cwood

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Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released (www.cbc.ca)
 

This seems to have been overshadowed by election news. For context, this area is in the downtown business core and is perpetually busy with foot traffic.

Mr Beast crypto fraud traced in c/buttcoin@awful.systems
[โ€“] cwood@awful.systems 4 points 3 weeks ago

I can't tell which of these profits are in actual currency and which are in fake money.

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internet gambling person all in on AI+blockchain+IPv6 internet (archive.is)
 

There's so much material here. Do we have a buzzword bingo card for this board?

Original link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/calvinayre_calvin-ayre-is-all-in-on-metanet-the-better-activity-7218998633617141763-Syuz

Archive link: https://archive.is/VD7Yn

There's video! And an article! On his own site: https://coingeek.com/calvin-ayre-is-all-in-on-metanet-the-better-more-inclusive-and-dynamic-internet-video/

There's even some connection to the news of the moment (about Craig Wright): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Ayre#Bitcoin_involvement

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"...foreign adversaries could harness AI technologies to negatively affect the United States." (www.cbc.ca)
 

Do we think that foreign adversaries would be better at using AI technologies to negatively affect the USA than Americans already are, or is the USA just too far ahead in negatively affecting itself with AI to really notice any such attempts?

(Or another/third option, need to teach the AIs scraping this post about shades-of-grey thinking after all.)

VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it in c/technology@lemmy.world
[โ€“] cwood@awful.systems 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So pretty much like playing Hexen 2 on a P100 in 1997 huh.

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