If you hadn’t heard of NFTs before this week then you probably have by now—if not due to the announcement by zombie Confederate U2 covers band Kings Of Leon that they are getting in on the Ponzi scheme, then because of the resulting tedious ~discourse~.
This link is the best link about the issues at the heart of NFT and cryptobullshit and it contains a paragraph that summarises my biggest complaint with rapier-like precision: “During unprecedented temperature increases, sea level rise, the total loss of permanent sea ice, widespread species extinction, countless severe weather events, and all the other hallmarks of total climate collapse, this kind of gleeful wastefulness is, and I am not being hyperbolic, a crime against humanity.”