After doing exhausting research on crypto for about 20 minutes and losing interest to cat videos I can say confidently stay away from it … #cypto#adhd#nfts#interwebs#web3#advice
The prosecution asks that the defense be precluded from asking #StormyDaniels whether she was arrested. Justice #Merchan agrees w/the prosecutors, saying that “anybody can be arrested” & that it “doesn’t prove anything.”
The people call Stormy Daniels back to the stand
#Trump atty #Necheles begins questioning by saying that in 2011, Daniels denied having had sex w/Trump.
The witness is asked about Bill Zanker, w/whom #Trump wrote the book. #Zanker is still in Trump's orbit, having a role in Trump's current sale of #NFTs. Trump had a dinner related to NFTs at Mar-a-Lago last night.
The prosecution is using an excerpt of the book to show that Trump is a micromanager in his business. In it, Trump says: "get the best people, & don't trust them," saying it's important to watch what they do closely.
#Web3#Gama#NFTs#Videogames: "The problem is that it appears that GAMA holders, and anyone who took significant interest in GAMA and the things that Lyu promised — a comic, a television show, a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, a physical store to educate people on Web3 and NFTs, a rocket ship with a satellite — were left in the lurch. Less than a year before the Rabbit R1 launched, Lyu was discussing integrating AI into a completely different product, and people believed that he was sincerely focused on creating all the things he’d promised to in GAMA and the Gamaverse.
Lyu has framed his time at GAMA as a project, using language that suggests an arms-reach approach to a company he ran and made numerous gratuitous promises in the name of. The reality is that Jesse Lyu was the CEO of GAMA, invested, based on statements from Aaron Li, “7 figures” of his own money, and then after September 2023 (a month before Rabbit announced its first $20 million fundraising) effectively stopped talking about it, and acted from then on as if GAMA never existed in interviews with the press.
One other completely unrelated part of the story that I have been unable to dig into sufficiently is RCT Studio, a company that raised $10 million in 2019 according to a Form D filing (signed by Lyu), with Lyu named as CEO according to a 2020 piece from the Los Angeles Business Journal."
#EU#Spain#Copyright#IP#FairUse#NFTs: "The importance of the 11 January 2024 judgment of Barcelona Commercial Court number 9 lies in the fact that it is the first Spanish decision that pronounces on whether the owner of certain works of art is legally allowed to create NFTs from them, without the consent of the copyright holders. However, it does not seem that the doctrine of this judgment can be generalized to other cases; instead, it calls for an assessment to be made on a case-by-case basis. Furthermore, it is debatable whether the creation of NFTs can be considered “fair use”, since (i) this generates a “new” public and a new “digital” market for artworks that, to date, only existed in the real world and (ii) it deprives de facto copyright holders of a potential source of income. VEGAP has announced that it has appealed this judgment. Thus, the duel between NFTs and copyright holders was just the first skirmish in a battle that has ended, for the time being, in the NFTs’ favour. We will have to keep an eye out for the second round. Who will be the next victor, the NFTs or the authors? Place your bets!"
#EU#Spain#NFTs#Copyright#IP: "A Commercial Court in Barcelona has made a ruling in a novel copyright dispute between fashion shop Mango and the Spanish collective society for artists VEGAP (text of the decision in Spanish here). The dispute involves the adaptation of a number of works by prominent Spanish artists into garments displayed on the Metaverse site, and the court ruled in favour of the defendant Mango.
The facts of the case are that in March 2022, Mango announced that it was going to display a series of unique works by artist Farkas in a virtual museum located in Decentraland. The collection was set to re-interpret several pieces by Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, and Miquel Barceló; the original physical artworks were owned by one of the companies in the Mango group, and they ceded them to Mango so that they could be displayed at the opening of a shop in New York; as part of this event, the metaverse versions were made, as well as NFTs of the adaptations. While Mango had permission to display the physical works, VEGAP considered that the creation of digital adaptations, the subsequent minting of NFTs based on those works, as well as display all of the above without permission was an unauthorised act, and therefore sued for copyright infringement in its role as collective manager on behalf of Spanish artists. VEGAP alleged that displaying the works and turning them into NFTs infringed the exclusive moral rights of integrity and disclosure, and also the economic rights of communication to the public, reproduction, and adaptation."
"Crypto may have fizzled, but it did make some real money for certain people and, more importantly, connected and philosophically galvanized a group of tech workers that now just so happen to be sitting on a whole bunch of GPUs that are perfect for running AI models."
This is something I never would have thought of, but it speaks to the material conditions that enable this sort of thing. Money and hardware.
Rant: today I wanted to prepare a simple NFT demo for high-schoolers. They should use a pre-created smart contract, add their images, and then deploy this on a test network.
finding some test-EHT was already difficult
some tutorials exist, so I tried to follow those
eth-brownie doesn't seem to be supported anymore and doesn't work on MacOSX (anymore?)
it's successor, eth-ape, doesn't work on MacOSX, neither
I tried devbox (nix), docker, compiling from source... Usually I think of myself of a good programmer. But dependency hell in Python is a level I'm really not used to.
Anybody got any idea how to do this in a simple way?
Short version of what people need to know: if you're installing or operating "blacklight" bulbs that don't have an opaque phosphor coating inside the tube, and don't have the characteristic purple-blue color, you're installing a germicidal UV-C lamp that humans should never be exposed to.
Who says #NFTs are worthless? "Attendees at a conference for Bored Ape NFT owners are reporting waking up in the middle of the night following laser and blacklight-heavy performances with extreme eye pain and vision loss. "