#699 - Mindy Seu, Improbable Futures & Everyday Eyebombing đ
#699 - Mindy Seu, Improbable Futures & Everyday Eyebombing đ
Season 5 signals the beginning of a new adventure for Protein Community â by combining the collective intelligence of our incredible members with the extensive experience and knowledge of Protein Agency to collaboratively tackle the next Dirty Word report. The topic, fittingly, is Community and it wonât be like anything youâve seen from us before.
Historically these reports have been created in-house, so for the first time, our members will have the opportunity to be part of the process â earning, learning, and growing together â with all contributions being recognised and rewarded on-chain and in the final report.
So, do you have an insatiable urge to explore the past, present, and future of Community? Are you an incredibly talented researcher or strategist looking for a project youâre going to still be talking about in 5 yearsâ time? Perhaps youâre a designer or a copywriter with an interest in applying your skills in a new way? Or maybe youâre culturally curious and looking for a new community to explore and learn from? If any of this sound like your bag âŠ
Inspired by the responses from our recent Supplement survey, weâve categorised our links to reflect how you find them in our Discord, so we trust you like the new format:
đ€ă»stories of growth
At the very end of last year, we had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Mindy Seu, editor, and gatherer of the Cyberfeminism Index â an evolving, collaborative archive of projects working towards cyberfeminist futures dating from 1985 to today. We discussed the evolution of the project and what community means to her and as a Supplement subscriber, you get the first read and listen:
đ€ă»ai
Nick Caveâs response to a fan ChatGPT written song, âIt sucksâ
Getty Images is suing Stable Diffusion
NYC bans students and teachers from using ChatGPT as does Stack Overflow
Consistency. The last memo of Calvino (Written by AI)
Stuck with your chat prompts? Look no further âŠ
Who knew we needed AI calligraphy âŠ
Michael Running Wolf is using AI to reclaim forgotten Native languages
AIâs art school problem, it canât do hands
âHelp, my AI is sexually harassing me!â
The âEnshittificationâ of TikTok by Cory Docrow is worth a read
đ€ă»community
Online communities are creating their own proof in a vacuum of truth
Seed Club on the future of communities
Zoe Scaman on the importance of communities is worth a listen
Co:Creation documents the collaborative design process of building digital worlds (german language)
Daniel Ospina on the difference between communities, groups and networks
Unpacking Olivetti's utopian organisation model
Thereâs something we could all learn about community on Ikaria
The lack of 3rd spaces and the false promises of community at work
đȘă»design
We want to live in this improbable future
A very handy Figma containing all of the Web3 design principles
Animizer is a complete solution for GIF and APNG creation
SlowMo is designed to help people with psychosis
SOOT makes Pinterest look shite
Decoding your creative fete
đ±ă»good-growth
Post-growth transition, working time reduction, and the question of profits
Activists sue Danone over its use of plastics
Weâre đ Reading FCâs new football strip
More than 90% of rainforest carbon offsets are worthless
MIT study finds emissions from self-driving cars could be a big problem
đă»identity
Weâre loving this short film from gal-dem exploring home and heritage
Polyamory isnât perfect, but neither is monogamy
Sofia Pranteras from Aries and its relationship with youth culture
Is it time to rethink Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
Mymind is an extension for your mind and itâs mindblowing
Which beauty subculture will you belong to in the metaverse?
An amazing 1977 clip of Marshall McLuhan talking about identity in the digital age
đă»lol
Who knew eyebombing would bring us so much joy đ
Google Calendar, but it shows the actual cost of each meeting
In 1996, spending 30 hours a week on the computer made you an "addict"
Someone made a machine that only lets you type LOL if you actually LOLâd đ€Ł
đă»misc
Trippin 50 is a cultural calendar âfor a new worldâ
Why does every deli look the same?
If youâre looking to kill a couple of hours, hit the British Culture Archive
How Noma made fine dining far worse
theyrule.net visualizaies the nepotism between board members of US companies
This Trinix post is pure vibes âš
Mythologies is Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter new orchestral album
âă»ownership
Common Wealth is a think-tank for the future
The internet is shifting from ads to artifacts
đă»reports
If thereâs one thing to read, itâs Matt Kleinâs 2023 META Trending Trends
And once youâve read it, join the free workshop at 5pm UK time today
Itâs Nice Thatâs Lazy Report is definitely talking to us
Diversity in the Metaverse report continues the important conversation
Forefront coming through with their Year in Review for Tokenised Communities
đă»web3
Will the future of DAOs be powered by AI?
Smart contracts are the new social contracts
This is a must-read for all you DAO operators out there in web3
The Future of DAOs, Part 3 analyzes the role of cultural capital within Web3
âThere are two kinds of forecasters: those who donât know, and those who donât know they donât know.â â John Kenneth Galbraith
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