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Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by flyinghamster »

erik_seaberg wrote: post #110
snakeyjake wrote: post #19

Given the.. qualities.. of people involved in the NFT space the organizers probably bought a bunch of UV-C lamps off alibaba because they were cheap and looked cool-- doing absolutely no research and with no regard for others.

Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the average guy to know how to tell whether a UV bulb is safe (regular non-quartz glass helps a lot) or that dangerous ones are sold without warnings.

If you're talking about old-school fluorescent-tube black lights, the bulb type designation will have a -BLB suffix, like F15T8-BLB for a typical 15-watt tube, as well as a visibly dark phosphor. A germicidal tube would be G15T8, and have a clear quartz envelope with no phosphor coating.

All bets are off if you're using LEDs.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

pard68 wrote: post #142
erik_seaberg wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, I wouldn’t expect the average guy to know how to tell whether a UV bulb is safe (regular non-quartz glass helps a lot) or that dangerous ones are sold without warnings.

Average guy here, I have no clue what you're talking about.

quartz is mostly transparent to UV radiation, glass is not

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

In the world of crypto, there are no negatives. Ever.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by dragontamer »

ceejayoz wrote: post #3

Cited in the article: https://twitter.com/crypto_birb/status/1721222853394121193 "Thanks for great apefest logistiscs guys @yugalabs & @BoredApeYC. Incredible event and met plenty of amazing people. Still, as dozens of others, I’ve almost lost sight this night." I mean, c'mon. "Thanks, incredible event, it almost blinded me"?

Its called SEO.

If you know something bad has happened, you want to word your public statements in such a way that you beat out the bad news to the top search of Google at least, to minimize the attention given to that issue.

Ex: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1465838829370228737

This Elon Musk tweet coincided to help SEO-fight against a Whistleblower claim.

Ex2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21122806

Boris Johnson using search terms to try and hide the "Bus" incident back during Brexit.

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The #1 goal is to do it in such a way that confuses and befuddles those not-in-the-know (Oh, its just the CEO being quirky... they'll brush it off). But of course, you still want to accomplish the goal and make a news-statement with the largest amount of reach such that you beat the "real news" event on the top search of Google/Facebook/other social media.

It often sounds like gobbytygook, because it is. You're just word-vomiting into the wild trying to shove search terms to the top of Google / other search engines... but in a way that no one realizes why those words are related.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by retrac »

whycome wrote: post #56
yesod wrote: post #15

Sounds very much like arc eye (welder's flash). Very painful, caused by UV.

You would think the pain would be immediate though.

It's like a sunburn. The radiation damages the DNA of the cells. DNA damage like that triggers a cellular self-destruct mechanism. It's a cancer-prevention mechanism. So over the next few days as the skin or corneal cells start to go through their normal replication cycle, the DNA damage is discovered and causes those cells to die off. This causes an injury just like if another mechanism like heat or chemical damage, had killed those cells. Inflammation, oozing, pain, scarring.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by vkou »

mike_d wrote: post #113
snakeyjake wrote: post #19

Given the.. qualities.. of people involved in the NFT space the organizers probably bought a bunch of UV-C lamps off alibaba because they were cheap and looked cool-- doing absolutely no research and with no regard for others.

There have been reports of UV-C bulbs being repackaged as "party lights" and sold on eBay/Amazon/etc. So it is possible they had no idea.

Which is why you hire an AV company to put on an event like this, and not just pay Bill to show up with a truck full of electronic crap.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by anigbrowl »

pavlov wrote: post #13

The Financial Times [1] has attendee numbers: “About 2,250 people attended the Saturday evening party at a cruise terminal, said organiser Yuga Labs, one of the pioneers in this market. Since then, more than a dozen have posted on social media complaining of a burning sensation in the eyes and sometimes also impaired vision.” Honestly that’s a lot more proud Bored Ape bagholders than I would have guessed. But what do…

Superb picture editing work

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by LelouBil »

astrange wrote: post #161
Always_Anon wrote: post #44

After I learned that NFTs were essentially just signed git commits, I wrote them off as a hilarious grift. I feel bad for the people that were injured, so here's my advice: run away from NFTs and crypto. RUN AWAY!

A signed git commit is actually immutable. An NFT is generally the signed text of a URL, which kind of isn't.

Wait what, I thought it was at least the hash of the image or something.

Re: Bored Ape conference attendees wake up with eye pain, vision loss

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Post by littlestymaar »

forty wrote: post #121
404mm wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! Also possible candidates: A few watts short of a lightbulb. Their lights are on but nobody’s home.

In french, we have "they are not not the sharpest knives of the drawer" but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D On the light related ones, I only know "they are not lights" which is a bit to bare bones to my taste, but works well in french

> but my favorite one is "he is not the penguin who slides the furthest" :D

Did you too learned that one in the related thread on /r/France last year[1]? Or was it something that you heard IRL?

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/france/comments/uhazwh/connaissezvo...

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