Liebe Futuristen, falls hier gerade jemand beschließt, den Freitag oder das Wochenende lieber zu Hause zu verbringen und nicht auf den Omikron-Weihnachtsmärkten: I got you.

Hier kommen die Links, eine halbe Tonne, das merkwürdige Jahr ist schließlich noch nicht rum. Auch im Januar ist nicht alles gut oder schlecht, und wir brauchen eine neue Form, um über die Zukunft nachzudenken, jenseits von Schwarzweiß. »Protopia« könnte so eine Form sein. Was es damit auf sich hat – in den Links.

Heidi Reichinnek von der Linkspartei hat mit der Ästhetik von Spotify einen politischen Jahresückblick gepostet.

• How Joe Rogan Became a Cheerleader for Ivermectin: The popular podcast host who loves to »just ask questions« can’t stop talking about his favorite anti-parasitic drug.
• 🎧 How An Excel TikToker Manifested Her Way To Making Six Figures A Day: Taking an unconventional route to a conventional business.
• Social live audio isn't actually social: We should consider what might make actually »live social audio« work.
• Unfortunately, MrBeast’s Squid Game Simulation is Perfect YouTube Content: »YouTube is a platform to distract from a real issue by presenting a simulation inside a scalable, algorithmically amplified, expression machine which gives us all the feelings of being real, but derails all the other versions.«

Journalismus

• »Investigativ-Journalismus ist sehr männlich geprägt«, sagt Isabell Beer im Interview.
• Deutschlandfunk Nova killt Twitter, setzt auf Instagram.
• Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists: Under the banner of diversity, racialized people are told to bring ourselves and our perspectives. But, if we bring too much of them, we get held back.

Crypto

• Web3 is not Decentralisation — it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge.
• Largest crypto-heists of 2021: Warum eine Bank überfallen, wenn man ein Crypto-Start-up hacken und etliche Millionen einsacken kann?
• DeFi protocol BadgerDAO exploited for $120 million in front-end attack: »The idea is that you bridge your bitcoin over onto a smart contract platform like Ethereum, as wrapped bitcoin, which you can then use within DeFi applications.«
• A few folks at the center of the market: A lot of NFT trades are wash sales intended to artificially boost prices.
• How could you live so large and leave so little for the rest of us? Die Art Basel umarmt NFT-Kunst.
• How to PROTECC your NFT and crypto assets.

Reading

Kleines Hochkant-Kunstwerk: 📺 The future Zuckerberg wants

• What Will Art Look Like in the Metaverse? Mark Zuckerberg wants us thinking about visual art when we contemplate his company’s new venture. Artists should take the suggestion seriously.
• This is the Liquid City, where physical and virtual collide: After decades staring at our TVs, computers and phones, our attention is slowly being refocused on the objects and environments around us. Media is escaping from our screens, and our world is becoming interlaced with a new dimension.
• There Is No Digital World: Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation movement.
• A shadow war in space is heating up fast: »China and Russia are regularly attacking U.S. satellites with non-kinetic means, including lasers, radio frequency jammers and cyber attacks.«
• How Dangerous Is Peter Thiel? In a recent speech, the tech billionaire gave us a frightening look at his worldview.
• Where Tech Meets Mysticism: The internet allows us to discover, select and combine the spiritual traditions that suit us best. In a new exhibition, artists are exploring the connections between ancient beliefs and futuristic systems.
• Aggromobile: Die sich breitmachende Ästhetik sei nur als »Manspreading« zu verstehen, ein Ausdruck für männliches Sich-Breitmachen zulasten anderer.
• Protopia Futures: »Both Science Fiction and corporate foresight visions directly influence reality, and their predominantly dystopian/utopian stereotypes more often than not limit our understanding of the possibility space of tomorrow’s choices.«
• Africa's Rising Cities: How Africa will become the center of the world’s urban future.

Internet Explorer

• Townscaper: Kein Ziel. Kein richtiges Gameplay. Einfach nur viel zu bauen und zu bewundern. Das war's.
• Aliendscapes: Alien Planet Generator
• Space Type Generator
• The True Size Of... zeigt, wie sehr unsere Weltkarten die Größe von Ländern verzerren.
• Some of the results may be surprising: This browser extension shows how many brands on Amazon are actually just Amazon.
• 52 things I learned in 2021

Das war Ausgabe #84 von THEFUTURE, dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann.