1. ‘Metaverse Landscapes’ – a new series of oil and UV print on canvas paintings linked to NFTs – are gridded landscapes depicting existing digital real-estate tokens from Decentraland, the most visible metaverse land project on Ethereum.

“Metropolis has been working with Palau, a Pacific Island nation, to help transform its tourism-based economy to a technology-based economy, and is forming a Digital Nation Alliance (DNA) that welcomes sovereign partners aligned with this global vision.” finance.yahoo.com/news/metropoli…

📣📣New release! “Parables of AI in/from the Majority World” is an anthology that brings together original stories about the everyday experiences of living with AI-based systems. datasociety.net/library/parabl… 1/6

This is tomorrow! 😀🌊🌊

🚨New Preprint🚨 Blockchain Financialization, Neocolonialism and Binance🚨 More crazy colonial crypto shenanigans popping off in Africa researchgate.net/publication/36…

well, Balkan Cyberia finally has a cover and it is marching robotically towards its publication on the 13th June with The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social! It has spies & cyborgs, not just apparatchiks - and will be open access but if you want a copy, there will be a discount code! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545129/…

“Honduras Próspera launched an ISDS claim under the Dominican Republic–Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) seeking almost $11 billion, which amounts to nearly two-thirds of the country’s entire 2022 budget.” warren.senate.gov/oversight/lett…

This is politics, but ok

There has been much noise around the fathers and godfathers of Artificial Intelligence, but how about its mothers? Let's start with Ada Lovelace, often regarded as the first computer programmer, and wrote the first algorithm meant to be run on a computer.

prompts in the wild

alone out here

To add to the list of crypto projects looking to colonize SIDS. Mimi Sheller

The UK moving migrants onto a barge isn't unlike the idea of a Singapore entrepreneur to host migrants on floating dorms (straitstimes.com/opinion/a-floa…). Similarly, the UK's proposal to have asylum seekers be parked in Kenya is similar to the idea of "refugee cities" SEZs.

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