Issue #19 - History of Kanye’s Mask, OnlyPlans, Creator Crisis, Legacy of GTA V, Steve Jobs NFT, Sam & FTX, Metaverse E-commerce, Personal OS, DIY Laptop, Teezo Touchdown, CHOKER, & Quelle Chris
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August 19, 2021
📰 News
🎭 Digging into the history of Kanye's mask
🍑 OnlyFans starting to ban porn on its platform
✨ When passion leads to a creator crisis
🍎 Someone did an NFT auction of Steve Jobs' job application
🎮 Why GTA V has become the most influential game of all time
💱 Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX moves different
🐈 How Stoner Cats are redefining Hollywood through NFTs
🆒 Tumblr wants to monetize and YikYak is back
🎥 Travis Scott's deal with A24 marks a new future for brand partnerships
🗳 Former Facebook employee whistleblower shares her harrowing story about political manipulation
🇫🇷 France gives its youth a culture stipend
🎙 Hip Hop's interesting relationship with crypto
🐄 Fugitive founder of Farmville clone on the run with $80m
⚰️ A.I. brings love back from the grave
📹 Frederick Wiseman shares the art of documentary filmmaking
🤥 Disinformation for hire
🤖 Boston Dynamics' Atlas is now hardcore parkour
⌨️ Hacker who stole $600m from Poly Network is returning it in exchange for work
🔭 Space is the next marketing frontier
📺 Research finds little evidence that the YouTube recommendation algorithm is driving attention to radical content
🏖 Miami launches its own coin to eliminate homelessness and fund police force
🚇 Sounds of subway trains around the world
♻️ What it means to build a sustainable internet
👟 History lesson from Fragment and the Godfather of Japanese streetwear
🕴 The cultural stories behind emojis
💰 Gen Z changed personal finance forever
❤️🩹 How to justify Millennial nostalgia
🕹️ Products
Tricycle - Design with AI
And vinyly - Press your ashes into a vinyl record
Urbit - A personal designed OS for P2P
Trading.tv - Streaming platform for finance, investing, and trading
Halter - Future of cattle farming
Yarn - Serach for video clips from movies, tv, and music videos
Quinn - Audio erotica
Framework - DIY laptops
Helium - Wireless network powered by the people
Machinations - Game design platform for rules and mechanics
Do U Have - Reverse local marketplace
Moonbeam - Tiktok for podcasts
Liveblocks - Add real-time collaboration to your apps
Y.at - Universal emoji identity
Mav.farm - Metaverse e-commerce platform
🎧Music
Teezo Touchdown - Mid
AUDREY NUNA - Long Night
Quelle Chris - Sudden Death
sam gellaitry - duo
CHOKER - LUCKY
Pa Salieu - Block Boy
Leon Vynehall - 'Movements (Chapter III)'
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