The mainstream audience was young and open to new ideas. Folks could create new things that impacted the culture at large and in that way punch above their weight class. In NYC, people could create art movements that would live for the next 50 years. Sort of like the way kids could create new technology in a garage in Silicon Valley in the 70s, or a dorm room in the 00s. It was a time in culture where the doors were open and you could have profound impact. The doors closed again, so people look back and have an appreciation for what was possible and what became and perhaps long for it again.
Some people want to create. Some people want to consume. Some people want to collect. Sometimes consumables become collectible (Baseball cards). Sometimes collectibles become consumable (Mona Lisa postcards). Creators are allowed to decide who their market is and adjust as they see fit.
We're looking for a web2/web3 hacker to build special projects, starting w/ web2 UX for custom smart contract, expanding to include a discord bot for the right person. Must be a creative thinker who rolls up sleeves to solve exciting problems and ships. Remote / PT, more if you’re the right fit! send your github to [email protected]
Remix Party is a team of product-obsessed hackers and crypto-enthusiasts building a new way to create and seamlessly mint memes on the blockchain. We’re creating a viral game as a launchpad to an open meme-gen tool focused on creator ownership, royalties, and metadata/provenance. We aim to build a new protocol for nft-based memes, where creators are the largest benefactors from their creations, perpetually.
We are looking for an experienced product development leader who is excited by the potential of this space. Must be comfortable with leading decision-making in the face of uncertainty, communicating with the team, and executing. We are looking for a partner, a player-coach and an eternal student.
Seems like the unspoken story here isn't really about Apple, it's that the govts of the world want access to your phone data and its backups. They're already getting some of it from exploits, telcos and the cloud. They'll be back and will keep coming and it's hard to imagine any company will have the ability to stand up to them without seriously impacting their business.
Being peaceful by nature, but also highly allergic to mosquitos, I'm cool with completely eradicating these little flying vampires and the ecological collapse that would ensue. Or not as the case may be https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
Apple has an abusive relationship with developers. I bet this harkens back to Jobs being pissed about jailbreaking and having to open up the platform. I think the culture still reflects that basic misunderstanding at the company. It's ironic, because it's the apps and developers that made the iPhone what it is - case in point, "There's an app for that," which they actually went and trademarked. https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/10/12/app.for.that/inde...
There's a great doc that came out last year on Marion Stokes, who recorded decades of television. Her footage is being added to The Internet Archive https://blog.archive.org/tag/marion-stokes/