M○C△ WEEKLY 6/8

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• ON NET.ART, POSTINTERNET, AND CRYPTOART (RightClickSave)

• Big Tech Is Using Art as a Dystopian Honeypot (ArtNet)

• Terraforms Explained: ETH's Best Onchain Art? (Bankless)

• Creatives are right to be fed up with Adobe and every other tech company right now (FastCompany)

Metaverse

• Metaverse developer The Sandbox raises $20 million via convertible promissory notes (TheBlock)

• Grimace NFT Holders Get VIP Access in McDonald’s New Metaverse (NFTEvening)

• Virtual reality will unlock mysteries of developmental disorders (Earth.com)

• Tiny startup bets that you will spend $2000 on a work 'laptop' with no screen — Spacetop G1 uses AR glasses to deliver a virtual 100-inch display but it runs on Google ChromeOS (TechRadar)

AI

• Ansel Adams Estate Calls Out Adobe for Selling AI-Generated Art Using Photographer’s Name (ArtNews)

• Adobe users are outraged over vague new policy's AI implications (Mashable)

• Propagandists are using AI too—and companies need to be open about it (MITTechnologyReview)

• It Looked Like a Reliable News Site. It Was an A.I. Chop Shop (NewYorkTimes)

Finance

• Robinhood Buys Bitstamp To Expand Crypto, International Business (Investopedia)

• The crypto world is mad at Joe Biden — and it's got campaign cash to spend (Quartz)

• ‘A Very Big Opportunity’—Crypto Suddenly Braced For A ‘Tremendous’ China Earthquake After Bitcoin, Ethereum And XRP Price Boom (Forbes)

• Why Crypto Crime In Asia Is Becoming More Problematic (Forbes)

Potpourri

• Christie’s Hit With Class-Action Lawsuit Over Client Data After Cyberattack Shuts Down Website (ArtNews)

• Uzbekistan's Islamic Authority Retracts Fatwa Against Cryptocurrency, Issues Apology (News.Bitcoin)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Patrick Amadon.

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Overthinking (2020) by Skygolpe. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

Parts of Her: Untitled 01 (2024) by Ayla el-Moussa. Currently at auction.

Traditional Art Banger

Sakata Kaidomaru Wrestling with a Carp in a Waterfall (c. 1837) , by Utagawa Kuniyoshi. Color woodcut. 373 x 259 mm. Held in Chazen Museum of Art.

Quote of the Week

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”

-Anatole France

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