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On crypto-art, racism and outcome fantasies
If you want to find mistakes with something, you’ll be able to find them if you tried long enough. That doesn’t inherently make the thing worthless. The only exception I’ve encountered to this truism is the prevailing world-system – which … Continue reading →
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Tagged art criticism, art patronage, Beeple, Big Tech, Bitcoin, bitcoin mining, blockchain, capitalism, Christie's, consensus algorithms, crypto-art, cryptocurrencies, Ethereum, Everydays, financial transactions, Metakovan, Metapurse, NFT, non-fungible tokens, power consumption, proof of stake, proof of work, racism, settlement finality, Silicon Valley, Sybil attack, The First 5000 Days, Tim Swanson, Twobadour
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We don’t have a problem with the West, we’re just obsessed with it
How much do we not know about what Indian researchers are doing simply because Western scientists haven’t written to some of them? Continue reading →
Posted in Life notes, Scicomm
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Tagged Ceramics International, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, DRDO, embargoes, evolution, Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, Make in India, NASA, racism, science communication, science journalism, scientific method, spray coating, white male, yttrium, zirconium
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