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This is the funniest use of NFTs I've ever read about:

As a self-described “fartpreneur,” however, Matto may have girlbossed a little too close to the sun. On Christmas, she says, she went to the ER with what she describes as heart attack-esque symptoms, which doctors promptly diagnosed as severe gas pain as a result of her diet. Matto’s visit to the ER, which she recounted to a journalist from the U.K. outlet Jam Press, was aggregated across news outlets across the globe, prompting fervent social media debate as to whether Matto’s fart-selling enterprise was a savvy business move or a cultural death rattle resounding from the bowels of late-stage capitalism (pun very much intended). Yet Matto is unruffled by such critiques, and has harnessed her newfound virality into promoting her newest venture: selling fart jar NFTs for 0.05 ETH (a little less than $200) each, though she has significantly reduced sales of her physical fart jars following her ER visit.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fart-jar-tiktok-stephanie-matto-interview-1280395/

Yeah 'cus getting prego will kiilll your sex life lol.

GitHub helped lower the barrier to entry, drawing wider contribution and spreading best practices such as community codes of conduct. But its success has also given a single platform vast influence over communities dedicated to decentralized collaboration.

Yes. That's pretty scary.

Yeah it is scary. Since code is speech, where it's stored should be censorship resistant, and github ain't it.

Oh damn, and here I was hoping upon seeing this post that it was Tiffany Haddish's character that started striping. That's a movie I'd go see

Barrientos is seeking roughly half a million dollars for his medical expenses and his attorney is also asking to take this case to trial.

Only half a million? Hopefully that's just for starters. The victim deserves millions

Awesome!

I also hope that someday mobile firefox has tagging functionality like on desktop (and tags are synch-able, like bookmarks)

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/01/health/leprosy-central-florida/index.html

Central florida is now a hotbed for leprosy too.

4. No surveillance capitalism. unlike reddit, lemmy isn't trying to monetize/track you.

5. Freedom/openness. Already, someone can use a third party app to use lemmy. Moving forward, I think, people will come up with new ways to utilize lemmy/activity pub.

Guix is working on supporting (or already does) hurd.

Some progressive supporters of KOSA describe the bill as a way to protect kids from the harm platforms can cause. Yet despite how it has been marketed, KOSA is ultimately concerned with policing the content and conduct of internet users, not with addressing the relatively unaccountable power of the tech platforms themselves.

Yep. It seems like people in power don't like how easy it is for people to share ideas/information. People might start thinking in ways that disrupt the status quo and they can't have that.

It's getting to the point where they need an intermission.