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A weekly selection of news, music, curated releases and essays.

In surprise news the profession of journalism and media is under siege from technology and economics. Pitchfork the latest outlet to announce layoffs. In a time of infinite content advertising models for media are broken. Tech platforms siphoned the capital. How do we pay salaries for journalists, writers, editors, publishers, curators, and everyone involved unless optimising for ever accelerating growth in a cartoon world?

We do kind of need media to help make sense of things.

As a friend said to me the other day, it's time for smart people to say fuck it and build their ideas. As fast and forcefully as possible. With all of the energy and intention. To fight and rage against the dying of the light.

Mat Dryhurst

@matdryhurst

I think great journalism will always be valuable, and I believe increasingly so. I don't even think the fundamentals of a magazine model are dead, the fundamentals being dedicated groups of people coming to editorial consensus. I think there is appetite but now is a good time to…

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11:16 PM • Jan 17, 2024

What's happening is technology enabling a new paradigm. Onchain media. Web3 social. The next internet. Collectively assembling networks of internet users who create, publish, and participate in a social graph of mutual discovery onchain.

We're seeing early signs of migration away from algorithmic social feeds which are controlled by corporate interests in selling ad space. Because we live in a cartoon world we saw Elon telling Tim Cook and Apple "Go fuck yourselves" about advertising live onstage.

Apple is in this legal stoush with Epic Games, and when the judge afforded developers the right to inform users in their app about cheaper prices on web, updated Apple rules to charge 27% on transactions when users buy on web. Wild scenes.

Who owns the internet?

Vital and wonderful music, arts, releases and ideas are produced every day. People are always inventing creative ways to release their art into the world. The internet will simply design for the most optimised versions of this with ecosystems built on interoperable networks, Ethereum and the Optimism Superchain and so on.

It might be super niche for quite a while, or it'll suddenly take off.

Either way, the future of the internet loops back to the past.

People creating their own worlds.

UFO 48 Multiplayer Music Communities with Fam — Nick Smith

Still Here 04 Empowerment Through Self-Custody & Web3 Socials — Woj.eth

Still Here 05 The Speed of Change & Therapy for Web3 — Simona Pop

Oval — BCN

Kllo — Affection

Bearcubs — Yeah (Never Know)

Tourist — EST

LEISURE — Back In Love

Bayonne — Temporary Time

Crypto's Three Body Problem

By privileging incentive-driven architectures, crypto protocol design has to date largely ignored vital functions that give an institution cultural substance.

https://otherinter.net

Announcing RetroPGF Round 3 Recipients

501 builders, writers, creators, educators, and contributors from across the Optimism ecosystem have been allocated a portion of 30M OP! RetroPGF Round 3 rewarded contributors for the impact they provided to the Optimism Collective across four categories: OP Stack, Collective Governance, Developer Ecosystem, and End User Experience and Adoption.

https://optimism.mirror.xyz

Dancing after architecture

My first career was as a music critic. It started with writing for Pitchfork in some of the first years of the site. It was brief - I wasn't very good and Ryan let me go - but I loved it and have a...

http://ystrickler.com

Farcon 2024

Will you be at Farcon, anon?

https://farcon.xyz

DON'T BE TRASHY - RECYCLE

It's January, the month of new resolutions, meaning it's time for you to clean up your act.

https://draup.mirror.xyz

Welcome to everwave

Empowering creators in web3

https://marketplace.everwave.xyz

The State of Expansive Communities on Farcaster

Expansive Communities: in essence, are interoperable hyperchannels that are both permissionless and sustainable through sensible governance, meaning-making, and caregiving

https://mirror.xyz

Timing in consumer crypto

Exploring the timeliness of building in consumer crypto & arguing why the present set of challenges are actually compelling reasons to build and innovate for founders

https://paragraph.xyz

Personally Online

Nothing written is financial or even general life advice. These essays are for entertainment purposes only --- Godspeed.

https://lght.mirror.xyz

Can Onchain Music Recover?

Optimism RetroPGF. Flyana Boss. Opensea Email. Royal Sonic. Sound Rebrand. 0xSplits x Zora.

https://investinmusic.mirror.xyz

Jonny Mack

@_nonlinear

two bangers from @sirsuhayb dropped on hypersub today: a monthly design subscription and a monthly gift box

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9:39 PM • Jan 18, 2024

SEED 🌱 CLUB

@seedclubhq

if you want to be at the edges of something new, this is the exact type of uncertainty and risk you need to be comfortable playing with

@thattallguy via internet explorers ep.11

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5:35 PM • Jan 18, 2024

alexanderguy.eth

@Al3xanderguy

still here episode 5 w/ the incredible @Sim_Pop is live !!

i have tried to keep these chats to ~45 mins but I just couldn't do it this time with one of my fav ppl in web3

enjoy the latest in @zerion 's collab with @ufo__club

available to mint via @ourZORA in thread

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1:43 PM • Jan 19, 2024

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