swlabr

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[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

Absolutely no one could have predicted this

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 2 points 1 month ago

I imagine that from a exec's perspective, this is a slam dunk. He's got three other film adaptations of his books, the blind side (problematic), moneyball (loved it), and the big short (also loved it). Plus, people can't help but fawn over these techbro billionaires, especially when they are depicted in film.

obligatory if books could kill ep, including transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2040953/episodes/14994036-going-infinite-michael-lewis-takes-on-sam-bankman-fried

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 1 month ago

$1T-worth

Ahhh yes. After putting all my money into blockchain I’d forgotten how to count that low

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago

The only youtubers I like are the creatives that have side gigs and alternate sources of income. It’s almost as if having youtube as your main source of income corrupts your incentives to the point of moral bankruptcy, OR, the only people that can have youtube/social media be the money maker are morally bankrupt to begin with. If only we had more data on this!!!

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

IDK he seems like he’d be more likely to give them to CIA backed radicals in the middle east, or israel

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago

I had heard a bunch of positive press about him (the trees stuff, etc.) but didn’t look into him because why should I care about a youtuber? Then I found out he was part of the ghost kitchen craze and was selling candy bars. I saw his face on a supermarket standee and thought: that is mason verger after consulting a PR firm. That’s the pre-evolution of mitch mcconnell. Of course he does squid game shit to entertain children.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

To signal their foray into NFTs they should drop the FT from the name. Ubiso. Short for, U should Bi So lucky we make any games for you at all, peasant.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago

Maybe get them to fight by suggesting the involvement of a bank implies the crypto is becoming centralised and defeating its own purpose? The depth of my buttcoin knowledge is lacking so there might be a better wedge to use.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

HIGHER you insufferable twats. So much Higher.

Who does this guy think he is? Creedy McCreedson? Lead singer of Creed?

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Sub Elon tier, as Elon would call it 『ZA WARUDO』.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I feel like calling this supervillain shit elevates Ol’ Salty too much.

[–] swlabr@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago

I don’t get it. Is this a spartacus situation or a stolen valour situation? Just claiming satoshi-nature isn’t enough to acquire satoshi’s-wallet-nature.

 

This is somewhat tangential to the usual fare here but I decided to make a post because why not.

I’ve been listening to the back catalog of the Judge John Hodgman podcast, and this ep came up. This ep is the second crypto based case after “crypto facto” in ep 333.

John Hodgman is a comedian, probs best known for being the “I’m a PC” guy in the “I’m a Mac” ad campaign from ancient times. In the podcast, he plays a fake judge that hears cases and makes judgements. In this ep, “Suing for Soul Custody,” he hears a case in which a husband wants to sell his soul on the blockchain, while his wife does not want him to do that.

Some good sneers against the crypto bro husband (in both this case and the other I linked). Brief spoilers as to the rulings in case you don’t want to listen:

333Judge rules that the husband should continue to mine ETH until his rig burns down his house.

556Judge rules that the guy shouldn’t sell his soul, for symbolic reasons.

Note: I like John Hodgman. He’s funny. He’s not really inside the tech space, but he is good friends with Jonathan Coulton, who is. If all you know of him is the “I’m a PC” ads, he has an entertaining wider catalogue worth checking out.

 

On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin.

Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9

 

Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU.

I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.

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VoughtCoin (the-boys.fandom.com)
 

TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. They occasionally tweet about it.

It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.

 

As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.

 

The video game in question:

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