What makes any art valuable other than people's shared belief that it has value?
Here's the thing about NFTs: it's more complicated than what you wrote, but you're also not wrong. There is a part of the NFT world that's all about speculation and drops and value and money. However, there's also the artist side of it. There's a very interesting space where art and technology are coalescing. People are using computers to create incredible digital art, but there's limited means to display, sell, or monitize it. Fuck the pixel apes or punks...check out some people like Zach Lieberman, Joshua Davis, Casey Reas, and Mark Dorf. These are people who are using programming, coding, augmented reality, and algorithmic functions to make beautiful dynamic and generative art. For digital artists, the NFT is a blessing; because their work is displayed in the form of video or gifs or whatever, there isn't really any way to sell it or display it, or stop anyone from just copying their stuff and sharing it. The NFT then is kind of like an artist's signature, it creates scarcity in a medium where replication is easy. You can buy a poster of Guernica by Picasso for a few bucks, but the actual Guernica is worth millions. Why? Because it's the original. NFT's are a way for artists working in the digital space to solidify an 'original' version of their work, that can be verified by anyone.
Value is completely subjective. The speculator people who are doing all these million dollar bored ape and pixelated unicorn things are actually helping digital artists by creating a precedent of value for their work and this medium. These digital artists previously had no way to monitize their digital creations, even though they're all hugely respected and revered in their fields. Now they do. The possibilities of what uses could evolve for NFT are limitless, and the whole scene is being created as we speak. NFT's could help artists license out their work to businesses that would like to use it, instead of having it stolen and not really having any recourse to prevent theft. The function of defined ownership creates scarcity, and that in turn makes the digital art world more like a microcosm of how the IRL fine art world works, except with normal people dictating the value of something as opposed to snobby high art gatekeepers.
The money aspect is the least interesting thing about NFTs, imho. Sure people do pump and dumps like they do with shit-coins, but that doesn't mean the entire technology is just a bullshit scam. The really cool thing is there's no kind of 'big picture' or direction this stuff is headed....it's so new, the applications are endless. It's fascinating to watch a bunch of people try to figure out ways this new tech can be applied, with no roadmap and no rules, inventing and creating and collaborating together...reminds me of the early days of the internet. Their communities are very supportive and enthusiastic about helping one another develop ideas and stuff.
Also: owning some original NFT from an artist on your computer may not seem like it's a big deal now, but as we migrate further into digital worlds (VR...metaverse, etc), these works and their ability to be displayed and viewed in digital spaces will make the concept of ownership make more sense. People already pay a good chunk of change for skins or accessories in video games. That is the direction we're heading, so while the NFT may seem like it lacks utility now, it may have all the utility in the world as technology and the way we interact continues to evolve
Naw. I thought that too when I saw her first videos, but then I did a deep dive on her and my takeaway was: wealthy precocious kid, unfettered access to internet (4chan culture), uninvolved parents (par for the course in Marin County, where she's from...that's the land of teenage oxycodone OD's), and I think there's some other 4chan dude she knows from online that helped her write her lil soliloquys.
This is just what happens when kids are allowed to run amok on the net with no oversight or concern from parents.
Dunno what's happened since then, or who she's gotten involved with, but when she came out initially it was organic.
It's just the angle they've decided to take to justify their lil NWO fantasy.
May be a little too 'out there' for you, but encourage you to read this 'deathbed confession of an australian satanist' published in 2010:
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You guys have lived the good life for a long time, with your gov constantly being on your side and helping you guys out financially. Wealthy country with relatively small population = good times. I think none of you guys could imagine this system/infrastructure that's been good to you suddenly going all bad on you, so most of your population has gone along with what it's been told unquestioningly. It'll be a 9/11 experience for you like we had in america, where we got gaslit by our media and government into going along with something clearly fugazi. A learning experience that will gift your citizenry with more healthy skepticism of ppl in charge than it had.
Who's behind it? Read that text I posted. On the more surface level, it's the World Economic Form experimenting with techniques that can be employed elsewhere for NWO total control. You guys are just test-subjects to see how well the draconian option works.
It's really not. The equipment needed to set up a little personal indoor grow is slightly expensive, and it'll probably take a bit of research and a few cycles of trial and error before you're harvesting dank, but that little investment of time/energy/money will make up for itself in the long run. Everyone should grow their own weed. It'll be a good skill to have for when we eventually descend into a Mad Max type dystopian hellscape.
haha legend
I can think of a few global health officials who could benefit from a lil visit from a slaughterbot.
Appreciate the stream of consciousness reply.
Basically the middle-ages alchemy (transmutation of lead into gold) has been revisited and re-explored by a small community of people ever since the internet allowed the ancient alchemical texts to become widely available. All the Gold You Can Eat is an interesting doc. I wanna make some ormus myself and do an experiment using it on my weed plants, as it supposedly greatly enhances plant growth. They get 'oils' of metals by dissolving them with hydrochloric acid and then reforming them with some other chemicals. I think that Kymia link I dropped explains the process a bit.
Check out Pheonix Aurelius. He lives in Utah and was taught this alchemical stuff from some master of spagyrics. He seems legit. Here's a podcast he was on where he talks about all of it: https://www.thehighersidechats.com/phoenix-aurelius-personal-mastery-the-unseen-realms-fungi/
I've never consumed or tried any of the 'oils of x' available to purchase online, but I'd like to at some point. My understanding is anything you can buy is greatly diluted because it could be dangerous if you take too much. Gotta go hit up Don directly to get some of that good good Dragon's Blood. In certain yogic traditions, they say when you activate your kundalini, all your thoughts manifest in reality, which is why there's such an emphasis on quieting your mind with meditation and having dominion over your thoughts. Could be possible gold oil is a short cut to that. But I just think it's interesting because humans have sought out gold and coveted gold all throughout history...if it has some sort of spiritually-enhancing properties, that would maybe be a possible answer to why gold is THE shiny metal of choice
Look into alchemy. They can use chemical processes to breakdown metals like gold and silver into oils. Apparently, in their concentrated form, these 'oils of gold' are insanely spiritually powerful. Here's Don Nance showing off some 'dragons blood' he made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szll8AhZQnc
He talks about how he gave some lady a few drops of the top-water (kind of the left-over/residue from the process) and she manifested everything she thought for months. There's this guy, Phoenix Aurelius, who shared a story on The Higherside Chats about how he gave some dude some oil of gold and the guy took too much and went insane. I've always wondered why gold is considered the most valuable precious metal, and I think this is it. You can buy diluted versions of it online: https://www.kymiaarts.com/oil-of-gold.html
Very relevant in regards to what's happening in australia currently. Published 10 years ago.
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lol she said '4 people have died'.
I'll bet falling coconuts kill more people than covid down under
After reading about Human Wealth Capital Markets, I came to the conclusion this really isn't about us that are adults now. This is priming the up-coming generation (and future generations) to be a part of this NWO system. Think about how traumatic this whole thing must have been/is to the little kids growing up now...missing school, have to wear a mask, can't play freely with your little friends. It's classic trauma conditioning. This is really about the kids, not us.
This would be the alien one:
Use the 'cassini diskus' tag to see their work on whatever this is.
You'd have to go down the forgotten languages rabbit hole. Lemme repost something I made on the reddit version of this post that gives a summary:
FL began as a group of linguists/academics who used a machine learning program called Nodesphere/Nodespace to decifer ancient texts written in unknown languages (Voynich Manuscript, for example...which they claim to have translated and they say its a text about plants and healing). They were interested in things like glossolalia and 'vampiric' languages, which is just an academic term for an unknown language that borrows from an ancient known one. One of the academics running the site answered a buncha questions on Above Top Secret, which is how i know this. As the site went on, appears some powerful groups got involved with it, and then it appears they started trying to translate alien transmissions, and more recently there's been a lot of military and SSP type stuff cropping up. The stuff in the weird languages is written through Node Space (novel languages created by the software's algorithim) so it's indescipherable except to the other contributers with Node Space who have the same keys, so they talk 'openly' in these novel languages. The stuff in english is quoted from texts written in english. Thats the rundown. One of my favorite mysteries on the web, and yes everyone I had communicated with about it has since disappeared, including ex r/conspiracy user the_crawler....probably because people on the discord were trying to dox the people posting to figure out who they were....so that's why the WEF thing is very intriguing.
No one could ever figure out who these people were/are or what group they're from. But it's been posting shit almost daily since like 2008, and the subject matter of the posts keeps getting stranger and stranger. They're talking about managing civilization growth, and communications with ET's and consciousness and time travel and military ways to defeat species of aliens that live under the ocean....it's fucking wild. And now, this little find from an anon indicates it's most likely a WEF project...This has been going since 2008, and we've known they've been using AI or machine learning to translate ancient languages since 2013...who breaks it to the world this technology exists two years ago? The WEF. Based on the think-thank style of some subjects, and the top secret types of stuff that gets posted on there, them being a WEF funded project makes total sense.
The implications for this being true are harrowing if you go through and read some of the things they talk about on there.
No vids that are out there that I know of, but you can probably find some. I did the heavy lifting and read everything. Bunch of people were obsessed with it a few years back and then the trail went cold, but I never stopped reading. At least check out the archived 4chan post at the end, coz he talks about some other interesting stuff at first. I found the FL connection the most intriguing. These guys get access to the stuff that's in crypts under the vatican to decypher/translate with their software.
The subject matter began with linguistics, then moved to esoteric knowledge gleaned from ancient texts (they're very into gnosticism/sufiism), and then it seemed like they were trying to translate alien languages that were just shapes and colors, and then recently its moved into defense and ETI's (extraterrestrial intelligences) and quantom computing and stuff.
He'd know about this. Ping him plz, or give me his username on here so I can get this info to him.
Edit: Paging u/axolotl_peyotl . You've been down this rabbithole, yes? u/Putinlovescats as well...you remember this one yah?
I forgot we got such a mass influx of people from trump and gay politics probably a lot of people dont know about this. Is Axel Peyote still around here?
yeah. I was thinking about this. The plot of that avengers thing with the thanos guy was him killing half of the universe for the same reason Cusak's character is saying here. I watched this show invincible, and the super hero dad comes from a planet where they killed half the population to live in a utopia or something.
Def predictive programming.
lol makes sense. This is a country that believes in 'fan death'
I'm watching the weird animated videos under parasite dreams....wtf is this. tons of mk ultra stuff.
I've seen gorillas at the zoo.
Whatever happened with that?
Check out Bunny the talking dog.
First Iron Man movie dropped the same year Elon became CEO of TESLA
Don't forget, my mans was deep into the smoking crack industry before he got into the pillow game.
I don't think a buncha geezers who don't even know how to use computers or understand how the internet works are gonna be able preside over a technological revolution.