i've spent the last 6 months mad about nfts. and i guess i finally got mad enough to write it all down. ->
https://everestpipkin.medium.com/but-the-environmental-issues-with-cryptoart-1128ef72e6a3
"Game makers have not abandoned these toxic masculine fantasies, but have just become much more adept at walking this line between satire and indulgence, catering to audiences that essentially still want Duke Nukem but wrapping them in the plausible deniability of a much more sophisticated self-awareness."
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdvxb/the-hidden-destructive-legacy-of-duke-nukem
Feelings of productivity-related guilt, shame, and exhaustion originate from the idea that people who do more are worth more. This conflation of hard work and moral worth is used as justification for exploitative labor practices and to stigmatize people who receive public assistance.
https://humanparts.medium.com/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01
we very easily accept that surveillance is the price to be paid for using technology, and that’s messed up
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From all of my sadness
The tears that I've cried, I have spent all my life "
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