Tag: Tech
10 Years Ago, A Man Jizzed In A Shoebox And The Internet Was Never The Same
At the time of the interview, lynfect had stopped using the box, since it was beyond repair. Instead, he said he’d been ejaculating on the floor and cleaning it up immediately afterward. Other questions revealed a portrait of, well, the kind of guy you might expect to post about having…
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Who Said It? Guess Which Celebs And Politicians Are All About Crypto And Which Can’t Stand It.
Everyone has an opinion on crypto these days, whether you love to hate on the apparent inanity of people selling JPGs of cartoon apes for hundreds of thousands of dollars or you insist on telling everyone you know that the blockchain is going to revolutionize money and end global poverty. …
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We Deserve This, Fellow Disgusting Worms
There’s a reason people call Twitter “the hell site”: the waves of rampant abuse and harassment, the motivations that encourage the worst behavior, the anger, the stupidity. But like the dopiest moths to the shittiest flame, we can’t tear ourselves away from it. If you’ve been on Twitter long enough,…
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Elon Musk Is Buying Twitter For $44 Billion
Twitter invited Musk to join the company’s board of directors, in what looked like an attempt to mollify him, only for him to reject their offer. On April 14, Musk announced his intention to acquire Twitter outright and take it public. In an SEC filing, Musk said the company had…
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OpenSea Acquired NFT Marketplace Gem Weeks After A Cofounder Was Pushed Out For Sexual Abuse Allegations
The NFT marketplace OpenSea has acquired Gem, an NFT startup cofounded by a pseudonymous developer accused of sexual abuse, including rape. This month, BuzzFeed News confirmed the individual is the banished Twitch streamer Josh Thompson, who formerly went by the moniker “MethodJosh.” “During the course of our diligence, we learned…
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Doctors Are Dropping Out Of This Medical NFT Project, Which Promised DMs With TikTok-Famous Physicians
A group of TikTok- and Instagram-famous physicians say they have a solution for the “red tape” of the current medical system: NFTs of cartoon doctors. These NFTs, called MetaDocs, are supposed to give buyers access to real doctors, almost like a Web3 telehealth subscription. When MetaDocs launched in December, it…
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