Hi everyone! The time has come to mint Squiggle #9999. I’m so excited to finally get to see what the last output will look like and get it into the hands of @LACMA. This is a save the date to invite you to participate in the festivities. No action necessary now. Please read on below. I’ve had the honor of working with @_deafbeef on a farewell smart contract to commemorate the final mint. It will live on as an immutable relic of who’s here and active in our ecosystem as the Chromie Squiggle project comes to a close. I will follow up with some additional information but for now here are the basics: Smart contract will go live Monday, July 15th at 12pm CT and close the following Monday, July 22nd, at the same time. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to “sign” the contract and participate in the farewell. Note: there will be no website and no need to connect your wallet anywhere. Anything stating otherwise is a scam.  To sign the farewell you’ll simply send any amount of ETH (I suggest sending 0.001 ETH, but anything you send will be immediately and automatically sent back to you by the contract anyways, you can send as little as 0.000000000000000001 ETH if you want) to the smart contract address. This will trigger a function in the contract to record your participation. I’ll share the contract address as soon as I have it. The smart contract will be open for one full week so take your time signing! At the end of the week, the contract will be paused and will be sealed forever once the last mint is executed. Then, in the weeks following I will initiate the transaction for minting Squiggle #9999 directly to the museum’s address via this smart contract, eternally linking anyone that participates to the final mint. More details to come, but most important right now is that you know there will be no website or place to connect your wallet. The contract will be a raw smart contract that you’ll only be able to explore via Etherscan. This is mostly to keep you safe and make it easy to participate, but also a bit of nostalgia for the old days when I was tinkering with ETH in the pre-MetaMask era. It would be incredibly meaningful for me to get as many people as possible to interact with the contract, so please help me spread the word! Anyone and everyone is welcome and encouraged to participate. ❤️

when the time comes, the lizards which rule us will eventually trigger a painful recession, but i'm not convinced that time is now. i think the easier most in the near-term will be to pivot back to looser monetary policy but when that lizard-driven recession does hit, AI will be much more fully developed than it is now i spent 15 years as a management consultant, and while you could say that job was also unnecessary, it nonetheless gave me perspective on how a lot of different orgs work here's the thing: i'd estimate 20-50% of jobs in most legacy organizations are pretty much unnecessary, especially in an AI world these employees are not direct value-add to customer/stakeholder needs. they support (sometimes necessary) processes needed to allow others to deliver value, but they are not directly in the "value chain" themselves what AI will reveal, as the all-knowing, capable of digesting any large document or dataset in seconds and giving you an analysis of it, is how unnecessary all of these people are to the functioning of a successful enterprise you see, within any large organization, bureaucracies and fiefdoms develop in these areas outside of the value chain. they all fight for budget and relevance. and they create work and detailed business to continue to justify their existence so when the lizards are ready, and when the AI tech is ready, they will trigger that calamitous recession (i'd estimate in the next 5-10 years). until then, they will use their money printing tricks to keep things moving. but when they trigger it, when they shutoff the money because they can't reasonably print anymore without destroying the shared belief in it, there will be a mass displacement of employees from these enterprises but let's say it only affects 10% to 20% of the general population. that is a huge number of people who could be unemployed. now we either find new, higher-level work for these people to do, immediately, where they all direct or partner with AIs, or they hit the unemployment line. and if they hit the unemployment line, well, these people vote, and they will vote for change and that is when we will see a new societal regime take hold. expect the rollout of universal basic income (UBI) in short order. of course, this comes with new complications like potentially disrupting the "capitalist-worker loop" which keeps everyone engaged and working 8-12 hours a day. the lizards will likely impose heavy taxes on the capitalists, and provide subsidies on those taxes to corporations which still employ actual humans. that will seem draconian, but it will be necessary until we figure out what comes next but within such a system, "quiet-quitting" will be even more rampant than it is now, as disaffected employees realize, more starkly than ever, that they basically serve no productive purpose. they are there to serve as a tax write-off for their corporation the people who are still doing actually productive work, or those who own productive capital, will become fantastically wealthy during this time. while legislation will seek to curtail those profits in the interests of societal stability, democratic societies relying on campaign fund-raising will be wholly captured by the ~3-5 mega-corporations which emerge in such an environment and those corporations will either usher in a cyber-punk reality where human lives are devalued to the point of irrelevance, where they are simply vessels which collect UBI which is then recycled back into said corporations or those corporations will seek to create an authoritarian utopia administered by a (hopefully) benevolent AGI, where citizens still collect UBI and still recycle it back into said corporations capitalism in such an environment doesn't die, but it is confined to the fringes which the AGI chooses not to serve. and people won't complain because they'll still trust the algorithm much more than they trust other people anyway, thank you for reading my fan-fiction. i really enjoy this simulation, and i hope you do, too now, on with your day, citizen

Chromie Squiggle heading @LACMA 🌈 (h/t @ArtOnBlockchain x @artblocks_io)