Chris Lauritzen

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

@ottersnapper It’s all too confusing, and everyone likes to believe in the creation of a better future (especially if they can make a buck in the process).

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

For anybody tempted to believe this “trust us, we’re the good guys” piece of PR bullshit, this is the same person who made Worldcoin.

[Sam Altman @sama]

Planning for AGI and beyond: https://t.co/7PBlNj9KAD

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

AI is the new panacea. Before that it was Crypto. These folks are serial con artists. They peddle opaque technologies that harm people, but wrap them in absurd narratives of benevolence, thoughtfulness, and existential import .

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

https://t.co/PG4nZtzt4W

[Dan Brooks @DangerBrooks]

This is increasingly how I experience modernity: magic-level technology put to the most insipid, deadening uses imaginable

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

And the artists who weren’t convinced? They had their art stolen, minted, and sold anyway.

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

Crypto has no real value so it must continuously leech it from elsewhere. NFT’s are how proponents of crypto convinced artists to sacrifice their money, work, and audiences in order to build the pyramid and drive the price of crypto (temporarily) higher.

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

https://t.co/qlJ0nMsyeI Crypto/NFT/web3 is mostly a tool for fraud and the exploitation of working people, including artists. That’s an expected outcome of privatizing, anonymizing, and deregulating financial transactions rendered immutably on block. Signed.

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

@JonathanJarvis And web3 companies that call you a "creator" think of you as a "sucker".

[Jonathan Jarvis @JonathanJarvis]

Companies that call you a "creator" think of you as a "serf".

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

I'm sponsoring @jonofyi because he’s my friend and also the world needs more open source creative tooling! https://t.co/dR6tXcEPaI

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

When crypto maxis hold up Wikipedia as an example of what’s broken with web2 they’re revealing a lot about how broken the ideology of web3 really is.

[sari azout @sariazout]

The number of Wikipedia editors has remained stagnant for nearly a decade.

Incentives are everything.

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

"The act of purchasing is now property"

[jess @jessfromonline]

i let myself believe NFTs were a passing fad, in part b/c just thinking of them drains my soul, but their adoption & advertising boom is a reminder that:

NFTs are a natural instance of capital expanding private property given near-complete enclosure of existing forms of property

[Jono @jonofyi]

Announcing CURATURAE: a 'writing tool' that connects your words to 3M+ artifacts from the @smithsonian's collection.

Write your way to new ideas at: https://t.co/X6CIk7yMDI
✍️+🖼 =💡

[Stephen Diehl @smdiehl]

Lets finally talk about how NFTs are a giant scam. (1/) 🧵

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

@ANoffsinger The work of @yuinchien https://t.co/xjetpqav1V

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

@craabit Thanks for the kind word! We do have copies left. https://t.co/WZWPcZ286l

Take care out there in Spaceland!

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

@projector has launched! Use it to say something meaningful.

Proud to have played a role in bringing this to life and excited to see where it goes next. Congrats to the whole team!

[Projector @projector]

Today, we’re proud to announce that Projector is open and available to everyone.

Our dream is that it becomes a creative space for you to shape your ideas, amplify your initiatives, and visualize your voice to make real change happen.

Get started: https://t.co/nbWOL0KqY4

[Chris Lauritzen @c_lauritzen]

"We need you to understand James Baldwin’s observation that “in the most private chamber of his heart always, the white American remains proud of that history for which he does not wish to pay, and from which, materially, he has profited so much.”
https://t.co/a1z2g6wo3s