(◕‿◕✿) Ola 🦨 @OlaHime@queer.af

Creative Commons is now in on the NFT scam. The tech industry has really lost any moral compass it may still have had. (via https://twitter.com/davidgerard/status/1463950773570654218?s=21)

Saw someone say that dial-up wasn't "usable".

The modern web is the one that is unusable. You open a blank website and it has 478 trackers and runs some javascript heavier than Windows XP.

Some 7 years ago I've been doing rounds, visiting libraries and schools in small towns and villages in Poland, as part of a project aimed at inspiring kids from outside of big cities to do interesting things with their lives (I was talking about hacker culture, for example).

Today I am still receiving occasional seasonal greetings from some of those libraries.

And... it's nice, you know? It's just some nice people from a tiny library somewhere saying hi.

Librarians rock. Libraries rock.

@rysiek Librarians should be running everything https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/qwf7mo/if_this_isnt_lspace_i_dont_know_what_is/

remember that you are all valid, while I am asleep! 💜

gentoo (gender tool)

Hey everyone, great news, John Deere decided to get behind right-to-repair in a big way!

You know, if that law forbidding gatherings with the goals like “propagating homosexuality” actually passes in Poland, there’s only one good option: BE GAY, DO CRIME

@tursiops it's incomparable. Comparing NFTs to physical art is dangerous, I feel, as it adds credibility: "see, you *can* own art".

It erases the mental jump between owning a physical object and sharing its apparition on one hand, and "owning" a digital image and sharing its copy.

And that's a huge difference that needs not be erased.

finally

@rysiek i don't think NFTs can really do that. if they really can, than only as a tiny extension of the plague called intellectual property. i'd wish people were more vocal about _that_ instead.

im my filter bubble, i've never seen a positive mention of them. but i've seen a redfash wanting "all coinbros on the wall" 🙄…

and like technically NFTs aren't really about claiming ownership of artworks, it's more of a solution waiting for a problem.

Apparently Reddit are in the process of turning karma into an ERC-20 token, and my primary thought is

Great, exactly what everyone wanted, an obligation to report every up/downvote they receive to their accountant

@varve copyright in digital era is a broad, complicated subject.

It's what enables CC By-SA and GPL/AGPL (that is: copyleft) licenses to exist and be effective.

On the other hand, in its current form, copyright *creates* the problem of orphaned works, forces artists into the hands of huge gatekeepers, and locks culture down under corporate control.

Rights of *individual* artists need to be respected, but copyright needs to be reformed and brought into the 21st century.

tl;dr #NFT bros are entitled pricks who demand that their misguided understanding of technology is shared by everyone, just because they put their money in this crap.

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Take-away: this is laughable, but also dangerous -- they must not be allowed to normalize shunning the "right clickers" or demanding NFTs are treated as "proof of ownership" or whatever.

#NFT

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