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Is this wave of internet idealists any different from the last?

dives into the subculture of Web3 idealism and its intellectual antecedents.

The Gen X Guide to Web3

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An appreciation of Are.na.

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Mind Maps

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A visit to a crypto bar.

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Closer

It is forbidden to see photos of your friends.

on the blue-balling of Instagram’s userbase.

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Forbidden desires

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The Futurist cookbook meets AI.

used DALL-e to generate imagery of the absurd cuisine from Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s 1932 tome The Futurist Cookbook.

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DALL-e meets Marinetti

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Hearts are meaningless.

on what we talk about when we talk about likes.

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Like inflation

Blockchain

Web3's growing leftist subculture.

on how labor organizing in tech has reached the blockchain.

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Solid(ar)ity

Post-platform

You could check out any time you like, and now you can also leave.

on what comes next after Facebook and Twitter.


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Are we post-platform?

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