A few people have been kind enough to ask if everything was ok given the long radio silence around here. Everything is fine -- I've just had the growing sense that Twitter has killed blogging. I still feel that's the case and, as sweet and pleasant and non-toxic as things are over there, I have no intention of getting into the tweeting game. But in the back-to-school September spirit, I thought I might try to get this thing going again, returning to its original purposes of being a place to (1) collect links, to make it easier to find them when needed, (2) think through in real time issues of ..read more

Big news. Background here ..read more

Bringing the blog out of hibernation just to remind everyone that a work of art, having fallen under the aegis of a museum, is held in the public trust, to be accessible to present and future generations. Unless the sales proceeds "will go toward acquisitions of new works for the museum’s permanent collection," in which case: screw those future generations. A reminder, too, that although the museum will be receiving a big pile of money in exchange for the work, this is under no circumstances to be considered monetization. Ok back to sleep now ..read more

Page Six has the scoop.  Background here ..read more

What could go wrong? For background, start here ..read more

Collector loses more than $2m of NFTs overnight. Alfred Steiner (whose piece on NFTs everyone should read) says: "Everyone understands how to store and safeguard paper certificates. Only a handful of computer scientists understand how the blockchain works. So NFTs involve a significantly higher degree of faith than paper certificates ..read more

 Long story in the New York Post on the Christian Rosa saga ..read more

 Story here. Background here ..read more

 Inigo Philbrick pleads guilty ..read more

 New York Times story here ..read more