Petervan’s Delicacies — Issue #152
As usual, an incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. About a month since the previous newsletter. There is a shitload of new stuff this month. I tried to be extra disciplined and clean out the obvious, and what you’ve probably already seen elsewhere. There is a greater focus on FinTech, as I am on a freelance gig for a respected client in the search of what is next-next in this space. Any ideas welcome, contact me privately if needed. In general, for this issue, I probably deleted 100 items that were initially in. Hope you like the (re)newed focus. Spread the word. Enjoy!
The very best
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy — vitalik.ca
Awesome insights about legitimacy by his master Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin himself
How organizations are changing. The next “next” generation — swardley.medium.com
Simon Wardley did a “little” research on the next-next type of organization. Unbeatable!
The Cooperation Economy 🤝 — Not Boring by Packy McCormick — www.notboring.co
About the Cooperation Economy or How to Build a Liquid Super Team
The tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth — Michelle Nijhuis | Aeon Essays — aeon.co
About the human capacities for sharing resources with generosity and foresight
Data and Society
Building an SSI Ecosystem: Digital Staff Passports at the NHS — www.windley.com
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.
Privacy activists are winning fights with tech giants. Why does victory feel hollow? | Evgeny Morozov | The Guardian
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Perhaps we wasted energy achieving privacy concessions, when we should have been building a more foundational critique of the power of big tech
State of Privacy in XR & Neuro-Tech: Conceptual Frames
Kent Bye has some fantastic insights how digital identity and privacy may evolve into a biometric psychography
EU announces European Digital Identity and Wallet framework — www.finextra.com
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 But it is based on completely outdated thinking on digital identity.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
Shein: The TikTok of Ecommerce — Not Boring by Packy McCormick — www.notboring.co
The Quiet Chinese Quindecacorn Taking Over America’s Gen Z Shoppers > highly recommended > the future or retail and real-time fashion
Amazon ramps up its logistics integration, threatening to reshape the future of the industry | by Enrique Dans | Enrique Dans | May, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
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
Inside The Ready. A self-managing consultancy and… | by Aaron Dignan | The Ready | May, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
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…
The Theory Of Bullshit Jobs Is, Well, Bullshit — work futures — workfutures.substack.com
New research suggests that David Graeber’s arguments were deeply flawed.
Converging towards a Common Protocol of Organizing | by Simone Cicero | May, 2021 | Stories of Platform Design — stories.platformdesigntoolkit.com
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
The Luddites Were Right — Christopher Butler
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Designing between truth and fiction | CCCB LAB — lab.cccb.org
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.
9 Megatrends Shaping the Metaverse | by Jon Radoff | Building the Metaverse | May, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
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
Micropayments Are A Macro Opportunity — www.forbes.com
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”
Humans Need to Create Interspecies Money to Save the Planet | WIRED — www.wired.com
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.
Google Pay launches international money transfers with Wise and Western Union | Reuters — www.reuters.com
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.
10 Highlights From Messari’s Prodigious ‘Crypto Theses for 2021’ | by Lou Kerner | Quantum Economics | Medium — medium.com
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…
DeFi Report Q1 2021 | Consensys — consensys.net
An analysis of Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) and NFT ecosystem in Q1 2021.
Facebook Diem shifts operations from Switzerland to US — www.finextra.com
Facebook-backed cryptocurrency Diem is abandoning efforts to gain a payments licence from Swiss regulator Finma and instead switching its focus to the US
In-Person Events are Back: 26 Live Fintech Conferences to Attend in 2021 | Fintech Schweiz Digital Finance News — FintechNewsCH — fintechnews.ch
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.
Cardano: A Holochain Perspective — Holochain Blog — blog.holochain.org
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Meme Finance — Real Life — reallifemag.com
Turning our attention to money
Apple is looking to strike deals with ‘alternative payments’ providers — www.cnbc.com
Apple is looking for a lead negotiator to strike partnerships with “alternative payment” partners, according to a job listing posted on Tuesday.
Internet Computer <> Ethereum Integration Explained | by Dominic Williams | The Internet Computer Review | May, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
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
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’ | Science and nature books | The Guardian
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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
Towards Human-Centered Explainable AI: the journey so far — thegradient.pub
On why explainability is an inherently human-centered problem where we cannot afford a technocentric view
Synthetic Voice by MARVEL.ai
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This is “Synthetic Voice by MARVEL.ai” by Veritone on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
Using lasers to create the displays of science fiction, inspired by Star Wars and Star Trek — www.youtube.com
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…
CGI Animated Shorts : “Branded Dreams — The Future Of Advertising” — by Studio Smack | TheCGBros
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
1st #ForkTalk: P. Kotler, Brenda Cooper, D. Houle, Bronwyn Williams, Gerd Leonhard, Glen Hiemstra
www.youtube.com
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…
What Really Happened When Google Ousted Timnit Gebru | WIRED — www.wired.com
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?
Scientists Used CRISPR to Engineer a New ‘Superbug’ That’s Invincible to All Viruses — singularityhub.com
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
Sanitary Culture. Experts brightly offer to help create a… | by Nicholas Clairmont | Arc Digital | Medium — medium.com
Experts brightly offer to help create a society so safe, clean, inoffensive, and nontoxic art disappears. Show them the door.
Post Capitalism
Emergency Breaks — Real Life — reallifemag.com
Gavin Mueller’s Breaking Things at Work explores the failures and mistakes of the technophilic left
PROTOPIA FUTURES [FRAMEWORK] | by monika bielskyte | Protopia Futures | May, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
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 ‘Self-Made Man’ Is a Myth. The myth of individuality made… | by Douglas Rushkoff | Team Human | May, 2021 | Medium — medium.com
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…
Space and Time: The Hospital of the Future | DAMN° Magazine — www.damnmagazine.net
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Weird (Cyber)Space
🚀 The Parent Company — us4.campaign-archive.com
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Nuclear reactions at Chernobyl are spiking in an inaccessible chamber | New Scientist — www.newscientist.com
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
Archipasta — BLDGBLOG — www.bldgblog.com
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Ambulance vs Ambulance — You Were Always On My Mind [Feat. Abul-Loul the Singer] — www.youtube.com
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…
“It’s Weird, Okay!? I Get It’s Weird!”: Finding the Self in the Para-Real with VR Documentarian Joe Hunting — _.TV — tv.undersco.re
Country Ball
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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
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David Hockney shows his sketch book. Drawing from life 2020Thank you for watching please subscribe or https://www.buymeacoffee.com/2opengreendoors
Beyonce and Megan Thee Stallion Choreographer JaQuel Knight Launches Company to Copyright Dance Moves (EXCLUSIVE) — variety.com
Beyonce’s choreographer JaQuel Knight has launched Knight Choreography and Music Publishing Inc. to copyright his iconic dance moves.
http://www.jacksonpollock.org/ by Miltos Manetas! — www.jacksonpollock.org
Make your own Pollock. Interactive site
Canada Paradis(e) — www.youtube.com
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 Gent — Gaspard Lowie Compi — Digitale Beeldende kunst
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Academie voor Beeldende Kunst Gent — Gaspard lowie — Digitale Beeldende Kunst
Aesthetics
15 — the wrong tv — thewrong.tv
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As You Were — Real Life — reallifemag.com
Algorithmically reanimating dead musicians to sing against their will
Ryoji Ikeda Presents: data-verse
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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…
Bodyshame
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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…
Katharina Hesse — Photography — www.youtube.com
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
Sounds From the Van #7 — California Dreaming Cover
Cam Cole is super cool. He plays all instruments. Just wow. New album coming up. Check him out.
Merlin Ettore — Dominant Patterns
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Dominant Patterns is an electrifying snapshot of the improvisational, hybrid audiovisual practice of Merlin Ettore, recorded in the artist’s Berlin studio ov…
Squid — Paddling (Official Audio) — www.youtube.com
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. …
Lady Gaga — I Wish ( Stevie Wonder Tribute )
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These are the songs that have marked my life.They all have a special meaning for me.
black midi — John L — www.youtube.com
“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
Rotary Embeddings: A Relative Revolution — blog.eleuther.ai
A grassroots collective of researchers working to open source AI research.
How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers? — Stephen Wolfram Writings — writings.stephenwolfram.com
Stephen Wolfram considers if numbers are actually required, the use of symbolics and the potential for the growing role of computational irreducibility.
Other
Sandales créatives — pantoufish.com
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