different class until the warlock promise land aka mists of pandaria expac
Normally I think anprims are reactionary cringe but if this shit takes off I'm going to live in the woods and tear down rural power lines
