Dutchyyy
@dutchyyy
from recording .RA files DL’d on a 14.4k modem onto cassettes to now owning my very own anti-social graph. 😣
To say the 2024-2026 chapter of the intersection of art & technology via blockchain is disheartening or traumatic would be underselling it. Major pivots in unison that were a 180 of mission statement ethos, the loud majority (users) gaslit, ignored. Pivots to scale, not to survive. Beyond user experience (as both cre...
Sharing two important updates that were posted to X earlier today:
1. Foundation has been acquired by Blackdove, allowing the marketplace to continue operating as part of their platform.
2. We’ve made the difficult decision to wind down Rodeo.
I’ve written more about each decision, what it means, and what comes next
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Added to my critical urgent immediate attention queue this month was this Blackdove / @foundation development. Going through and paying mainnet eth to cancel all auctions to not risk losing them. There is still so much confusion and uncertainty, but for me personally, all of web3 already completely lost it's purpose...
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Dutchyyy
@Dutchmassive
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5 yrs meticulously documenting 4 decades of Beats, Rhymes & Life, Across multiple platforms, tied together via breadcrumbs in descriptions meant to serve as permanent storage to link f/ the main codex in museum. Evaporated By Sunsets.
Refund time lost & re-fund pivot below 🫂 https://t.co/QPqWWYFMr0
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Spends weeks trying to troubleshoot the short notice sunsetting of multiple platforms I used to create and collect on..
Uses gallery as the hope to showcase.
Wakes up
First thing the Twitter algo feeds me.
Gallery announcement of sunset with 30 day window.
There is a level of trauma and heart break you just don’t...
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An ongoing situation worth any Music Nerds attention to research.
New Jeans + Min Hee-Jee -VS- HYBE / ADOR
—-some context:
Min Hee-jin was the primary architect of NewJeans’ career, serving as their founding CEO, executive producer, and creative director from their inception until her departure in late 2024. Her rol...
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In 2003 when bombed the Middle East in Night Vision on live television & my younger brother got deployed, I channeled my emotions in a healthy way & immortalized them on Record.
In 2026, we know what we create can’t reach our audience thru the algorithm so we settle for @ ing the White House on Twitter.
2003 was a...
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Times like this I wish I drank or did drugs…. I’ve processed rapid fire traumatic experiences & information completely sober and raw dog.. now it’s 4am my cortisol is bubbling, face swelling (literally) worrying about my people in Iran & just the neverending greed and evil flaunted. Exhausted but can’t wind down....
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