M○C△ WEEKLY 5/12

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• MoMA’s Madeleine Pierpont: NFTs Are Already Part of Art History (CoinDesk)

• Collector’s Vault: Punk6529 Shares 10 Notable Pieces in His Collection (NFTNow)

• CRYPTO ARTISTS INVEST IN THEMSELVES (RightClickSave)

• M○C△ Confessional: We Should Care Way More About PFP Projects (M○C△ BABY LFG, WE WROTE IT OURSELVES HAHAHA)

Metaverse

• Navigating beyond the hype: the metaverse, take two (EY)

• Virtual reality could combat mental health crisis in teens (DPAOnTheNet)

• Mice navigating a virtual reality environment reveal that walls, not floors, define space (Phys)

• AI Is Gathering a Growing Amount of Training Data Inside Virtual Worlds (SingularityHub)

AI

• Bumble’s Whitney Wolfe Herd says your dating ‘AI concierge’ will soon date hundreds of other people’s ‘concierges’ for you (Fortune)

• Are AI-powered church services coming to a pew near you? (News5Cleveland)

• Elon Musk clearly sees AI hallucinations (Reuters)

• A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories (TheEconomist)

Finance

• Collapsed FTX says it can pay most creditors back in full (CNN)

• Intellectual Property’s NFT Gap: Twentieth-Century Copyright Law Could Limit Viable Uses of Blockchain (TechPolicy)

• SEC is taking a 'hostile' approach to crypto: Robinhood CEO (YahooFinance)

• Crypto exchange volumes drop for first time in 7 months as bitcoin price declined (TheBlock)

Potpourri

• Donald Trump dines with NFT mega-collectors during break from New York hush-money trial (TheArtNewspaper)

• Crypto group with 440,000 members launches PAC to target House, Senate elections (Reuters)

• US Congress to potentially vote on new legislation for crypto industry by end of May (CryptoSlate)

• Christie’s Website Hacked Ahead of Marquee Sales (ArtNet)

Tweet of the Week

Nah, I’m just kidding, here’s the actual Tweet of the Week (Go Celtics though, for real):

Tweet (and badass community organizing) by Emonee LaRussa.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Geometry XII 89/100 (2022), by Frank Stella. In Museum of Crypto Art Permanent Collection. RIP to Mr. Stella, a true maestro.

Art in the Wild

Dressed up, messed up #3 (2023), by ArtonymousArtifakt. Currently for sale.

Traditional Art Banger

Bester I, Mayotte (2015), by Zenele Muholi, from Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness (Aperture, 2018). Photograph.

Quote of the Week

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

-Napoleon Bonaparte.

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