M○C△ WEEKLY 8/18
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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up
Crypto Art
Inside Dave Krugman’s Absurd & Imaginative Vision for “DRIVE” Lap 2 (NFTNow)
M○C△ Confessional: The Toll of Crypto Art Twitter is Too Much (M○C△)
‘No matter how bad it gets, there’s a lot going on with NFTs’: 24 Hours of Art, NFT Creator (CoinTelegraph)
What the Future of Buying Art on the Blockchain Can Look Like (RollingStone)
Reflection: Art in the Age of Mechanical Creativity, by Anirveda (Medium)
Metaverse
The Movie Experience In The Age Of AI And The Metaverse Has Arrived (Forbes)
Policing the Metaverse (Silicon)
Study shows how virtual reality could train children to achieve adult pedestrian functioning (UniversityOfAlabamaBirmingham)
Meta Quest Update Lets You Beam HDMI Devices Into Your Headset (IGN)
AI
Russia’s AI tactics for US election interference are failing, Meta says (TheGuardian)
What AI is doing to campaigns (Politico)
Musk’s ‘fun’ AI image chatbot serves up Nazi Mickey Mouse and Taylor Swift deepfakes (TheGuardian)
MIT releases comprehensive database of AI risks (VentureBeat)
Finance
Crypto: Is Ripple's victory threatened? The SEC could turn everything upside down on appeal! (CoinTribune)
Crypto adoption grows among brokerages, but regulators remain skeptical (Financial-Planning)
Tether Co-Founder Faces the Unraveling of a Crypto Dream (NewYorkTimes)
US SEC sues over alleged $650 million global crypto fraud (Reuters)
Potpourri
Nigeria Court Freezes $38M of Crypto Allegedly Sent to Support Protests in the Country: Reports (CoinDesk)
Airbnb host: Come for the stay, leave with $100k in crypto (Crypto.News)
Crypto entrepreneur buys Crew Dragon flight (SpaceNews)
Tweet of the Week
Art From M○C△’s Collection
Traditional Art Banger
Quote of the Week
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
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