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The Long Game

Ethan Jablonowski

Ownership Without the Bull: KOMPETE's Blueprint for Value That Lasts

Gaming's ownership problem isn't about technology—it's about choice. It doesn't need to be complicated, expensive, or forced on you. At KOMPETE, we stripped away the friction and built something different. We're not 'Web3 enough' for the bull-market maxis or 'conventional enough' for the trad skeptics—and that's exactly the point.

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Bee Curious

Ina

McDonald’s Japan: A Story of Success, Struggles, and Reinvention

When I think of America—the first things that come to mind are Coca-Cola, towering skyscrapers, New York City, and, of course, hamburgers. More specifically, McDonald's. As a kid, I used to watch Adam Sandler movies and other American comedies where the characters devoured burgers with such delight that I couldn't help but crave one myself. I don’t remember exactly when I had my first McDonald’s burger, but I believe it was during a trip abroad in my teenage years. At the time, just tasting a...

#japan#burgers#hamburgers#ginza#den#fujita#mcdonald
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Paragraph Picks

Reid DeRamus

Paragraph Picks (Vol. 36)

We're back with the 36th edition of Paragraph Picks, highlighting a few hand-selected pieces from the past couple of weeks.

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Seed Club

Cheryl Douglass

get me to god's country (literally any tax haven)

ghiblification of everything, decentralizing vc, rethinking token economics, zero knowledge ep2

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Shame Soiree

Scarlet Death

Homomorphic Encryption and Predictive Architectures

Introduction A new “Layer 2” of the Internet is emerging, comprised of powerful encryption techniques and predictive algorithms.

#editorial#encryption#privacy
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Trust Me Bro Show

Trust Me Bro Show

How Blockchain Is Shaking Up Healthcare

Alright, mates—blockchain is sneaking into healthcare, and it’s not about crypto drama! This tech is quietly fixing big problems, from dodgy data to fake drugs, and it’s proper class.

#trustmebroshow#unlockingthefuture#blockchain#crypto#farcaster#lensnetwork#ai#data#healthcaretech#medicalinnovation
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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

Co-Creating Across the Generations

Some ideas of how to harness the power of AI to bring people together more naturally across the generations

#community#popup#ai#technology#learning#cities
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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

What housing type have you lived in the most throughout your life?

I started thinking about this the other night. For the first 18 years of my life, in other words, up until I moved away to university, I lived for the most part in a detached single-family house in the suburbs of Toronto. But since then, I have almost exclusively lived in apartments/condominiums ranging from converted houses to high-rise buildings.

#housing-type#housing-typology#toronto#philadelphia#single-family-house#apartment#condominium#university#housing
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Eric's Blog

Eric P. Rhodes

AI Won’t Kill Junior Roles, But It Will Squeeze the Middle

As AI automates routine tasks, early-career roles are not disappearing. They are being reshaped. This piece explores how the middle of the job ladder is compressing, pushing junior workers into more complex responsibilities without traditional support structures. Drawing on historical parallels, it argues that AI raises the floor rather than eliminates it, and calls for new systems of training and mentorship to meet the moment.

#life#work#future-of-work#fow#jobs#career#ai
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Pioneering Spirit

@patwater

An open letter to Jerry Brown on the sustainability of the human species

To Governor Jerry Brown, This is our most desperate hour. I regret that I am unable to present this message in person, but I am writing from the edge of a strange precipice in time. The future of our species is teetering on the brink. We are losing the plot. The American experiment in self-governance needs deep renewal. The threats to the future of the republic have returned. The winds grow hotter, with hurricane force firestorms devastating communities close to my home in Southern California...

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The NFA Letter

mleejr

Grok’s Million Dollar Moment is Loading

This story is pretty wild—nearly a month later, it's still blowing my mind. Here’s what happened: on the evening of March 6th, @grok was released on 𝕏 with its official user account. By the early morning hours of March 7th, it had already deployed its own token on @base—directly in the 𝕏 public social feed—together with another AI agent, @bankrbot. Even more astonishing? Grok’s wallet is already approaching a million dollars in earnings—in under a month. Yes, you read that right. Let’s unpa...

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Daniel Barabander

Good Crypto x AI Projects Actually Use Crypto's Strengths

Good crypto x AI projects leverage the features of crypto to overcome limitations faced by AI.

#ai#crypto#web3
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Unruly Futures

The China Century

We’re calling it, this is the China century. The west is too behind, and it won’t have the material time to catch up before China’s impending population collapse happens. We won’t go more far out than that because the geopolitical possibilities are vast (sadly most revolving around potential conflicts), but we can just call it how it is on the pure technological side: anyone who thinks they can compete with China on the built environment is either deluding themself, or needs to have a very, v...

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CURIOUS AF

David Preston

Turn Your Location Service On

Last week I met a futurist for coffee. She didn’t tell me I’d be writing this article, but her observations about distraction and the social engineering challenges that compromise cybersecurity definitely influenced my thinking. What I noticed at first was how fast she talked. I’m a fast talker too, but she was REALLY fast. I tried to keep up but I kept falling behind, like Lucy at the chocolate factory. After about 20 minutes I took a step back from the easel to observe the whole scene. Sudd...

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Hard Mode First

Bethany Crystal

Apply for Retroactive Funding for Your Neighborhood Open Source Project

Building software solutions for your block or community? You may be eligible for retroactive grant funding from Gitcoin Grants and Cabin

#neighborhood#community#grants#funding#opensource
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UFO

co-tone launches on UFO

Welcoming co-tone as a new artist-led channel on the UFO network. Transmitting directly from Copenhagen.

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Brandon Donnelly

Brandon Donnelly

Do governments make good developers?

The Liberals just announced that, if elected, they will form a new entity called Building Canada Homes (BCH) which will, "get the federal government back in the business of building homes." Broadly speaking, this new entity is proposed to have three key functions: it will build affordable housing at scale (including on public land), it will help to "catalyze" the private sector, and it will provide financing to affordable housing developers.

#canada#liberals#housing-policy#federal-government#public-developer#housing-developer#development#real-estate#pro-forma#land-values
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The Cheshire Cat

043 - Worldbuilding

It was mid-December when the idea first came to me: Using agents for writing. But before you hit cmd+w to close the tap, bear with me. It's not another copy-writing productivity hack agent. My vision is grand (as all visions are you mumble): An experience where LLM and people co-create a story, where everyone is equal and it feels like a meshing of minds. And where your creativity gets rewarded. Where writers don't just survive but thrive and where quality is king and speed is thrown out the ...

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Eric's Blog

Eric P. Rhodes

Not Everyone’s Chasing the Same Thing

I’ve been creating since before I knew what “legacy” meant. Art was never a race for me—it was how I stayed grounded. Some of us build from the margins, in connection, not competition. This is where I build from.

#life#art#goals
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ETH Daily

ETH Daily

Privacy Pools Live On Ethereum

Users can now deposit between 0.1 and 1 ETH to the onchain privacy protocol. Deposits must pass a wallet screening before becoming eligible for private withdrawal.

#news#2025#march2025
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