Selling to Chile, getting cited in academia

[lb_lee]

• We achieved a life goal of selling something to every continent (except Antarctica). Thanks, ebook buyer in Chile! South America was the last hold-out.
• MPD for You and Me got cited in an academic article called “Critique of DSM, medicalisation and graphic medicine” in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, by Sathyaraj Venkatesan and Arya Suresh. It's odd, having our oldest comic (from 2007) being cited in 2022.
• Last year, the Homeless Year got cited in “And None of It Fits Inside Panels: Graphic Silence in Graphic Medicine,” which was part of the Keywords and Keyimages in Graphic Medicine panel at the Modern Language Association Conference.

Comments

[erinptah]

Very cool set of new credits here, congrats.

[lb_lee]

Miranda: Thank you! Finally checking South America off the list after so many years was particularly exciting.

Mori: By the way, did you hear that Celsius has declared bankruptcy?

[erinptah]

I heard about the bankruptcy, yes! One of the big dominoes to fall in a really long row of them.

There's a crypto-scam podcast I follow on Youtube (Scam Economy) that takes live call-ins, and just a few months ago they got a call from a guy who explained how he had put all his money in Celsius, laying out his research about how it was safer and more inflation-proof than keeping it in a bank. First thing I thought was "my dude, those returns are Ponzi scheme numbers, even Madoff didn't promise that much." And a lot of people who were there for the live chat were posting the same thing.

I wonder if he'll ever call back in. (I hope he's okay.)

[lb_lee]

Yeah, man. I hear about all these countries where folks were desperate to find an alternative to their unstable local currency, only to lose their shirts. (And when I found out about El Salvador making Bitcoin a national currency...!) It's like watching the Titanic sink from a lawnchair on shore or something. Those poor marks.

I'm assuming that guy who called in couldn't be persuaded that Celsius was a bad idea?

Mori

EDIT: it looks like Scam Economy has no text transcripts, and our ability to process raw audio is poor. Can you rec any text stuff on the subject? (Or even vid, I can manage audio + vis better. Text is still king though.)

[erinptah]

It's all on Youtube! The host and the regular guests are always on video, the callers are maybe half the time:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MattBinder

If I remember correctly, the Celsius caller wasn't on video. But I'm watching a more recent episode with Youtube's auto-generated captions on, and so far it's doing pretty well.

The Celsius user couldn't be persuaded, no. He had done the math! The numbers all worked out in his favor! The idea that a website could be giving him fake numbers...he just wouldn't believe it. The numbers were right there on his screen, how could they not be real??

I know there's no convincing somebody who's that deep into it, and the average person can't do anything to redirect the President of El Salvador, but I hold out hope that there's gotta be some value in spreading the news of "look, this boat is sinking! And the last one sank! And the one before that sank! Do not get on the next boat!"