🤠 Newsletter - Issue #3 - April 2020
Musings on the future of art, technology, & culture.
April 18, 2020
📰 News
💻 Coding and the meaning of life: This Video Has 7,665,860 Views
🌐 Our lives explained in network effects
💿 Ye, the cult leader we didn't think we needed
🍴 How much you really make owning a restaurant
💃 How platforms (and the pandemic) is changing sex work & music entertainment
📚 In the fight against cyber censorship, Reporters Without Borders built a public library in Minecraft
🤦♂️ TikTok doesn't want "ugly" people
🌲 Interesting research study that leveraged social media and AI to prove nature contributes to increased life satisfaction in humans
🎨 KAWS launched AR sculptures of Companion across the world — too bad we can't go outside...but here's some alternatives: Link 1 and Link 2
🧪 Here's a list of the most innovative companies of 2020 by Fast Company
🏚️ Startup Idea: "Bug-Out" Bag Subscription Service + Airbnb for Survival Bunkers
🎮 Epic Games leads the way with a new publisher business model: fully-funded, full creative, 50/50 split after costs recoup
📈 Internet usage & traffic during COVID from NYT, Pew Research Center & Morning Brew
🗞️ Local publishers and media outlets are more at risk than ever
🛍️ I still don't get why social media QVC hasn't become a thing in the West...
🎲 An introduction tabletop RPGs that aren't DND
🍎 Apple Sneakers > Yeezys
🏕️ Tesla Cybertruck Camper
🕹️ Products
Roadmap - Simple project management tool
Superpeer - 1:1 video calls with experts, NSA
Jadu - Coming soon to TikTok
Around - Video calling for #WFH world
Oura - Ring wearable fresh off $28m in funding
Rosebud AI - Monetizing deepfakes, on stock photo at a time
Wegobuy - Chinese counterfeit shopping concierge
Jellyfin - Build your own open-source Spotify or Youtube
Valley Originals Co. - Your favorite SV swag
Activ8 - Virtual Youtubers
KgBase - Create knowledge graphs with 0 coding
🎧 Music
Frank Ocean - Cayendo (Side A - Acoustic)
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes - Nightrider (feat. Freddie Gibbs)
Chicano Batman - Pink Elephant
Smino - Reverend
Knxwledge - Don't Be Afraid
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