This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Clever assholes convinced fools that they had "the next big thing". The "smarter fools" realized the problem and offloaded their losses onto greater fools, a considerable portion of which are now wondering how to catch an even greater fool than themselves.
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Bored Apes Yacht Club is run by nazis prove me wrong
Don't know, don't care. NFTs are a scam, and that's enough reason for me to avoid them. Well, that and the art is fugly.
shocked Pikachu
What happened to the influencer guy. He started out selling alcohol or something and then had random videos where he bamboozes someone doing a house clearance and got excited for making 36 dollars off a box of toys, then went on to shill the ever fuck of fungible tokens, it's the future.
Gary z? Gary V?
Don't spread knowledge of grifters, the sooner they fade out of collective memory the better. The opposite gives them views and helps them.
not f'n there
I will sleep well tonight.
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I'm just gonna plug The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith. Really clear, funny, sarcastic writing that is highly relevant here. The kind of economics I wish there was a whole lot more of; the Samuelson program with its assumptions of rationality and perfect knowledge has been a disaster.
Free at
https://static.fnac-static.com/multimedia/PT/pdf/9780241468081.pdf
Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds is also a great on-topic read:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/24518/24518-h/24518-h.htm
The chapter about asset bubbles obviously, but there's also a chapter about the historical catchphrases of London that shows that circlejerk shitposting has always been part of humanity... Yesteryear's "What a perfectly dreadful hat" is today's Stroganoff.
What is today's Stroganoff? This is like the third time I've heard a reference to Stroganoff this week, but they don't seem connected, just like everyone's talking about Stroganoff all of a sudden.
