Issue #25: "SKYSCRAPER", Soulbound, 10 Years of BLM, Post-Identity, Carhartt Skate, Unmasking BAYC, ZERO10, Flux, Core, Toro y Moi, Dodgr, Los Retros, & NIGO
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February 27, 2022
📰 News
🏗️ Virgil Abloh’s blueprint for his web3 project named “SKYSCRAPER” that combines DAO governance with original art and a metaverse museum
🗡️ Soulbound by Vitalik Buterin
✊🏿 10 years of Black Lives Matter
💖 Creating in a Post-Identity Future by Zora Zine
🎙️ Spotify v Neil Young v Joe Rogan & the economics of Spotify
🛹 Carhartt WIP’s new skate video
🍌 Unmasking the pseudonymous founder BAYC
👁️ What happens when your bionic eye becomes unsupported
🎨 Wikipedia launches initiative to commissioning artists to paint portraits of BIPOC figures
🤥 The Truth about Donald Trumps new social network
🧫 14 meta-cultural trends for 2022
💬 An analysis on Telegram, the anti-Facebook
🏈 A DAO is trying to buy the Denver Broncos
🗳️ Andrew Yang’s new Lobby3 DAO
🎉 Exclusive Hollywood NFT minting parties by Afterparty
🖱️ The History of the Blinking Cursor
🎮 A quick write-up on MMO dynamics in web3 business models
😈 2022 Crypto Crime Report by Chainalysis
🌠 Nigo, the Curator
🕵️ FBI wanted to leverage Israeli spyware for domestic surveillance but things blew up
🏠 Frank Lloyd Wright houses in 3D
🔌 DeLorean announces return of its car as an EV in 2022
🔨 A walkthrough of cracking a $2 million crypto wallet and the story behind it
🏴 Is radical change coming?
🙊 Can AI decode this untranslatable ancient language?
📗 A collection of 14 books under attack by school’s book bans
🕹️ Products
Superdao - Start a DAO in seconds
Flux - Figma for hardware design
Parcel - Payment OS for contributor economy
Dead Malls - An archived history of dead malls
Proxi - Create interactive maps
Nokemon - AI-generated Pokemon
Informed - News app curated by experts
ZERO10 - A new generation digital fashion platform
Core - The world’s largest aggregator of open access research papers from repositories and journals
Weather Spark - Climate reports with the weather by month, day, even hour
Minoan - Shop the world around you
Withco - Making commercial property ownership easier
Adventr - Create interactive videos
Kaiyo - Buy and sell vintage furniture
🎧Music
Toro y Moi - The Loop
Dodgr - Hot Lyric Video
Los Retros - Someone To Spend Time With
Khruangbin - Time (You and I)
Kid Cudi & Nigo – Want It Bad
Buddy - Wait Too Long ft. Blxst
COIN - Cutie
Omar Apollo - Invincible feat. Daniel Caesar
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