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    2021: Your favourite music

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    this was one of my favorites from last year and I don't think I saw it posted here or on watmm. Chain Reaction meets rave put through vaporwave filters because it's made by a kid born in 1999 (!) I think the CD even came in a metal tin. Lots of fun with some great builds and emotions.

     

    What a world it is.... 

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    Brian Eno Slams NFTs: “Now Artists Can Become Little Capitalist Assholes As Well”

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    13 hours ago, auxien said:

    there is definitely a difference between most pieces of art, be they physical or digital (or whatever) and an NFT. NFTs are not ownership of...anything. they're a receipt that says you own a thing that you do not own in any traditional sense of the word. 

    a stupid physical turntable that costs 11k can be picked up, used, held, broken, thrown into a lake, looked at, resold, etc. you can create one million NFTs that all say 'i own the picture of Aphex Twin that someone took in an airplane where he's dropping a USB drive" and sell it to one million different people and they all have the exact same rights to that image, which is fucking none.

    NFTs only exist to prop up bullshit crypto scam culture to try and drag real cash into the fake markets they're creating from whole cloth. they're 100% scams and anyone who doesn't see that doesn't understand them. or is just an asshole.

    this sounds like you're getting mad at people wasting their money on something stupid like an NFT. I'm of the opinion that they can waste their money on whatever they want. I'm certainly not buying any, but i'm also not buying a hyper exclusive record or turntable that i'll never open or use. Sneakerheads are far more pathetic than NFT nerds to me, esp because of the geopolitical situation that sneakers are created under- ie tremendously exploitative labor conditions in the global south.

     

    Can you explain more why this is "100% a scam" ? I have friends who are digital artists and now feel they can sell their legitimate art on a worldwide marketplace and receive compensation commensurate to physical media artists for the first time. The NFT blockchain system, however flawed, is allowing that. Personally I think that is kind of interesting and something new. They are not scamming anyone, they are selling their art. Of course there are grifters making dumb meme nft shit but there are grifters everywhere and in every market. 

     

    I think a lot of people who think crypto is a scam or is "dragging real cash into fake markets" has simply tuned out or ignored the immense levels of grift, theft, scamming and bullshit that is *already* happening in every other market in the entrenched world of global capitalism. The NFT "scams" are a drop in the ocean in comparison to the rampant, legal (!) money laundering in the government defense contract world. Or pharma. or subprime mortgages. or literally anything else. super boomer energy to get mad at crypto and NFTs when our world is literally defined by corporate grift

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    Brian Eno Slams NFTs: “Now Artists Can Become Little Capitalist Assholes As Well”

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    yeah literally no difference between the turntable and a piece of digital art. why is that so hard to understand for people? I'm not some sort of over-zealous freak about crypto and NFTs but there is just as much silly fuss against them as for them. The only remotely convincing argument about NFTs are the environmental impacts but now I wonder what are the embodied carbon emissions for one of those turntables vs one NFT on the ETH blockchain. I've studied co2 in shipping and supply chains for construction goods and it's never a good look to claim a digital item is somehow less "green" that one made entirely of plastic and expensive metals and shipped all over the world lol

     

    I suppose he's objecting to many speaking about NFTs on investment terms instead of artistic ones and I understand that. I would like to direct him to the art market of the last... i don't know.. 100 years? 

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    GAS - Der Lange Marsch

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    there should be a term for this old dinosaurs of the industry like WV or Tom whose ears are probably just shot to complete shit in their advancing age and as a result their new music has totally wack mixing choices. Beethoven effect? Although I would say that Beethoven got better as he went deaf...

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    Films Recently Watched

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    On 11/23/2021 at 4:00 PM, AnwarAutokino said:

    couldn't agree more, definitely wright's worst. a meandering, pointless mess, topped off with a boring and laughable finale.

    i think getting kicked off ant man ruined edgar wrights life somehow. which is pretty funny in a sad sort of way.

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