Token Wisdom ✨ 10th Edition

Impact Report, Optical Re-Illusion, Prove You Know a Secret, Hypnagogia, EU AI, Spatial Invisible Cities, Spiral Cognition, Scene Changes, Spotify Podcast Off the Rails, McDonald's & Web3, Confuse-A-Bot, AI's Achilles Heel, Music Fights Fraud Alliance, AI Music Climbs the Charts, State of VR, and Introducing Infinigen

Khayyam Wakil
June 26, 2023

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Keeping up in this new generative mega-multi-meta-DAO-verse is hard to GPT. That's why I package up a small part of the internet that catches my eye and stirs my mind and share it with you.

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Don’t underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

— Winnie the Pooh

🔮 A curated collection of consumed knowledge 🔮

Otrium 2022 Impact Report

We get it. In a world that can feel beyond repair the seductive appeal of alternate realms is so alluring. There's still power in rebuilding our world, working together to mend this reality over alternate universes.

impact.otrium.com

Mystery Behind Baffling Optical Illusion, Finally Solved by Scientists

A group of scientists have finally figured out the mystery behind one of the most baffling optical illusions and it isn't how our brains process it.

bgr.com

How Do You Prove a Secret?

Zero-knowledge proofs allow researchers to prove their knowledge without divulging the knowledge itself.

quantamagazine.org

Harnessing Hypnagogia: MIT and Harvard’s Breakthrough in Boosting Creativity Through Targeted Dream Incubation

Feeling stuck on a problem that seems unsolvable? You may come up with a creative solution after a short nap — very short.

scitechdaily.com

The EU AI Act: The Proposed Framework and What Current Developments Mean for Businesses

While the trilogues can be a lengthy process, it is possible that the Act will be adopted by the end of 2023. It should then come into force following a two-year implementation period.

reedsmith.com

Spatial Computing: What Designers Can Learn from Italo Calvino’s Book, Invisible Cities

We are still at the dawn of a new digital era: artificial intelligence, virtual worlds, augmented reality, blockchain, and other technical and societal changes are reframing the world we live in and creating new fictions.

www.doc.cc/articles/the-internet-is-made-of-invisible-cities-what-can

Mysterious Spiral Signals in the Human Brain Could Be Key to Our Cognition

Scientists suggest strange swirls across the outer layer of the brain might be used to link different parts of it together and help process information faster.

livescience.com

Detecting Scene Changes in Audiovisual Content

When watching a movie or an episode of a TV show, we experience a cohesive narrative that unfolds before us, often without giving much thought to the underlying structure that makes it all possible.

netflixtechblog.com

Why Spotify’s Podcast Experiment Went Off the Rails

What is Spotify doing with podcasts, exactly? The company is entering the “next phase” of its podcast strategy — but will it learn from its mistakes?

theverge.com

Creating a Web3 Campaign for McDonald's 🍔🍟

I’m not sure how it started, but I decided that it would be a fun thought exercise to explore what a web3 campaign for a fast food brand like McDonald’s would look like.

tpan.substack.com

Confuse-A-Bot: A New Game That Helps Fight the Real-Life AI Apocalypse with Bad Data and Cheese

The premise is simple, and delightful: you basically take a bunch of this "Prove you're not a bot"-style AI verification tools — you know, the kinds that ask you to select all the squares with motorcycles — except you answer them with bunk data.

boingboing.net

Is Humanity Really Doomed? Consider AI's Achilles Heel

AI is here to stay, but no matter what developers and businesses think, it's not perfect. In fact, it has one glaring inadequacy that it will never surmount.

www.zdnet.com

Music Fights Fraud Alliance

A new global task force aimed at eradicating streaming fraud, the Music Fights Fraud Alliance (MFFA) represents all corners of the music industry, aligning for the first time as a united front to combat fraud in music streaming.

digitalmusicnews.com

AI-Music Is Climbing the Charts and Going Viral. But Is It Legal?

An AI-generated track that sounded like a collaboration between Drake and The Weeknd got over 500,000 streams on Spotify. #rehash

semafor.com

The State of VR in 2023: A Special Report

Now, with the arrival of Apple among VR headset makers with its recently launched Vision Pro, it’s possible we could finally see a clarifying and redefining moment for VR. The current state of play.

variety.com

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Probably not a great sign for a website when most of the engagement posts are just, "What's an old tweet that's good?"
— Cody Johnston (@drmistercody)
Jun 17, 2023

Found an easy way to make Midjourney zoom videos without expensive editing software.
You can use Runway’s frame interpolation feature - the key is in the scale of the zoom, the number of frames, and the video length.
Here’s how to do it ⬇️
— Justine Moore (@venturetwins)
Jun 25, 2023

— Zirky (@Z1rky)
Jun 16, 2023

for weeks my parents have been at war against a very resourceful rat and I've been begging them to call pest control but no my dad would rather balance a banana on a 2x4 over a garbage can full of water like a fucking cartoon cat
— Vanta Greige (homosexual) (@ultramaricon)
Jun 17, 2023

After 2.5 yrs building DAOs, I can finally explain what community is.
Communities are groups people who are both customers and owners of an organization.
— Rahul Nandakumar (@gigarahul)
Jun 26, 2023

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