Issue #28: Alien Nudes, RIP iPod, Kendrick Deepfakes, White House Vinyl, Chad Hugo, Shine, Mesha, Lens, Teenage Engineering, Premo Rice, Sessa, & WILLIS
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May 30, 2022
📰 News
🤖 How to build a human (robot)
👁️ K Dot deepfakes
🎵 White House vinyl collection
🇰🇷 South Korea’s metaverse city
🦧 Unique and free generative BAYC
🏠 What it means to be a metaverse landlord
💀 Drone swarm navigate a forest
🧠 Chad Hugo is an icon
🦫 China created a 3D printed dam in 2 years
👽 NASA wants to send nudes to aliens
🪙 A breakdown of the promise and perils social tokens
🎧 web3 acquired Napster
🤗 Forbes profile of Hugging Face, the $2B company bringing ML to the masses through open-sourcing and the other top 50 AI companies of last year
💠 Louis Vuitton honors Virgil with AF1 exhibition
🔫 America’s gun problem in charts
📦 Is it cluttercore or hoarding
🖼️ Hajime Sorayama has an exhibition in Paris
🛰️ The story of Starlink in the fight for Ukraine
🌎 The US, EU, and other countries collectively announce the ‘Declaration for the Future of the Internet’
🛸 The Pentagon’s secret society of UFOers
🌈 DJMag profile of Flume
📝 Research Paper: Decentralized Society: Finding Web3's Soul by Vitalik Buterin, Puja Ohlhaver, & E. Glen Weyl
📟 The iPods that never made it
💫 web3 = Blockchain + Game Theory + Code
🧱 Microsoft’s AI is a Minecraft world-builder and god
🧠 Google is closing in on human-level AI
📷 Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on a creator-led web3 future
🤑 Inside the world of paid crypto shills
✨ Ambient music is booming
👀 2022 State of Crypto Report by a16z
👵 How we spend time as we get older
🕹️ Projects
Shine - A wind turbine that fits in your backpack
SixWheel - Electric retrofit to turn trucks into EVs
Mesha - Create a team with your friends and invest in crypto & NFTs, together
Questbook - Tool for creating and managing grants from your protocol, completely on chain
Fairphone - A ethical mobile phone
Seaport - Marketplace protocol from OpenSea
Nodes - A JavaScript-based 2D canvas for computational thinking
Meter - Turning internet infrastructure to a utility
1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupé - Sold for $143 million
Lens - Protocol for building social networks making social graphs composable and decentralized
Mother of Creation - NSFW NFT project from Madonna
Paper - Frictionless NFT checkout
Teenage Engineering TX-6 - Compact field mixer that fits in the palm of your hand
CharaChorder - Type text at the speed of thought
Kinetix - No-code platform for creating 3D animations
Lootrush - Earn crypto by playing games
🎧 Music
Kendrick Lamar - The Heart Part 5
Premo Rice - Players Anthem
M Huncho - Pray 2 The East ft. BNXN
Sessa - Canção da Cura
WILLIS - I Think I Like When It Rains
Syd, Smino - Right Track
Pink Siifu - Fk U Mean/ Hold me Dwn
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