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Is web4 just real estate?

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An app wants to be your neighborhood's third space.

interviews Naj Austin, founder and CEO of Somewhere Good. 

Temu haul

Hauling and hoarding.

on the shopping app Temu and a new Dirt investigates query.

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Is there meaning in the machine-generated?

considers ChatGPT's impact on how we read and write. Read the [first part of the essay here](https://dirt.fyi/article/2023/04/the-ai-writer). 

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When novelty fades.

on BeReal’s last-ditch effort at staying relevant. Daisy Alioto shares some thoughts on Bluesky.

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PFP evolution

The profile picture's evolution.

on the prevalence of faces on the social internet and the profile picture's future in Web3. This piece is also published in [issue 1 of Arkive Magazine](https://arkive.net/magazine/evolution-of-the-profile-picture).

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