Issue #29: Worker-owned, Sentient AI, web3 Phone, Pharrell x Doodles, Poop Power, Interstellar Labs, 0xSplits, Opal, Shelter, The Mars Volta, Roy Blair, Bashfortheworld, & Mall Grab

Stories, projects, & tunes for the modern internet tastemaker

Jul 1, 2022

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June 30, 2022

📰 News

🏗️ Worker-owned platforms are the next phase of the sharing economy

🍚 CRISPR rice might save our world

👓 Meta has been trying

🇲🇽 Learn about Aztec symbols and mythology

🐱 The rise and fall of Cool Cats

🤖 Google engineer claims AI has become sentient

📱 Solana is releasing a crypto phone

🧠 A breakdown of Imagen vs DALLE-2 and how it actually works

🐸 Unpacking memes with with a professional meme curator

👂The rise of white noise

✏️ Pharrell becomes Chief Brand Officer of Doodles

🔆 Apparently the world’s first production-ready solar car

👾 What Discord means for musicians and their fans

👑 The Ownership Economy in 2022

☢️ Startup claims limitless clean energy

📦 Lessons learned from launching a physical product

🌐 Who owns 4chan?

🧬 Why life expectancy in the US is lower than other rich countries

⛓️ The story Entropy and Tux Pacific

⚒️ The Arc of the Practical Creator by Lawrence Yeo

🪦 Content is destroys creativity

🛸 Surprise, the government is looking into worm holes, anti-gravity, and invisibility cloaks

🪗 Crappy music is getting crappier

🤐 Censorship is changing the modern lexicon

💫 Gen Z is busting union busters and more themselves in the metaverse

💵 What the future means for money

📉 The middle class is disappearing

⌚ A breakdown of how mechanical watches work

🪨 The success and failure of Pebble

💩 The power of poop

🪧 Let the people own the tech companies they build

🧫 What the future of food looks like

🕹️ Projects

Interstellar Labs - Bio-pods for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in space

Github Copilot - AI pair programmer using OpenAI Codex to suggest code and entire functions in real-time, right from your editor

Ikea Place - Delete furniture in your home

earth.fm - Spotify for nature

Sonantic - AI voices startup acquired by Spotify

Oura x Gucci - Smart ring with a touch high fashion

Components - Tools for generative web design

Shelter - Netflix for architecture and design

0xSplits - Split onchain income

imissmymates.club - Online radio station

Opal - The first professional webcam

Humans - Discover jobs in web3

Pineapple - The Gen Z LinkedIn

🎧 Music

Chance the Rapper ft. Joey Bada$$ - The Highs & The Lows

The Mars Volta - Blacklight Shine

Mall Grab - Understand feat. Brendan Yates

crack cloud - please yourself

Roy Blair - Thunder

Bashfortheworld - Walking on Water

Brent Faiyaz - PRICE OF FAME

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