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Life and death at Balthazar

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Boom and echo

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Making babies

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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?

BeReal

The app that promotes aggressive normalcy.

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What is BeReal?

Daria Morgendorffer

“A witch, given to me as a gift, lives in my wallet like a little doll in a trunk.”

on inbox zero, her first NFT and the freedom to be fascinated.


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 Embracing ambivalence

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Cryptocurrency markets have a long way to go when it comes to UX.

on when spending money becomes complicated.

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Kafka on the OpenSea

Pudgy Penguins

Exclusivity in the digital world.

asks what NFTs actually signal about their owners.

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Are NFTs status symbols?

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