JWZ mozilla founder on libertarian crypto "money" made from pollution
Today on Sick Sad World: How The Cryptobros Have FallenOr, the through-line from Assassination Politics to monkey JPEGs. The joke goes, "Stop saying you were promised flying cars. Unless you were born in 1935, you weren't promised flying cars, you were promised a cyberpunk corporate dystopia. You're welcome." Or, in the immortal words of Blank Reg, "You know how we said 'No Future'? Well. This is it." In the 80s and 90s, hacker culture was flush ...