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