I miss the days when NFTs were the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

[faraiwe@mstdn.social]

@guffo 😓

[rupert@mastodon.nz]

@perigee @guffo @zzt it's certainly the same people pushing them.

[zoonpolitikon@theforkiverse.com]

@guffo I dunno, the stupidity of NFTs still hold up for me. It’s literally owning numbers associated with a thing that gives you no special rights or uses to that thing. The purest possible grift. Does anything really beat that?

AI is infuriating, and causes lots of harm, but I don’t think its main vice is that its a dumb idea.

[bonsai@hachyderm.io]

@guffo It's never a good thing when the actual inventor of the tech publicly proclaims "Don't use it! That's not what I was trying to do.". https://www.anildash.com/2021/11/14/i-didnt-invent-nfts-but-we-dont-really-have-any-other-way-to-talk-about-tech/

[noeizumi@mastodon.social]

@guffo haven't seen a f****** Monkey with a hat in five years.

[lfzz@mastodon.social]

@guffo if the day wasnt dark enough: imagine what will come next!

[lironah@mstdn.games]

@guffo Ouch

[beldarak@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tezoatlipoca @guffo

It looks like some crypto-bro read Marx books while high af and tried to apply it while keeping capitalism at a maximum. Wtf ?! :D

[black_flag@beige.party]

@guffo Stupid people can always scrape further down the barrel.

[donutage@mastodon.social]

@guffo Oof, same.

[bituur_esztreym@pouet.chapril.org]

@guffo ooh.. good ol'times. such laughs.. at least it was funny.

[damonwakes@mastodon.sdf.org]

@Zoonpolitikon @guffo Yeah, as annoying as the AI hype is, the technology at least does something where NFTs were obviously, colossally pointless. Even if AI is worse all round, it's not as dumb.

[dirtwizard666@cyberpunk.lol]

@guffo I feel like "Trump's social media company is now in the nuclear fusion business" is my current "stupidest thing I've ever heard of".

[deepmud@mas.to]

@guffo sometimes, I wonder if I drank enough alcohol, would I feel better about this crap. Then I remember that I have migraine, and I realize I'd just be substituting one pain for another. 😬😶

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@rupert @perigee @guffo @zzt Same datacenters too

[themnwolf@furry.engineer]

@guffo I miss the days when Crystal Clear Pepsi was the stupidest thing I'd ever heard of.

[giliell@mastodon.social]

@guffo Tamagotchi. Can we go back to that?

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@Zoonpolitikon @guffo You don't even own numbers. You cannot apply intellectual property regulations to 42 or pi.

You own a number in a specific system that assigns numbers.

[rpsu@mas.to]

@guffo I’d like to see it being the stupidest thing ever again, but there is so much competition now.

[henrik@eliitin-some.fi]

@guffo

Is there already NFT-as-a-service, where you can only rent the NFTs? With absurd price of course.