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My Mind Is Blown By MoonBirds And All Things NFT
That’s the word I’ve been using lately every time my film producer friend feeds me another dollop of information about this phenomenon known as NFTs. What follows below will be an account of more mindblownness as my poor web2 brain tries and comprehend the meaning of it all. Starting with MoonBirds. I was told of people buying them. Are they a new avian species? A mysterious bird that breeds on the lunar landscape? Or some creatures birthed from the fertile imagination of a fantasy writer? Th...

My Mind Is Blown By MoonBirds And All Things NFT
That’s the word I’ve been using lately every time my film producer friend feeds me another dollop of information about this phenomenon known as NFTs. What follows below will be an account of more mindblownness as my poor web2 brain tries and comprehend the meaning of it all. Starting with MoonBirds. I was told of people buying them. Are they a new avian species? A mysterious bird that breeds on the lunar landscape? Or some creatures birthed from the fertile imagination of a fantasy writer? Th...
WHAT KIND OF STORIES SHOULD WE TELL? HERE’S WHAT A TIKTOKER FROM UKRAINE TAUGHT ME
20-year-old Valeria Shashenok’s tik tok videos documenting her life as a survivor in the on-going Ukraine war, racked up more than 60 million views on the app. “After the 24th of February, everything stopped,” Shashenok said. Many of her friends fled Ukraine but not Valeria. She chose to stay, and showed the world how she and her mother, father and her dog coped with life in a bomb shelter. I live all the way here in Singapore and I have never heard of Valeria till recently. Just like her 60 ...
WHAT KIND OF STORIES SHOULD WE TELL? HERE’S WHAT A TIKTOKER FROM UKRAINE TAUGHT ME
20-year-old Valeria Shashenok’s tik tok videos documenting her life as a survivor in the on-going Ukraine war, racked up more than 60 million views on the app. “After the 24th of February, everything stopped,” Shashenok said. Many of her friends fled Ukraine but not Valeria. She chose to stay, and showed the world how she and her mother, father and her dog coped with life in a bomb shelter. I live all the way here in Singapore and I have never heard of Valeria till recently. Just like her 60 ...