o7___o7

Dude is straight up Evil Cooper from Season 3 of Twin Peaks, but without the charisma.

Mr. Beast ends the Cambodian Civil War with this one weird trick the CIA doesn't want you to know about.

I've heard the theory that dumb youtube-face impresses the algorithm itself, somehow. This causes the videos to surface at a higher rate, which leads to more eyeballs (but with a layer of indirection) even though no human actually prefers it. Sort of a reverse-slop situation.

ok

We've attained douchebag escape velocity

lol can't disagree!

Sammy wants to be called "President and CEO of the World."

This is Elon-tier shit.

Posting the abstract, because it's solid gold and deserves attention.

Abstract

This paper explores how so-called ‘Web3’ blockchain projects are materially and socially constituted. A blockchain is an append-only distributed database. The technology is being hyped as applicable for a whole range of industries, social service provisions, and as a fix for economic disparities in communities left behind by mainstream financial systems. Drawing on case studies from our ongoing research we explain how, despite being virtual, Web3 projects are dependent on clearly defined spaces of production from which they derive their speculative value. We conceptualise this relationship as Crypto/Space, where space and blockchain software are mutually constituted. We consider how Crypto/Spaces are produced in three ways: 1) how project developers are adopting a parasitic relationship with host locations to appropriate energy, infrastructure, and local resources; 2) how projects enable ‘virtual land grabs’ where developers are engaging in land acquisitions, and associated displacement of local people, with no real intention to use the land for the declared purpose; and 3) how blockchain technology and speculative finance imaginaries are inspiring new anarcho-capitalist crypto-utopian ‘Exit zones’, often in the Global South. Far from being a zero-sum virtual game world, we argue that cryptocurrency projects are parasitic, often requiring predation on poor and otherwise marginalised communities to appropriate resources, onboard new users and enable favourable regulation.

It's a bit of a stretch

Did you know that cows have best friends and watch sunsets?

It's a reference to the hidden lore of the Elder Days.

We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem

--bagholders, probably