🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

If you only make it to one thing during SXSW London, make it Tuesday, June 3. We’re hosting DF House in Shoreditch: talks, drinks, smart people. No ticket needed, just sign up. From tech-for-good to brand building and a convo w/ Chris Pedregal from Granola. Come say hi ↓

"My avatar ran into a mountain of ash until I was fully submerged, and then my lifeless head was plucked from the ash and placed upon a pile of other lifeless heads." Daniel Cox On how death mechanics shape gameplay and express broader social values: digitalfrontier.com/articles/death…

The startups that actually get it. The brands that actually shape culture. The investors and operators shaping what’s next – not just talking about it. DF House. One day, many perspectives. Request your spot: lu.ma/user/usr-wN6z5…

Big yikes

I will be speaking about digital identity next Friday with Sophia Epstein at another classic Made by Many event. Come on through for a sxswlondon inspired day lu.ma/zcvte8pg

Looking forward to reading this in detail. And I am sure that this legislation is entirely the result of my essay for BlueDot Impact's AI governance course

What gives you hope about the future of tech? It’s the question we’re asking everyone at DF House and the answers are rolling in. Thread incoming 🧵🧵🧵 First up, technology ethicist Cennydd Bowles.

Set for another sunny day at #NYTechWeek - excellent vibes so far

"What we'll never want to do is put substack as the layer between the publisher and their audience," says Hamish McKenzie. "Because the creator having that ownership of a direct relationship with your audience is what this whole game is about."

What even is digital identity? Jonathan Stein and Sophia Epstein took the Made by Many stage today to unpack how we curate ourselves online and how that spills into the physical world.

Great, I ran out of banger posts last week

Honestly these are the correct answers

When you’re doomscrolling, posting, lurking, FaceTiming, is that still you? Or is it your “digital self”? And if so, what does that self say about who we really are? Masks, memory, metadata… This one gets deep 👇 digitalfrontier.com/articles/digit…

I don’t live here

One of the more precise definitions of culture is from the theorist Matthew Arnold, who wrote that it is “the best which has been thought and said in the world”. Does Substack rely on the “wisdom of crowds” to determine what is best? open.substack.com/pub/dfzine/p/s…

No big deal just @ameliakisaacs rocking the stage at TNW with Matej Pfajfar (CTO Monzo 🏦), Natasha Govender-Ropert (Head of AI Rabobank) and Pernilla Sjöholm (@idfier_). AI, fraud and the future of money 🕵️‍♀️💸

Decoding the nightlife crisis open.substack.com/pub/dfzine/p/d…