Petervan's Delicacies - Issue #152

The very best

Awesome insights about legitimacy by his master Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin himself

Simon Wardley did a "little" research on the next-next type of organization. Unbeatable!

About the Cooperation Economy or How to Build a Liquid Super Team

About the human capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight

Data and Society

How does a functioning credential ecosystem get started? This post goes deep on Manny Nijjar’s work to create a program for using digital staff passports in the sprawling UK NHS bureaucracy.

Perhaps we wasted energy achieving privacy concessions, when we should have been building a more foundational critique of the power of big tech

Kent Bye has some fantastic insights how digital identity and privacy may evolve into a biometric psychography

The European Commission today proposed a framework for a European Digital Identity. But it is based on completely outdated thinking on digital identity. See the previous entry of this issue.

Innovation

The Quiet Chinese Quindecacorn Taking Over America’s Gen Z Shoppers > highly recommended > the future or retail and real-time fashion

Among other things, Amazon’s 2021 first quarter results confirm its long-standing strategy, which I first talked about early in 2018 and touched on again toward the middle of 2019: vertical…

Future of work

In this article, I’ll show you how we work inside The Ready — an organization transformation consultancy. We’re a fully self-managing company; there are no bosses or managers, our team members set…

New research suggests that David Graeber's arguments were deeply flawed.

This essay is the first of a series that explores the potential to build a software ecosystem to support an emergent common model of organizing based on small units, shared services and dynamic…

Internet Culture

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In the throes of the post-truth era, a new generation of designers have started to use fiction in their creative work as a means for speculating about the nature of the reality that surrounds us.

In this article, I identify 9 megatrends — exponential shifts that are already underway on a global scale — and how they will shape the future of the metaverse. Most of the megatrends are a blend of…

FinTech

We are long overdue a friction-free micropayments infrastructure to deliver a different kind of internet, one based on content not advertising. I want a button marked "pay them a buck" not a button marked "subscribe here, simply enter your credit card details, personal information and email address"

A new form of digital currency for animals, trees, and other wildlife (no, not like Dogecoin) would help protect biodiversity and bend technology back to nature.

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google has launched international money transfer partnerships with remittances firms Wise and Western Union Co (WU.N) for users of its U.S. payments app, the companies said on Tuesday.

Clocking in at 134 pages, Messari’s “Crypto Theses” is a remarkably impressive overview of the crypto ecosystem, and a must read for any crypto enthusiast. While he was supported by the 25-person…

An analysis of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFT ecosystem in Q1 2021.

Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Diem is abandoning efforts to gain a payments licence from Swiss regulator Finma and instead switching its focus to the US

With vaccination campaigns accelerating around the world, in-person, live fintech events and conferences are coming back this year. We’ve compiled a list of 26 major fintech events that are being held live and which are taking place in the coming months.

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Turning our attention to money

Apple is looking for a lead negotiator to strike partnerships with "alternative payment" partners, according to a job listing posted on Tuesday.

The history of the Internet Computer is inextricably linked with the early years of the Ethereum project. Before talking more about how the networks will be integrated, and what this is going to…

AI, Robots, Algorythms

The psychologist on applying his ideas to organisations, why we’re not equipped to grasp the spread of a virus, and the massive disruption that’s just round the corner

On why explainability is an inherently human-centered problem where we cannot afford a technocentric view

This is "Synthetic Voice by MARVEL.ai" by Veritone on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Inspired by the displays of science fiction like the holodeck from Star Trek and the Princess Leia projector from Star Wars, a BYU electrical and computer en...

Enjoy this awesome CGI short from the talented team at Studio Smack! .....This animated short is an impression of a dream infected by a brand we all know...... This is really worrying...

Digital Ethics

The Fork In The Road Project is growing quickly. This inaugural ForkTalk on May 13 2021 featured Philip Kotler, Brenda Cooper, David Houle and Bronwyn Willi...

She was a star engineer who warned that messy AI can spread racism. Google brought her in. Then it forced her out. Can Big Tech take criticism from within?

The team used CRISPR to replace over 18,000 codons with synthetic amino acids that don’t exist anywhere in the natural world.

Masks/Defence/Hiding

Experts brightly offer to help create a society so safe, clean, inoffensive, and nontoxic art disappears. Show them the door.

Post Capitalism

Gavin Mueller’s Breaking Things at Work explores the failures and mistakes of the technophilic left

Throughout this document, a conscious choice was made to use the pronoun “we”. The “we” of Protopia is everyone involved in putting this together, yes, but also the collaborators past and future…

The most explicitly humanist value retrieved by the Renaissance, and the one we’re most hampered by today, was the myth of the individual. Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Vitruvian Man — the 1490 drawing…

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Weird (Cyber)Space

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Subreactor room 305/2, which has been inaccessible since the Chernobyl meltdown 35 years ago, is emitting neutrons that point to a growing nuclear fission reaction

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Ambulance Vs Ambulance is the strange brainchild of Bokeh Versions‘ shadowy mastermind Jeffrey Lee Hearse and one half of Giant Swan Robin Stewart, a match m...

Country Ball is the attempt to recreate a home video from the late 80’s of my family’s mother’s day cookout. My process involved looking for 35…

Art related

David Hockney shows his sketch book. Drawing from life 2020Thank you for watching please subscribe or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/2opengreendoors

Beyonce's choreographer JaQuel Knight has launched Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to copyright his iconic dance moves.

Make your own Pollock. Interactive site

using slowmo and fluid footage with artistic style transfer.original footage from french group Paradis : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKLZJVR4DeAoriginal ...

Friends from Academy

Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent - Gaspard lowie - Digitale Beeldende Kunst

Aesthetics

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Algorithmically reanimating dead musicians to sing against their will

Ryoji Ikeda has been working with data for close to 16 years, working with creative coding to develop an audiovisual language in order to explore what he ter...

Delusium (The Delusion Shuffle) from the upcoming Body Shame album Quiet Pills https://bodyshame.bandcamp.com/album/quiet-pills Body Shame is a solo experimental…

After being based for 24 years in Beijing, Katharina Hesse currently shares her time between Germany, Hongkong and China. Her work primarily focuses on China...

Music/Sound

Cam Cole is super cool. He plays all instruments. Just wow. New album coming up. Check him out.

Dominant Patterns is an electrifying snapshot of the improvisational, hybrid audiovisual practice of Merlin Ettore, recorded in the artist’s Berlin studio ov...

Taken from the debut album Bright Green Field, out 7th May: https://squidband.uk/We started writing Paddling when we were but kids still living in Brighton. ...

These are the songs that have marked my life.They all have a special meaning for me.

"John L" from our second studio album "Cavalcade" is out 28th May 2021 Preorder here: https://blackmidi.ffm.to/cavalcadeVideo creditsDirector : Nina McNeelyE...

For real nerds

A grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research.

Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.

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