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And thanks to our authors and curators who shared this week's links:
mishaderidder.eth, babbonatale.eth, pedrovilela.eth, timdaub.eth, gokhan.eth, macbudkowski.eth, rsquare.eth, pierrepauze.eth, pfedprog.eth, simplifiedprivacy.eth, rvolz.eth

Discussions

Ann Telnaes explains why she's quitting the Washington Post (9 comments)

Evan Van Ness says that Week in Ethereum has ended and explains why (7 comments)

News

Apple will pay $95M for Siri Privacy Settlement and people can to claim their $20

Pornhub blocks access because of anti-privacy age verification US state laws

Do Kwon pleads not guilty

Essays, Posts & Talks

Vitalik reflects on the d/acc: one year later

David Phelps describes the Fat App Thesis

Simon de la Rouviere shows the difference between Time Off vs Creative Relaxing

Vinay Hiremath says that he's rich and has no idea what to do with his life

Gokhan shares the best posts of 2024

Fred Wilson tries to predict what will happen in 2025

Molly White comments on Elon Musk's and the right’s take on Wikipedia

Rahul describes the Product Feature Strategy Matrix

lukedrago introduces the Intelligence Curse

Shaw describes his story of starting as an open source dev $100k in debt to build ai16z

Stigmergic highlights the limits of Protocolization

Dashboards & reports

Dune onchain adoption Index

Report: Smart Accounts in 2024

Products

Found: XCancel - free and open source alt Twitter front-end

Found: Union - "collateral-free" USDC credit on Base

Launch: Burner Pro

For devs

zkSync Ignite Program

NLnet: get funding for digital commons and networked technology

Tech behind Simplified Privacy's VPN

New HackRF Portapack H4M

Cygaar explains how @ai16zdao's eliza framework works

Repo: Aave Migrate

Art

Live talk with Hans Ulrich Obrist

Frida Kahlo and Henri Matisse enter the Public Domain

The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2024 Edition

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