Issue #21 - AI Boxing, DAO-Owned Characters, Lab-Grown Meat Truths, Cocaine NFTs, Stopping Facebook, Radicle, Utopia, Replica, Nasdisc, Tame Impala x Lil Yachty, _BY.ALEXANDER, EYEDRESS, & ize
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October 19, 2021
📰 News
🧠 A look at simulated environments that enable AI models to crawl, run, and box
🎥 The rise of community-owned (DAO) characters and IP in a web3 world
🥩 The unfortunate truths of lab-grown meat
⬜ Selling one ton of cocaine in NFTs
🛋️ The story of the collective, idyllic Airbnb that was never was
🏴☠️ The history of Opensea, and recently, alleged insider NFT trading by its head of product
👾 Supreme Gameboy for jacking cars
👜 Why high end fashion brands are getting into NFTs via video games
✨ "The idea of “vibes” discourages the more difficult work of interpretation, foregrounding the idea of affect as inexplicable, ineffable"
💜 Learn how to run your own small social network
🛑 Fight for the Future launches a campaign to stop Facebook
🐦 If Plato could tweet...
📸 In the social media age, we've all become celebrities
🗳️ The age old question of governance, but now for the Metaverse
🖼️ Vienna museums create an OnlyFans to exhibit censored art
🦥 An essay on the laziness of generative / procedural NFT art
🆔 Genesis is marketplace for stolen digital identities
🎮 The hardest things about making a video games is making video games
📍 On the multibillion dollar industry for phone location data
📺 A well thought out list of anime recommendations
🎭 The art of stand-up broken down by data
🧫 Beautiful petri dish mold art from Moscow-based artist Dasha Plesen
🙈 The power of memes to influence everything
💰 Pandora Papers reveal shady international trusts hidden right in good ole middle America
👀 A write up from the VP of Engineering at Youtube on how its recommendation system works
💾 Scientists want to copy paste human minds into computer chips
🏎️ Coolest cars from the 70s ranked
🔗 Why hyperlinks are blue according to Mozilla
💣 How Dune foresaw modern warfare
🕹️ Products
Radicle - Code collaboration meets web3
lofi - Build your own lofi vibes
Utopia - Payroll platform for DAOs
Minus - A finite social network
volt.fm - Your Spotify profile on steroids
Replica - AI voice actors as a service
Electric Aston Martin DB6 - An electric version of the classic
Kickstroid - Sneaker price prediction and news
Meanfi - A self-Custody, permissionless & trustless bank
Context - Easily track the wallets of NFT collectors
Metaphor - Language-model-based search engine
Senpai.gg - AI gaming assistant that helps you get better
Nasdisc - A StockX style marketplace for vinyl records
Coinfeeds - Track crypto info through their website, API, Slackbot, or Discordbot
Muse - 3D website builder
2cents - An Ethereum protocol for internet communities that turns users into ‘network owners’ when they post valuable content
Jupe - Buy your own a glamp
🎧Music
Tame Impala, Lil Yachty - Breathe Deeper (Lil Yachty Remix)
reggie - AVALANCHE (FEAT. SMINO)
_BY.ALEXANDER - le merveilleux résumé
River Tiber - Acid Test
EYEDRESS - BODY DYSMORPHIA
ize - This Is Not A Drill
Maxo Kream - GREENER KNOTS
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