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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) gepostet.
How Joe Rogan Became a Cheerleader for Ivermectin (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Taking an unconventional route to a conventional business.
Social live audio isn't actually social (Si apre in una nuova finestra): We should consider what might make actually »live social audio« work.
Unfortunately, MrBeast’s Squid Game Simulation is Perfect YouTube Content (Si apre in una nuova finestra): »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« (Si apre in una nuova finestra), sagt Isabell Beer im Interview.
Deutschlandfunk Nova (Si apre in una nuova finestra) killt Twitter, setzt auf Instagram.
Objectivity Is a Privilege Afforded to White Journalists (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra) — it’s a Ploy to put Crypto Bros in Charge.
Largest crypto-heists of 2021 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): »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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) Die Art Basel umarmt NFT-Kunst.
How to PROTECC your NFT and crypto assets. (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
Reading
Kleines Hochkant-Kunstwerk: 📺 The future Zuckerberg wants (Si apre in una nuova finestra)
What Will Art Look Like in the Metaverse? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation movement.
A shadow war in space is heating up fast (Si apre in una nuova finestra): »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? (Si apre in una nuova finestra) In a recent speech, the tech billionaire gave us a frightening look at his worldview.
Where Tech Meets Mysticism (Si apre in una nuova finestra): 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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Die sich breitmachende Ästhetik sei nur als »Manspreading« zu verstehen, ein Ausdruck für männliches Sich-Breitmachen zulasten anderer.
Protopia Futures (Si apre in una nuova finestra): »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 (Si apre in una nuova finestra): How Africa will become the center of the world’s urban future.
Internet Explorer
Townscaper (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Kein Ziel. Kein richtiges Gameplay. Einfach nur viel zu bauen und zu bewundern. Das war's.
Aliendscapes (Si apre in una nuova finestra): Alien Planet Generator
The True Size Of... (Si apre in una nuova finestra) zeigt, wie sehr unsere Weltkarten die Größe von Ländern verzerren.
Some of the results may be surprising (Si apre in una nuova finestra): This browser extension shows how many brands on Amazon are actually just Amazon.
Das war Ausgabe #84 von THEFUTURE (Si apre in una nuova finestra), dem Newsletter über das wilde Internet und die Zukunft der Medien von Ole Reißmann (Si apre in una nuova finestra).
