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We meet even more people in the park in this issue #251 of your weekly poetry shot

This week, Toronto once again demonstrated that there are two cities within our city: There's Old Toronto and then there's the rest of Toronto. The former generally corresponds to the boundaries of Toronto prior to amalgamation in 1998. It represents a city that was built around streetcars and subways and is therefore embedded with certain urban sensibilities. Then there's the rest of Toronto. This part of the city ranges from being reluctantly urban to overly hostile toward it. And it shows ...

Welcome back to Unlocking the Future! This issue, we’re diving into Perplexity Labs, the AI agent platform that’s redefining what’s possible for startups, creators, and anyone building with AI. Ready to

Five Instrumental Tales from an Imagined Desert

URL to (SEMI) IRL, some casual games, and a lot of coding

The Crypto Advertising SupercycleIn crypto, there is the concept of a 4-year cycle, where the boom and bust phases, and corresponding prices, are attributed to the halving of Bitcoin supply emission rates.As crypto and Bitcoin reached mainstream acceptance, a new buzzword concept came along: the ‘supercycle’. With institutions, countries, and companies warming up to the idea that Bitcoin could be a store of value and currency, Bitcoin would break the standard 4-year cycle and grow into someth...

The feature ensures that real humans, verified through World ID’s Proof of Personhood credentials, receive priority transaction inclusion on World Chain.

she saved the public words they wrote hours after she said he made me uncomfortable we do things in public here don’t we? she became villainous asking for accountability she waited patiently for what would never come now she takes pills to prevent panic attacks they take pills for pleasure spread in secret places the community where everyone is okay still murders its own children where men never mean it and women must always believe them B called her a close friend now calls her nothing at al...

Hi, and welcome to the newest edition of NFT Matrix, where I present NFT Artists’ / Regular Artist’s work. The artist I am presenting is xsullo Piece: “Released in Reverie” LinkArtist: “Petals kiss the bones, a soul floats beyond the veil— reverie takes root.” NFTMatrix: An intense and colorful piece. The soul appears to be leaving the skull…this reminds me of the Aztecs with the skull, the flowers, the cenota and the jungle. Piece: “Embrace your Ground” LinkArtist: “The way is not upward, bu...

Bedrock is a publication about the future of the onchain economy. Each week, we'll explore the builders and ideas at the frontier, paving the way for a digital world that increases innovation, creativity, and freedom.

Women in web3, more specifically those on crypto twitter, are confusing. I say that as someone who is one, and still often feels like I’m watching a bizarre performance unfold in real time. One week, we’re all about protecting women at conferences and speaking up about misogyny. The next, it’s subtweeting the same girl for existing too confidently. Pick a damn lane!!! There’s a kind of feminism in this space that’s 90% slogan, 10% substance. “Girls support girls!” until it’s time to actually ...

Tokens should capture onchain value. Equity should capture offchain value. For too long, regulatory pressure distorted that distinction. But founders now have a chance to get it right — and design systems that align incentives, minimize legal risk and unlock the full potential of crypto.

If you’ve followed BizarreBeasts for any length of time, you know I’m all in on building in public: art first, community always, and onchain by ethos. But behind all the BIZARRE art drops, games, and music, there’s a powerful and highly effective infrastructure fueling the BizarreBeasts ($BB) movement. (Pssst... and it doesn't cost anything 😳) Lately, that’s meant building the entire $BB ecosystem on Empire Builder, a protocol powered by $GLANKER. After diligently searching for well over a y...

On air today. Turning collective memories into movement with interactive album SCENES. Recorded at Thunderboom Records' event in London on April 11, this set features remixes of historical BBC audio and visuals.

Here's an interesting figure from the Missing Middle Initiative showing the change in population of 0-4 year olds in Southern Ontario between 2016 and 2021:What this shows is that the population of young children declined in the Greater Toronto Area and in Ottawa, but increased dramatically in areas further out, such as in Lanark County (outside of Ottawa) and Oxford County (between London and Hamilton). If you know what home prices are like in Southern Ontario, then this probably makes intui...

The company is positioning itself as a pure-play Ethereum-native platform focused on staking and treasury management.

J.P. Morgan is launching a USD-backed deposit token (JPMD) proof of concept on Base through Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, its industry-leading blockchain business unit. The pilot will enable an onchain payment rail that provides J.P. Morgan institutional clients the ability to eventually settle instantly and securely at a fraction of a cent. This is a major milestone in bringing traditional banking institutions onchain, and shows how Base helps banks build trusted financial products.The fina...

field notes from berlin blockchain week, the financialization of creative work; intelligence, artificial and otherwise; onchain affiliate marketing; surviving the uncertainty tax

Most global cities now have restrictions, and in some cases an effective ban, on short-term rentals. Here are a some examples with some of the key rules as I understand them (and by this, I mean what ChatGPT is telling me): Berlin: Secondary residence rentals are limited to 90 days per yearLondon: Annual cap of 90 nightsMexico City: Annual cap of 180 nightsNew York City: Only host-present stays allowedParis: Annual cap of 120 nightsRio de Janeiro: Annual cap of 90 nightsSan Francisco: Annual ...