Issue #446 - Pre IPO stock access, AI created DIY scifi, and Swahili Lords Prayer
I missed last week due to a hectic week and Revue being down - apologies!
I was up at the Kift vanlife property in Lakeport CA - which is a beautiful and unorthodox 'octolodge' the last owner build for huge family reunions. Check out that main space!
Then I swung by Cosmic Honey on the way home, a homesteading project from Bay Area weirdos making a walnut farm and community.
Tech
EquityZen: Invest In or Sell Pre-IPO Stock
Clever biz that lets startup employees sell their stock to get liquidity before the IPO, and lets external investors get into private companies.
Natives Rising — www.joinnativesrising.com
Small org that highlights Native Americans in the tech industry.
Catchafire - Skills-Based Volunteer Matching — www.catchafire.org
Input your skills and get matched with nonprofits who need that help.
Lifehacks
Marine chronometer - Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org
Turns out the first sea watches were a big deal, cuz you needed to the know the time to navigate effectively, and pendulum clocks didn't work at sea. So the British Crown issued a multimillion dollar bounty for solving the problem and one guy spent 31 years working on the problem to solve it!!!
This artist is using GPT3 and DALLE to create a choose your own adventure story based on 1970s cosmic horror. Vote on twitter and he gets his AI to write the next chapter. That's advant garde!
Absurd Trolley Problems — neal.fun
Nifty little site that runs through dozens of iterations of the classic Trolly Problem. What if it was your BFF on the tracks? An old person? A clone? etc.
Fun
You may have heard about the spaceship game EVE online where players spend real money on their fake ships. This company is porting that idea onto the blockchain where your ships are NFTs. Impressive world building so far!
Baba Yetu - Stellenbosch University Choir — www.youtube.com
An inspiring humanistic pluralist performance on many levels:
It's a diverse South African choir,
singing in Swahili,
a Grammy winning song written by an Asian American,
for the videogame Civilization 5,
thats a translation of the Lords Prayer.
Now that IS the future liberals want. :)