Neil Fryman
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So there were an estimated 7,500 K cars imported into the United States last year under this car collecting measure.
So it is possible to get one.
You probably won't be able to take it on the road.
Highway, certainly not, and barely any roads unless there's this whole rewriting of the federal vehicle safety landscape, which Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was asked about this after Trump said we should get Japanese K cars on the roads.
He said, like, we're looking into it.
We're looking into it.
But don't expect anything to happen soon.
All right, my winner is Beeple, who's once again found himself at the center of the art world this weekend for making anthropomorphized billionaire dog robots that poop out NFTs.
Okay, there's a lot there, so let's break this down one by one.
Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkleman, is the artist you may remember from selling an NFT for $69 million back in the crypto speculation heyday of 2021.
That sale made him the third most expensive living artist in the world, and for many, signaled the top of the NFT bubble.
While the NFT bubble did pop spectacularly, Beeple has kept on grinding, and his latest piece is the talk of the town at Miami's Art Basel, the largest art fair in the United States.
Titled Regular Animals, Beeple's project is a pen of quadruped robot dogs that are fitted with very realistic heads of famous painters like Picasso, Warhol, and Beeple himself, as well as billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.
The robot dogs are equipped with cameras that take pictures of what they're looking at.
And from time to time, they will stop walking around, enter poop mode and go number two, which in this case means they expel an image based on what the camera captured.
Since this is Beeple we're talking about, hundreds of those prints come with a QR code that offers on lurkers a chance to own the image as an NFT.
It's all very bizarre, but Toby, I've seen this all over my social media and it's clear Beeple has a knack for going viral.
Is there anything more than just a surface level stunt here?
People are going to pay attention to it and they are going to pay for it as well.
Each of these robot dogs, there were two per figure.