https://twitter.com/ExistentialEnso/status/1483170126170103809?s=20
NFT guys: "Assad must go"
Assad: :who-must-go:
Me: thank fucking god finally
this is just a duck with the Syrian flag how is that anti-Assad
Oh no... A poorly drawn duck... how will the leftists cope :squidward-nochill:
Oh fuck, oh god, I can feel it rising within me... the urge to believe that we can have infinite growth on a finite planet... the belief that Musk will save us all... the primal desire to means test... how it writhes within my head...
:hesitation-1: I'm so sorry, I have to do this
:hesitation-2: The brain worms have gotten too deep. This is a mercy.
And on the pedestal, these words appeared: "Look on my anti-Assad NFT, ye Twitter Leftists, and despair!" Nothing else remained.
Unironically, yes.
https://cryptowhale.medium.com/5-reasons-to-believe-the-deep-state-or-the-nsa-created-bitcoin-5d53a3c483f2
I just don’t think it makes sense to include in your threat model since there’s basically no way to mitigate it.
It's also good to keep in mind that even if these types of oppressive tools exist, they are not evenly accessible to all layers of government, and they do not have unlimited capacity.
Look at far more mainstream stuff like cell site spoofers that allow tracking/interception of phone traffic. Maybe your local PD has access to that, but it's not unlimited access. They're constrained by how many devices they have, how many people know how to use them, how quickly they can be fixed if an issue pops up, etc. It's a long road from practical demonstration at the highest level to common use.
The fundamental critique of any "What about the Panopticon!" paranoia. 99.9% of the time, you don't matter and nobody is going to invest the resources in watching you specifically. That said, there's layers to this kind of mass monitoring. The more flags you trip, the higher on the priority list you get.
I'm far more willing to believe that some crytographer at the NSA figured out how to do a side-hustle shilling NFTs or that an investment bank's guerrilla investing team cooked this up, than that Joe Biden's Pentagon has a Deputy Undersecretary of Bored Apes dedicated to convincing people that spending $5000 on a piece of bad digital art is a good idea.
It's just a shotgun blast aimed at "Zoomers". Doing a word-cloud of things trending on TikTok and funneling them through a warehouse in Bangalore where a sweet shop full of artists and programmers turn these out for $2/day.
So it’s been a while since I’ve been on twitter, but if I recall this person has gone from anarchist -> anarchist extremely concerned about Assad -> Wasbappin -> Elizabeth Warren stan -> Crypto dumbass?
What a journey.
In America, its a surprisingly short trip. I suspect there's a Reddit venn-diagram that puts this guy in a roiling mass of overlapping subs.
NFTs purporting to be leftist which are actually libshit
Honestly, it really could kill the NFT boom by making techbro chuds tune out
I predict that the injection of Crypto into politics will be the most hilarious thing about the next election cycle.
Replace your PACs with DAOs. Auction off NFTs of politicians acting goofy to raise revenue. Every major candidate is going to have their own Coin. Someone's going to run on declaring Crypto exempt from the income tax, guaranteed.
