Yeah lol I think I could probably store all the NFTs ever made in their 512x512 png or whatever on my SSD if I converted them to webp or something. It’s ironic that the technological approach to resiliency wasn’t pursued because as you said, that was never the point of NFTs

Vivian Wilson is awesome. Someone who disowned him and isn’t afraid to actively call him out on his bullshit.

Also kickbacks, don’t forget the kickbacks

Yeah I’m sure somewhere in the AT&T datacenters I saw some server or printer or something labelled MS-13

Thanks for the succinct explanation. For anyone looking for a solid explanation of the whole timeline I’d recommend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLiLRVeaZA

1. Derivative
2. Bullshit
3. This I love
4. Derivative
5. Bullshit

lol how the fuck did Wikipedia’s editors let this self serving bullshit fly

Streeting’s two grandfathers, both named Bill, were key figures in his youth. His maternal grandfather, Bill Crowley, was acquainted with the infamous East End Krays. He was “really well-read and well-informed”, and engaged his grandson in lively discussions about religion and politics. Streeting’s paternal grandfather served in the Second World War in the Royal Navy and later in the merchant navy before becoming a civil engineer. He recalled: “He was the grandad I was closest to. He was a traditional working-class Tory.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wes_Streeting

lol “I identify as an NFT.” “People covet me, somehow I’m worth money, but I actually produce nothing and the value I have is an idea in people’s heads yet somehow there’s effort being produced around me.”

Ah yes, “my god(s) that I made up is better than your god(s) that you made up”

Yeah the PDF category is weird / lacking. LibreOffice Draw and Inkscape can both edit PDFs and are missing as well. Xodo looks like some mobile app only or SaaS product.

Edit: Xodo does have a free desktop PDF reader but seems like they’re certainly focused on selling their subscription based PDF editor

Not to mention in a time of increasing fascism and class divide she did a publicity stunt for a man that is actively supporting the increase in fascism. The stunt could almost be boiled down to “none of you will be able to do this but you should root for the wealthy like me who can, and enjoy it secondhand on your little screens like good little workers.”

Supporting space exploration and improvements to technology through something like NASA or the ESA is one thing. Supporting privatized spaceflight for the world’s wealthy elite is another

it’s social media algorithms that got us here

Definitely, but those that were pumped with money for fake ads to convince idiots to vote for destruction

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

It was the combination of hyper-capitalism and the Russian playbook to destabilize the west that got us here.

Yeah and you can buy a hat to show your support for the regime

https://www.trumpstore.com/product/trump-2028-hat/

This dude is definitely driving a truck, he’s got a camo hat on the dash, he’s taking photos of a receipt while driving. And he posts shit like this

This dude is doing 90 on the highway and switching lanes last minute while tailgating people, he’s definitely not cruising below the speed limit

This was always such a hilarious thing about most NFTs. They didn’t store your image on the blockchain. They stored a URL. So for your “ownership” to matter at all it required the TLD being active under ICANN, the TLD still being registered to the company that sold the NFT, the TLD still pointing to DNS servers that were active. The DNS servers pointing to working content servers. The servers routing incoming connections and serving your stupid monkey image. The servers not being overloaded with requests for your stupid monkey image. Hence why they are using CDNs. The amount of Dunning Kruger in people obsessed with cryptocurrency/nfts/whatever grift is next is hilarious. Somehow it’s the solve of all of our currency problems and yet it’s never done much beyond allow grifters to grift and money to be laundered.

It’s always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

Great read, thanks for sharing. The specific permalink for those confused arriving at a page of links:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/#are-more-equal-than-others

So valuable to the point that if anyone, billionaire or invading nation tries to take over, they literally have self destruct built in

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmcs-euv-machines-are-equipped-with-a-remote-self-destruct-in-case-of-an-invasion