Such a long volcanic eruptions! According to the Book of Revelation, this can only mean that the Apocalypse is near!
Well, I'm ready. My standard Halloween costume is small painted goatee and an ID tag that says "666" (which is supposedly a code that refers to Nero).Such a long volcanic eruptions! According to the Book of Revelation, this can only mean that the Apocalypse is near!
I just read something that claimed that excess and/or heavy rain (Hawaii has been getting a lot of it) erodes the cooled lava caps over craters and helps trigger eruptions. I guess it could be.
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I often have thought about that possibility, that someone copies one of our stories (they are even openly available for non-members), for publishing it under his or her own name, and make money of it. Difficult for us to claim the authorship, without exposing ourselves publically.Hey has anyone heard of NFT’s? (Non Fungible Tokens, yeah I don’t get it either)
The reason I ask is that it seems to be a new way for talentless greedy asshats to make money out of genuinely creative people. Artists upload their work for free, for the joy of sharing it with others, and then some dingbat comes along and “monetises” it (without permission), selling an NFT of the artwork for profit while the artist gets nothing.
I read about it on DeviantArt, who now offer a service that scans the internet for NFT’s of your work, letting you know if someone is making money out of you without your knowledge.
One artist I follow on DA “Lipatov” is snowed under with NFT reports
Status by Lipatov on DeviantArt
Amazing isn’t it?
Indeed I have - they're a bit like Scottish baronies, that you can buy any time on the internet - they give you no rights, powers or privileges whatsoever beyond the right to say whatever it is, it's yours and no-one else's. As far as poems, artworks etc., the 'value' of the NFT has evidently little or nothing to do with the quality of the work, everything to do with the social media 'celebrity' of its 'creator'. This short piece from a recent TLS back page gives the idea:
Ridiculous! My limericks are worth far more than that!!
This all sounds like cryptocurrency, another newfangled concept that I don’t understand but nevertheless suspect is a giant scam.
Interesting to add to my current title as Count!
Then you would be the “Laird von Kreuzigung”Interesting to add to my current title as Count!
I read on internet than you can purchase a Scottish barony for only 50 dollars. Well, it is just a symbolic square foot, but that's enough to put a cross on, right?
I’m beginning to get the idea that the whole NFT thing was dreamt up by lawyers to drum up more work. It certainly seems likely to keep them busy for however many years it is until people realise the whole thing is ridiculous, and condemn it to the same legal purgatory as Rotten Boroughs. That’s my take on it anyway, and like any of my opinions, it is available to purchase as a non-fungible token, at a very affordable price.Non Fungible Tokens made easy
The concept of Non Fungible Tokens opens up some new, exciting possibilities in the art world. Take, for example, Alice's kilt from her latest picture. I am considering the prospect of offering this rare item for sale by auction, in the form of an NFT. This means the winning bidder will have possession of the original kilt, as it appears in the picture. I can confirm that the original was created by manipulating four pieces of a single visual component to repair the waist, preserve the vertical fringe, and move the visible pleats to the opposite side. The various cuts, transforms, distorts and filter treatments on this item consumed about four hours of my time, so I reckon it's worth at least a reserve price of £20 at auction, and a sale estimate upwards of £25.
This is one of Lulie MacAlister's kilts, and since Lulie is a character created by @Eulalia, the author may feel inclined to challenge my right of possession of items from her wardrobe - quite understandably. The garment in question is a good example of a vintage, army surplus, Highland Light Infantry 'Other Ranks' kilt. This is in authentic HLI MacKenzie tartan, woven in heavy weight wool and pleated to stripe, according to regimental tradition.
The components for the kilt were sourced from a digital image on Flickr, which is probably not currently the subject of an NFT. Whilst manipulated in a transformative way, the kilt started out as a bunch of pixels, and in spite of the description above, in its current form it remains a bunch of pixels. So the winning bid will purchase a bunch of pixels in the unique order that I have placed them. Significantly, possession of the original kilt gives no control over copying the item, and since it appears in this post as a transparent png file, anybody can download and copy it as often as they like, and use it however they please. The NFT applies only to the original item and not to any copies thereof. In fact, I am looking forward to seeing whole regiments of linkies appropriately attired.
At this point I should also state the disclaimer that I do not actually own Alice, or any copyrights of her original images, so I cannot offer her for sale as an NFT - although some unscrupulous fraudsters might do so. Therefore, as always, caveat emptor.
I guess it’s one of those “Wild West” bubbles that will make a few people very rich before it gets shut down.
I’m beginning to get the idea that the whole NFT thing was dreamt up by lawyers to drum up more work. It certainly seems likely to keep them busy for however many years it is until people realise the whole thing is ridiculous, and condemn it to the same legal purgatory as Rotten Boroughs. That’s my take on it anyway, and like any of my opinions, it is available to purchase as a non-fungible token, at a very affordable price.
I had to look that up, cobber. Struth!
Can’t you speak Pom for a change?Wow, no I did not see that. I’m very struck by this bit: “The NFT was instantly snapped up by an automated account - and put back on sale at nearly $250,000.” The buying is done by bots as well, in fact the whole thing seems to be automated, with humans only intervening to make such fat-fingered mistakes or to extract money. I don’t understand it either but people who know more about economics than I do seem to be hinting that it’s dodgy as f*ck.I guess you saw this yesterday:
Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3,000 instead of $300,000
A "fat fingered" typing error seems to have cost an NFT dealer more than $250,000.www.bbc.co.uk
I get completely baffled by the whole concept. It seems like a parallel universe and I just hope there is never an easy interface with the real world that we all live in here
), but they have at least taken steps against this form of copyright theft.And this bit just blows my mind…I guess you saw this yesterday:
Bored Ape NFT accidentally sells for $3,000 instead of $300,000
A "fat fingered" typing error seems to have cost an NFT dealer more than $250,000.www.bbc.co.uk
I get completely baffled by the whole concept. It seems like a parallel universe and I just hope there is never an easy interface with the real world that we all live in here
