This is horrible. I hope they all recover fully and quickly. And that there's some kind of lesson learned by everyone in a position to prevent it from happening again.
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
#282What actually happens at a conference based on the common ground of "owning" a jpeg with a generic CGI chimp in it?
Especially when the cat's already out of the bag that this was all a scam to begin with?
I don't understand.
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#283The 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…
I'm more interested in the gender distribution.
Oh, we all know that these things are just the wurst.
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#284There's no reason the party with unsafe UV lights had to be a crypto-party. While I'm no NFT bagholder, it bothers me that the article is mostly about dunking on cryptobros than talking about the dangers of hazardous lighting rigs at a show. At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR.
> At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR. That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story, because assessing trust in the folks putting on a conference is the way for attendees to figure out if they're likely to be blinded by the lighting or face other issues. And the type of people the whole cryptocurrency and especially NFT scene attract seem at…
I would have mistakenly assumed there are like regulations or common sense preventing blasting people in the eyes with raw UV regardless of the event.
This story is a rude awakening for me that one does have to asses event planners for competence, not only for remote Fyre Festivals but also for regular venues. I hope the attendees recover.
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#285I really am surprised by all the “lol you buy NFT so already blind” folks. Actually pretty disgusting. Disclaimer: I don’t own NFTs.
Really? These grifters have stolen millions from innocent patsies all while clogging social media with scams and arrogant “stay poor” memes and directed billions of VC funding into creating useless tools to facilitate the scams. And we’re disgusting for maybe thinking maybe karma had something todo with this?
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's the big danger with solar eclipses. It's not bright enough to hurt at the time. The damage only starts to become apparent after a few hours or the next day.
When I went to see a total eclipse I was surprised that even a tiny slit of the sun was still hard to look at. Not sure why anyone would try to stare at that.
galileo (the galileo) used to stare at the sun for extended periods of time (without a telescope), to the point he could identify sunspots. But IIUC he looked at it near the horizon when it's attenuated by more atmosphere.
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#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a pretty broad generalization. I could say the same for the Bahamas. Or Nigeria. Or New Jersey. Definitely Russia. So let's just address that there are bad actors everywhere, no matter from where, and that you must do you due diligence when dealing with people for business. What you probably meant to say is "There seems to be more lawlessness in FL than usual" which I would definitely agree with you. There's g…
> What you probably meant to say is "There seems to be more lawlessness in FL than usual" which I would definitely agree with you. This itself is interesting enough. I've been on the inside of a few risk management systems, with hundreds of signals feeding into a scoring product. Invariably, and justifiably from the data, there is a "Florida rule", which affects the user's final risk score by a few percent. This is m…
No doubt there is. The new story (and a story probably on-topic in the context of this discussion) is the quantity of financial arbitrage firms who have lately been relocating their employees and headquarters _to_ Florida.
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#288This is pathetic. The original promoters behind BAYC, two guys from Florida and the son of some official of a bank in Africa, were rave promoters. They botched their metaverse project, Otherside, but that was technically ambitious. The people running it now can't even run a medium-sized rave properly. Earlier ApeFest events were only for BAYC holders and had a celebrity lineup. This time they sold tickets to anyone.…
> BAYC is the top end of NFTs. Almost everything else is worse.
Judged by floor price, not by artistic value
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
> At any event, how is an attendee supposed to assess such a thing? It's not like you can DYOR. That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story, because assessing trust in the folks putting on a conference is the way for attendees to figure out if they're likely to be blinded by the lighting or face other issues. And the type of people the whole cryptocurrency and especially NFT scene attract seem at…
> That's why I think the cryptobro angle is relevant to the story That's an interesting perspective, and reminds me a bit of the "libertarian paradise" at the end of http://bitsim.beepboopbitcoin.com/ . But the fact that it's framed more as a dunk than as genuine sympathy for those affected reminds me of other anti-crypto reporting like "Line Go Up" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g ). Which makes it real…
Well also it's totally fair to say they should know better than to spend thousands of real money on idiotic computer-generated cartoons. But it's really unexpected that any event would blind the attendees. The first is a pyramid scheme and the second is like a war crime or something. There's zero financial incentive to blind the attendees.
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#290Who was this conference for again?
Visionaries