Read to the end for a good DALL-E generation — Bored Apes Are Playing At My Yacht Club If it seems like there’s a little more vape smoke in the air in Manhattan right now that’s because it’s NFT NYC, baby, one of the bigger events for NFT investors in the country. Even though the entire crypto market is in the toilet and Web3 startups are imploding left…

Read to the end for a conversation with The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz — Men Online Are Mad Again Gamergate, for the uninitiated, was a 4chan-led hate movement that started in 2014 with a blog post written by a scorned ex-boyfriend that was weaponized by the far-right and laid a lot of the groundwork for the Trump campaign and their digital army of angry young men. It started with…

An investigation in a very bizarre, and troubling, corner of Twitter — This week, my podcast co-host Luke Bailey and I came across a handful of really bizarre Twitter accounts while recording our show. …

Read to the end for a troubling Morbius video — This Is What Friction Looks Like Twitter released some really interesting research last week regarding that sort of annoying widget that pops up when you’re about to cyberbully someone on their app. If you don’t use Twitter and don’t know what I’m talking about, last year, Twitter rolled out a feature that will ask users to…

Read to the end for a good hamster video — Everything Is Local The first time I heard the term “hyperlocal” was in a college journalism class. We were given a bizarre device called a “flipcam,” which was essentially a very bad digital camera that had a USB port on it that you could use to easily transfer your terrible video files, and…

Read to the end for a conversation with The Atlantic’s Kaitlyn Tiffany — An Intense Feeling Of Ephemerality For no reason at all I’ve spent the last couple days memorizing Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy. I’m not an actor or a performer, I’m not auditioning for anything or planning to, it just suddenly seemed like a worthwhile brain exercise and a good potential future party…

Read to the end for a truly cursed TikTok — Web3 Being Not Very Good Is Not A Conspiracy Sriram Krishnan — sriramk.eth @sriramk June 7th 2022 47 Retweets683 Likes I saw this tweet getting some attention over the last couple days. It’s from Sriram Krishnan, a general partner with the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. If you haven’t been following exactly how deep into crypto Andreessen…

Read to the end for one more “Morbius” thing — I Hope The Summer Of Morbius Never Ends Sony rereleased Morbius over the weekend, following weeks of “It’s Morbin’ time” memes spreading across the internet. They even got the movie’s star, Jared Leto, to make a “Morbin’ time” video. (It’s cringe.) And, hilariously, the movie flopped again. TMZ framed the second flop as an instance where the memes…

Read to the end for a conversation with The Atlantic’s Charlie Warzel — Yes, Metaverse Real Estate Will Be A Big Deal, But It Won’t Work Like Physical Real Estate I recently got myself an Oculus Quest 2 VR headset. And, yesterday, I attempted to meet a friend in VRChat, the anarchic cross-platform VR platform responsible for the wildly problematic “Ugandan Knuckles” meme from a few years ago. Finding each other in VRChat, when we weren’t friends to begin with…