Issue #16 - Unethical Thrifting, Equalizing the Internet, James Turrell's Crater, Cozy Consumer Social, Adulting-as-a-Service, New-New MTV, Body Meat, Yves Tumor, & Stevan
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May 18, 2021
📰 News
👒 What no one talks about enough is the unethical side of the boom in secondhand fashion and it means for those who needed it most
🆓 A piece on getting back to the mission of the internet being a great equalizer
🌑 James Turrell has been building an observatory inside of a crater
🆔 What the future of online identity looks like in Web 3.0
💰 How CryptoPunks (the OG NFT) created a cult of elitist crypto investors and tech personalities
📈 Introducing Bitclout, a place where your online reputation might be worth something
🗺️ A map showing where the popular Wikipedia’ed people were born, lived or connected to
🎹 An AI was tasked with making songs in the style of musicians who died at the age of 27 — poetically named Lost Tapes of the 27 Club — in support of mental health awareness
🙅 Inside the business of online slander-as-a-service
📢 The power of news content creators is unmistakable
📨 Crypto finds adoption amongst migrant workers for remittances
🍑 OnlyFans global expansion opens doors for many across the world
🍔 Life Lesson: If you want to hack McDonald's (or finally get that McFlurry), be sure to come with the bag
👽 The life, times, and future of Reddit
🕹️ Black gamers pioneered eSports with fighting games in the 90s, but segregation still exists in the world of professional gaming
🎥 A piece on what entertainment companies look like in 2021 and what it means for up-and-coming franchises
🚀 The SpaceX Starship isn't just taking us to Mars, it's much more than that
🛰️ A review of Starlink and a tool to help you see the satellites in action tonight
🤫 Sleepminting and what it means for crypto-counterfeiting undermining the value of NFTs
🛋️ Inside the world of render porn or 3-D generated interior design and architecture made for social media
👜 Gucci enters the Metaverse
🧱 What happens when everything is a subscription
🕹️ Products
Geneva - A cozy app for group chats
Dashblock - Turn any website into an API
mmm.page - Tumblr meets Myspace meets Figma website builder
Here Before A Million - Bringing back late night MTV vibes
Macro - Virtual experiences for teams
Postmodern - Anonymous, short, ephemeral conversations with others
Generated Photos - Play with your face
TOSDR - Grading Terms of Service from company websites
Radiooooo - Musical time machine
Say It - Visualize related subreddits
Orbit - A community building CRM app
Alchemix - Unlocking your future yield through synthetic tokens
Freecycle - A network of people giving away free stuff
Drive & Listen - Listen to local car radio across the world
Lomi - Turn food waste into compost
Carbo Culture - Carbon sequestration startup tackling climate change
Realworld - Adulting-as-a-service
Movie of the Night - Figure out what to watch
🎧 Music
Body Meat - ULTIMA
SWAVAY - YAYA
Yves Tumor - Kerosene!
Stevan - Onyx
Rocketman - Orange Coffee
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