🖼 Coinbase launches NFT marketplace

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Coinbase launches NFT marketplace in hopes of appealing to crypto and mainstream users. It might be a good morning — or perhaps “gm” — for the hundreds of thousands of NFT community members who will now get another marketplace to trade their digital collectibles. Six months ago, Coinbase, the largest crypto… (Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek @jacqmelinek

NEW: @coinbase, the largest US crypto exchange, has launched its NFT marketplace

techcrunch.comCoinbase launches NFT marketplace – TechCrunchSix months ago, Coinbase announced that it was launching an NFT marketplace. Today, “Coinbase NFT” launched with collections of NFTs on the Ethereum blockchain.

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Inside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest Bets. They’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics. (James Pogue / Vanity Fair)

James Pogue @jhensonpogue

I spent some time with Curtis Yarvin, JD Vance, and Blake Masters, and wrote a piece about the dissident right/new right/whatever you want to call it for @VanityFair

vanityfair.comInside the New Right, Where Peter Thiel Is Placing His Biggest BetsThey’re not MAGA. They’re not QAnon. Curtis Yarvin and the rising right are crafting a different strain of conservative politics.

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Elon Musk's Boring Co. Raises Funding at Nearly $6 Billion Valuation. Elon Musk's tunneling startup Boring Co. has raised $675 million in a funding round led by Vy Capital and Sequoia Capital. The round values the startup at $5.675 billion, the company said in a press release on Wednesday. (Sarah McBride via Bloomberg)

Sarah G McBride @mcbridesg

Elon Musk's @boringcompany From a valuation of $920 mn to $5.675 bn in just three years. If only more of the tunnel projects could get that momentum

bloomberg.comBloomberg - Are you a robot?

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This firm made Republicans go viral - now it's falling apart. In the breathless world of conservative online politics, Arsenal Media is here to help you go viral. Co-founded by gadfly meme enthusiast Benny Johnson, the firm lists clients like Rep. Madison Cawthorn and Dana Loesch and takes credit for more… (Makena Kelly / The Verge)

Makena Kelly @kellymakena

NEW: Arsenal Media Group, brainchild of Benny Johnson, is falling apart. As midterms heat up, staffers are fleeing the GOP marketing firm famous for its Kim Klacik ad due to late payments and “verbal abuse” from Johnson.

theverge.comThis firm made Republicans go viral — now it’s falling apartBenny Johnson yelled at staff who say they weren’t paid on time

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How the AI industry profits from catastrophe. Despite threats from Appen to retaliate against her, she chose to go on the record as a named source. She wants people to understand what her life is like to be a critical part of the global AI development pipeline yet for the beneficiaries of her… (Karen Hao / MIT Technology Review)

Karen Hao 郝珂灵 @_KarenHao

In part two of @techreview's AI Colonialism series, we take a hard look at Venezuela, where it plunged into economic catastrophe right as the demand for data labeling exploded, turning the country into ground zero for a new model of labor exploitation.

technologyreview.comHow the AI industry profits from catastropheAs the demand for data labeling exploded, an economic catastrophe turned Venezuela into ground zero for a new model of labor exploitation.

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