🤠 Newsletter - Issue #3 - April 2020

Musings on the future of art, technology, & culture.

Vu François

Apr 18, 2020

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

🥡 The Food Delivery Wars

🏚️ 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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