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I learned yesterday the video I made in 2017 explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down, and my channel received a copyright strike (despite it being 100% my own content). The request seems to have been issued by a company chainpatrol, on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says they "makes use of advanced LLM scanning" for "Brand Protection for Leading Web3 Companies" I could be wrong, but it sounds like there's a decent chance this means some bot managed to convince YouTube's bots that some re-upload of that video (of which there has been an incessant onslaught) was the original, and successfully issue the takedown and copyright strike request. It's naturally a little worrying that it should be possible to use these tools to issue fake takedown requests, considering that it only takes 3 to delete an entire channel.

The Arbitrum Security Council has taken emergency action to freeze the 30,766 ETH being held in the address on Arbitrum One that is connected to the KelpDAO exploit. The Security Council acted with input from law enforcement as to the exploiter’s identity, and, at all times, weighed its commitment to the security and integrity of the Arbitrum community without impacting any Arbitrum users or applications. After significant technical diligence and deliberation, the Security Council identified and executed a technical approach to move funds to safety without affecting any other chain state or Arbitrum users. As of April 20 11:26pm ET the funds have been successfully transferred to an intermediary frozen wallet. They are no longer accessible to the address that originally held the funds, and can only be moved by further action by Arbitrum governance, which will be coordinated with relevant parties.

Wait. What?! Wasn’t this supposed to be decentralized social media @ourzora ?! What do you mean COLLECTED?! Ok so, now all our shitposts and art process and generous free art in exchange for the minimum accountable material repayment for the emotional and digital labour of posting on social media has been turned into the cheapening of NFTs?! -yeah yeah u are not the only one to do this rn; however- Cool. Thank you for the wake up call and memory refreshment. Not like I didn’t know that blockchain is full of “Web 2 platform gaslighting extractive capitalism as usual” but I really DID believe that it was different here, you did say Decentralized Social Media all the time and memed shade on the Zuck. Move fast break things confuse everyone and zero alignment with rhetoric is so exhausting. Then one “wonders” why do we constantly get the long threads of “is NFT dead?” “when is NFT back?” “is minted art Art? “is NFT Art?” I’m exhausted of finding meaning, working on subversion of said meaning for socio-political change oriented art, of embedment practice, of being mislead with tricky meaning. Sincerity and consistency always feels better bc then we KNOW what we are doing and can take care of our actual art practice accordingly however we may feel like, without any ridic puritanism: yes we all would like to be able to continue to make a living from our art practice, however careful or reckless. With that, I’d like to share my most sincere gratitude for affording me so much material for my artistic research and deployable social sculpture projects. No shade in the thankfulness. Thank you and thank you @foundation @rodeodotclub, like wow. W O W. Curve balls and a zillion plot twists: there are no goodies or baddies like there’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, or so they say. With that, of course I’ll keep posting -or was it minting?!- some posts -or was it NFTs of tumbled value?!- oh, the axiology of it all and all entrapments. * insert renaissance religious ecstasy/exhaustion figurative oil painting facial expression here * The universe says [it’s all experiences, learning and context beyond duality] Cool cool. I’ll prob put this tweet/X/?! on chain- or not. if u identify with these feelings and want to throw coin at these words bypassing any chain mintpost post-minting: cibelle.eth / the paypal is my X handle it’s also perfectly fine to just feel it and watch me pay Elon Musk for the promise of meager visibility and longer typing space. No judgement, no shade. We are all so entrapped just trying to survive these algorithms. All compassion to users baited as data source material for profit on our actions and emotions. I see you, I see us and I love you. {there’s not a single emoji, combination of, or dank meme that could illustrate the exhausted jadedness I feel rn - gonna go rewatch The Fly or read Kafka; or both at the same time} *insert internal screaming and delirious cry laughing*