Sorry but who the fuck attends the “Bored Ape Conference”?
Thankfully a bunch of deuche bros
Techbros
Boring apes?
Laughing at these people for getting their retinas burned like I see many people do (not just here) is in really bad taste imo. Even cryptobros don’t deserve that.
“Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.” ― Charles Bukowski
Which is saying something, coming from him.
ChinaskiBukowski did not have a high opinion of humans, in general.
Sounds like somebody accidentally bought some germicidal bulbs instead of regular black light. Not the first time this has happened. See BigClive’s videos on the topic.
Come to think of it, Radioactive Man looks kinda like he could be a differently coloured “bored ape”
Who’d have thought that a group of conmen would skimp on safety to make some money… I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
It’s more likely to be down to incompetence. I can’t imagine the party UV lights are more expensive than the fuck-you-up UV lights.
EDIT: Someone else mentioned these might’ve been used during COVID for sanitation, and are extremely cheap leftover wares now that the pandemic is “over”, which would actually make them a lot cheaper.
Misread this as Concerned Ape and became… Concerned. And also mad I didn’t know there was a convention.
No this is not our Lord of Stardew :) These are actual dumb people that think NFT’s are a good idea and went to a conference for them. Ick.
To be fair the idea behind nft’s is great when its about tracking a commodity, item or piece of information.
Its making them “THE” commodity that is cringe levels of stupid.
I still hope that one day press will have professional onlines cameras generating an nft with location, time and camera id for every piece of footage. No more fake news with misused imagery.
Right, it’s sad how nfts are just a joke now because of the worst possible execution of what an nft could do/be became a massive scam
I get what you want, I mostly fail to see how NFTs help there either. If a digital camera is generating the SHA256 or whatever that even links to the video file (and this would only work for the RAW, not even compressed for transmission data), then it’s a computer generating the data. I don’t really see why you couldn’t just have a computer generate a “fake camera” - it’s not like you’re going to be able to audit all the cameras a news org uses, and it’d be easy for someone to say they “lost” a camera, or it was stolen or whatever. And for the user submitted stuff from smartphones or their video cameras … etc.
The problem with NFTs is always the link to the actual thing IMO. There’s just no cryptographic way to link a physical item or anything that doesn’t itself fit on the chain, nor is there a way to verify the original claims input that’s outside the blockchain - i.e. it’ll verify when the NFT was uploaded to the chain, but not when the video was taken. There’s no obvious way for the blockchain to validate the GPS data provided (or not) by the camera that took the video etc.
Please, don’t post paywalled content.
It was paywalled after I posted it! Here’s a link that’s unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
lol
Does anyone have the full article?
No, but there are.many other articles covering the topic if you search for it, e.g.
Not a particularly surprising sort of capstone to finish off this whole stupid NFT thing.
Sorry this link has been paywalled for some people after I posted. Here’s an article that is unrestricted https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/6/23948464/bored-ape-nft-event-eye-injury-sunburn-uv-exposure
reminds me of the Blade movie https://youtu.be/KZnb8InfpHI?t=42
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Not sure why you were voted down, because I feel the exact same way. No one should have to suffer vision loss from a public event, horrifying.
The sentiment is fine but ‘retard’ is a slur the way it’s used here, that’s probably why.
Wait… What?
You have to read the article to understand the headline. Intense, I know.
My man the article is behind a brick of cookie permissions and then a paywall. The “What” is more than warranted
Perhaps you’re on desktop and it’s different? I get the first three paragraphs or so.
So you haven’t read it yet either then XD
I’d love to, but the text fades out after the first paragraph and is replaced with “This post is for members only.”
I think you get the picture. I did.
That’s one sign of a bad headline.
What is going on in the world?
It’s like I blinked and then… This headline existed.
that’s what you get
