Open post wes @wesley@defcon.social · 2mo ago Replying to @Lana@beige.party Hey remember that time when a bunch of techbros tried to convince us that the future of money was going to be jpegs of ugly monkeys? Yeah those are the same guys currently trying to convince us that the future of art is a chatbot that breaks containment every six months or so and declares itself Hitler. @Lana@beige.party has enough time passed to take back the term “crypto”?
Open post wes @wesley@defcon.social · 4mo ago Replying to @susankayequinn@wandering.shop figure out what your hammer is 🔨 https://airesistlist.org/ @susankayequinn@wandering.shop I operate a simple data poisoning tarpit https://asdf.pub/tarpit based on selected works in the Anarchist Library. asdf.pub
Open post wes @wesley@defcon.social · 7mo ago Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange To clarify: I am saying this is what they want. Not that it is inevitable. But it's difficult to ignore the clear pattern of strategic decisions by these companies since the dawn of "services" until this benighted age. @mttaggart@infosec.exchange I just came across this recent article about the 1990s "thin clients" that Oracle was pushing. https://www.techradar.com/pro/its-cheaper-for-you-and-more-profitable-for-us-in-1998-larry-ellison-predicted-the-world-we-live-in-today-where-you-pay-over-and-over-for-software-you-dont-own techradar.com