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Bluesky Social is a microblogging social platform being developed in conjunction with the decentralized AT Protocol. Previously invite-only, the flagship Beta app went public in February 2024. All are welcome!

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There should be an amendment prohibiting politicians and their relatives from making cryptocurrencies to evade, launder money or defraud. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Loduz_247 to c/peoplebluesky

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[–] dx1 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I 100% don't agree. There's bullshit masquerading as innovation, and all kinds of harmful technology, but innovation (read: technology) has given us everything of actual value that we have.

[–] aesthelete 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Great for you but darpanet was a government project and it gave us a lot of what we have.

[–] dx1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Not sure what point you're making. Think I covered all those bases in my message.

[–] aesthelete -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Innovation is a business term. I dunno why corporate stooges still exist.

[–] dx1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Etymology:

innovation (n.)

mid-15c., innovacion, "restoration, renewal," from Late Latin innovationem (nominative innovatio), noun of action from past-participle stem of innovare "to change; to renew," from in- "into" (from PIE root *en "in") + novus "new" (see new). Meaning "a novel change, experimental variation, new thing introduced in an established arrangement" is from 1540s.

I am not using it in a business sense. Hell, crypto's not even supposed to be there for business, it's getting milked in the same way the web did - didn't mean the web was bad, and doesn't mean crypto itself is bad. The core tech is just a linked list of cryptographic proofs that establishes a global state. All this memecoin type shit just plays on ignorance and hype.

[–] aesthelete 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah cuz you meant it in the Latin, not in the way it's actually used and not in the way I was calling it bullshit...🥱

Lol so you're into business garbage and crypto?

Good for you. 👍

[–] dx1 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You just trying to be a dick or what? "Innovation" just means coming up with anything clever. I'm not into business garbage, I've been sitting here in this thread calling out scams and memecoins and other bullshit for two or three comments already.

[–] aesthelete 1 points 1 month ago

Innovation as spoken about in board rooms and business meetings is bullshit. There; that work for you?

[–] shalafi -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And private enterprise took it mainstream. I was there, I was part of it.

[–] aesthelete 2 points 1 month ago

Private enterprise made it terrible. I was there, I was a part of it.