The adiVerse

I've been on the Yes Men list since, I suspect, I wrote those Alinskyites to gloat about how hard "Yes Bush Can" failed. Their usual shtick is to infiltrate a #wokecorp to make them look even more #woke, usually on climate or against such "fascists" as, er, Trump. Then the #wokecorp is stuck with explaining to the media that they don't mean all that guff and that they're really just cowards. That's exactly the opposite how I'd push #wokecorp - at least, in 2004.

I am this decade a different man and a different blogger. Okay... still not #woke; and with the various Chaikins and Bichlbaums running the Yes Men, many baileys share one motte. But. I am amused to see how the 'Men just punk'd "adidas" (sic), at the Web Summit.

Last week - you may or may not have noticed - I'd read Ezekiel Faux' (sic) book, Number Go Up. It was mostly about the Tether money-laundry, which Faux and his friends were hoping would fail. Tether hasn't failed; but in the process, Faux stumbled onto a front-row seat (alongside Mike "Big Short" Lewis) to a number of sh!tcoin and exchange failures, not least FTX.

FTX claimed to be all about Effective Altruism (which just hasn't been correctly tried, right?). Somewhere around those circles is Nick Land (the xenosystems NRx d00d), whose acolytes are proposing instead "E/acc", technologic accelerationism basically. The Yes Men crashed that Summit as "adidas" flacks, showcasing how "adidas" was going to provide its third-world employees (i.e. slaves) with virtual vacations in the metaverse or some such rot. E/acc in action!

Of course, "adidas" is doing no such thing. As if they'd do anything to help! My stars-n'-garters, if some corporation actually had to pay their overseas employees then they might slink back to the US and/or Europe to pay our citizens here. (Don't tell the Yes Men that Drumpf's been making similar arguments.)

As an aside, LOL at the copyright-strike. Typical of a major corporation to claim "copyright" on content as makes them look bad. Like how movie-studios hit bad reviews with copyright-strikes - not hitting the good reviews.

Overall, I gotta hand it to the Yes Men for their latest trick. This is the content we need. Pity it took them almost two decades to do it.

WHAT SHOES I WEAR 7 PM MST: New Balance, yo; all the way. I just got a refresh last week.