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Snippy.

writes about enjoying paper… on a computer, through a screen.

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Cut & Paste

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Make a movie out of anything.

helms our dispatch, recapping the latest news in digital culture. This week: Disney’s IP circus, blockchain art, “OK boomer” adventures with the founder of Rolling Stone, and Starbucks’s Web3 foray.


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Recycled Disney IP / Old Blockchain

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Training TikTok to create a feed you'll hate.

conducted an experiment, turning TikTok against itself.


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Bridget Fonda and Matt Dillon in Singles, 1992. Art by Daisy Alioto. (YouTube/Daisy Alioto)

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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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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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