The Unclear Impact

If you’re working on creating artificial scarcity, may I just say from the bottom of my heart, fuck you, stop doing that like some fucking psychopath and go fix some real problems to improve people’s lives instead of fucking them up even more.

Thank you.

htop shows 15 GiB of shared memory used (violet bar) and I don’t know why

needless to say, the SHR values of any running process (or even their sum) is much lower

@yaaps Oh, it said SJW verbatim. The ad looked more like they’re trying to hire someone to make fun of on camera (or, more charitably, hire an actor who plays a leftist person being made fun of).

The ad copy also had “liberal-leftist” in it, which is absolutely not ‘left-libertarian’ in this context, but was made into a common slur a few news cycles ago against anyone not at least in full agreement with the ruling Fidesz party. Politicians tend to use it as a though-ending cliché even against other right-wing politicians, which is quite surreal.

I can’t believe that the webpage of the ancap party in Hungary has both the Atlas statue from the Rockefeller Center and the Gadsen flag (with a helpful link to the Wikipedia page on the Gadsen flag ). didn’t Ayn Rand hate liberatarians, or something? I hope Poe’s law would strike again, but most likely they are grifting for campaign money or just even dumber than a usual ancap.

(someone posted a screenshot of and ad to reddit where they were looking to hire an sjw for a campaign film. like… what?)

@cadadr @rysiek monetization is of course nothing new – but the thing ‘web3’ is about (even openly) feels not like selling something (that can ordinarily be sold, but not necessarily, e.g., language skills), but more like introducing money into a context it has never been before, like when banqueting the yields was replaced with grain markets. But I’m probably mistaken, since plenty of digital services are already monetized, and ‘web3’ projects would likely bring only a quantitative, rather than qualitative change in this regard. Existing kinds of labor relations, just more widespread.

Financialization, on the other hand, specifically turning labor into a financial instrument to be traded… the Aixe Infinity case study from the video was eye-opening. The ‘pay-to-earn’ (with heavy scare quotes) game recreated early capitalist structure, but with none of the underlying production. The tokens are just transparently means of ‘production’ (owned by capitalists and producing nothing at all, but nevertheless requiring the input of laborers). This looks like a qualitative change that creates new kinds of labor relations, sucking up people’s free time with nothing of use in return.

@rysiek Another striking point made was that the end goal of NTFs and web3 is the financialization of all things.

I had this bad feeling that web3 and ‘metaverse’ projects are aiming at turning every human interaction into a transaction, adding micro-transactions and grind to all small acts that should be about aid and gratitude. But, as Folding Ideas notices, the actual goal is much worse: It not only injects money (monetization) into every interaction, but also makes them tradeable for the sole benefit of a speculative investor class.

@rysiek Another good quote later is, "The end product is a self-organizing high control group."

This NFT explainer, linked here already by many, is amazingly good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

That said, this sentence is just art:
> This is what makes [NFT] enthusiasts so deeply unreliable: they have meaningful financial stakes in an intangible, volatile thing that exists entirely as a collective ideoform.

I promise the rest of the video is very clear and easy to understand, cuts through the bullshit like knife through butter. But that sentence... that sentence is *dense*.

so, the only morale of the story is that you shouldn’t work with TERFs, not only beacause they are insufferable with marginalized people, but they are also insufferable generally?

if you ever prepare a replication package for a paper, make sure you don’t accidentally swap the labels for your own tool and the baseline.

artifact evaluators, like me, will be extremely puzzled why your claims hold in reverse

@robby @Night_king @calculsoberic it’s time to become evil, then

I’m reading a software engineering paper that inexplicable talks about “accursed” data instead of “acquired” data

not sure if Bataille fans, or just failing at copyediting