You don't own art with NFT.

If you don’t think NFTs are a scam you probably think crypto isn’t a scam, either.

The big scam is that there’s nothing inherent to the NFT which gives you any rights whatsoever. You are NOT buying artwork, you are buying a receipt that says you paid money for artwork.

Now, it is theoretically possible for artists to bundle licenses or rights transfer of some kind WITH their NFT, but there is…

It’s a scam because an NFT is not actually selling the artwork; it’s selling a receipt that absolutely nobody is legally obligated to acknowledge or respect. It’s like if I tried to buy the Mona Lisa, but instead of giving me the Mona Lisa they show me a slip of paper that says “you now officially own the Mona Lisa”…

Well do you want a slow death or a hurried one!

NFTs, and cryptocurrency, are all the experience of 40+ years of escalating hyperspeculation, and a certain group of opportunists and idealists, sometimes both — very 1970s silicon valley — deciding to slam the gas pedal on it. The entire premise is rotten. I’m an artist and I don’t mind saying that I still look down…

Still waiting on NFTs to die a slow, undignified death, world. Hurry it up, kay?

One time my Dad wrote and tweeted a slightly amusing, very obvious joke about a current event on a Wednesday, then on Friday nights sent me a video of the exact same joke almost word for word on Bill Maher’s monologue. I’m not accusing Real Time of stealing my Dad’s joke, I’m saying the comedy writing on that show is…

I’d argue he was never even close to progressive to begin with. At best he’s a well off neoliberal who wants to smoke pot but is otherwise content with the status quo and the wealth he’s accumulated from it.

Who the fuck is watching Bill Maher in 2021 and what can we do to convince you to use your time in a more productive fashion?

Don’t forget him peddling Anti-Vaccination bullshit, his chumminess with conservatives like Ann Coultor, his Islamaphobia and whining about “cancel culture” because he fears there being any consequences for him being an asshole…

I used to watch him, but apart from some of his more questionable guest choices, I got tired of him constantly trying to throw trans-people under the bus.

Messing with the timeline isn’t Q’s true goal. He did it to test Picard and his crew. Nobody really knows why the Q Continuum does this, but it has been part of the canon since TNG.

You should consider a healthier hobby than imagining things about people you don’t know just so you can judge them.

I mean, I don’t know if this is a spoiler, but they had said before the T’Challa Star-Lord episode that Boseman had recorded stuff for multiple episodes, that one was just the episode he was the focus of.

Maybe she really is the villain of the story, or maybe Mulaney’s a philandering prick, or maybe it’s both, or neither. The only people who have direct knowledge of their marriage are Mulaney and his wife--everyone else is just speculating.

...no, it’s still not our business. Whether or not a comedian discusses his marriage in his act—and I think we tend to overestimate the degree to which a comedian and his private life is truly reflected in his “persona”—is immaterial.

They’re not taking paycuts to make tickets cheaper for the little guy. Any paycut is just added to Disney’s profit margin. Who do you think you’re defending here?

Too late to edit but want to add I am still stewing about this and am starting to wonder if Bob Chapek is a carnival geek who somehow failed upwards, Being There-style, til he landed where he is today. If I was a board member I’d (A) not be whining to you schlubs on AV Club and (B) be calculating how much it will cost…

The dynamics of the situation - and the solution - seem so blindingly obvious to me it’s genuinely upsetting everyone is talking around it: